Fitness Trainer Journey Overcoming Doubt & Discovering Potential 💪 #growthmindset #fitnessbusiness

23 May 2025

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A short, first-person YouTube monologue by a fitness trainer recounting early career experiences that sparked a professional journey. The speaker recalls feeling inadequate after hearing about a peer charging $150/hour in 2003–2004, breaking a client’s ankle which provoked self-doubt, and then meeting someone who revealed broader possibilities in the fitness business—leading to motivation to learn and grow.

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$150 per hour.

Around 2003–2004.

Those kind of three months coalesce together into being the motivation for the journey. One way I got first assessed where I was like, I don't know anything. And I know that this guy back in 2003 or 2004, he was charging 150 bucks an hour, which was really, really high back then. Another moment where I broke my client's ankle, I'm like, man, am I actually cut out to do this? Do I have the capacity? So it was a self doubt issue. And then the other guy that I met, he was like, man, this world has so much more possibility than what I even thought before. I'm missing. Not only did I not know all the stuff I had learned from the first guy, there was all this Stu over here that I didn't know. So I was like, shit, I got a lot to learn.