... and vice versa. Neither is superior, but they are extremely different skillsets 🤷🏻♂️
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Things good group instructors are awesome at:
- Stage presence / controlling a room 😎
- Being infectiously fun 🥳
- Timing movement to music 🎶
- Creating / delivering variations to routines 🕺
- Giving broad instructions to movements that a room full of people can understand in 15seconds ⏱
- Garnering a following on social media 😜
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What a Personal Trainer needs to be good at:
- Obsessive attention to detail 🤓
- Understanding the biology behind how muscles work and nutritional protocols 🥦
- Understanding the physics of resistance relative to strength profiles 💪🏽
- Figuring out someone’s “why”, creating “buy-in”, keeping them focused, consistent and motivated 👍🏽
- Tailoring one’s programming based on their individual needs, abilities and reactions to training 📋
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Ask @emiliolegaria and he’ll be the first to tell you I’m a naturally awful group instructor 😅 who has used a tonne of experience and hard work to hack the system.
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I’m not saying you can only be one or the other; I know plenty of people who do both well... though they almost always do one or the other significantly better and should probably stick to what they do best. Unfortunately, it’s the combo that pays the bills 💸 Group sessions build publicity and 1-1 yields higher day-rates.
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I also know plenty who only do one of the two well, and are incapable practitioners of the other... and it’s always group instructors who shouldn’t also be PTs 😬
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Why? Because it’s really obvious when a PT lacks the skills mentioned above that are required for a good group instructor... the group session is shit and no one comes back (unless they’re really hot 🤦🏻♂️). However you, the public, have no idea what you should expect from personalised fitness. The industry is immature and as a result your standards are currently too low. If a group instructor gives you a routine but you’re the only one in the room, that’s apparently “personal training” 😔
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The goal is that @joompa means PTs can afford to focus on their core craft and the public can easily find suitably qualified specialists.
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