Your success as a personal trainer may depend more on your personality and communication skills than on your technical skills and background. Clients will want to feel comfortable with you in the somewhat intimate setting of a workout. If you will be working with clients in their homes, you should offer suggestions on equipment, but be prepared to work with whatever they have available. You will be in competition with health clubs, gyms, television workouts, and videotapes. Your response should be to emphasize your highly customized service. Although trainers should not offer medical advice or take on any of the roles that should be done by a nurse or doctor, you should be able to offer certain limited emergency assistance and be ready to contact a doctor or ambulance if necessary. The important thing is that you have to be more and more careful in serving this kind of job.
An attorney may recommend that you have clients disclose any health conditions and remove liability for those problems. Some trainers may ask clients to provide a letter from a physician clearing them for fitness training. For the cost of the job, you can give the charge by the hour. If there is more than one person in the group, you should adjust your rates to take that into account. In that case, you should be able to give a charge for the service in order to avoid the disadvantage. Even, you can add some additional costs if it is necessary.