Started working in a gym. havnt trained since!

do any of you guys work in gyms?

ive just started working as a PT and exercise specialist at a gym. Doing so i thought i would save money on membership and leave my original gym and just train at work...

yeah right.. ! i havnt trained since and now im feeling like shit. the last thing io wanna do is go to work on my days off to train. feels like im there 24/7 it does my head in! seeing other work mates and people that i train while im training. i cant handle the conversations! i just wanna push some weight, keep my mouth shut n then go home.

damn that sucks

When I was a trainer at a gym, I always trained at that gym so that future clients could see that I actually trained there and would have the oppurtunity to ask questions. I got a lot of clients this way. If you have a trainer shirt, wear it and train there and people will come up to you. I don't know how your gym is, but the one I trained at let me make my own schedule and if I had time between clinets, that's when I would train. It was an hour and a half drive from my house so I wouldn't be there if I wasn't training people that day, but I almost always had spare time to train.

Even if you're doing nothing more than just abs or cardio, you've gotta keep in mind that PT is basically selling yourself. It sounds stupid, but you've gotta be your own billboard or form of advertisement. The more people see you, the more they'll want you to be the one to train them. I had a lot of people ask for me because they saw me in the gym so if I wasn't there to personally book them, they'd ask the people at the desk if I could be their trainer and then they'd book the client for me. I just gave them a time frame that I'd be available like say Monday-Thursday 12pm-5pm and then they'd book within those time frames for me if I wasn't there to do it myself.

thats a great idea but we have a different PT structure at our gym.. we are paid a wage no matter how many people we train. The Gym books the clients in and divies them up.
But i totaly see where your comming from... maybe i could try convert some of the clients to see me outside of the gym.

Boomer said:

thats a great idea but we have a different PT structure at our gym.. we are paid a wage no matter how many people we train. The Gym books the clients in and divies them up.
But i totaly see where your comming from... maybe i could try convert some of the clients to see me outside of the gym.

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damn i hope they are paying you good then bc if not they are pocketing alot of money

I work at a gym and training is easy to get in for me. Im a PT.

I started working at my gym about 5 weeks ago and I find that im there now more than ever. My problem is during downtime in the gym i find myself doing a set or two of pushdowns or grab a curl bar lol.. Good thing is im able to really get all my meals in now since ive been working at the gym.