What makes a trainer a trainer (as opposed to the guy who wants your money in exchange for exercise instruction)?
I'd like to think it's the ethics of the person, their intent and how they behave with their clients. I could be wrong.
My personal goal as a Personal Trainer is to provide my clients with the education and tools to make smarter choices for themselves in their daily lives thereby enhancing their overall quality of life. This applies to clients on the Fitness floor as well as in the Group Exercise studio. To put it best (as someone said a couple of days ago) ... work myself out of a job.
In the current day and age, there are health clubs where the trainers have sales quotas. I (personally) think this puts the trainer in a odd predicament. The trainer begins to think of the client as a dollar sign, cheapening the clients experience. Faulty thinking, the trainer should view the client as a client, a project, a person ... with individual needs and realities. Now that said, we do need to be able to pay the rent, so a balance needs to be struck between how we view people and provide the best service we can to those we are working with. Dollar signs or not.
Unfortunately, the economic realities of the club system are predicated on how much a person can sell and their individual revenue stream for the facility.
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