Focus Fitness UK prioritises teaching you to grow your business as much as you can. Please see our latest blogs covering marketing, business and training tips. We thought we’d also provide some insight on how growth in your business can also facilitate growth in your community or communities around you. We’ve broken down this blog into 5 key options a trainer could look into if looking to give back to the community through the fitness. At the end of the day, personal training is providing a service for others, you are changing lives for the better and this can create a ripple effect for others, if we can help to guide you to a better position within your community and to further your knowledge base at the same time, then we’ve done our job.
Bootcamps
These are great, they provide an opportunity in a motivated environment with physically stimulating exercises non-stop in a short space of time, all for that one fitness goal you’ve been dreaming of. Bootcamps can last anywhere between a weekend to a few weeks, generally they finish sooner than you’d think, but they are very available especially in 2018. There are also holiday retreat packages which offer a fitness Bootcamp, encouraging you to fly to a foreign spot for a once in a lifetime training experience, perhaps by the beach in Thailand, or out in the Caribbean paradise of St. Lucia.
Strength Camps For the Young
This isn’t something you find often, mainly because it is a theoretical pursuit we think could really prove highly effective. Young people face more challenges and obstacles than anyone else, in the world of 2018, many young people have become prone to vulnerability, with surrounding issues in their communities growing at a faster rate than they are being resolved. Issues like these faced in both developing and underdeveloped countries can cripple the young and make them feel weak and insecure, but strength could change this trauma. A strength camp for the young, based on circuit, bodyweight and drill exercises could help young people regain their confidence and increase their physical strength and mental strength as a result.
Weightloss Class
In 2016/17 there were 617 thousand admissions in NHS hospitals as a result of obesity being a primary or secondary factor, an 18% increase on 2015/16. Around 2 in every 3 patients were female, with this knowledge we can only assume obesity remains highly prevalent in 2018, a simple but effective way to target this prevalence from a trainers perspective would be to offer a weight loss class in the local community. Group training has already proven its trend this year in 2018 and group class dedicated to weight loss will only prove more trendy and popular especially during this hot summer period of July and August.
Running Club
A perfect alternative to members of the community who wish to stray away from the gym style of training and would prefer a bodyweight cardio style of exercise. A running club in the community is not only about increasing the fitness level in the area, but it is also about promoting fitness to others who see the group running, it is also about bringing different aspects of the community together for a similar goal to strive for, with certain political figures attempting to divide us, let your running club be the glue that joins us.
Couples/Family Training
Our final pick for our list primarily skewed towards business but does have a major effect on the local community, training couples/families. Let’s assume you are training a 35-year-old mother who wants to tone up for her summer vacation, she most likely has a husband and a son a daughter, maybe a sister and so on who will most likely be in need of a fitness trainer who can also guide them. By you training someone they are closely related to, you have already given them a reason to trust you, plus by you training a family, the level of motivation will increase as all members are on the same page.
If you found this post insightful, why not check out some of our previous posts on our blog page or if you are interested in becoming a qualified personal trainer check out our main page for course information and if you have any questions feel free to email us at info@focusfitnessuk.com.
Written by Daniyal Siddiqui.