Personal trainers:

• help clients set challenging goals
• provide tailored exercise regimes while running a group activity
• model correct technique, behaviour and attitude
• inspire, encourage, motivate using both gentle and assertive attitudes
• occasionally reprimand, but predominantly make clients accountable
• use a variety of exercises, skills, drills and techniques to achieve overall objectives
• gradually increase the difficulty of the exercises
• keep records of progress
• can perform exercises alongside the client
• ‘spot’ for risky or intimidating exercises
• have a range of equipment and resources to suit all abilities
• run exercises in formal and informal settings, inside, outside
• can’t do the exercise for the client
• do a great job when their clients feel like they did it themselves
• thank clients at the end of the session and inform them of the next class’s activities
•  enable clients to continue exercising without their help, but continue to add value when clients come to a session

Are there any elements of the the personal training profession teachers can imitate, steal or reappropriate?