Funny you should say that John. I have recently hired a 44 year old woman who is really enthusiastic about the gym. I met her a few months ago as a result of her hiring me to help her with her powerlifting. She already knows more about a lot of the members in her first two weeks working here than I learned after knowing them for years. Its not that i'm not friendly its just that people take one look at me and assume they are about to be killed. So she has now become my PT saleswoman. She talks me up to everyone as a trainer so hopefully the word will get out that way.
One other thing John, I honestly don't like training most people. Housewives and business men may be most PTs bread and butter but I really have no interest in doing all that. I like to work with athletes and people into more serious stuff. I need to get over that and somehow become more enthusiastic about the regular folk. Of course, large amounts of cash might help that.
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