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Alexander Cortes PhD, Fitness, Nutrition, Fat loss

30 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read

SKILLED TRADES

I consider what I do a "skilled trade".

Obviously my business is online at this stage, but the fundamentals of personal training and health are all learned in the field

once you have accrued experience/knowledge, your ability to earn income becomes unlimited...

if you take your business online

IF you take your business online

Personal training has no barriers to entry and anyone can do it, but the learning curve is STEEP. If you're not willing to devote at least 5 years to training in person, I dont suggest it as a profession

People tend not to take fitness seriously at all, which I dont mind

People assuming Im stupid works to my advantage

A Major Insight I had years ago was that Fitness will ALWAYS be an "easy money" field

->People always want to be healthy, and they will spend wealth to become so

The trade starts "hourly" but there is room to grow if you can evolve beyond the dollars for hours paradigm

The online market is an infinite mark

-People want to be fit
-Overwhelming majority of population is unhealthy
-People want solutions

Search traffic in the billions

Thats not an advertisement to become a personal trainer, but hopefully provides some perspective

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