I myself got my Muay Thai training from Muay Thai Institute. It is a great skill to have if you are into personal training.

I only know of a handful of Exercise Fitness Trainer out there that is train in Muay Thai and is able to incorporate Muay Thai into their personal training programs for their clients.

I would greatly recommend Muay Thai to any Exercise Fitness Trainer as this is the next up and coming fitness faze. Another great tool for you to sell yourself but of cause you must at least have the basics.

A little introduction to Nai Kha Nom Tom Ceremony, proudly presented by Muay Thai Institute

One of the most important traditions of MuayThai is “Wai Kru” (Paying respect to your parents, maters, teachers and trainers) and the philosophy which it encapsulates. Wai Kru is an ancient custom which is closely bound to the fundamental Thai concept that provides of knowledge are all teachers — and are worthy of utmost respect.

In the pecking order, the “kru yai” or headmaster. Between teachers — parents, educators, trainers or mentors — and their students a special relationship is believe to exist, one which will endure and leave a lasting impression.

Likewise, the bond between those who study under the same teacher is regarded as being parallel to kinship, so that such students refer to each other as “pee nong”, brothers and sisters.

When students seek knowledge from their teacher, they first offer symbols of respect: flowers, garlands, incense-sticks and candles.

If these seem overly religious and more suited to temple offerings, then bear in mind that monks are also teachers while in their own turn being disciple of Buddha: just two more manifestations of the core teacher-student bond.

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Job Security

World-wide estimates are that opportunities for fitness workers are expected to increase and improve through the year 2014. This is a much better scenario than for other professions. More and more people are becoming concerned with physical fitness, even as more business CEOs and other business and corporate leaders are beginning to recognize the benefits which Exercise can bring to the forefront.

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Having Interest to become a Body Fitness Exercise Instructor? Teaching workouts exercises to others and keeping fit at the same time seems like a great job. Whether doing it part-time or full time, there is a lot of earning potential in this line. Club fitness is a booming industry and are sprouting like mushrooms everywhere.

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I have a lot of people asking me questions regarding what an exercise fitness trainer actually makes for teaching classes. Some people don’t really think a body fitness exercise instructor earns much. I can’t really say that all exercise fitness trainer earns the same, but I can roughly share with you some rough gauge on the question.

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Do you think it is possible to make $120 per hour for a body fitness exercise class? Definitely, it can be done. My dear friend Dr Venky, he charges up to $150 per hour per workouts exercises. Do you think I must have his kind of qualification to command that kind of money? Actually no, not really. We need to think how you can come out with a marketing strategy, so let’s sit down and put on our thinking cap.

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Just a few days ago I heard fron my colleague that the club is going to cut about 10 workouts exercises classes from each club and at the same time we also got an email from the coordinator that the management is looking into the class numbers and is going to take out classes that has poor attendance. Reasons due to the econormic downturn.

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