Make six figures as a personal trainer and live the life you love

Make six figures as a personal trainer and have a life

How much do top of the line personal trainers make? Well, when I compare what I make as a personal trainer to the millions that so many people on the internet claim to be making in the fitness industry, it feels like a fool. For example, a while ago I received an automated hard-sell email from a fitness marketer claiming that he was a millionaire and that one of his friends made over $150,000 a month. I don’t make much more than that a year as a personal trainer, so I know those “success stories” can make you feel like you’re on the wrong track. So why seek high-level training? Why should anyone want to be a personal trainer and only earn 100K? Well, the answer has nothing to do with money.

Don’t get me wrong; Income is important, but there are other things to consider, such as:

– What is your net salary?

– How many hours you work?

– Do you enjoy your job?

– Where are you headed professionally?

– Are you the kind of person you want to be?

– Does your job fill you up or bore you?

These are the factors that must be weighed when deciding the importance to give to what you win, because that is what being a high-level coach is all about. It has nothing to do with income, because when you take all the factors into account, what this profession offers you is much more than what the 100K represents.

Not that there’s anything wrong with making six figures… After all, a $100,000 income has a certain cachet and importance in America.

It means belonging to the consumer society. Now you can participate and enjoy what people call the American dream and lifestyle. When you stop to think about it, our entire consumer and marketing society is dedicated to this six-figure income. For example:

– You can pay the payments of a Mercedes Benz.

– You can save enough to buy a house.

– You can afford to build a couture wardrobe.

– You can take vacations to places in domestic and overseas resorts.

– You can afford to save about 10% of your income each year.

Is all this superficial? Yeah, but if you can’t have or do these things, you’ll feel left out, like you’re one of those not-cool kids who can’t get into the party. But, consider the price of admission to that party. We have a feeling that it will take millions of dollars to live a comfortable and attractive lifestyle. So, we ended up working for years.

and sacrificing the best years of our lives and many other things to get the kind of life we ​​want, but we end up wasting a lot of it in that pursuit. We don’t realize that just a simple six figure profit plan would have gotten us there! I remember when I first got to this level of income. There’s a certain sense of entitlement that comes with it, as if the curtain has been drawn and a new world has been made available to you.

Keep in mind that less than 10% of people in our society earn 100K. When you consider the type of work that personal training involves and the fact that the training rates are so high, I think it has to be the simplest and best career to earn a six figure salary. By simple, I mean that you can earn it just by training clients. You don’t have to sell e-books, vitamins, balance books or boards, shoot videos, or open a small training studio. You can do this by training lucrative clients, period.

If you’re not earning as much as a coach yet, you’re probably not thinking about what you’re doing correctly. I don’t know where or when being a personal trainer got a bad rap in the fitness industry, but I think the reason is because it’s usually associated with a major gym setting, not independent trainers who want to create a stable practice. That’s why you hear a lot of people who get fit for whatever reason talk disparagingly about training. They want to skip the step of being a personal trainer. They are the ones who want to own a sports gym or be a strength trainer for a major sports team.

There is nothing wrong with that; Getting to a top position in this field is a big goal and being a top level coach can give you those opportunities. It becomes very easy to shape your future when you earn between 75 and 100,000 in about 25 hours a week. Even if you’re a college student working toward a Sports Science degree, earning a good income in this field will shoot your career curve up. After all, what makes the most sense to you? Do you have a part-time job doing some unrelated chores while you’re in school, or are you already successful in the field you’re studying? And keep in mind that you can apply everything you’re learning in school to your clients.

The high-level coaching lifestyle has given me the time to do and learn things that I would never have been able to do otherwise. Professionally, I’ve learned how to become an effective writer, made many lucrative connections, written for major training magazines, and spoke at major conferences. Personally, it has given me the kind of high profile lifestyle that I thought was only reserved for drug dealers or trust fund brats. Another group that hits the six-figure salary are coaches who think they’re already earning it. But when we’re talking six figures, there’s a lot we’re not talking about. I don’t mean that you:

– Made 150K in sales in your training department last year, only taking a small commission from it.

– I worked 60 hours training children and old women (not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s not for everyone).

– you “own” a gym. I make more than any private gym owner I’ve ever met. They all had business partners, so they were only minority owners in their gyms, had tons of expenses, and worked at least 60 hours a week. They didn’t own the gym, the gym owned them.

What’s more, I don’t care that you own a training center, because after paying all your employees, expenses, and advertising expenses, you’re very lucky and smart to take home more than 100,000 and again, you’ll probably work long hours to do it. No, when I say six figures, I really mean six figures in take-home pay. How is that possible? It’s because in our economy, the government loves entrepreneurs. They are the people who make the entire economy possible in the first place.

Remember, when you’re a personal trainer, you’re technically a small business, even if you have no employees or only 10 regular clients. If you form an S-corp as a small business person, you can claim many of your expenses as tax deductible. And S-Corps tax documents aren’t scrutinized: that’s the advantage of living in a capitalist country. America loves and cultivates entrepreneurs.

There are other blessings to consider, such as the fitness lifestyle. Did you know that most fitness conferences are held in Las Vegas and Miami? This means that your hotel, airfare, and event admission are all tax deductible, as are your training certifications, gym memberships, and exercise classes. So how do you get to that six figure salary? It all comes down to just two things: running expensive training sessions, and finding and keeping about a dozen customers who can afford them. It’s really that simple.

The ball is in your court. Chase it.