Mobile Personal Trainer

NathanMorgan

Caroline_a wrote: »

I'd be really careful about doing olympic lifting in people's houses - unless you are going to invest in specialist mobile flooring!! I wouldn't want to be dropping the weights on my laminate!

Also totally disagree that you need to use a barbell for beginner training sessions - it all depends on the client, age, etc etc. You can cover many of the olympic lifting moves using kettlebells or med balls.

I wouldn't dream of allowing my clients to drop weight plates in their own houses without using rubber mats and bumper plates.

I would of course take on board the clients needs and age but can you imagine the cost of having to buy all the weight incraments of kettlebells and med balls yet alone the amount of space all that equipment will take up whereas you can pick up a cheap barbell and weight plates for a fraction of the price of the equipment you've mentioned.

Kettlebells and med balls only go up to a certain weight and even if you could buy 100kg+ kettlebells and med balls I wouldn't be happy to allow my clients to perform exercises using them as the risk of injury would be high such as getting the client to pickup a 100kg kettlebell and start squatting with it. It will be so much easier and safer in doing barbell squats from a stand in the correct position.

Also it's easier to progress with barbell lifts as you can buy 0.5kg, 1.25kg weight plates etc so the client is less likely to plateau and will continue to break PR's.

I'm after long term goals for my clients as progressive overload is the key training principle to apply in achieving results and if you believe that using kettlebells and med balls is the right way to go about it then im afraid you will be short changing yourself and your clients in believing so.

paulbennett_2

NathanMorgan wrote: »

I will be looking at setting up a website for my clients to book timeslots that suits them and myself as this sort of business is going to require alot of flexibility as I know some of my clients will be working during the day.

I have all the equipment needed to go into clients homes such as adjustable dumbbells, squat stands, weight plates but the only piece of equipment that might be a problem is an olympic barbell which is 7ft long as I might not be able to get it in and out of houses as it's such an awkward piece and a barbell is fundamental for most beginner type training programs but I'd have to work around that issue by using an EZ bar instead or a shorter barbell.

Also I know that marketing and advertising is going to play a huge role for this to be a success.

Seems like an excellent idea and than you can do promotion of your site via adwords, bing ads and facebook.

IAmWales

Original post is eighteen months old!

Manxman_in_exile

IAmWales wrote: »

Original post is eighteen months old!

I was caught out by one of these "zombie" posts yesterday!


Having said that, who would be trying Olympic lifts at home? The bar weighs 25kg on it's own and is about 7ft long.