Employment and working models of Trainer4You graduated personal trainers now and in the future

A human being is created by nature to be physically active with features that makes them able to survive in the nature. The features that humans have actively used in the past thousands of years to stay alive and survive are now in passive use. People nowadays tend to be passive on the daily basis because the work they do does not usually require physical efforts. People today are aware of healthy lifestyle and they are more active in their leisure time than before. A popular activity is to exercise with a plan and right kind of nutrition to reach their goals. The demand for personal trainers has been a growing trend for the past few years. It looks like the profession is remaining popular also in the future. Personal trainer’s main job is to plan a personal, goal aiming training and nutrition program to a client. The questions for this study are: what is the satisfaction level to personal trainer course and does the given training meet professional needs in practice? What is the employment status among those who work as a personal trainer? What is the amount of weekly working hours as a personal trainer? How the current employment status is estimated to develop in near future? How to develop Trainer4You personal trainer course in the future? The selected method for the survey was a triangulation method. The invitation to the survey was sent to Trainer4You graduated personal trainers via email. The survey reached 125 hits and the number of respondents was 85. The results show that the satisfaction of the course did not meet the expectations and the education provider should consider making changes to content in the future. Most of the graduated personal trainers, 79 % practice the profession after the graduation. Majority, 52 % do that as a primary job and most popular working model was self-employed or freelancer. Freelancer personal trainers work less than 21 hours per week. According to results, the chosen working model seems to move slowly from employees to freelancers and further to employer´s position. The working hours are estimated to increase or at least remain the same in near future