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.
 
Informing the Spirits Ceremony (Buwong Suwong)

The enduring beliefs of the Thai people in the unseen, the spirits which inhabit all places and have to be kept happy or, if necessary, appeased when they are angry.

There are visible signs of this redolent animism which coexists quite happily with the dominant Buddhism in the little spirit-houses which are to be found in the corners of many gardens and elsewhere.

Looking like little pagodas elevated on a “bird-table”, tiny offerings of food and drink will be presented to the occupants, who likewise are informed of any major happenings in the lives of the people in the “big house”.
 
 
Initiation as a Trainee Fighter (Kuen Kru, Yok Kru)

A much more sumptuous and elaborate version of this tradition is the Buwong Suwong ceremony which must be held prior to the Annual Homage-Paying Ceremony and Initiation as a Teacher rituals.

(In the case of the Initiation as a Trainee Fighter rites, which can be regarded as a personal contract between teacher and newly-accepted student, not involving the spirits of teachers past, it is an optional requirement.)

The ceremony is performed by Brahmin priests who in form the spirits of what is about to take place ask their permission to proceed and also invite them to attend if they are so inclined.

A special banquet is laid on for the spirits, the menu varying according to a whole range of factors, including to the favorite dishes of the particular deity to whom a special is being made.

A pig’s head, chicken, desserts and fruit are typical offerings, along with candles, incense sticks, flowers and other gifts.

The important factor is that, once it has been determined which form of Buwong Suwong the ceremony is to take, there is no room for personal choice in the offerings provided: an excate list has to be followed with no omissions or deviations.

After waiting a suitably respectful time — perhaps about an hour — to enable the spirits to eat their fill, the human participants in the rites can partake of the feast, which, having been tasted by the spirits is now full of lucky portents.

Now that the spirits have been made aware of what is to happen and their favor has been sought through the edible offerings, the main ceremony can proceed as planned.
The precise details of all the ceremonies differ according to the traditions of MuayThai training camp/teacher involved.

Invariably, however, all the ceremonies are very powerful and moving, making, as intended, a permanent impression on the participants minds and helping to stiffen their resolve.
 
In the past, before a teacher accepted a new student, he first spent a great deal of time considering the proposition, trying to ascertain whether or not the person was really worthy of becoming his student.

Some young fighters even initially had to act as servants to their prospective teachers until such time as the teachers were convinced of their suitability and good character. The process something’s took a year — or even several years — to reach a resolution.
 
 
Annual Homage-Paying Ceremony (Wai Kru Prajam Pee)

When a teacher agrees to accept a new student, the initiation ceremony is held, usually on a Thursday, which is traditionally regarded as Wan Kru (Teacher’s day).

As they make a formal request to be accepted, the students present the customary symbols of respect to their prospective teacher (Krueng sakkara buchaa kru).

Unlike the set requirements for Buwong Suwong, there is some leeway for personal choice, although candles, incense sticks and flowers are invariably included.

Another customary offering is a symbolic amount of money, like nine Baht, “nine” in Thai being “gao”, a word which, with a different Thai spelling but identical pronunciation, also means “to step forward or advance”, giving it a hidden propitious significance.

Students pledge in front of the teacher that they will be diligent and hard working, and that they will respect and obey the teacher, following his rulings to the letter.

The teacher, for his part, officially accepts the students and promises to instruct them to the utmost of his abilities.

This ceremony is held annually throughout Thailand in schools, universities or wherever else learning, or whatever sort, take place.

Where Muay Thai is concerned, it is held either on MuayThai Day (17th March) or any other traditionally propitious day, and requires the trainee fighters to show their respect for and gratitude to their teachers.

Teachers and students alike gather together to arrange the Annual Homage-Paying Ceremony, inviting as many past teachers as possible to attend.

The ceremony involves many traditional Thai emblems of honor and respect and commences with all those assembled paying respect to the souls of teachers who have passed away.

The ceremony then progresses to the students honoring all the teachers present, who mark sacred symbols on the fighters’ foreheads with power in order to bestow prosperity and success upon them — a custom know as jerm.

The ceremony involves the performance of Ritual Dance of Homage by the fighters as a mark of respect to their teachers, while both teachers and students mark sacred vows. 

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.

Baby boomers

are also becoming more concerned that, as they age, their physical limitations will become broader. They will do whatever it takes to stay healthy, physically fit, and independent of the aging process.

Making Your Income Grow 

One of the great results from becoming a Body Fitness Exercise Instructor in group fitness is that your income will develop as you develop. Teaching Workouts exercises can provide you with an income that will entirely depend on how much effort you are willing to put into it.

Some Group Body Fitness Exercise Instructor I know can command as much as $250 per client/class, although, on average, an instructor might earn up to $80. Your fee will be based on your experience, knowledge, and popularity and ever thought of earning a 5 figure monthly salary, I’m not kidding, this is very real. I’m actually letting this out for the first time.

Many times people came up to me and start talking to me about the fitness career like:  how long do you see yourself in this? Can you really survive? How much can you earn teaching fitness? Have you thought of another more stable job and so on…How do I reply them? With a smile, yes I’m looking around for other opportunities or 3 meals a day is no problem.

Do you know some people even give me a look as if they are looking down on me. Oh well I just let it be, there is no need for me to boast to them anything.

I have been keeping quiet for a very long time. Do you know our pay can be comparable to a general manager or in some companies a vice president. Not bad huh…well it comes with hard work, one of the great results from becoming a Body Fitness Exercise Professional is that your income will develop as you develop.

Do you know you can acheive a $2000 a month salary with a minimum per hour rate, working only 2 hours a day for a 5 days week . If you are contented with just $2000 a month, that is a very comfortable life you can have, it’s almost like semi retirement. You can have the rest of the day doing your own things. Who wouldn’t want that? In my next blog I will let out the secrets of how you can earn a 5 figure Monthly Income  as a Body Fitness Exercise Professional.

It is is definitely possible! By the way you can also check out how you can Make $120 Or more In Workouts Exercises Per Class. You will also learn on some creative marketing skill.

There are many more benefits for you to know and find out, as for now, these is enough to entice you to consider trying out in the fitness industry. Most Exercise Fitness Trainer that I know, wouldn’t go back to their 9-5 job. The BIG question now is how to start? How to go about it?

In my up coming blog I will show you the way of how to become a Body Fitness Exercise Instructor in both personal training and group exercises. At the mean time, feel free to drop me any questions at melvyn@bodyfitnessexercise.com.

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.

Teaching Fitness should be a continuum whereby the instruction is tied to your own growth in exercise practices. As you begin teaching – the knowledge and experience that is garnered through your own efforts, will incite you to become even more proficient in your own exercises.

As you learn your way through the physical education, you will find yourself becoming not only a better Body Fitness Exercise Instructor, but you will also become a better student of the Fitness education itself.

As a Professional Exercise Fitness Trainer , you will find yourself stepping into a nurturing and sustaining methodology that will help you to grow and to learn even as you teach. You will grow and develop your skills through your teaching, training and your instruction. Of course, the great thing about this is that as your experience grows, so does your role as a Professional Exercise Fitness Trainer.

You will learn that teaching is an ever-evolving process in that the more you teach, the more you will learn and, conversely, the more you learn, the more you will want to involve your students in becoming more proficient. You will want to share with your students everything that you’re learning. This is basically what a great Physical Educator learns and practices.

Opportunities To Meet People

You also get to meet lots of people from all walks of life, movie stars, top hairstylist, the super rich, royalties, celebrities, government officials, CEOs of big companies, doctors, lawyers, models – these are all people with whom you will come in contact as a Exercise Fitness Trainer.

People from all walks of life will flock to your fitness classes or require your experties in their fitness goals. These wonderful clients will enrich your life in ways that you never imagined. Imagine meeting a famous celebrity and having that celebrity rely on you for instruction. Never-ending friendships will be your legacy.

Obtaining Personal Freedom

Becoming a Body Fitness Exercise can bring you a tremendous amount of personal freedom in that you can set your own hours, you can decide on what days you will teach and on what days you will not.

You are free to run your life as you wish, without having to worry about punching a time clock (unless you are a full timer). No longer will you be forced to face unruly crowds, but you will have the freedom to attend performances, concerts, and what have you, without worrying about long lines and crowded arenas.

You will be your own boss, deciding what needs to be done, then doing it without having to sit at an office desk, living up to your boss’s expectations.

There are still so many benefits to share with you, stay tune on Benefits To Become a Fitness Instructor Part 2, where I will share with you on the job sercurity and most important the growth income of a Body Fitness Exercise Instructor. Are you able to earn a 5 figure monthly paycheck?  To be revealed!

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.

 First, Group Exercise Fitness Trainer seldom earns a salary unless they are full timers. Even so depending on their contract most do not have a fix salary. Most often, they are paid by the hour or a flat rate per class that they teach.  How much is the per class rates depends on a few factors:

• Experience – Very seldom a club will give you a raise unless you are popular and you are able to pack the classes that you teach. With experience you will definitely gain popularity among the members.

•  Club Exclusivity- To be exclusive to a club means you won’t be able to teach at other clubs, which is normally their competitors. Normally you will get a   minimum number of classes per week and you may ask for a higher class rates. Depending on the company, you can also ask for benefits like bonus, course sponsorship and etc.

• Class Attendance –  You may depend on the class numbers to ask for a higher per class rate, of cause the numbers have to be good in order for the club to justify the amount they pay you.

• Commission basis – for instance you are paid according to the number of students in your class. Some clubs charge their members for the workouts exercises class and you may have a percentage of it, somewhere from 60 – 40 or 70 -30. Of cause you get the higher percentage. You may get to earn quite a bit if you have a full class but also very much less if the class numbers drop example when it is near some  festive seasons where members go away.

As an average per class rates, a lowest of $40 to a high of $150 per class is possible. If you are willing to work hard, you can easily hit a five figure salary per month. That is not bad as compare to most of my peers of the same age.

Check out how to Make $120 Or More In Workouts Exercises Per Class and 5 Figure Monthly Income As A Personal Exercise Fitness Trainer and a Group Body Fitness Exercise Instructor.

I hope that give you a great insight of what salaries to expect as a Exercise Fitness Trainer!

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.

It can be of any kind of workouts exercises, yoga, pilates, kickboxing, hip hop and etc. Come out with a routine for exercise that you are strong at and then market yourself. Like us, we would like to make the greatest amount of money in the shortest amount of time so that you can spend the other waking hours of your day enjoying the other parts of your life that make you happy too.

Ok now you need to ask yourself, “Who or which organization will pay me $120 for an hour of my time?” There may be a gym out there willing to pay you that kind of hourly rate, but you have to be a star Instructor to command that kind of rates. I mean your body fitness exercise classes must be filled to the brim and new people are coming in like ants to honey to join the club because of you, then any clubs or gyms will be very willing to pay you that kind of rates.

The highest I’ve seen a club pay one single instructor, though, was $80 for one workouts exercises class, so if you have your sights set on bigger numbers, you’ll need to think bigger.

Now who else will pay me $120 an hour? If you have great instruction skills and are qualified, there are always opportunities for you to give private sessions in whatever you are good at. There are a lot people who would prefer you to bring your services to their door step, whether its one on one, husband and wife or with their family members.

With privates, you charge whatever you want and keep the entire amount. Still, if you market yourself right, you are able to earn quite a substantial amount of money for your precious time.

Ever thought about teaching in condos, or a small private group. You can market yourselves to individuals who pay to take your “class”. By charging a group of six people $20 each to be in your orkouts exercises class, that’s a $120 an hour! You can set six as a minimum and if there is more its a bonus. But will people want to pay $20 for a fitness class?

Well like what I’ve said earlier, people especially housewives with small young children wouldn’t like to travel all the way out to a city to take a class and then travel all the way back home. They will save all the travelling and watch over their kids play outside the function room with their maid if you can bring the body fitness exercise classes to their door step. By the way, $20 is about the same price as the gyms or studios would charge.

Again, think a little bit more creative. They want advice specific to a need or a want they have. You could provide a six week yoga classes for the children during school holidays. You could offer functional training workouts exercises to prepare members for marathon.  You could hold a “Boot Camp” for the obese kids in schools.

If you are an expert in a field, you could offer highly-advanced classes for the members who like what you offer and want to get better than the general levels can offer.  Or, you could offer a series of classes designed for participant with any special need or goal. Have I got your mind flowing yet?

Think of places where you can teach people in bigger numbers, how about schools? Depending on the numbers of students whether you are teaching in a classroom or in the school hall, you can set your hourly rate from at least $120 or even more. Due to the numbers of students at a time, the $120 will be divided into very small fractions the students have to pay and most don’t even think twice about the fees if they want to join the class.

Corporate companies, that is another area that you can charge higher fees, normally Its either the company pays for the employee’s as work welfare, partially subsidised or the staffs themselves will pay. If the staff themselves are paying, again due to the numbers joining the class, the bigger the number, the cheaper each person have to pay you. thus they wouldn’t mind you charging them higher.

Potential Ideas :

• Private Groups
• Personal Training
• Private Condominiums
• Schools
• Corporate Companies
• Private Events

So now that you have the idea that you are potentially worth more than $60 per class, So how about trying to think a little bigger than that. Do you think you are able to command $250 per body fitness exercise class? Since you are already thinking why not think bigger, $2,500 per hour?

Do not underestimate yourself, you can hold a body fitness exercise conference. Giving talks like “body for life for women”, or “fast weight loss exercise for overweight kids”, or some weight lose motivation talk and the list goes on. Do some brainstorming on your marketing strategy, think out of the box, you will be surprise what you can come out with and I can’t wait to hear that from you!!!

Check out 5 Figure Monthly Income As A Personal Exercise Fitness Trainer And A Group Body Fitness Exercise Instructor and Exercise Fitness Trainer Salaries.

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.

Then on the eve of New Year’s Day, the management decided to cut we exercise fitness trainer rates. It’s very depressing to recieve that before the New Year. Looks like even the the fitness giants will have to face the wrath of the world financial crisis. This is something that we exercise fitness trainer would not like to hear.

I think its about time we come out of our comfort zone and start thinking of how to save the situation. For us body fitness exercise instructor, classes are money, losing classes means taking a pay cut. Well during these time, everybody are prepared to take a pay cut but whether if its a small or big one depends on us.

Unless the company is suffering badly and has to cut even the good classes, otherwise there is always ways to help ourselves. Its Time to make things happen and not wait for things to happen.

Let’s face the reality, the numbers are what make or break you. How to boost the numbers for your workouts exercises class? Most people love new or fresh stuff, how about we go on to the Internet and check out new workouts program that we can introduce to our clubs.

Do some research and check out the popular workouts program. There are a lot of home study workouts routines programs that can easily pick up and start teaching in our clubs.

Ask around if you have some expats or people who travel alot in your classes about the body fitness exercise classes they do in other countries. They may tell you what’s popular in that country that is not found here in Singapore or Asia.

Time to upgrade! Take some new workouts program courses and attend seminars. Get to know what’s new in the market or simply improve on our teaching.

Be a student, attend other teacher’s classes especially the popular ones, learn how the teacher communicate with the members and how he focus on his teachings. Observe how he/she creates the atmoshpere, fun, full of energy, do you feel a sense of accomplishment after the class. Notice his/her workouts routines if you can learn something new and incorporate into your own teachings.

The bottom line is trying to improve yourself and keep coming out with new workouts program whether it is for muscle building routines or fast weight loss exercise. If you can command good numbers for your body fitness exercise classes, you are pretty much indispensable.