Personal trainers often form meaningful relationships with long-term clients. Learn whether attending a client’s funeral is appropriate, how to support the family, and what to avoid saying.

Personal trainers and group fitness instructors face emotional stress that can lead to burnout. Learn how to set boundaries, recover between sessions, handle difficult client relationships, and protect your mental health.

To become a personal trainer, you have to become certified. Everybody knows that. But fitness exams only teach information about exercise science, fitness testing, physiology, and stuff like that. Fitness certification exams don’t teach you real-life information. This, unfortunately, you have to learn on your own. You can be the smartest fitness instructor in the […]

Training someone who is HIV positive may seem like one of the more challenging things a personal trainers may do – but it doesn’t have to be.  What I’d like to do now is cover some issues to be considered when working with somebody who has HIV/AIDS as well as give fitness trainers some exercise […]

I once was teaching a class that included a lot of people who were hoping to become certified personal fitness trainers. At noon, I gave everybody a lunch break, and it was then, while I was walking back to the college I was teaching, that I noticed something I don’t think I’ve ever seen before: […]

Can you become a personal trainer with a criminal record or felony? Learn how certification rules, gym background checks, insurance, state laws, and evidence of rehabilitation may affect your chances of getting hired.

Update 12/22/19You want to become a personal trainer. You love working out and helping others. You’ve picked a certification and are studying to take your certification exam. Great! What comes after you get certified? In over 800 fitness certification classes I’ve taught, one thing I’ve noticed is most fitness certification focus more on the science […]