{"id":11253,"date":"2019-09-06T09:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T09:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/?p=11253"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T08:04:08","slug":"becoming-a-personal-trainer-career-hot-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/personal-fitness-training-blog\/becoming-a-personal-trainer-career-hot-demand\/","title":{"rendered":"Why becoming a personal trainer is career which is in hot demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, becoming a personal trainer is an incredibly popular career choice. And there\u2019s a specific reason why this is. People around the world are becoming more and more health conscious. They are becoming more clued up on what is good, and what is bad for them. They are reading articles about the best way to improve longevity. As such, they need someone to help them implement this knowledge and the person that they turn to is the <a href=\"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/blog\/what-skills-you-need-as-a-personal-trainer-in-2019\/\">personal trainer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>But what makes a personal trainer?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Anyone can take the time to read up on how to exercise, study anatomical diagrams and watch\u00a0 YouTube videos about what the best form is to adopt for various exercises. However, even with this knowledge under their belt they are not PROPER personal trainers.<\/p>\n<p>In a personal trainer course, the student studies how to train a variety of people as well as all of the exercises that can be used to train these people. So people who self-study how to exercise will only be looking up information for them to be able to meet their own personal fitness goals. They will not, for instance, read up on the best exercises for a person, in a wheelchair, to do. This is because if they are not in a wheelchair themselves, these types of exercises will not be relevant to them.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>The course that people, who want to become personal trainers, study needs to be comprehensive. It needs to include:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Anatomy and physiology<\/li>\n<li>Biomechanics<\/li>\n<li>Fundamental and advanced nutrition<\/li>\n<li>Physical Assessments<\/li>\n<li>Health screening<\/li>\n<li>Motivation techniques<\/li>\n<li>Wellness concepts in fitness<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurship in the fitness industry<\/li>\n<li>Exercise programme design<\/li>\n<li>Coaching Disabilities in sport and exercise<\/li>\n<li>Training special populations (pregnant clients, elderly clients and children)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11254 size-shop_single\" src=\"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SLP_3293-copy-600x413.jpg\" alt=\"Trifocus Fitness Academy-personal trainer \" width=\"600\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SLP_3293-copy-600x413.jpg 600w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SLP_3293-copy-291x200.jpg 291w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SLP_3293-copy-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SLP_3293-copy-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SLP_3293-copy-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/SLP_3293-copy.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to comprehensive course material, a personal trainer course needs to be accredited by leading health and fitness bodies. This accreditation is the industry\u2019s rubber stamp of approval. It shows clients and potential employers that anyone who has done this personal trainer course is the best trainer out there and that these people need to be snapped up quickly. In South Africa, examples of such bodies are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Register of Exercise Science South Africa (REPSA), and<\/li>\n<li>The Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality and Sport Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>The benefits of\u00a0 becoming a personal trainer<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There are countless benefits to becoming a personal trainer. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Because you\u2019d be running your own <a href=\"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/blog\/promoting-fitness-business-with-social-media\/\">fitness business<\/a>, as a personal trainer you\u2019d be able to dictate your own income. This is because the more that you work, the more you get paid. This could be scary, for some people, as there is no guaranteed salary at the end of the month and the amount of work that you get directly relates to how well you market yourself.<\/li>\n<li>What quite a lot of personal trainers do enjoy, and what actually attracts them to the profession in the first place, is the flexible hours. The busy times for a trainer are usually early in the morning and late in the afternoon. This means that, in the middle of the day, they are pretty much free. This means that they have time to do things that people, who are bound to office jobs, don\u2019t get the time to do.<\/li>\n<li>A career in personal training doesn\u2019t tie you to one location. With a personal trainer course, you can travel the world because fitness is not specific to one location \u2013 it\u2019s universal. So, if you\u2019ve ever wanted to see foreign lands, get a personal training qualification and the sky\u2019s the limit!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/contact-us\/\"><strong>Contact Trifocus Fitness Academy\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Want to discover more about becoming a personal trainer? <a href=\"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/courses\/personal-training-diploma\/\">Check out<\/a> Trifocus Fitness Academy\u2019s Personal Training Diploma.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5273 size-shop_single\" src=\"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/footer1-1-600x96.jpg\" alt=\"Trifocus fitness academy personal training course registration\" width=\"600\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/footer1-1-600x96.jpg 600w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/footer1-1-300x48.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/footer1-1-768x123.jpg 768w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/footer1-1-1024x164.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/footer1-1.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trifocus Fitness Academy - Personal Training Certificate\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9wXY8zokuiY?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=https:\/\/trifocusfitnessacademy.co.za\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, becoming a personal trainer is an incredibly popular career choice. 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