Personal Trainer will Help To Get Fitness Goal
The most obvious difference between a gym instructor and a
personal trainer is education. Gym Instructors are educated to Register of
Exercise Professionals (REPS) level 2 and personal trainers are required to re
educated to REPS Level 3. You can train to be level 2 qualified in a few weeks
whereas level 3 qualification takes at least 2 months of full-time study.
In the United Kingdom you will find fitness instructors and
personal trainers working side by side, seemingly doing the same job. They look
the same but their role and their levels of education can be very different. In
this article I want to explain what the differences are and why it is important
to know this.
REPS is the Register of Exercise Professionals and is the
body in the United Kingdom that oversees education and registration of fitness
professionals and trainers. They require a certain level of education and
continued learning to remain as a member.
Other differences will relate to the job that each one will
undertake. Most gym instructors tend to be employed by the gym and will earn
around £7 per hour. Their duties can include anything from inducting new
members to cleaning machines to making sure that the gym is clean and tidy and
that there are no weights left around. Gym instructors will also be required to
do health check on members and maybe even teach classes such as spin and
circuits. They are instrumental in helping out members and should be a first
port of call if you want some advice regarding exercise for or if you need
someone to spot you with some weights.
In most of the bigger chain gyms in the United Kingdom personal
trainers are not employed but rather work as self-employed freelancers.
Generally the personal trainers will pay the gym anything from £100-£200 per
week to work there and it will be up to them to speak to members and find their
own clients. This actually works out really well for the gyms as they are
getting money in from the trainers and this is also helping them to retain
members as well.
The average personal trainer will charge anything from
£25-£50 per hour depending on their level of education and experience. For
example a newly qualified trainer may only charge £25 per session as they may
have their personal training qualification whereas some more qualified and
experienced personal trainers who have been qualified as a personal trainer for
a few years can charge £40 and upwards per session as they constantly update
their qualifications and have a track record of satisfied clients.
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