In either business gyms or workshops, you need to persuade clients to buy your training or fitness program. Your sales number would account for a huge part in your salary. Apart from the professional knowledge, it is important for you to learn how to interact with clients and how to promote yourself or your company.
As mentioned above, fitness trainers need to sell programs in the gyms. There may be many potential clients in your gym. You have to get close them. For example, you may need to walk around the gym to see whether there's anyone doing the exercises wrong. Then you walk to the person to give advice and try to make them buy your program to get proper training. This is maybe the most common way in the gym to promote your sales number. So you can't be afraid of contacting with people and you can't be shy. You need to be confident and out-going.
Fitness trainers must train themselves like training clients so you can know what may be the problems in the process. It's like conducting experiment on yourself. If you can't get yourself strong, how your clients trust your program to get strong? Hence, regular training is essential in your schedule. Plus, you also need to have time to learn something more about training. Because this field is pretty new, you can find new research results almost every day. For example, putting ice compress after exercises or not is still a controversial topic in this field. So you have to always keep updated with related information.
No matter how you train your body, it takes time to see the changes. This is also how you need to educate your clients.
Always be responsible for your clients. They in some extent give you the charge of their body. If they get hurt during your training, you should be responsible for it. Never teach the things you are not familiar with. Besides, you should never be late for your clients. After all, the price of a training program or course is pretty high in Taiwan.
As mentioned above, there are new researches in this field everyday. Good command in English helps you read different sources and get new information. A lot of translated books about fitness in Taiwan are actually not so well-translated. Being able to read English sources will be your huge advantage. What's more, you can find foreigners in almost every gym in Taiwan. Good English will give you the opportunity that other people don't possess.