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What are the Proper Personal Training Forms
Being a
personal trainer requires more than just a precursory knowledge of
fitness and exercise. A good personal trainer must be a cheerleader who
motivates their clients, while at the same time is knowledgeable of the
human body, is up to date on the latest weight lifting and cardio
workouts and how they benefit the body, knows enough about proper
nutrition to create a well balanced eating regimen for his/her clients,
and is well organized and efficient in the office; because before you
ever meet with your first personal training client you should make sure
that you have all of the paperwork that you will need in order to offer
your client superior training results. It is distracting to have to keep
excusing yourself from a meeting with a client to retrieve the personal
training forms that you need, but forgot to grab before the client
arrived. This lack of organization does not make a client feel confident
in your skills as a personal trainer, or perhaps more importantly as
someone they are handing their hard earned money over to. Many clients
might fear that a personal trainer who is unprepared in the office may
be as unprepared and inept in the gym. Be prepared and make the best
professional impression on your personal training clients. What are some
of the proper personal training forms you should have when meeting with
a client?
1. Health
and Medical History Forms are necessary because knowing the medical
background of a client will help you to develop the healthiest and
safest fitness routine for your client.
2. Par Q is
a physical fitness questionnaire for clients to answer that helps you to
gauge their fitness level and can also pinpoint medical conditions that
could pose a danger with certain forms of exercise for the client.
3. Waivers,
Releases and Injury Report Forms are used to release you from
liabilities as a result of any injuries a client may have as a result of
engaging in a fitness routine. Hopefully none of your clients will ever
hurt themselves, but it is possible and they can get hurt if they fail
to disclose medical conditions that preclude them from certain
exercises. You want to protect yourself in every way possible as a
personal trainer.
4. Physical
Assessment forms will help you to determine at what fitness level
clients are presently at. This also helps in the developing of the
proper fitness routine for a particular client. There are several
different physical assessment forms you may choose to use here such as
body fat calculating forms, measurement forms, weight tracking forms as
well as a few others.
5. Client
Self Assessment Forms will give you an idea of the goals the client has
for seeking the services of a personal trainer to help you develop a
fitness routine to meet those goals or educate the client on more
realistic fitness goals.
6. Personal
Training Contract Forms ensure that the client understands what services
to expect from you and the costs and payment schedule and methods you
expect of them.
7. Fitness
Routine Forms let the client know and understand the fitness routine you
have developed for them and why.
8. Progress
Forms give clients a written record of the progress of their fitness
from when they started to the present.
9. Exercise
Preparation Forms instruct clients on how to get ready for a new fitness
routine and reminds them of the importance of letting you know if they
do not understand something or are experiencing any initial problems
with a fitness routine.
The space
of this article does not permit a full listing of all of the proper
personal training forms that you should have on hand when meeting with
and offering personal training services to clients. If you want to be a
personal trainer with the most up to date information, then I urge to
learn more about the forms listed here and to learn about the forms that
did not make it onto this list. Show your clients that you are a skilled
personal trainer by presenting them with a prepared, professional
impression of you that is achieved by having all of the proper personal
training forms you need in working with your clients right at your
fingertips when you meet with them to assess their fitness needs and set
up a personal training schedule of services.
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