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Online Trainer Academy Review; Are You Looking to Train Clients Online?

Let’s face it, I know you are tired of waking up every morning at 4 am to get to the gym to train your first client. I mean you just left the gym the night before at 8 pm and it feels like you were just there. Listen, I know you didn’t get into personal training for the money and you are passionate about helping transform peoples’s lives! But seriously, the long hours and early morning alarm wake ups are killing you! I have been there and I don’t care what anyone says it never gets easier! Don’t worry though I have a solution for you and it comes in the form of the Online Trainer Academy. The very first online personal trainer certification! Let me tell you a little bit about it and how it is going to help you ditch that 4 am alarm for good!

I have been in the fitness industry a long time and believe it or not my first online client came back when the only thing available to me was AOL dial up. Yes, you remember the saying, “You’ve Got Mail!” My first online client was a client who lived in Florida. You see when I first graduated from college I worked in my home state of Florida but eventually moved out to Texas to be with my girlfriend, and now wife. I had worked with this client one on one for a few months before I moved and the client didn’t want to lose me as her trainer. But, how would I do it went through my mind. Well, I came up with a solution and here is how it worked. Essentially,  I would email her a program every so many weeks and she would journal all her info and send it back to me via email as well. Cell phones had just come available for everyone so we would talk periodically, texting was not a thing yet :). Also, I didn’t really know how much to charge for my online services and I didn’t feel confident charging her the $55 dollars I was charging my in person clients soI charged her half of that fee ( even though I probably spent as much time putting together her program and following up with her. The other thing you may laugh at is the only way for her to pay me was to mail me a check. Yes, it was pre Pay-Pal, Stripe or any other merchant account processing gateway. We did this for a few months and  then she found another trainer locally and wanted to work with him. I had no hard feelings because I didn’t feel like I was giving her the best value and service, as well as, I always felt guilty about charging her for training online and not being with her in person. However, it did give me the itch and continuous thought about how could I continue to reach out and use the Internet to help impact and transform lives of more people and become an online personal trainer. As the years progressed and technology advanced so did online training but I still didn’t have all the pieces figured out. That all changed within the past couple of years. Consumers feel more comfortable paying for services online and with all the technology that essentially allows you to create videos, text, social media and a ton of other applications online training has become more accepted.

For me, I learned the hard way and went through trail and error to get to the point where I finally feel like I am able to build and scale an online personal training business. My suggestion for you is don’t waste years trying to figure it out on your own when you go almost have a “online training business in a box” given to you. I kind of hate saying that because there has been an influx of so called gurus who will coach you to be the next online millionaire coach. Not so with this certification and resource that comes with OTA. Jon Goodman is the real deal and if you do a Google search you will fund hundreds of great articles and resources created by him. And if you think this is just a course you are mistaken it is an “academy” and it will help you not only become a certified online personal trainer but also help you build a business and a lifestyle that allows you to continue to do what you love without trading hours for dollars. The rest of this post is going to be a review of the “Online Trainer Academy!”

So I am not sure how I ran across Jon Goodman. He may have Geo targeted me with a Facebook Ad but I ran across is book “Viralnomics” and I really bought into what he was talking about. From there I looked him up and started to read more of what he was dishing out and began to really like and trust him. I mean let’s face it there is so much hype and BS that people spew out these days sometimes it is hard to believe what they are saying is true or not. So, when I received one of Jon’s email one day talking about his upcoming “Online Personal Trainer Academy” I was intrigued. You see at this point I had had some success training clients online but I really didn’t have a system or plan to really scale my online training business. And even though I have an MBA I still didn’t really have the model down. That is until I became one of the first group of certified online personal trainers!

You see it wasn’t that I didn’t know what to do in terms of how to create programs or how to use the technology but more of how to get a system I could create that matched my target demo and how to scale it. Jon does an excellent job of laying it all out there in the text and online videos so you have clarity on the steps to take and action plans to implement to get you to reaching what he calls your “freedom number!” So without further ado here is my honest review!

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What is the Online Trainer Academy?

Well according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, one definition of “academy” is, a society of learned persons organized to advance art, science, or literature. Well, like I said after I started to follow Jon Goodman and learn more about him I found out that the “Online Trainer Academy” derived and comprised of hundreds of personal trainers that Jon either coached or went through his first coaching program, which was the “1k a month program.” The course was constructed and designed to help personal trainers make an extra 1k a month in passive income to help them increase their income potential without having to trade more dollars for hours. Now, I did not go through that course so I can’t tell you exactly what it entailed but when you go through the academy Jon tells you about how he took what he learned form that and from hundreds of other trainers who went through the course to build upon and finally create the academy.

So, just like the definition states, the academy is really a group of personal trainers that got organized (PTDC) and then what was learned from that group became the first online personal training certification. Now, this certification isn’t your typical personal training certification. It  is a mixture of business and fitness that helps solidify you as a qualified trainer who knows how to take your knowledge and scale it by using technology to reach out and transform lives regardless of location. But, before you decide if the academy is right for you let’s explore if online training is even right for you.

Is the Online Training and the Academy for Me?

You’ve coached people successfully offline for at least a few years. I’m not trying to be some old curmudgeon and telling you that you can’t do something if you’re young…heck, I started coaching and training when I was only 21 and in college.

But for you to stand out in the market, experience matters. For you to know how to solve certain problems that are more challenging from a far, experience matters. I strongly believe that it’s much easier to set the foundation for being great at online coaching if you’ve done it in person for a while…and if that is your goal the academy will help you lay the groundwork and when you are ready it will be there for you.

You want to expand or evolve. I often talk about adding a second stream of income. I also am a big fan of taking risk that is high yield and low cost. As Jon mentions what would your life be like if you could add another 1k to 2k a month in income a month without having to add more time in the gym be to your lifestyle. Plus, to be honest become an online trainer is going to do so much more than just bring you income. By becoming an online trainer you are going to become that much better at being a transformation coach. Trust me you learn what I am talking about once you take the plunge!

You’re not tech / online averse. I’m not exactly a tech whiz, but I’m very comfortable connecting with people via email, social media, etc. And I’m also ok to use some simple technology tools to facilitate my clients’ progress. If you’re going to go online – you’ll have to do the same. Don’t worry the academy certification will help you with this. And, the simple “5 a day” on Facebook is a game changer. You learn that in the course! Oh, and let me just tell you they keep adding new strategies and new marketing methods to the course as online training evolves.

You’re willing to treat this at least like it is an extension of your personal training business. Sure, you can get the certification and it will help you coach clients who’ve moved out of your area and stuff like that, which will more than make your investment in the academy back…but really, this was designed for coaches who want to have a greater impact on transforming lives and help you grow your fitness business. Whether you want it to be 10% or 100% – you’ll have to treat it like a business for the time you spend on it in order for it to work. Don’t worry the model on setting up your business will walk you through this!

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