Personal Trainer 101

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12

Lessons
16

Exams &
Assignments
7

Hours
average time
0.7

CEUs

Course Description

Becoming a professional personal trainer means stepping into one of the fastest growing careers in the world. If offers a healthy way to earn a living, the opportunity to run your own business or work for an established center, to freelance, buy a franchise or run a specialized fitness boutique. It is a service you can offer in your client's homes, outdoors, in any city and in any country. The versatility of the personal training career is endless.

In this class you will have the opportunity to work through your own personal business plan, guided through the set-up of your business, goals, how to attain and retain clients, grow your business, market and hire staff as needed. Your assignments will allow you to develop work flow charts, understand good business practices and design your individual client programming. You will get instruction on strategies for training various ages and how to communicate with a client about their goals and expectations.

As you learn and follow the instructional steps to sign up for an accreditation class, plan for the business style you desire and create systems for work flow, you will finish knowing exactly how to proceed and with a plan that will propel you to success as a professional personal trainer. This class will lead you toward the accomplishment of your career goal and the possibilities that career offers.

Completely Online

Self-Paced

Printable Lessons

Full HD Video

6 Months to Complete

24/7 Availability

Start Anytime

PC & Mac Compatible

Android & iOS Friendly

Accredited CEUs

Universal Class is an IACET Accredited Provider

Course Lessons

Lesson 1: Skills, Requirements, and Certifications

This first lesson will provide on overview of this career. In this first lesson, you will focus on your goals, wants and needs, skills, and motivation. 50 Total Points

Lesson 1 Video
Review Article: How to Get Started as an Online Personal Trainer
Review 2 Videos: Being a Personal Trainer | How, Why and What It Takes!; My Honest Opinion of the Personal Training Career - Review, Advice and Tips
Take Survey: Reasons for Taking this Course
Complete: Lesson 1 Quiz

Lesson 2: Setting Up Shop - Equipment, Space, and Money

This lesson will discuss tools such as equipment needs, space requirements, and financial factors that must be considered. 52 Total Points

Lesson 2 Video
Review 5 Articles: 6 Things to Consider Before You Start Your Own Fitness Facility; Where to Work as a Personal Trainer | thePTDC | Best Places To Work ...; 30 Essential Pieces of Equipment for the Successful Personal Training Studio; What Equipment Do Personal Trainers Need?; 17 Tips for A Successful Personal Trainer Business
Complete: Lesson 2 Activity Assignment
Complete: Lesson 2 Quiz

Lesson 3: Setting Goals or Simply Wishing

In this lesson, the focus will be on goals for your career as a professional personal trainer, but it is a great thing to keep a developmental goal journal for everything because you will achieve more of what you want to do in life, as opposed to just sitting back and waiting for them to happen. 52 Total Points

Lesson 3 Video
Review 4 Articles: How To Help Your Clients Set Goals They Can Achieve; 10 Coaching Tips To Help Beginner Clients Reach Their Fitness Goals; Goal Setting ? Create A Goal The Smart Way; Effective Goal Setting for Personal Training Clients
Complete: Lesson 3 Activity Assignment
Complete: Lesson 3 Quiz

Lesson 4: The Business Plan

This lesson will take you through the steps of beginning a business as your own boss, as a part-time freelancing trainer on the side, or as you retain employment with an established fitness center. 50 Total Points

Lesson 4 Video
Review Article: Personal Trainer Business Plan
Review 3 Videos: How to Write a Personal Training Business Plan; personal training business plan sample; Business plan and start: how to become a personal trainer, get clients and make money training people
Complete: Lesson 4 Quiz

Lesson 5: Sound Business Practices and Business Models

In this lesson, you will learn about franchising, opening your own exercise studio, and freelancing. 52 Total Points

Lesson 5 Video
Review 3 Articles: 9 Expert Secrets for Making Your Personal Training Business a Success; How to Start an In-Home Personal Training Business; A New Business Model: Partner and Small-Group Training
Review Video: How to think about and improve your business model
Complete: Lesson 5 Activity Assignment
Complete: Lesson 5 Quiz

Lesson 6: Growing, Marketing, and Retaining Clients

Clients are your gold. In fact, the greatest amount of time spent in this job of personal training is getting the client, so retaining those you have is very important. 50 Total Points

Lesson 6 Video
Review 3 Articles: Developing a Personal Training Marketing Plan; 19 Personal Training Marketing Ideas that will get You More Clients; Best Personal Trainer Marketing Strategies
Review 2 Videos: Personal Trainer Marketing; Personal Trainer Marketing Strategies THAT gets you Personal training clients
Complete: Lesson 6 Quiz

Lesson 7: Hiring the Right People

In this business, the staff have to be able to talk to people, show respect to everyone, and find ways to resolve issues. A good people person always can learn the skills, but a person who has skills without being able to work well with others will be a problem. 50 Total Points

Lesson 7 Video
Review 4 Articles: Checklist for Hiring Personal Trainers; How to Determine a Fair Compensation Package for Your Personal Trainers; Finding and Hiring Qualified Personal Trainers; Top 5 Apps for Personal Trainers and Health Coaches
Complete: Lesson 7 Quiz

Lesson 8: Documentation of Workflow

Workflow is a set of processes, rules, or steps that direct, organize, and moves the production of the service or product. How a product goes from start to finish in the production line must be specific, reviewed routinely, and improved as automation and technology is improved as changes need to be made and to increase profitability. 50 Total Points

Lesson 8 Video
Review 3 Articles: Get Organized: Document Your Workflow; The Top Must-Have Business Apps; Lean Processes Improve Your Business's Health
Complete: Lesson 8 Quiz

Lesson 9: The Client - Needs, Wants, Goals, Interaction, Expectations, and Retention

In this lesson, you will learn how to pay attention to the community and who lives there because that is your customer base. 50 Total Points

Lesson 9 Video
Review 2 Articles: The Components of a Good Fitness Assessment; Fitness Testing - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Review 2 Videos: The Essentials of a Personal Trainer's Assessment; NMx Personal Training Client Assessment
Complete: Lesson 9 Quiz

Lesson 10: Designing a Program and Teaching Strategies

One of the important parts of being a personal training instructor is knowing how to develop exercises and how to build a program for many different individuals. But also important is the need to understand teaching techniques and how those can vary from one age level to another. 50 Total Points

Lesson 10 Video
Review 3 Articles: Mastering Group Fitness Instructor Teaching Techniques, Strategies And Cueing; Adult Learning Theory And Training Design; Successful Cues for Personal Trainers
Complete: Lesson 10 Quiz

Lesson 11. Keeping It Fresh, Fun, and Moving Forward

This lesson will go over strategies to implement to keep this job continually moving forward. 50 Total Points

Lesson 11 Video
Review 2 Articles: Work out idea library; Personal Training Ideas
Review 3 Videos: Boot Camp Exercise Ideas For Personal Trainers; Boot Camp Exercise Circut Ideas For Personal Trainers; Workout Ideas - Intense Group Training
Complete: Lesson 11 Quiz

Lesson 12: Maintaining a Work-Life Balance

Like many doctors who fail to take care of their own health, don't be the personal trainer who fails to stay healthy, fit, and seek wellness in mind and spirit, body, and relationships. 350 Total Points

Lesson 12 Video
Take Poll: End of Course Poll
Take Survey: Course Comments
Take Survey: Program Evaluation Follow-up Survey (End of Course)
Complete: Lesson 12 Quiz
Complete: The Final Exam

906

Total Course Points

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

Define what a personal trainer is and the skills, requirements, and certifications you'll need to get started.
Define the business plan.
Describe sound business practices and business models.
Summarize growing, marketing and retaining clients.
Describe documentation of work flow.
Identify the client for your services.
Summarize designing a program and teaching strategies, and
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.

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