Advantages and pitfalls of in home personal training
You have received great answers from Harris and Christine.
For me, personally, in-home training is only one segment of my fitness business, about 15% of my training hours. It was pretty easy for me to get started because I had been doing group-ex and small group personal training for a while and had people who knew me and my teaching style. I made just a couple of inquiries to former group-ex members if they were interested in training, and it built from there.
My biggest challenge is own schedule. Fortunately, I use it to my advantage. I have very limited hours (school hours) and I train moms who have the same limited hours and live within 2 miles of me. If someone wants to train with me and lives more than 2 miles away, which costs me time, my rates go up by $15 to $20 an hour because the travel time loses clients. When clients are stacked efficiently within my training radius, I can do a 9:30, an 11, and a 12:30 and still have time for my own breakfast, lunch, and paperwork between the start and the end of school. It took me a while to be firm and not bend to others’ schedules. Want to train with me? Great! In order for us to make it work, here are the times I can train…