Mark OttobreFounder, Enterprise Fitness · Results Driven Coaching

Unlock Your Fitness Potential: The Key Questions Trainers Ask #personaltrainer #fitness #fyp

4 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this short video, a personal trainer outlines three essential questions to ask every client during the initial intake: “What is your goal?”, “Why are you here?”, and “Why now?”. He explains that probing the timing behind a client’s decision reveals deep motivation and urgency, often uncovering a pivotal moment that triggered the commitment to train. He illustrates this with a client story where a near‑heart‑attack experience on a flight of stairs prompted the client to urgently search for a personal trainer. The trainer emphasizes that these questions lead to insightful answers that help tailor training programs and increase client engagement.

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So what questions should you always ask as trainers? Well, here are some fundamentals. What is your goal? Why are you here? And on why are you here, why now? And that's such a powerful question. I talk about this in Sales Mastery as well, is why today? You could have come to see me a week ago, 2 weeks ago, a year ago. You've been thinking about this for 2 years. You haven't got any results for 5 years, but you decided recently, as in like the last day or so that you were gonna do something and sign up to personal training with me. Why now? What happened for you? What was the penny that dropped for you? If you ask that question, I guarantee you, you get some very interesting answers. I had one guy say to me, you know, I walked up a flight of stairs and I realized, you know, I was on my way to having a heart attack. So that's why I pretty much got out my phone and started Googling personal trainers and you came up and that's why I'm here. What an answer.