[Isaac Wilkins]

I do some in-home training, and it's a good thing. I would definitely take some thoughts into consideration, though:

Driving time and scheduling. You're not UPS or FedEx. You don't have their logistics management systems. Assuming you become popular you can soon be in a nightmare of sitting in the car and shuffling back and forth.

People are going to pay a premium for you to come to them, but are they going to pay enough (I don't know, some will, some won't)? For example, let's say you charge $40 for a thirty minute session. Well, shit, that's like $80/hr! Wrong. Chances are it'll take at least 15 minutes of car time each way, so really you're making $40 an hour which is bottom of the barrel PT cost around here (I don't know about KC).

What I do is base my cost ($60/session/1 hr) to travel, then I add mileage based on mapquest. It's not perfect, but it's been working. Then again, in-home training isn't the bulk of my work, nor do I want it to be.

Also, you're probably going to have to teach them to be warmed up (whatever method you use) and be ready for when you get there. What if they're running late? Then you won't be able to get as quality a workout as you'll have to spend time warming them up. People should, if you have an appointment at 5:00pm think about their appointment being at say 4:45, just to warm up. We know they won't do that.

That brings me to another thing: Rush hour charges? Sitting in traffic is a lot different at 5:00pm v. 2:00pm.

I would definitely cap your time. As you're building your business think about how much training you want to do initially. Say somewhere around 20 actual hours. Once you hit that, hire an Instructor. This type of training can rapidly chew up your time, leaving you with no time to work on your business.

I'm not downing your plan, it's certainly a viable business. I'm just pointing some things out to think about.