Personal Training Courses: a Guide to Professional Fitness (and Fun)

It’s difficult to find the time to stay fit and healthy, despite our best efforts. We’re all doing everything we can to get fitter, to eat healthily and to work out whenever we can in order to look and feel our best, but no matter how hard we try there’s always one thing that gets in the way – work.

With so little free time as it is, working late can throw your daily fitness regime into chaos and depending on the type of day you’ve had it can even cause you to think “not tonight” when you get in your car to head to the gym, instead going home and crashing on the sofa or opting for an early night.

All of the scare-stories in the newspapers and on breakfast television don’t help either, telling us that we’re the most unhealthy generation ever or that the foods we’re eating are all linked to health problems.

While we do our very best to eat healthily – having a bowl of cereal after the morning spin class, a salad at lunchtime and a really healthy family meal, perhaps with some chicken and vegetables – the bad days at the office can prompt us to not only forget about the gym that day, but to just order a takeaway or to have a good old “chippy tea” so that we don’t have to cook either.

These bad days even make people think about quitting work because it’s affecting our personal lives, and our health. As such, those among us who are really into our fitness and who attend the gym come-what-may or go for a run around the park just to shake off the stress of the day, start to consider enrolling on personal training courses with Discovery Learning so that we can swap the office for the gym on a full-time basis, and get paid for it.

We all need the income so quitting work just to go to the gym more isn’t an option, but training to become a personal trainer is something that you can do in your own time or in the evenings, allowing you to keep your full-time job and training regime while you train for your (healthy) future.

If you’ve ever worked with a personal trainer you might think it’s an easy life, standing around instructing people to work harder and to push themselves that little bit more to achieve their goals. To some extent, that is what you’re doing, but you’re also helping those people to have fun with fitness and to improve their overall health; whether it’s as a dietitian or nutritionist or a personal trainer with an interest in nutrition.

Different people want different things from their fitness regimes, and you could be helping those who want to lose weight, to put on some extra muscle or to generally improve their health to do just that and earn some cash along the way. You don’t even have to work in the gym or have your own studio to do it – you can learn your own techniques on the personal training courses to get groups together in the park at a specific time for a class, or to take your own equipment around with you on house-calls to individual sessions.

You’re your own boss, so you can even make your own schedule, working in your own gym sessions as and when you’re free and even having enough time to go home and spend some time with the family. What’s not to love about it if you’re a fan of fitness, and fun?