You cannot fit a leg press in the boot of your car. Here is how you still train a client properly in a park, a garage or a spare room

The short version

Your client wants to train and there is no gym in it. A park, their garage, a spare room, a patch of grass behind an office. You are not bringing a treadmill in the back of the car, and you are certainly not getting a leg press into the boot. What you bring instead is the thing that makes you worth paying for.

Key Takeaways

• Training outside a gym is a creativity problem, not an equipment problem.
• The Level 2 and Level 3 teach how to work in an environment that was never designed for exercise: alternatives, lighter equipment, changing intensity without machines, and using what is already around you.
• FASTER goes further and hands you an exercise library built for those spaces, with climbing frames, bands and medicine balls in it.

The situation you are actually in

Someone wants to train with you and the gym is not part of the deal. Maybe they have a baby asleep upstairs. Maybe the nearest gym is a bus ride they will not take. Maybe they just prefer being outside, and honestly, good for them.

You cannot solve that by carrying the gym to them. You solve it by knowing enough to build a proper session out of what is there, and that is a skill you can be taught.

What the qualification gives you

The Level 2 and Level 3 take you a good way. There is a criterion in the planning and delivering unit that is exactly this: how to work in environments that are not specifically designed for exercise. Next to it sits the one on the resources a session needs, the environment included.

In practice that means alternatives when the machine is not there, lighter equipment that still does the job, different ways of changing intensity when you cannot just add a plate, and how to use what is already in the space around you. A wall. A bench. A set of steps. A hill.

That is the principle, and the principle is the part most people never get taught properly.

Where we go further

Knowing you can change intensity without a machine is one thing. Standing in a park on a wet Tuesday with a client in front of you and knowing what to actually do is another.

So FASTER gives you an exercise library packed with exercises for exactly these spaces. Climbing frames. Bands. Medicine balls. Things you can carry, and things that are already there when you arrive. You are not inventing a session on the spot, you are choosing from a set you already know works.

What to do next

The Certified Personal Trainer course is the Level 2 and Level 3 together, £1,500, taught online by the people who wrote it, with free lifetime return access. It gets you qualified and it gets you the library, so you can take a client anywhere and still do the job properly.

The PT Manager opens the day you sign up, so the programme you write in a park is on their phone before you have packed the bands away.