Steps to becoming a personal trainer

The first thing that comes to your mind when you think about how to become a personal trainer is whether it is a career to choose or even a career at all?

Right? We all thought of it the first time someone ever said oh fitness is a career and you can follow your passion to earn money. As kids we all fantasied about making your passion your paycheck and for some people it actually came true. Hence this blog is for you or for someone you know how wants to become a fitness profession or a personal trainer.

Without knowledge there is no scope of being a professional, you are only called a professional when you have the right knowledge about the field that you are in, it is as same as doing your schooling or college. Steps to becoming a personal trainer starts with certifications, where you not only learn the right way of training people because apart from practical’s your theory should be clear too. You should know about human anatomy, about muscle imbalance and about a part of psychology, where you can understand client’s behavior. Because it’s not just training sometimes, it is about lack of motivation too. And the topics will not end once you get into the theory part.

There are national and international certifications available as steps of becoming a personal trainer, depending on your goal in future which certification you want to pursue.

First step:
As explained above steps to becoming a personal trainer involves an importance of certification, so your first step will include of searching for the right kind of certification for you.
Now the certification depends on your sole knowledge, there are levels of certifications and that is decided by your current knowledge. Obviously if you are someone who is aware of exercises and certain routines it might be easy for you to pick up level 4 certification of personal trainer but when it comes to not knowing anything you might as well start with level 3 and get your basics cleared to move forward.

Second step:

Secondly you will have to look for authentic academy, school, institute to pursue your certification from. Now unless you do a valid certification with valid exams and certificate it is all a waste. Because just like other places in fitness industry, certifications matter and the name of certifications do too. You should look for authentic education partners, accreditations, skilling partners and so on.

Third Step:
Again after finding the suitable institute, school for your certification. A lot of people decide to do certifications but the batch, the timing, the budget however doesn’t agree in their favor. So, before you get demotivated and think there is no time for it, you look for academies where you have flexible classes, timings and days to learn. There are academies that have weekday, weekend batches with morning or evening or even noon batch. They are online and offline, so finding a place to learn from is an amazing deal because then you won’t have to worry about things falling in your favor you can just run smoothly and become a certified personal trainer.

Fourth Step:

It is where you finish your certifications and gain enough experience to apply in fitness industry. Now as a fitness professional you have a lot of choices, you can work in a gym as a personal trainer or you could move to the aviation industry where you could train in a cooperate office gym, or in a hotel’s gym or if you want to go overseas with your international certification you can apply for that too. The opportunities are amazing, since the digital world has taken over even training your clients online has become a profession.