My Favorite Websites For Personal Trainers

Are you a new personal trainer in needing help getting started in your career? Here are my favorite helpful websites for personal trainers.

Hey there – are you a personal trainer just getting started? My name is Chantal and I’m the owner of this site. I am also a mom of two and certified personal trainer.

However, my journey to becoming a personal trainer wasn’t exactly easy.

I didn’t grow up playing sports, and my family wasn’t exactly what I would call healthy.

Basically, when I decided to become a personal trainer, I had real no experience with it. I had no background in exercise science – only a passion for working out.

The first thing I did was hire my own personal trainer so that I could begin to get some hands on experience.

Later, when I became a personal trainer, I quickly realized that it wasn’t going to be a good fit for my family if I were to do things traditionally.

That’s because personal trainers have crazy schedules, trading time for dollars. It’s really hard on you if you have a family with young kids.

Personal trainers are really limited to the time in the day, unless of course, they can get creative with how they are earning money.

And unless you have your own studio or gym, you’re probably going to get short changed by the gym you work for. (The aren’t making all that much, either.)

So, to be a successful personal trainer, it’s important to get creative with your income.

I had been dabbling in blogging for some time while also getting my personal trainer certification when I had a lightbulb moment.

What if I could help other personal trainers take their businesses online, or at least diversify their income by offering digital products or online training?(This was before a lot of personal trainers were going online like they are now.)

I already knew how to start websites but I didn’t know how to sell personal training packages or other fitness products online. So naturally, I started my research.

Come to find out they were actually other trainers are already working online, but they were really the pioneers of it all.

However, I did find a few really helpful websites for personal trainers just getting started, or those who are trying to take their businesses online. I found tons of tools and resources that could be applied to personal trainers.

I also found tools and apps to help trainers do all of their business independently, online and without time constraints and contracts with gyms.

So today I want to share my favorite websites for personal trainers, as well as personal trainer blogs that I find helpful as a newish personal trainer.

Because of the timing that I had when I got my personal trainer certification, I have yet to work in a gym contracted under somebody else.

I have operated 100% online, and have maintained my certification with that in mind. My life has changed a lot and I’m not sure I’m ever going to work for a big box gym, so I’m glad that I have figured out other ways to earn money as a personal trainer.

Today I’m going to share those resources with you, including my fave websites for personal trainers.

That is, in case you’re here to diversify your income or figure out other ways stop trading your time for money.

Some of these resources are going to help you figure out how to take your training online. But some of them are just going to help you figure out how to set a website up, or to make digital products.

They might also help you figure out how to use social media for your fitness business. I have experience with a few different apps but I’m also making money with my blog alone, so I want to to be able to explore that option too.

To begin, you should know that I feel that my blog has been the most important asset to me as a fitness trainer.

I think that any legitimate business needs to have a website and it gives you authority and it helps build trust.

So, although my training in person is limited to family and friends, I use my website to make money in other ways. I have a lot of posts about how to start a fitness blog.

I highly recommend that you do that as soon as you know exactly how you want to run your fitness business. If your goal is to be independent of gyms and their hours, then you definitely want to have a website.

I am using mine to monetize with digital products including fitness programs as well as with the ads on my site.

I also sell affiliate products through Amazon. Diversification is important.

Here are a few articles just for people in the fitness business:

The beauty of having your own website is that you can sell whatever you want or nothing at all.

I know that a lot of personal trainers use theirs for leads for in-person training, but a lot of them use apps deliver training programs digitally. So as I get into my favorite personal trainer websites, keep that in mind.

You will ultimately have to decide what kind of products you want to sell. Now onto my favorite websites for personal trainers.