Comments on: The Truth About Your 3-Free-Sessions With a Personal Trainer http://thefitnessrevelation.com/2009/04/19/the-truth-about-your-3-free-sessions-with-a-personal-trainer/ Just another realestatetomato.net weblog Wed, 19 May 2010 16:24:19 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jerod Hoffman http://thefitnessrevelation.com/2009/04/19/the-truth-about-your-3-free-sessions-with-a-personal-trainer/comment-page-1/#comment-750 Jerod Hoffman Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:13:08 +0000 http://thefitnessrevelation.com/?p=618#comment-750 It's not a bad idea to offer a free personal training session to a potential client "if" your business is struggling or "if" you are launching a new boot camp. This can be used as a means to market and build clientele. However, giving away your service devalues you as a fitness professional. The better solution would be to offer a free fitness assessment. This should include; medical history, postural evaluation, fitness and weight loss goals, lifestyle questionnaire, exercise testing, body composition, and a nutritional evaluation. During the exercise testing you can give a teaser session to win them over. Your certifications, exercise science degree, and experience were not free! It’s not a bad idea to offer a free personal training session to a potential client “if” your business is struggling or “if” you are launching a new boot camp. This can be used as a means to market and build clientele.

However, giving away your service devalues you as a fitness professional. The better solution would be to offer a free fitness assessment. This should include; medical history, postural evaluation, fitness and weight loss goals, lifestyle questionnaire, exercise testing, body composition, and a nutritional evaluation. During the exercise testing you can give a teaser session to win them over.

Your certifications, exercise science degree, and experience were not free!

]]> By: Not afraid to allow a client to experience training before they pay their hard earned money. http://thefitnessrevelation.com/2009/04/19/the-truth-about-your-3-free-sessions-with-a-personal-trainer/comment-page-1/#comment-724 Not afraid to allow a client to experience training before they pay their hard earned money. Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:58:10 +0000 http://thefitnessrevelation.com/?p=618#comment-724 I agree with you 100%. But I disagree that all trainers who offer free training are unqualified. Some trainers would like for their clients to actually trained with them before the clients pays. There are trainers who are so good that they realized that if a client trains with them they will appreciated the quality of training that they provide. I personally would not want anyone to pay me money if they wasn't comfortable or excited about training with me. Being concern that trainers are not qualified is important but I find the best way to know a trainer is to train with him before a client have to pay any money. Allowing the prospective client to make a honest evaluation of a trainer by going through several workouts with them before he pays is the best solution for everyone looking for a trainer. It just might save him some hard earned money. I agree with you 100%. But I disagree that all trainers who offer free training are unqualified. Some trainers would like for their clients to actually trained with them before the clients pays. There are trainers who are so good that they realized that if a client trains with them they will appreciated the quality of training that they provide. I personally would not want anyone to pay me money if they wasn’t comfortable or excited about training with me. Being concern that trainers are not qualified is important but I find the best way to know a trainer is to train with him before a client have to pay any money. Allowing the prospective client to make a honest evaluation of a trainer by going through several workouts with them before he pays is the best solution for everyone looking for a trainer. It just might save him some hard earned money.

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