How Much Money in Personal Training
ByAfter finishing my 2 “free” sessions with 2 Personal Trainers down my gym – one was a posture assessment (I have bad posture) and another was a body assessment, where we also spoke about what I want out the gym – I have decided to sign up on a 15 session course with one of the Personal Trainers I spoke with. His going to help me get big. 
I’m paying for 12 hours and getting 3 more free. Each hour costing £50. If I had done a one of session, it would cost me £60.
This got my wondering how much money is actually in the Personal Training business. Since its something I want to get into, its something that I should really look into.
A quick Google Search “is there money in personal training” returned this article (it also showed this site as number two in the search results – touch!!)
The article is based in the US, so the figures mentioned aren’t really correct for me, as I’m in the UK, although there are things that I can take from this.
Working in a main, wealthy City, will mean a higher premium can be charged – lucky for me, I aim to work in London, the biggest, wealthiest City in England.
Obviously experience is a key factor, the more experience, knowledge and history you have in the job, the more money you can charge a client. So starting out will mean having to charge less than an experience PT. But this will also likely to lead to younger, newer gym goers being more keen in your services as they haven’t got the big bucks to pay out for the big boys of the Personal Training World.
Who to work for? Being self employed and working for yourself we mean you get set your charges and keep the money you make. This isn’t the case if you work in a gym, where you may get paid a set salary, or a % of the charge they charge a client for an hours Personal Trainer work. But as a beginner, working in a gym will be key to getting your client base up.
To summarise, perhaps the earning potential as a novice in the Industry isn’t fantastic, but as the years go on and the experience and client base rises, the money will rise with it, perhaps even as a high as a 6 figure sum.
