Personal Trainer

Hi Everyone,

Was just wondering about the lack of work in Spain at the moment.

The thing is i am a qualified Personal trainer as i was in the armed forces as a Physical Training Instructor, Does anyone know if there is a call for Personal Trainers in Spain if so i would start my own business and possibly employ a few people.

Your thoughts are appreciated.

Simon

i remember watching something on tv awhile back and some young girl had gone out to the cds as a personal trainer with her boyfriend and ended up opening a gym within a couple of years,so their was/is a call for it just in this economic climate you might not  find starting up as easy,after all most of it is through recommendations and without a reputation already it is something you will have to earn

Hi Simon,

I'm a qualified personal trainer/keep fit instructor too and thought this could help me when we moved to Spain 4 years ago. But I never took the idea any further.

The reason why is that we live in a fairly remote village and most of our neighbours are not rich enough to consider paying for keep fit advice (plus teaching aerobics in the searing heat here is not something I would enjoy ).

From  what I have seen in our area (rural Granada), there are two ways to do this. Either advertising on flyers, stickers, in bars, hotels, local mags, etc, and hope.

Or set up a gym.  But of course that takes a fair bit of investment and could be a big risk (the gym in the town near us is under its second or third ownership in a year....).

However, if you are living in a more urban area you may well find more opportunities, especially if your Spanish is good.

Best of luck

Guess it depends on what area you go to. We had a gym open up locally but didnt even last a year but that is probably because the majority of people in this area are retired. There are a couple of ex-forces that do private training but dont really know how well they do, see their adverts every now and then.

Dont know if anyone of here would have seen it but maybe a year or two ago there was a family in Spain that opened a gym, it was on one of those moving to Spain type shows. If anyone knows it they may know the name so you can see if they are still trading as they opened a full gym offering all sorts and I think the guy was a Karate Instructor so that helped.

Whatever you try mate good luck.