Making money with weight training

[Cornfed]

Let's see if we can get some suggestions about how one could make money from the hobby of weight training. I really can't think of many good ideas that the average trainer could get off the ground from scratch. The obvious ones would be to become a personal trainer (but the market is overcrowded), become a model of some sort (for the lucky few, and most of them don't seem to earn very much), sell training related products somehow, write articles for fitness publications, sell steroids, or whore yourself out to gay men. Can anyone think of any others or how someone might get off the ground with any of those?

[deegee]

You are bored aren't you.

become a personal trainer

start as a cleaner in a gym, should be a trainer in 6 months if not less

sell training related products somehow, write articles for fitness publications

Best would be to open up your own business import all your products and charge only 100-200% mark up you would undercut everyone else and succeed wildly.

writing articles is easy and just send them to as many publications that you know. You might get lucky.

Or become built like ronnie and win mr olympia and live off sponoring products etc

whore yourself out to gay men.

advertise in some gay publication or scratch your name and contact in as many public toilets as you can find.

I think the last option would be the best I am sure you would make good money.

[Growth]

Best would be to open up your own business import all your products and charge only 100-200% mark up you would undercut everyone else and succeed

ROFL :pfft:

[Cornfed]

You are bored aren't you.

What's wrong with this topic? It only makes sense to think about making money through something you're genuinely interested in, rather than trying to fit it in around some idiot j.o.b. you hate, not so?

Best would be to open up your own business import all your products and charge only 100-200% mark up you would undercut everyone else and succeed wildly.

See, that's a serious possibility, although maybe with slightly less markup. How do you suppose would be the best way to sell the products. Network marketing? Over the web? Leaflets?

writing articles is easy and just send them to as many publications that you know. You might get lucky.

Possibly.

Or become built like ronnie and win mr olympia and live off sponoring products etc

Unfortunately not a realistic proposition for 99.99+% of us.

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whore yourself out to gay men.

advertise in some gay publication or scratch your name and contact in as many public toilets as you can find.

I think the last option would be the best I am sure you would make good money.

You might be right. It would at least provide a good incentive to stay in shape. In my case I'd probably have to move to Auckland to make a go of it though, which would suck. There might be one or two other down sides. Also, even here the market may already be oversupplied.

[deegee]

Nothing wrong with the topic, it cam far enough out of left field that I had to make a comment.

I like topics like these though as you can see I tend not to be too serious

smoeone else can do that.

Right, about the supps shop I would start a shop near a gym or in association with one if possible and of course have a good internet site and push this part the most.

You could use this site for advertising for a start I think there are slots!

Moving to Auckland would probably suck, but you are going to be doing a fair bit of that anyway so you would likely get used to it. :pfft:

I dont think i will get as big as Ronnie I will settle for being the same as Dorian was in his peak

[jono]

a GOOD pt can make a lot of money. just make sure you practise what you preach.

[Cornfed]

start as a cleaner in a gym, should be a trainer in 6 months if not less

That's how things would have worked in the good old days but probably not now with physed grads coming out our ears. The fact that most of the physed grads don't know their ass from their elbow doesn't matter. Customers are impressed with their apparent credentials and generally athletic appearance (given that they're usually young and self-selecting on that basis - in ten years time many of them will probably look like fire hydrants with cellulite). Moreover, the way gyms seem to make money is to sign a lot of non-trainers up on special deals and then have most of them give up after the first month or two, thus freeing up floor space. Hence being a competent trainer would often actually be detrimental to the gym's business. There might also be public liability and regulatory issues with hiring "unqualified" trainers these days. Anyone know any different?

Right, about the supps shop I would start a shop near a gym

Shops require paying rent and other overheads, hiring staff, getting credit, being tied to one place etc. It is not something that most people could or should take on. On the other hand, training supplements would seem to lend themselves to network marketing - customers congregate in one place and trainers are their own advertisements. It seems strange to me that most supplements aren't sold this way.

[Growth]

Heres and idea...

Pump yourself full of various steroids for however long it take for you to become hyuuuge. Then import a few products, proteins, creatines, zma, trib etc and take them to your local market (you know those things in saturdays/sundays where people sell lots of tshirts etc) and preach that you got to be so hyuuuge by simply taking these products, and give the impression to others that if they buy your products then they look like you one day.

Hey you could even make Tshirts ect with some BBing stuff printed on them too.

Obviously you have to buy the steroids, but maybe your already doing that, or maybe your so into bbing that taking steroids will infact be of benefit to you weither you sold the products or not... so your winning both ways.

Sounds a bit far fetched but if you really think about it in some detail it is actually an alright idea good idea :grin:

[Cornfed]

^ Not a bad idea. That's what I mean about being your own advertisment. You'd probably have to travel to different markets to make a go of it, but that might be quite fun.

[Growth]

^ Not a bad idea. That's what I mean about being your own advertisment. You'd probably have to travel to different markets to make a go of it, but that might be quite fun.

I do belive it would be quite fun. Id think youd make quite a bit of money if you could import some fairly cheap products. It would be well suited perhaps for a student, or just as an additional income for weekday workers.

I dare say you could flog off a variety of different products...perhaps even offer some personal training at a local gym for a reasonable fee. Given that youd be quite a big mofo, im sure a few impressionable youths would pay to be trained by someone like that. Perhaps even work with your local gym to try to recruit new members, getting a fee for each new member you can recruit to their gym.

When you really start to think about it there are endless ways this technique could work.

Hmmm... maybe i should do this myself, anyone got a source :grin: Just kidding Pseudonym :pfft: