About us examples for personal trainers
An About page has to answer one question fast: why you rather than the other three quotes. These are ten different answers to it.
Ten of them follow, written for personal trainers rather than filled in from a template. Your customer is someone who has restarted three times and wants it to stick, and what they are weighing up before they get in touch is being shouted at, being the least fit person in the room, and being sold supplements.
Plain and direct
[Business name] is a personal trainer in [your area]. I work with people on one-to-one training, strength programmes and weight loss coaching. I am a certified personal trainer, and the first session is an assessment, not a beasting. If you want a personal trainer who builds something you can carry on alone, that is the whole pitch.
Use this if you want one paragraph that does the job and nothing more.
The origin story
[Business name] started because [founder name] kept meeting people who had been let down. What they described, over and over, was being shouted at, being the least fit person in the room, and being sold supplements. So I built the opposite. I am a certified personal trainer. Nationally certified, insured, and current on CPR — with continuing education that is more than a weekend badge. I start with a first session that is an assessment, not a beasting. [Number] years on, most of my work still comes from people passing my name to someone else.
Use this if you started out because you were fed up with how the work was being done.
Names the worry first
Most people looking for a personal trainer are worried about the same thing: being shouted at, being the least fit person in the room, and being sold supplements. So here is how this works. I start with a first session that is an assessment, not a beasting. I build programmes you can keep doing without me. I do not sell supplements. I am a certified personal trainer. None of that should have to be taken on faith — ask, and I will show you.
Use this when people arrive already wary, usually because of a bad experience elsewhere.
Credentials first
[Business name] is certified and insured. Nationally certified, insured, and current on CPR — with continuing education that is more than a weekend badge. I work with people on one-to-one training, strength programmes and weight loss coaching, mostly for someone who has restarted three times and wants it to stick. I train people who started exactly where you are. Qualifications are the floor rather than the pitch — but you should know they are there before anything else on this page matters.
Use this where the licence or registration is the thing people check before anything else.
Local and rooted
I am a personal trainer based in [your town], and [your town] is where I work. That matters more than it sounds. It means I know the streets, the buildings and the people you are talking about, it means you deal with the same person each time, and it means I am still here later. I work with people on one-to-one training, strength programmes and weight loss coaching. I am a certified personal trainer, and my reputation here is the only marketing I have ever needed.
Use this if you serve one area properly and that is your advantage over the national outfits.
Walks through the process
Here is what working with me looks like. You get in touch, and I start with a first session that is an assessment, not a beasting. I agree what is happening and what it costs, in writing, before anything begins. Then I do the work. I am a certified personal trainer. I do not sell supplements.
Use this if people hesitate because they do not know what happens after they get in touch.
The thing we do differently
Plenty of people will do one-to-one training and strength programmes. What I am known for is building something they can carry on alone. It sounds like a small thing. It is the difference between a session that does what you hoped and one that does not. I am a certified personal trainer. I train people who started exactly where you are.
Use this when you can name one specific standard you hold that your competitors do not.
Short
A personal trainer in [your town], certified and insured. I work with people on one-to-one training, strength programmes and weight loss coaching. I train people who started exactly where you are. Book your first session, or call first and ask anything you like.
Under sixty words — Use this when the About section is a sidebar, a footer, or a directory profile.
Small and deliberately so
It is me, not a team and not a call centre. You deal with the same person every time, which is why by the second session I already know what we are working with. I am a certified personal trainer, I work with people on one-to-one training, strength programmes and weight loss coaching, and I take on a limited number of clients so the standard does not slip.
Use this if being small and consistent is the point, rather than something to apologise for.
The promise
My promise is simple: I train people who started exactly where you are, and if I get something wrong I put it right at my cost. I am a certified personal trainer. Nationally certified, insured, and current on CPR — with continuing education that is more than a weekend badge. I work with people on one-to-one training, strength programmes and weight loss coaching for someone who has restarted three times and wants it to stick. I start with a first session that is an assessment, not a beasting.
Use this if you are willing to put something in writing, and you actually honour it.
Writing for personal trainers: what actually matters
What should a personal trainer’s website say that a generic one does not?
Three things, in this order. That you are certified and insured. That you understand the thing people are actually worried about, which for personal trainers is being shouted at, being the least fit person in the room, and being sold supplements. And what happens next: a first session that is an assessment, not a beasting. Everything else on the page is decoration by comparison.
What does someone who has restarted three times and wants it to stick check first?
The credential, then the proof. For personal trainers it sounds like this. I train people who started exactly where you are. I build programmes you can keep doing without me. I do not sell supplements. Put at least one of those above the fold rather than on a separate page nobody opens.
What is the most common mistake on a personal trainer’s website?
Writing about the business instead of the customer. "We have been established since 1998" answers a question nobody asked. "I start with a first session that is an assessment, not a beasting" answers the one they are actually holding. If you only fix one thing, fix that.
How long should the copy be?
Shorter than you think, except where trust is being built. An About page of 120 well-chosen words beats 500 vague ones. The exception is anything explaining being shouted at, being the least fit person in the room, and being sold supplements — there, specifics earn their length.
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