1842: Why You Should NOT Become a Personal Trainer
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 β’ 12.6K Ratings
ποΈ 23 June 2022
β±οΈ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin cover ten reasons NOT to become a personal trainer.
- Some jobs require a DEEP passion and some don't. (2:11)
- Ten Reasons Why You Should NOT Become a Personal Trainer.
- #1 - You deal with A LOT of DIFFERENT people. (5:51)
- #2 - Failure is part of the job. (10:59)
- #3 - Hard to make money. (15:31)
- #4 - You work A LOT of hours initially. (21:19)
- #5 - You have to be "ON" all the time. (24:07)
- #6 - You can't be idealistic. (28:53)
- #7 - You are judged by pain, soreness, and sweat. (33:11)
- #8 - You have to counter wrong info constantly. (37:01)
- #9 - People expect instant results. (39:37)
- #10 - It's a LONG process. (41:47)
- If you have the PASSION, NOTHING is more rewarding than being a personal trainer. (44:30)
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Transcript
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| 0:06.0 | Mind, hop, mind, hop with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the number one fitness, health, and entertainment podcast in the entire world. |
| 0:19.0 | This is Mind Pump, right? In today's episode, we talk about personal training, |
| 0:22.0 | but more specifically, why you probably should not become a personal trainer. |
| 0:26.0 | Some of you should, but most of you should not, we give you all the reasons why. |
| 0:30.0 | It's one of the hardest, crappy, and suckiest, but yet most rewarding jobs in the world. |
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