Are you a fitness fanatic and do you have an interest in personal training? If so, this one’s for you. Becoming an online trainer can be a very lucrative source of income and requires very little upfront investment. The role of an online personal trainer is to educate clients on health and fitness and coach them through a plan to achieve their fitness goals.
The fitness training market is one of the biggest new markets to go online. Personal trainers have realised they can reach more clients by going digital and gain more customers by offering a more flexible and less time-consuming service for their busy clientele, accessible for a reduced cost and from anywhere in the world.
There’s a lot of options open to online personal trainers. You may choose to develop several online programmes complete with nutrition guides and exercise regimes that you sell on to clients. Alternatively, you can offer a more personalised service by producing bespoke programmes unique to your clients. Coaching can vary from email check-ins, weekly workout videos and monthly targets.
You can use sites such as Truecoach to launch your digital coaching platform. Truecoach offers a fantastic framework for uploading content, building programmes and secure communication for staying in regular contact with your clients, all in one place. Clients will have an interface where they can upload progress whenever they like. Truecoach operates on a subscription basis, with monthly subscriptions ranging from approximately £15 to £79 a month.
Alternatively, many personal trainers build a substantial following on YouTube or Instagram and advertise their business directly through their social media channels.