When you work with a personal trainer, it is very easy for the relationship to progress past reps and sets. A Queens personal trainer gets to know their client closely, because they help them achieve their goals, learn what motivates them, and also learn what they despise. They learn their likes and dislikes. Like a close friend, it is very easy to digress into a deep conversation totally off the subject.
Sometimes an innocuous conversation about sports can result in too long of a break between exercises. This is a practice that should be guarded against by the personal trainer. It is important to remember that the client is paying for these 60 minutes that you are together. Even though they want to keep talking, you have to refocus the client on their fitness goals and the task at hand. “We can talk later,” should be sufficient.
Here is a simple chart to calculate how much that conversation
about last night’s game will cost you.
Just when you think let’s chat,
think about how much this chat is costing your client
$60/hour = $1/minute
$90/hour = $1.50/minute
$120/hour = $2/minute
Talk is cheap, except when you are talking with your personal trainer during a session. You should quickly remind them of that. If you don’t want to come right out and say it, consider getting a stopwatch. Let the client know that the breaks will last 30 seconds and that you start on time. This way you are managing their expectations and won’t seem uninterested in what they have to say. In New York City, everyone want to squeeze two minutes into one. They are so pressed for time they want to multi-task their life to completion. What suffers? Their fitness level.
Every Queens personal trainer should temper the urge to talk. No matter how tired you are or how interesting the conversation is, stop the chatter and focus on your client’s goals. If they do not see results, they may decide one day that you aren’t worth the money they spend on you. Unfortunately, then you would have plenty of time to talk.
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