Where to find the best personal trainers
Watch this before you hire a Personal Trainer - Why I stopped taking clients
what's happening muscle mind welcome
back to my life today I wanted to talk
about personal trainers and I just want
to give you some tips before you you
hire one if you're thinking about
getting one so I've never had a personal
trainer but I've been one in the past
and actually I'm not personal training
right
I have no clients and the reason that I
don't want to do that anymore is because
it is such a narrow scope I think
YouTube and this outlet right here I
love that you guys are watching this if
this gets way more views and I can ever
reach personal training people one at a
time right so I can get one
someone image I always cry I was always
a private personal trainer so I bring
people here or go to them I would never
I've never worked in like a commercial
gym but I have friends that new so I
feel like I'm going to position the talk
about I have some opinions about it but
like I was saying I narrow scopes like
you teach one personal lesson right and
that takes an hour of my time or I can
make a video in that same lesson grow
traffic and an audience to share it too
and then it's all data logging people
could always come back and watch and I
just think this is such a better outlook
and I found myself being a really bad
businessman when I was personal training
right because the name of the game is
make money
it's a job isn't it and to be a good
personal trainer right to make money in
the long term what you need to do is
have a sustainable client it's almost
like let's say you're a renter and
you're renting out a house you want one
tenant for the next 20 years so you want
someone who's gonna move in and never
move out so it's a residual paycheck you
just keep getting it's having the same
thing with personal training if you're
going to be a personal trainer you're
training one person you want them to be
a long-term plan and I found myself
educating too much to the point that
people wouldn't need me if that makes it
so I would get people and the first like
20 minutes the first maybe 10-15 minutes
I would always give a lesson I would I
would teach them about some nutrition
tip about some form about just something
unrelated to the workout we were doing
and then we would get into the workout
and after a while I found myself kind of
they become an expert maybe working out
together
and there wouldn't be as much
construction going on I kind of felt
like I wasn't as needed and so I wanted
to get into this is something I really
wanted that brothers there's two reasons
that you should hire a personal trainer
there's two things that a personal
trainer will give you the first is
information so it's that education
outside in that because they're going to
give you some type of information but
it's going to be kind of skewed I'll get
to that later the second thing they give
you is motivation so the two main things
information motivation you don't need
them for either and they're not
efficient at giving either because the
information aspect like I said earlier
if they give you too much information
you will not need that so they always
have to strategically keep you in the
dark somewhat and I'm not saying all
personal trainers do this but I'm saying
especially one of the commercial gyms
will do this they will give you a
workout plan but they won't tell you why
you're doing it they'll give you a
nutrition plan they won't tell you why
you're doing it
they'll correct you want a formal though
kind of just to walk you through stuff
but they're not going to say oh this is
why I set this up like this this is why
you're going to increase this weight
this is why I want your reps to be here
and that's what I found myself doing
again why wasn't the best personal
trainer it's not because I don't have a
technical knowledge it's just because I
didn't have the capitalistic
money-making that sense that businessman
stands I wasn't thinking long-term about
the money-making goal I was thinking
more about helping the person out which
I think can be a goal like this like I'd
rather do it on YouTube on YouTube that
makes more sense because if people feel
like they're being helped they're going
to keep wanting come back right and then
for motivation are a lot of people will
hire a personal trainer simply because
they they don't have the drive to go to
the gym and they'd rather you know hey
someone whether it's 25 50 bucks before
I give you this one more time I wanted
to talk about there's there's many
different there's a broad spectrum of
personal trainers so what I'm kind of
talking about right now is just a
general CPT general personal trainer
someone you can find in any 24 hour
fitness or something like that
I'm not talking about the specific ones
because if you get specific within
personal training you have a
rehabilitation specialist you have like
strength and conditioning coaches you
have people that are specific to
and those people have a very specific
knowledge and you can hire them for
short-term spurts right so let's say you
have a bodybuilding show coming up or
you want to you know get down to that
peak leanness you want to get on stage
it makes sense to hire a coach because
you need a crash course you need someone
who's going to feet force feed you
information and kind of like handle the
process for you
because there's a start date and an end
date but when you hire a general
personal trainer if you think about that
long term if that personal trainer is
what you need long term it's not going
to work out unless you were always
paying this person 150 bucks or whatever
is a week which is crazy so specific
personal trainers make a lot more sense
to me the general ones not so much I
think there's a lot of great resources
out there whether it's YouTube
bodybuilding comm bodybuilding comm
actually has like a series of YouTube
videos where they go over form they talk
about supplements which maybe you don't
really need and they talk about you know
diet nutrition it's all basic there's
nothing overly complicated about like a
beginner fitness advice beginner fitness
no it's not too complicated kind of what
I'm saying getting back into motivation
if if someone else that personal trainer
it's an unhealthy motivation that's just
how I see it is extrinsic first of all
which it's not within yourself if you
should find motivation within yourself I
understand that that is not possible for
a lot of people or a lot of people just
don't have that they don't love it
whatever it may be my advice is to find
a sport or some type of fitness that you
do love because if you've gotten you go
to the gym and you get on a treadmill
and you're sweating you're panting you
hate the way you feel from it then you
know what maybe that is your that's not
your type of work that doesn't mean like
that doesn't mean you don't like working
out as a whole that means that you don't
like what you were just doing so just
experiment but take up a sport play
basketball play golf do something that
is is active and it's going to get you
in shape that you love you can combine
the two things that's why I found
bodybuilding I don't think there's
anything overly healthy about
bodybuilding
right I mean besides the cardiovascular
activity what you're doing kind of on a
tangent here we can doing with your
bodybuilding is you're making yourself
more heavy which puts more toll on your
organs
it puts you at a higher BMI and
bodybuilding I wouldn't say is that the
healthiest former training but it is a
solid cardiovascular workout but the
health aspect really comes in in the
diet but motivation should come from
yourself if you're paying someone for
motivation is going to be a long-term
expense one of my favorite videos that I
ever did was actually a couple months
ago it's called more than that maybe the
beginning of the year it's like three or
four months ago
it's called gym cost analysis I'm going
to paste it right here I really insist
that you guys go watch that exactly
seriously one of my it's basically a
cost-benefit analysis of home gyms the
cost and the time so if you put yourself
in a position where the exercising is
easy for you right you are much more
likely to stick it out and personal
trainers are out that you're going to
get over a personal trainer because the
cost of games too expensive and become
too much of a hassle for you it to go
out of your way I work in Hollywood
which requires me I live in like Long
Beach area so it's like an
hour-and-a-half Drive right so I'll wake
up at 8:00 get to work at 10:00 get off
at 6:00 get home at 8:00 so I lit it
from 8:00 to 8:00 I'm moving I get home
at 8:00 I'm telling you right now I
wouldn't go to a gym if I had to go to a
gym I would not get a home at 8 o'clock
get dressed go to a 24-hour fitness
whatever come home give them a 10 then
eat it's just too much so I'm happy that
I can get home let's say I'm like I'm
tired I take a pre-workout on the way
home pull in my driveway come in my
garage and workout and that's something
I built over time I used to do
instructional fitness on television like
like p90x that ones the tapes and stuff
and that worked out really well for me
until I compiled all this stuff and I'll
make youtube videos in our time but but
when I kind of like the final verdict
and conclusion I know it kinda went on
tangents here when it comes down to
personal trainers like look within
yourself and motivation first of all and
look online there's tons of great
resources for information that you're
not require you paying that much money
there's people that will give you free
stuff online there's people like me who
are certified personal trainers that's
what that is over there if you have my
certificate who do not mind giving free
information just simply because they
love doing
you know and I love watching my channel
grow a little bit too which is half the
fun but I appreciate you guys watching
the video muscle
