Other resources

The Library

Try before you buy with our library of great toys!

Getting Started

Workbooks for calculating expenses, setting weekly targets, evaluating lead sources and developing ideas as well as the PT Council’s Starter Guide.

Business Tools

Free class vouchers,  templates, email addresses and on-line profiles!

Videos

To inspire you, put on your website and  send to clients.


 

 

The Library

We currently have the following toys  available for  use for 2 weeks at a time.  There is no charge for trainers involved in the 20 Week Competition and just $10 a week for all other REPs trainers!

Gymstick

Nordic Walking Straps (turn walking poles into a Gymstick)

The Ultimate Instrument – from HQH

Currently only available to those in Canterbury.  To book any of these simply email info@catchfitness.co.nz

Getting Started For PTs

1. Target and Leads Excel Workbook

Perfect for self employed personal trainers and group fitness instructors.

When you first start out it is very important to set targets, lay out achievable steps and to evaluate progress.

Use this workbook to put a 2 month step by step plan into place to help you achieve your targets. Record the details of potential clients and class attendees, set up systems to follow up on leads and establish what your best marketing avenues are.

2. Idea Development Workbook

Seeing your ideas come to fruition can be highly rewarding on a personal and a business level.

Tucked inside good ideas lays the answers to being paid well for doing what you love and best of all, we all do have good ideas!

If you don’t believe you have a good idea simply go to stage 1 of this workbook and we guarantee you’ll quickly come up with something in no time.

If you have an idea but think you lack the necessary skills, money or time to put it into action, if you feel over-whelmed by it, think others will think it’s dumb or that it already exists or you simply don’t know where to start then this workbook will help set in place a re-assuring plan for you to bring it to life.  Click here Idea Development

3. !Starter Guide Expenses Template

Just starting out in your personal training career? Need to know how it stacks up financially?

Developed in conjunction with “Your Guide to starting out in Fitness” by the Personal Trainers Council, this template allows you to fill in your own figures to determine your business expenses, personal expenses and start up costs. Click here for !Starter Guide Expenses Template

4. Fitness Club Spreadsheet

This template calculates the forward cash-flow of a fitness business based on the constraints and values entered by the user.  Variables include staff costs, lease costs (including any rent free periods), sales (with an allowance for higher initial sales), retention rate, pricing, staffing levels, costs of borrowing, initial set up costs etc.  Click here to view this resource.

5. “Your Guide to starting out in Fitness”

Lots of super useful information to help you get started in this great industry.  An absolute essential document for all graduates. Put together by the Personal Trainers Council and also available on the PT Council Site

Good Business

Weekly business tips as well as newsletters for your clients which you can brand as your own,  for free, for 20 weeks of the year!

Posters – use to promote yourself as a Personal Trainer on the 20 Week Competition.

ACC stretch chart – Email to you clients – or ordering your own copies from ACC

Free Class Voucher - How to make vouchers work for you and if you are in Canterbury you can use the cool promotional tool referred to  herein.

REPs – An absolute must visit site for free resources for REPs professionals –  loads of templates inclusive of business cards, newsletters,  client agreement forms, a professional email address and online profile www.reps.org.nz

Active Canterbury Website - free resources and free listing for fitness professionals in the Canterbury region.

Links to other PTs and businesses that help us in our industry – head to the left hand side of the Catch Fitness Facebook page and check out who we ‘like’.