Happy New Year to everyone, we wish you an amazing year filled succcess and prosperity, and for those of you looking to study their level 3 Personal Training (PT) Diploma, or those currently studying for their PT exams, or for those of you who are qualified and are looking for employment, Focus Fitness UK have compiled a list of job categories you can flourish in. At Focus Fitness UK we make it a promise to ensure you get the best out of your qualification, so here are our list of “5 exciting careers you can use your P.T qualification for”:
To begin with, we would first like to suggest two options to consider attending for increased liklihood of successfully finding a suitable job for yourself:
1.Pure Gym assessment day
2.Virgin Active assessment day
More information about these days will follow. Sign up here by scrolling to the bottom of the homepage to stay up to date with our recruitment/assessment days and start your fitness career today!
90% of all attendees successfully find a job through these both of these avenues, thus we highly recommend attending either of these days.
So without further ado, here are our 5 exciting jobs you can pursue with yourqualification:
Personal Trainer
An obvious one of course, however we believe it is worth understanding the relevance of why we have put it in our list despite it’s familarity with most of us. As a PT you will most likely need to be hired by a gym where you will represent their brand, as part of the team. It is therefore important to decide whether your vision falls in line with the company’s vision, so that you can progress together and so that you feel like you have something meaningful to contribute. In layman’s terms, find a gym you feel at home with.
Freelance (self employed) Personal Trainer
You will most likely explore freelancing after some time working in gym where you will have gained enough experience and establishment that you feel comfortable finding your own clientele outside a gym company’s support. But for those of you looking to jump right in, you will need to spread the word of your PT service and most importantly take advantage of digital marketing. Almost everyone is online on some form of social media, you will find most of your clients on social media platforms, for high effectiveness, be on all of them for business purposes.
General Manager
Every gym needs a Gym Manager (front of house), to keep all gym related responsibilities in check and by having a PT qualification it may help with your c.v showing you are already embedded in the relative field but also showing your knowledge and interest in the members needs from a training perspective.
Duty Manager
A Duty Manager is of high importance to gyms and fitness clubs, they generally look after security and customer support but also are responsible for the gym’s members and their safety and wellbeing. Having a PT qualification will aid in your relationship with the members and the gym environment.
Health & Wellness Coach
A health and wellness coach typically guides clients through dietary changes and provided information about health and diseases to their clients to help assess any current/underlying health conditions which may raise concern. A health and wellness coach focuses on the improvement of diet and physical health, so depending on your interests this may be an ideal path to go down if you more interested in the psychology rather than the physicality of helping others through the avenue of fitness.
We hope you have found this post useful and we wish you the best with your journeys as personal trainers, whwatever career path you decide on. In the meantime, if you are not yet a Level 3 qualified personal trainer and would like to be, please visit our main page where you can enquire about our courses, to help you start your journey of success. We will be with you along the way and help you achieve the end goal of getting into employment.
Written by Daniyal Siddiqui.