Any personal trainers/group trainers

aggiewife22

I'm looking into getting my personal trainer certificate or my group exercise certificate. I was wondering if there was anyone else that had either one because I have a couple questions. Are you allowed to put your kids in the day care at the gym? Do you have to be employed by the gym or can you freelance as long as you and the person you're training have a membership (personal training)?

SarahBXander

There are some smaller gyms that allow you to be freelance. However, larger corporation gyms don't. I used to work for a large one in the midwest and I was strictly on their pay and schedule (more or less for clients). I don't see why you couldn't have your baby in their day care, but I'm assuming all gyms are different. I used to see a lot of trainers who weren't employed at my gym training others, however, they were told to stop once the employees caught on. Stupid, but some gyms are strict like that.

hikerbeth

At my gym, you need to work for them to personal train there.  We can put our kids in the daycare and we're offered a discount for their care.