6 Key Questions Personal Trainers Should Be Asking New Clients
- Do You Have Any Medical Conditions?
- What Are Your Short and Long-Term Goals?
- How Much Sleep Do You Get Per Day?
- What’s Your Daily Nutrition Like?
- Are You a Smoker?
- What Do You Do For a Living?
Why it is important for clients to understand the advantages of personal training?
Having an educated personal trainer beside you to demonstrate the correct posture and technique is invaluable. A personal trainer will ensure clients are performing exercises correctly and efficiently, in order to maximise results. Good form when performing exercises is also essential in reducing the risk of injury.
What do clients want in the first session?
The client wants to know in a concrete way how you will help them with their issue. You don’t need to do an on-the-fly treatment plan, but as you listen to any clients, ideas pop into your mind of what may work well for the client.
How to get more clients as a personal trainer?
1. Be passionate, enthusiastic, likable and keep your energy high. I once did a survey when I had over 50 trainers working for me. I asked their clients what they liked most in a personal trainer. The majority came back with passion, enthusiasm, likability, and energy. 2. Make giving referrals a condition of doing business with you.
Why are my new clients not coming back?
When I first began in Private Practice, I noticed that new clients were not coming back for the second session. I knew I was doing something wrong in that first session (or free consultation) that wasn’t connecting with my clients.
When do clients come to you for help?
A client comes to you for help. They’ve tried exercise before. They’ve tried diets. (Probably lots of diets.) But nothing worked. (At least not for long.) They know they need to make a change, but they need help. They need your help. You want nothing more than to help them. And why not? After all, you’ve gone to school.
