How many of you Personal Trainers out there can see yourself doing this job for the rest of your life?
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Interesting question. I don’t think there’s ever been anywhere near the number of trainers as there are now and will we be in the gym working individually with clients when we’re 60, 70, 80 years old. We’re all very healthy and so would likely have the physical capacity to do that. The exceptional trainers will likely branch out into book writing, public speaking, teaching classes, etc. The key is to do so well financially that we save up for retirement as well. Often we work for ourselves and if we don’t put away for retirement we’ll either be training till we’re 90 years old or working in Wal-Mart. I plan to be in the industry for the rest of my career, but I don’t plan on working with individual clients all day when I’m old.