Working out with your clients in their homes is an option for any trainer, and by offering this option to your clients you can increase your potential client base by a dramatic number, and you may even decide to exclusively offer home personal training. In order to decide if this type of business model is for you, there are several points to consider, and they include time management, exercise modalities to be used, and business resources that are available.

Time Management

Managing your time and your schedule is a critical consideration when deciding whether or not to work with clients in their homes. Unlike working at a facility, amount of time that you need to dedicate to each client is increased, sometimes to point of even doubling time spent for each client session.

For example, let's use a standard one-hour training session as our business model for this discussion. Although many trainers are utilizing different training times with their clients these days, one hour is still a good time frame to use for your scheduling reference. You want to remember that as a home personal trainer, you can be on a tight deadline to get from one place to next, so you don't want to schedule your sessions back-to-back like you can when you are working at a fitness facility.

You must also factor in your travel time to get to your client's home, as well as to get to home of following client, client after that, and so on. If you live in an even reasonably populated area, you will have to allow at least 15 minutes of driving time to and from every client's home, and sometimes as much as 30 minutes per client, depending on size of geographic area that you train in. Using our one-hour training session as an example, just one training session can cost you as much as 2 hours of your time.

A standard 8-hour workday will now only allow you to train between 4 and 6 clients, depending on where they live in relation to your starting point, as well as in relation to each other. Your best bet whenever possible is to set up your clients in a roughly straight line, or possibly a circle that brings you back to your starting point at end of day. The last thing that you want to do is set up a client who lives 30 minutes north of your starting point followed immediately by a client who lives 30 minutes south of your starting point. Not only will you eat up massive amounts of time driving to and from your client's homes, but you will put serious mileage on both your car as well as your wallet at gas station! More on that in Business Resources section below.

Exercise Modalities

The next thing to consider is type of training that you will be doing with your clients in their homes. Unless they have a full fitness facility set up - which is rare - it is very likely that you will have to come up with ways to put them through a vigorous workout without massive amount of equipment that is available at a full-size fitness facility. In order to put together these home workouts, you need to address two different energy pathways that your clients will need to use during their workouts: aerobic and anaerobic.

Anaerobic Workouts

Although many trainers are used to massive resources available at a local gym, getting your clients a variety-filled and intense anaerobic workout in their home is actually easier than most would think. With nothing more than an exercise ball and a portable set of dumbbells, you can take your clients through full range of motion and exertion on almost same scale that is afforded those clients training at a gym.

If you are just starting out in industry, or are simply used to working your clients out at a fitness facility, you should do some research on Internet for dumbbell workouts, bodyweight workouts, functional training, and sport-specific training. Those 4 keyword combinations alone will net you hundreds of websites with free or low-cost resources that will teach you thousands of exercises that can be done with little or no equipment.

The key to getting your clients a good anaerobic workout at home is not type of equipment that is used, or actual amount of weight that is moved, but rather INTENSITY of workout. A bit of trial and error will teach you how to take a client through their paces in a safe but intense manner that will leave most people ready to call it quits in 30 minutes or less!

Aerobic Workouts

Eating, Lost Art

If you are considering a diet, or have in past, your primary motivation was most likely to lose weight. What if I was to tell you that in order to lose weight, you actually need to eat MORE than you have in past? You would probably shake your head at that crazy idea, and think that it was some new fad that could in no way assist you in your weight loss goals. Of course, fact that every diet you've ever heard of was at one point "some new fad" would probably never even cross your mind. Nonetheless, fact remains that most people do need to eat more than they presently are in order to lose weight, but trick comes in eating right kinds of foods, in right ratios of nutrients, and at right times of day. Sound tricky? Perhaps, but I assure you, it is really quite simple. However, purpose of this article is not to inform you of benefits of eating, but merely to let you know that eating is indeed a very effective way to lose excess bodyweight, and to explain how diets keep that from happening.

Stating Obvious

Although most people do not think of "latest diet" in these terms, hopefully following question will make you consider what is pretty obvious if you stop to think about it. If new "Last Diet You'll Ever Need" was really that good at making you melt away pounds while sitting on couch munching "Carbo Craze Chips" or was even remotely effective at burning off your spare tire while inhaling sweet scents of "Aerospace's Aromatic Air Baubles", then why isn't everyone already thin??

Seriously - think about it. Every time you hear about latest diet or most up to date exercise device that only takes 20 minutes per day, they always say that you will never need another system! The advertised system - no matter how logical or even outlandish as it may seem - is always touted at being better than ever, and last system you will ever need. Well, if that were true, don't you think that manufacturer of that system would not only become wealthier than anyone in history, but would also become famous as person who FINALLY solved obesity problem in our world? Don't you think that person could also afford to advertise their product during prime time on TV, instead of late at night? Don't you think that system would become known throughout world - throughout history itself - as a turning point in human development?