Have not been exercising? Don’t pay anything for training with a fitness trainer.

Have not been exercising? Don’t pay anything for training with a fitness trainer.

Many fitness professionals are in the industry because of their passion for fitness. While some are motivated by monetary rewards, there are others out there who are driven by their desire to help as many people as possible improve their health.

We want to help many people.

Being fitness teachers (guru, in our context, is teacher), we have been helping many people learn fitness since 1993. This year, my team from Team Fitness Guru and I would like to emphasize on devoting our efforts in helping as many people as possible as priority one. We want to touch as many lives as possible. That is our vision. We want to help as many people as we can and we will make that our mission.

Money as a barrier to entry.

One of the barriers to starting a fitness program is money. To engage a true professional personal trainer to facilitate your training, it’ll cost more than $80 an hour. Even going to the public gym without proper gym instruction would cost you some money. For my team, clients pay an average of $158 per session, depending on the programme that they’re on. Yes, we’re the AUDI and BMW of fitness – our clients get value and results for the investment they make.

So I was thinking, how can we help others when the barrier is there, without lowering quality of training? After thinking through long and hard, we came to a conclusion. Give free quality training to everyone, and lower rates for those who are serious in training.

My Get Fit! Fitness Bootcamp (www.Fitnessbootcamp.sg) programme has trained more than 5000 people since 2008, and we usually ask for a discounted fee for service of $30 per session (usual $50). This year, we’ll reduce the cost for potential clients of $30 to $0 for their first session. There will be no hard selling.

Free training. No barrier to start exercising.

Free training for everyone by TFG personal trainers. In this valuable session, anyone who attend will learn at least 20 great, effective and fat burning exercises that they can take home and duplicate as their own workout, which we strongly encourage. In return, we would like to ask clients to pay it forward by asking others to come join our training session for free so they too can benefit from physical activity. There is no need to pay any cash.

Why only one session free? That’s all we can afford at this time. You see, we have a lot of clients who are paying clients / regulars to our bootcamps. Unlike many other bootcamp companies, I want a tight trainer-to-participant ratio (about 1:8) so that clients get value from their workout as the trainers will be able to guide, instruct and correct their form. On top of this, provide great motivation. Our clients return because of the value that they receive from us trainers. To give more than one session free will loosen this ratio and would deviate from our team’s principles. On top of that, it’ll also deprive other people from joining us to start their fitness journey. For those who intend to continue, they are free to do so by either taking up a package or pay single sessions. This will allow us to devote more resources to getting more trainers in to maintain our ratio of 1:8 and ensuring quality of training would be high.

Reduced Rates for Personal Training.

For those who prefer personal training (PT), we will be lowering our rates from and average of $158 per session to $78 (Starting from) for the first 10 sessions. Clients will still get their $158 value (a) Professional instruction (b) Non-intimidating, great and fun training. On top of this, they get (1) 2 Customized workout programme that they can do on their own, (2) 1 Fitness Assessment (3) Nutritional Advice. AUDI quality at Toyota rates For those who want me to personally train you – it’s now $98 per session (Usual $218) for my Kickstart Programme (2 sessions). Kindly email me for details.

Why no free session for PT? As much as we want to, we’re already stretched. We have bills to pay, and mothers and fathers to take care of, and those occasional fines that we need to settle We’re taking half of what we usually earn so that more people can afford and benefit from our expertise. All our training sessions come with money back satisfaction guarantee – if you’re not satisfied, that session is considered free

We’re on the right track to helping more people! Go Team!

Okay here’s a quick report for the first 2 weeks of 2012.

We’ve been blessed with great partnership with the Health Promotion Board for the past 4 years – to be the ones who first created the Physical Activity Programme for Lose To Win. In the first year, we had more than 270 participants. For Lose To Win 2, there were about 1000 of them. Now, in our third year – we’re already working on improving the fitness for more than 400 people for group A. We’re expecting 300 more for Group B, who will start training mid April. Yes, we’re in the second week of Lose To Win now!

For bootcamps and personal training signups and enquiries – drastic increases in both.

Side note to all my TFG trainers who are reading this: You guys are doing a great thing helping many others lose weight and get fitter. May God bless you. To my admin and outreach team (Coach Lisa, Amirah and Dilys): Thanks for the behind the scenes support, you’re the fire in the furnace that keeps the team going. To my right hand (wo)man, chief trainer and general manager: Coach Zhywee – Thanks for being my co-captain. You complete the team by guiding our trainers to deliver their best and giving the best to our clients. We see you grow so much as our GM (ehem, with the bulk of it involving planning and instructions behind the PC). Without you, TFG would only be FG.

I love you guys – let’s keep it strong!

To our clients, thank you for your continued support and putting food on our table. We strive to give our best to you.

To those who are sedentary – we look forward to being with you for our group workouts (www.fitnessbootcamp.sg).

Are you from another bootcamp or gym? Hey come join us for a session – a change training style and exercise prescription will do you good

To everyone reading this – I thank you for your patience – if you know anyone who needs to start a Healthy Lifestyle, do let them know about our free workout that they can join. Do share this if you’re on facebook or twitter. Your assistance will go a long way.

I’m contactable at sharm@teamfitnessguru.com, feel free to email me if you have any queries I’ll personally direct you to one of my team members to assist you. Remember to add me on facebook.

I wish you all the best for 2012. May all your plans come true!

Sharm (Hisham Musa), MSc
Master Trainer

SMS: +65 9004 8370
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