If you have the right certs then yea pretty easy to get a job in a gym.
What are you looking at doing? - just normal everyday pt?
you may have to contact someone here to ensure that your credentials meet aussie requirements,
I have a cert from SAFE - Scandinavian Academy of Fitness Education here in sweden and through them a FISAF cert.
I would love to train people that competes in bodybuiling and fitness becouse that is what i have done here in sweden but i can not be to picky when it is about to earn my living while i study.
/Mattias
I can't see a problem with this man - Maybe find a job in a gym then do some pt on the side till you have enough clients to just do that.
What are you studying by the way?
I just had the most obvious idea Matts.
You are studying at the Gold Coast campus right?
They have a gym.
There are no requirements AFAIK.
It was discussed some time back.Anyone remember the thread?
I disagree.Most gyms may require these but there is no national standard.You need a cert 3 in fitness to be a gym instructor
You need a cert 4 in fitness to be a personal trainer
You need your first aid/CPR to be both I believe?
A lot of places want you to be registered with organisations like vicfit as well, but I dont know much about that.
No qualifications at all.
When I began in 1979, there were no certificates, you were simply hired in the gym and trained by someone with more experience than you.
If you got lucky, as I did, you got someone smart. I had a brilliant teacher at my first gym and second gym.
The word PT didnt enter the equation till the 90's, over 12 years AFTER I had been doing the job.
What do you think they were going to teach me by then, how to wipe down a bench.
Not really much point in getting a certificate to work in a field I had no intention on ever entering, PT in a commercial gym.
F U C K , I couldnt even stand training in one lol
My way is not for everyone. The clients that train at PTC have all trained elsewhere before, very few first timers.
What would make someone leave a nice airconditioned/heated gym full of the latest equipment with PT's at your beck and call.
I wonder.........................
The reason PTC is succesful is because the results people get there. Its all word of mouth. Anyone with a sound knowledge of training could replicate it.
I have a client with his own studio. He hires clients of mine, with no qualifications, to work as PT's in his gym. He even advertises on my forum for PT's.
He has been operating for close to 10 years, he has had a number of PT's. A certificate is no longer as important to him as sound knowledge on training.
He even approached me about certifiyng lifters at PTC to work in the industry lol
Knowing full well how the industry works, this is not viable. Its a money making scheme.
One friend worked in a well known chain, where the PT's all paiud a fee to operate of the floor.
That gym makes $297,000 pa before a single client walks in the door, just from PT's. It is one of the smallest gyms in its chain. I wonder if they also get a kickback from the institution where it hires all its PT's from.
I'm not interested in participating in an operation like this.
I have had stacks of enquiries about opening a PTC franchise in another state. Some business guys came to visit and said they didnt think it was possible. They said I was PTC, that I wasnt transferrable lol
I have a gym asking me to take some KB cardio sessions for them during the day, for a handsome fee.
I guess if you know what your doing, and you can achieve results, word will spread and you can replicate what has happened at PTC.
The only negative comments I ever hear are from people who have never set foot inside PTC. Anyone that has ever lifted there loves it.
I am currently having a promo video being filmed by Max, simple training footage of every day lifters going about their training, no comp vids or posed stuff, just workouts.
When this goes up on the website, you will be able to see exactly what we do. You can then work out for yourself if indeed you can do it.
I have no doubt there are enough disgruntled lifters in commercial gyms to make any venture like PTC achievable anywhere.
As long as you have knowledge and desire.
Hope this helps.
Zarkov, an advantage I had before I started PTC was I was already in business. I have had my own business for years. Very easy to start a new business with all the infastructure in place. I had a good rep with my insurer, so the fact I had been doing this job BEFORE there were qualifications made getting insurance piss easy, same as all the tax stuff. My wife has had her first aid certificates etc.
The council have been round and discussed parking etc. They explained billboards, of which I have none. No parking on neighbours nature strips. Most of my neighbours train at PTC, no issue there anyway.
Everybody has been super supportive and helpful. This has been super easy compared to starting a business without ever having done it before.
its not for everyone though. When people ask me if going into PT is a good career choice, I laugh at them.
Kyle has expressed the numbers being churned out by these institutions, what a joke.
A PT that trained at PTC worked at Core earning $18 an hour. In 2009, with qualifications. Great career choice.
Another worked at FF, he quit after 7 months because he was going broke. They still kept deducting his "rent" from his bank account till his 12 months were up. He has gone into the armed forces now. Still, he's a qualified PT.
No commercial gym will take you without formal qaulifications or relevant experience, its an insurance thing.
Private studios/gyms are a different story.
That was not a comment directed at him, but more of a general statement.
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