The Personal Trainer Business Handbook

by Ed Gaut

Book Overview

0964094533|9780964094536. The Personal Trainer Business Handbook published in the year 1994. The author of this book is Ed Gaut . ed page displaying collection of Ed Gaut books here. This is the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964094533
• ISBN13: 9780964094536
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Pierpoint-Martin
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

The Best Business Book for Personal Trainers in the USA

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. That is the best thing I can say to the author...This book made me focus on what was important in advanceing my business and allowing me to be a success. I now charge $70.00 per hour and avearage 5 sessions a day - 6 days a week ... and I just got started. This book is everything you need to know. Yes, it is simple to read and understand this book and unlike the lady from China (earlier review) I found it full of great advice for operating a PT business in the US. I've read the other 'newer books' and they do not compare...This guy obviously is a trainer talking to trainers. Thanks again Mr. Gaut!

My OWN Business

I started out doing some training while I was in college. It was sort of nice break from the old college classes and boring campus jobs. However, the more I trained, the more I liked it. It soon came to the point where I needed to either start a REAL business, or stop taking clients! I was getting too busy, and too overwhelmed with payments, and all those types of things. I then came across the book that saved my life, and my business! Ed Gaut's, The Personal Trainer Business Handbook helped me to set up a business that can not fail! Each chapter helped me get one step closer to running a successful personal training business! Included in the chapters is how to get MORE clients, and how to get into gyms and health clubs. Important notes on advertising and publicity really helped me SAVE money rather than throw it away by advertising improperly. I now own four studios, and manage over 45 personal trainers. Each of my trainers is required to read The Personal Trainer Business Handbook, and use the 30+ forms included in the book. I really wish I could thank the author, Ed Gaut, for how successful he has helped me become. I owe it all to The Personal Trainer Business Handbook! THANKS

Rags to Riches!!

This book changed my life! As a personal trainer just starting out, I only had a few clients. As my clientele grew I began to get in over my head. The Personal Trainer Business Handbook by Ed Gaut helped me get a real business going! Step by step, the author taught me everything I needed to do to keep my business in line. The forms included in the book really helped me get a great idea of what I needed from my clients. Now, I have a large business in which I manage trainers that work for me! This is the best book I ever read! Thank you Ed!

I am a success because of this book!

The author, Ed Gaut, obviously knows what he is talking about. I have purchased all of the others and none cover it as well and from a true perspective of an in home personal trainer. The other books seem to be more of an ego thing for the authors yet Ed Gaut seems to really want the reader to succeed and I have - I am going into the year 2003 and have nearly 40 clients and am starting to have other trainers work for me. i have gone to all the Phil Kaplan seminars and those even at the Personal training conferences like Idea and nobody has really laid it all out - the business of being a successful trainer - no wonder why Mr Gaut is such a success and why I am now one as well - thank you very much Ed! Thank You!

I started with this book and now I own my own studio.

In the back of the book the author asks for everybody who followed his advise and were successful to write him a letter. Well I think this will do. I did not go to college and figued I'd be stuck doing something that wasn't me. The only thing I did enjoy was going to the gym and working out. I went to a seminar by Ed Gaut and was so inspired. He tells you why it is very easy to establish your self as the premier trainer in your area. I now make $35.00 per hour and work 4 hours a day. The book lists everything you need to do. The book reminds you that it is a business and you must run it as such. My favorite part of the book was the forms and cntracts. They give you medical history form, client-waiver, expense reports, and a bunch of stuff that actually would have cost me hundreds. I guess what I want to say is it's a great book and you almost think he gives away too much.