An injured client is hard to deal with. Worse yet is an injured client reluctant to change. Here’s how you do it.

Handling Difficult Clients as a Personal Trainer is imperative to your success. The Content Kathy is happy to be working out and has no main training goals. I can’t think of anything more frustrating!

Many trainers are researching health exclusively from the same places as those they are supposed to be trying to help. Mark Young lays out how to use research to set yourself apart from the pack and succeed!

The Challenging Charlie is probably the most difficult client to deal with initially. They’re standoffish and rude. Coach Jon Goodman describes how to deal with this client from start to finish and why they will prove to be a VERY valuable entity if you follow a couple simple steps.

PTDC reader Mario Mavrides gives an overview of the RTS certification.

Share/Bookmark The fitness industry is growing like crazy across the world. Current estimates put annual sales in the multi billion dollar range, with projected dollars into the multi trillion dollar range within the next decade. This makes sense, as the fitness industry will inversely correlate to the health of the nation. As the nation’s health declines, more and more people…

Share/Bookmark What are your goals? Why are you in this business? If you really want to succeed in this industry, a service industry, a health industry, I hope you can identify with a personal mission like the following: If you come at your work as a way to allow you to be who you are, with honesty and integrity, this…

Share/Bookmark Put yourself in this scenario.. You have worked out for years and gotten results.  Since you love the fitness world, you decide to become a personal trainer without really knowing what it entails.  The job sounds exciting and you have friends that are already doing it.  How hard can it be?  I mean all you have to do is…

Share/Bookmark Welcome to the PTDC This is a dream come true!  Thanks for being here right from the beginning. The idea for the PTDC (Personal Trainer Development Center) came to me in early 2010.  I was doing some soul searching of my own trying to decide where I wanted to take my career.  I was fortunate enough to have amazing…