FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
My pricing is contingent and open to change based on your needs, capabilities, and availabilities but here are some general remarks. One time consultations in which I write you a program and that's all: 50$ for training program, 50$ for dietary program, 75$ for both. In-person training ranges from 50$/month (one session a week, 4 a month) to 200$/month (5 sessions a week). (This is ~10$ per hour-long session). Hiring me full-time includes both the dietary and training protocols, of course (you don't have to buy those individually). This does not include the price of any gym that you might be training in.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
First I will need to get to know you and your goals. Are you trying to lose fat? Are you trying to gain muscle? Are you trying to do both? Are you trying to gain purely strength and nothing else? Are you trying to increase cardiovascular health? Are you trying to just increase general well-being and health? Are you trying to cut for a photo shoot? Are you training for a sports event? These are all things that will help me design an effective workout program for you. Second I will need to get to know your availability. How frequently are you able or willing to train? What is your level of motivation for meeting your goal or goals? Do you have access to a gym or do I need to provide you with such resources? Lastly, and this will be mostly determined by your answers given to the questions in the second paragraph, we will need to establish price. This will be determined by how frequently you plan to exercise, how in-depth you want my services to be (in-person guidance, online guidance, mere program prescription, etc.)
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Many will be puzzled by my college education, which is primarily in philosophy (though I was only a couple hours from having a psychology minor). Philosophy doesn't directly relate to much of anything. But that's the beauty of it. It's a very broad discipline. It's a disciple which teaches you skills more so than content. It teaches you how to analyze material, form arguments for and against position effectively, open-mindedness, skepticism and self-education. These skills are invaluable for damn near everything you could go into, aside from pure manual labor. I'm actually very glad that my education didn't focus on exercise science. Because it didn't, I can look at exercise science with a fresh and nuanced perspective. There is so much dogma within exercise academia, it's not even funny. Having a background in a discipline that allows me to spot dogma quickly, criticize it and come up with a more effective alternative has been indispensable to my success as a personal trainer. In order to work at most gyms today, one has to have some sort of certification, however Therefore, I had no choice but to become certified. This was mere self-preservation, not hypocrisy. My certification is with NASM (National Academy of Sports Medicine).