You want to become a personal fitness trainer and you are told you have to pay $800, $1000, $1200 or more to get a personal trainer certification. Maybe the gym manager told you that the cert was worth it because is “Nationally Accredited.” But are these expensive fitness certs better? At the end of the day, do they mean you will make more money as a fitness pro? Should you go into credit card debt to make your dream come true? In this video, I interview a new personal trainer who tells us how much money he'd be making when he was offered a job at a very well known gym. You may be surprised. If you are a personal trainer or what to become one, you need to hear these words.
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So true! A gym told me I should get the NASM cert. After studying for months and spending close to $1000 on the exam, books and practice tests, I finally passed only to discover how little I’d make as a fitness trainer. I ended up quitting after 4 months and have not done anything since. I wish I had seen this sooner. You both would have saved me a lot of money and time.
Stevo, so sorry to hear what happened to you and that you dropped out of the personal training world. Gyms need to stop promoting expensive certs. They are not better than lesser expensive options.