Personal Training Secrets: Don't Make These 35 Business Mistakes
By Matt Weik
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About this ebook
With the personal training industry growing 8% each year, more and more competition is knocking at your door. By 2020 there will be over 300,000 personal trainers in the US.
The struggle to build a personal training business is real. Many mistakes are made that cost training businesses and personal trainers a lot of money. Don't make the same mistakes.
This book will show you 35 common mistakes personal trainers and personal training businesses make so you can bypass the pitfalls you may encounter during your growth.
If you're looking to build your personal training business, this book is a MUST read.
Matt Weik
Matt Weik has been featured in nearly 100 fitness magazines, 5,000+ websites, several research journals, college text books, newspapers, podcasts, and radio shows. He was awarded as being one of the Top 40 Under 40 Business Professionals as well as being part of the Supplement Expert Panel. Matt graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Kinesiology and a minor in Business back in 2005 but has been on a mission to make America healthy way before that. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist, certified personal trainer, certified sports nutritionist, and is the owner of Weik Fitness, LLC. Matt Weik has been active in the fitness industry and changing lives since 2002. He was also a DJ working for a well known radio station associated with CBS.
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Personal Training Secrets - Matt Weik
Introduction
Personal training is an extremely competitive career. Each gym is swarmed with trainers looking to fill up their schedules with training sessions in hopes of making a lucrative career from their hard work. Many will succeed, while others, unfortunately, won’t. Some of those trainers are the best around, while others are out trying to make a quick buck without the proper knowledge and education to successfully and safely train a client. For that reason, you need to differentiate yourself from everyone else. Especially if you own your own personal training business.
What the numbers say...
More than 2/3 of the United States’ population is considered overweight. There are also around 78.6 million adults in the United States who are obese. Look around you. That’s 1 in every 3 people. Society needs people like you to help educate the population and show them how to live a healthy life and change their poor lifestyle habits. Each year the number of personal training jobs grows on average 8%. By the year 2020, there will be an estimated 300,000 personal trainers in the United States alone—and through the help of this book, hopefully, you can still be a part of that statistic.
What to expect from this book?
This book will help you understand some of the mistakes personal trainers make that you can learn from in an effort to get one step ahead of your competition and fill up any empty spaces in your schedule with clients. Learn from their mistakes so you don’t make the same ones and ultimately hurt your business. While the number of personal training jobs is on the