How do you define success as a fitness professional?

Are you putting the emphasis on fitness or professional? I ask as a successful professional in any field has a track record. Too, a fitness professional can be a group fitness instructor, a personal trainer, fitness director, a writer of fitness articles etc., etc., etc.
Peter and Kathie Davis are fitness professionals yet they teach no classes.

I believe success as a fitness professional is relative to what the fitness professional aspires to become. If the vision is to head the world's largest association of fitness and wellness professionals then they are successful. On the other hand if the vision of the fitness professional is to teach 5 fully-packed group fitness classes then that individual too has achieved success.

Success is relative to the goals of the individual.

As a licensed Zumba Fitness Instructor, the 'evolving' of the students. It's all about the students...not the instructor.

Repeat and regular students who bring their family and friends. The individual accomplishments and acheivements...the smile on the students face 'I did it..I got this!"....Regained confidence, weight loss, toning...goals met...well-ness..

Zumba Fitness makes people happy...bottom line...and they make YOU happy because in some measure...You have made a difference in their lives..

So..for me...I measure success by the students returning on a regular basis...enjoying the class and benefiting from them...it dominoes into other aspects of their lives...and touches your own..

Hi! I work in the fitness industry since 2004. I gave a lot of classes and more than 3000 Pt sessions. I define sucess when we can show passion about fitness and when we motivate people to change the way they fell about fitness and most important the way they about themself.

Success as a fitness professional has a number of factors but which comes first is hard to generalize about. Having a reasonable number of clients or class members constitutes a measure of success, but it is by no means the whole answer. Taking great care not to hurt your clients is another crucial part. Creating and sharing an exercise experience that clients will come back to is essential. Enjoying your teaching experience is a must. Getting results everyone would agree is important but is much less simple than it sounds. Some very important results are not realized quickly or are not necessarily visible in a mirror unless you are talking about a smile.

Being able to live confortably on my fitness job only, known by the comunity and sucessful with my clients!

Certainly being paid by the wonderful changes our clients make is a big bonus, but you need to run your business professionally with a business license and the monitoring of your income and expenses. If after three years you are not showing continued increase in net profit, you don't have a business- you have a hobby.

For me, "success" is my being able to reach a client, help them reach their goal(s), see them grow as they gain confidence in what their body can do, and see their enthusiasm for fitness and a healthy lifestyle grow as they learn what to do for themselves. I LOVE it!

LaRue, CSCS
www.lecfitness.com
lecfitness@yahoo.com

As with anything this is different for each individual. For me training 20 hours per week, teaching 6 hours per week at the University and having the rest of the time for my family is my success.

The greatest joy is seeing someone "transform" or become new again. When people look good and feel good and you "helped", in their progression... that is success