u/larpcentral

New trainer here — how do you guys spend your unpaid floor hours?

Just got started and trying to be smart about my time at the gym when I'm not with clients. My plan is to get my own workouts in and just be present on the floor, talk to members, make some connections, maybe hand out some free sessions.

For those who've been through the early grind — what did you actually do during those unpaid hours that helped you build your client base? Any tips on approaching members without coming off too salesy?

Appreciate any advice

As the title says, I trained my very first client and this client is now on my books!

Thanks for all the tips from everybody!

https://www.reddit.com/r/personaltraining/comments/1t5rftu/new_trainer_training_my_first_clients_tomorrow/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

As the title says tomorrow i start at a big box gym, and I’m going to be giving out free training sessions to clients and in hopes of passing them off towards the sales team after I’m done so they can sell them on training packages.

This is my first time ever training anyone, and I am excited and nervous at the same time.

I have been watching YouTube videos on how to train first clients and this is what I have gathered

First: Ask them how their doing (small introduction), then ask them if their sore anywhere today and then go hit the warm up.

Do an all body workout, the goal is for the client to feel good after the workout, not burnt out

Do 2-3 sets of each workout, with 90 second break in between

Workout should consist of compound movements so the client:

Squats, bench press, lat pull down, rows and if time left ask the client what’s something they want to focus on (example: want bigger biceps) we will hit arms until we are finished

That’s the conclusion of our workout.

During the workout, you also want to be a “friend” and build some rapport with them, as if you were working out with a buddy. But make sure the workout is good.

My question for this subreddit is:

Would you make any tweets or suggestions to this? Your help and experience would be great for me.

Thank you in advance

I've already done some digging through old Reddit threads on this topic, but things change and I'm hoping to find some more recent info.

For those who have worked (or currently work) as a personal trainer at LA Fitness — can you speak to their pay structure?

- Do they offer a base hourly rate on top of your training session rate?
- Do they cut your hourly rate once your training income exceeds a certain threshold?
- Does LA Fitness assign you clients, or are you expected to find your own?

Would also love to hear any recent firsthand experiences working there. I'm considering starting at LA Fitness as my first PT job mainly to build hands-on experience, so any insight would be appreciated!

As the title says, this is my first personal training interview, and the first one is a 30 minute online interview.

I will be learning online all day about how to ace PT interviews, watching videos ect,

But i also wanted to hear directly from you guys.

Can you tell me what sort of questions to expect? And any tips to get prepared?