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Attention Fitness Instructors/Personal Trainers

  • 20-07-2011 11:27am
    #1
    Constant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭


    Attention Fitness Instructors/Personal Trainers

    I am qualified as the above with the NCEF (L2) and when applying for jobs in gyms they are all looking for previous experience. Are there any of you out there who've had the same problem when you were starting out and how did you get around it? Also are any of you willing to take on an "apprentice" or team up - I'm eager to learn!


    Kind Regards,

    Constant


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  • #2
    The Davestator
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,537 ✭✭✭The Davestator


    I take fitness staff on regularly in my job and my advice would be to get brilliant at classes. If I had a euro for everytime I heard 'I can teach circuits' I'd be a millionaire!
    Learn spin, step, body pump etc and you'll walk into any job IMO.


  • #3
    flywheel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭flywheel


    Constant wrote: »
    Attention Fitness Instructors/Personal Trainers

    I am qualified as the above with the NCEF (L2) and when applying for jobs in gyms they are all looking for previous experience. Are there any of you out there who've had the same problem when you were starting out and how did you get around it? Also are any of you willing to take on an "apprentice" or team up - I'm eager to learn!

    Yeah that's the challenge... getting and showing experience is key, when I started out I did unpaid work experience to start off and also went and got qualified to teach various classes and work with special populations...

    If you can't get into a gym on work experience try to rent a hall/studio and start your own classes (make sure you are qualified/insured in what you are teaching)... try get some testimonials from clients too...

    If you are thinking of doing Indoor Cycling get the (official) Spinning® Certification, it's way more in-depth than the alternative ones and offers ongoing professional education so you advance as an instructor.

    Best of luck.


  • #4
    dumbbell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭dumbbell


    Just curious .. my gym (westwood) has some brill classes .. how ever it looks like the staff are seriously over worked ? i dont know how many classes they do a day or how its structured but any time am there its the same faces doing multiple classes .. is this not over kill and how are there joints going to hold up in years to come?


  • #5
    Constant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19 ✭Constant


    Thanks for the replies guys.


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