You don't need to be rich to have a personal trainer!
The image of a personal trainer has changed dramatically over the course of my career. In the 90’s people used to ask me all the time whether I had famous people on my client list. I never have really unless you count academics publishing ground breaking material globally or government and UN advisors. Personally I much prefer the company of these types of people over and above the media fame sort, but it’s not what people really wanted to hear about.
The media fame sort, the sort that star strike the nation, were the ones deemed to have deep enough pots of cash to be able to afford the luxury of personal training. People would often ask me how the “other half” lived, what sort of houses they bought and how they distributed their wealth.
And indeed I train many wealthy people. I still do. But as time has progressed so has the view of personal training. As personal training became more and more accepted as a method to maximise training results so it became less of a mystery and more acceptable within the rest of the population.
These days I have students using their loans to buy sessions, single parents on low incomes coming for session plans and reviews once or twice a month. I see teenagers who are caught at the early stages of obesity coming to learn food control methods and exercise regimes that I hope they will carry through their lives. And so the list goes on. People have accepted that professional training intervention does not have to be solely for the elite.
Of course there are differences in what they buy; individuals with fewer money concerns will buy block after block of personal training whereas those on a stricter budget may invest in less private personal training and more group personal training, additionally they may be more inclined to join running clubs and yoga classes than the former client group.
Whatever the budget people are finding a way to access personal training much more willingly now than ever before. So despite media star’s company not being my cup of tea I must thank them for promoting the services of my industry!
Contact us at Brightonfit to find out more about our personal training service.
The image of a personal trainer has changed dramatically over the course of my career. In the 90’s people used to ask me all the time whether I had famous people on my client list. I never have really unless you count academics publishing ground breaking material globally or government and UN advisors. Personally I much prefer the company of these types of people over and above the media fame sort, but it’s not what people really wanted to hear about.
The media fame sort, the sort that star strike the nation, were the ones deemed to have deep enough pots of cash to be able to afford the luxury of personal training. People would often ask me how the “other half” lived, what sort of houses they bought and how they distributed their wealth.
And indeed I train many wealthy people. I still do. But as time has progressed so has the view of personal training. As personal training became more and more accepted as a method to maximise training results so it became less of a mystery and more acceptable within the rest of the population.
These days I have students using their loans to buy sessions, single parents on low incomes coming for session plans and reviews once or twice a month. I see teenagers who are caught at the early stages of obesity coming to learn food control methods and exercise regimes that I hope they will carry through their lives. And so the list goes on. People have accepted that professional training intervention does not have to be solely for the elite.
Of course there are differences in what they buy; individuals with fewer money concerns will buy block after block of personal training whereas those on a stricter budget may invest in less private personal training and more group personal training, additionally they may be more inclined to join running clubs and yoga classes than the former client group.
Whatever the budget people are finding a way to access personal training much more willingly now than ever before. So despite media star’s company not being my cup of tea I must thank them for promoting the services of my industry!
Contact us at Brightonfit to find out more about our personal training service.