Tips on being a mobile personal trainer

As a mobile PT you may very well find yourself driving to many destinations and therefore covering many miles, you want to limit your client base to within walking distance if you cannot afford a car at this point. But a car will help you cover a wider area and you will be able take with you any equipment that you may need. This may also form part of your specialisation by taking the equipment to your client.

Car Dash Cams on amazon

Dash Cams on Aliexpress

As you will be covering many miles you may find it appropriate to buy a dash cam to cover you in case of any accidents or false claims made against you. Many can also track your journeys via GPS which could help you to work out your mileage, your hotspot areas where most of your clients come from; so you can market to that area, and you will be surprised what your dash cam can capture!

A dedicated Sat Nav will also free up your phone and help you get the most economical routes to and from your clients. Again many will allow you to see where your hotspots are so you can build a client base in one particular area and save both money and time travelling - maximising your revenue.

Sat Navs on amazon

Sat Navs on Aliexpress

Having a decent Care will provide you with the opportunity to being equipment to your clients which may add extra value to your services depending on your chosen routines. Mobile Equipment to consider:

Kettlebells

Free weights

Resistance Bands

Massage Boards

Decks

Skipping ropes

You can shop a wide range of fitness equipment on amazon

Speakers

Unless you or your client require a music free environment a good speaker will help motivate your client and bring some fun to your sessions. I have worked in gyms where they thought they could just put the radio on and that will be fine. When we introduced a decent speaker and played good music the atmosphere in the gym lifted with clients much happier and more energetic.

Speakers on amazon

 

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Tips on Becoming a Indoor Cycling / Spin Instructor An An addition to your Personal Training Career

Adding classes to your repertoire may be a good source of extra income and may help build a pipeline of interested clients that you can upsell your personal training to, one of the most popular by far is indoor cycling otherwise popularly known as Spin Class. 

These classes can draw many people and if you get the mix of exercise and music right you I can build a very loyal following. Use this to upsell your personal training or you can freelance to multiple gyms and have an alternative fitness income to supplement your personal training.

A typical class can be from 30 minutes to 60 minutes long,  and is usually a mix of sprints, climbs and jumps while seated or standing.  You ride to 'inspirational' music over the equivalent of 20-25 kilometres of varied terrain, controlling the intensity of your workout with a resistance dial and pedal speed. Your RPM instructor will lead your ride through nine music tracks, using various riding positions and speeds to suit the terrain.


Warm-up: Increases core temperature. The pace is easy and with light resistance.

Sprints: Speed and intensity increases as riders work towards top personal pace. With little resistance you will need to push your class members to their limits.

Climbing / Hills: Adding high resistance to challenge their muscles ( exactly like hill climbs). Keeping them to a high pace will build power, ultra slow revolutions will build strength.
Standing: Used during climbs or sprints to offer a different challenge and build endurance. 


What will it do for your clients?


Increase your cardiovascular fitness.
Burn Fat
Tone and shape your legs and bum.
Gain strength and endurance

Please make sure if you are using music that you seek the appropriate  license to use the music for commercial reasons.

Tips to consider:

Know your playlist! It is important to really know and practice your playlist. You will want it to be almost second nature - every beat, when you will transition into sprints, climbs etc. You will want to be able to count people into the next sprint.

Know your script: You will be responsible for motivation and pushing your clients to their limits. It’s best to know your lines and also be aware during the class what works and what doesn’t so you can change and adapt accordingly.

Practice: You want as much to become second nature so you can be more aware of your members and consecrate on them. Know their names, what motivates them who they are etc.

Ignore the hecklers: You are not going to please everyone, so don’t take it personally especially if you are covering or taking over someone else’s class. It’s best to be yourself and really enjoy your classes. 

Adding Meditation to your PT Sessions Charge Extra or Provide Extra Value

  

Meditation may bring your clients huge benefits, from relieving stress, helping recovery, bringing forward lost memories, or helping them make important decisions. The act of meditation is not always about emptying your mind. But bringing all your focus to bear unto one subject. Thus if your clients goal is to lose weight, meditating on weight loss, and everything that will help in achieving this goal, is a powerful assistance and one that will cost you nothing but is something which can add extra value to your sessions or something for which you can charge extra for. It will be a worthwhile investment to study as much as you can all the aspects of meditation. For an introductory understanding follow this simple guide on how to meditate. Meditation should not be confused with relaxation. You will be relaxed, but it is deeper than that. Proper meditation is like an act of prayer that helps to realign your goals, and your values. Whenever your client needs answers, to overcome negative emotion, or just to discover new ideas  just give them the simple guide below to follow:

 

The 12 Steps to Meditation

1. Choose a location free from any distractions, including TV and the Internet
2. Either have some soothing music in the background or no music at all
3. Select a comfortable place to sit, a good option is putting a cushion on the floor and sitting against the wall
4. Close your eyes gently
5. Breathe in, slowly
6. Breathe out, slowly
7. Concentrate on your breathing, notice each breathe in and out
8. Be aware of feeling relaxed and the feelings of warmth spreading through your body
9. Be aware of what you want to meditate about, allow the subject to come forward
10. Allow any thoughts relating to your subject to come and focus on them, any other thoughts allow to simply pass through your mind
11. Open your eyes once you feel relaxed and you feel good that you have exhausted every thought about your subject
12. Take 5-10 minutes twice a day to meditate. You may meditate for as long as you can or need to, but 5-10 minutes is a good start

 

Meditate, Meditate, Meditate

If your clients can follow this simple guide on how to meditate they could find it helps improve many areas of their lives, if they have a lot of anxiety or stress simply meditating once in the morning and then not giving it another thought all day is not good enough, so it is important to teach them to give it a good effort, I would say at least 5 times a day, then instruct them to act on their meditations and not to simply think about them, this is the true power of meditation- when you act on it. The dictionary definition of Power is the ability to act or do. And where as you will receive great benefit from meditation, the true success that will come from meditation is your will and ability to act on the subject of your mind.

Simple Ideas for Meditation

Below are a collection of ideas that may help you instruct your client

• Try sitting in different positions; on your knees, cross-legged,  Seiza (Seiza (正座, literally "propersitting") is the Japanese term for one of the traditional formal ways of sitting in Japan.)
• If you have access to a park or the countryside sit and meditate near birdsong, or where you will be able to hear the wind through the trees
• If you live in the City, listen to the hustle and bustle. The sound of people and cars. Pick out certain sounds and hear new ones to help you focus
• Find a tape of running water to listen to
• Go to the sea or the local pool and let the water relax you and guid your meditation
• Hold an object that will help you direct you meditation to your chosen subject

Meditation takes concentration - and daily meditation will strengthen this valuable skill.