Why New Trainers Think They Can EASILY Skip Training Clients and Instantly Open Up Their Own Studio

Why Do New Trainers Think That They Can EASILY Skip Training Clients and Instantly Open Up Their Own Private Studio?

I’ll tell you.

It’s either faith or pride.

Let’s talk about each.

Faith is believing in something that you can’t see. Hoping for something to happen, even though there are few- no signs pointing in your direction. For example: Believing in Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and savior. In reality you can not physically see Jesus, but you have placed your FAITH in him. Or let’s say the doctors told you that you were never going to walk again, but you had hope that you would.

So now that we defined faith lets put it into practical-personal-trainer practice (huh?) Myself included have stepped out on faith to pen up a studio without a big following. I opened up a studio at the age of 19. This is no big deal in it of its self. But the fact that the studio was over a half hour away from any of my private clients homes, I was in trouble. I started the gym with maybe 3 members. But by faith, I made it through. I would not recommend doing it this way, as it took several months to get the gym off the ground.

The other cause for opening up a studio without a big clientele list is pride. What is pride? We all have it. Pride in its simplest form is thinking that YOU are better than your fellow man. In its most complicated form, pride is humanity. Everybody suffers from pride, some know how to control their pride, and some don’t.

Someone who dose not have control over their pride may decide “Hey I can make money with a gym; I don’t need any clients to start off with. But since I am who I am people will knock down my door to see me.” You see all they talked about was themselves, not the customer. The client dose not care about you, they simply want to know how they will benefit from working with you.

Have you ever gone to a “muscle gym”; you know a bunch of puffed up muscled heads strutting around like they are the best? How do you feel? Sometimes frustrated; sometimes uncomfortable; sometimes pissed off. Well that is how the client feels when you go on and on about how great (pride) you are.

My advice is to be humble with just doing in home training until you have enough of a following to open up a gym.