#2341 - Q&A: “There’s no money in personal training…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Most personal trainers that I’ve talked to agree on one thing: there’s not much money in just the personal training. This is true even when it’s expensive! Today’s caller wants to transition from in-person, individual sessions to online group classes. What’s the best strategy here?
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| 0:42.0 | Most personal trainers for fitness coaches that I've talked to, |
| 0:46.0 | they tend to agree on one thing. |
| 0:48.0 | And it is that there's not much money in just the personal training. |
| 0:52.0 | So this is true even when it's expensive. |
| 0:54.0 | Like if you're going to a trainer, if you're doing some coaching, |
| 0:56.0 | it tends to be a fairly high hourly rate. |
| 0:59.0 | But there's just not much money in it overall because you're not able to coach or do that kind of training 40 hours a week or even a good number of hours a week. |
| 1:08.0 | You just get kind of get burned out. |
| 1:10.0 | So most personal trainers, they tend to use that as a foundation for something else, at least the successful ones. |
| 1:17.0 | One of my role models for this is Jill Fitt, Jill Coleman, she's been a friend of mine for years. |
| 1:22.0 | So she's Jill Fitt on Instagram. |
| 1:25.0 | She has built a seven figure coaching business with all kinds of products and subscriptions and masterminds. |
| 1:31.0 | I respect the sheer ambition of it, even as I don't market myself that way. |
| 1:35.0 | Like I don't have any masterminds you can pay for. |
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