How To Become A Successful Personal Trainer In 2026

What’s up guys! Jeff from Sorta Healthy here! In today’s video we’ll be breaking down what is necessary to be a successful personal trainer in 2025, 2026, and beyond. Becoming a successful personal trainer isn’t easy. Unfortunately, most of the successful personal trainers you see on social media are scammers. They couldn’t make it as fitness professionals themselves, so what do they do? Well, they try to sell you a course on how to make $1 million in your first 6 months even though they couldn’t survive their first year. In this video I won’t be selling you anything. I have a successful personal training studio which has been operating for over 8 years now. I have this YouTube channel which purely focuses on helping trainers to not only survive, but to thrive in this tricky environment. Some of what I break down in this video has been necessary for personal trainer success for many years now. That said, other things discussed are more unique to right now. How will GLP 1’s, AI, and the changing economy affect personal training? All of that is discussed here and how you navigate those new challenges will be a factor in how successful you can be. Of course, those new challenges are only one topic in this video, and in my opinion, not the most important thing discussed. What do you think? What does it take for a personal trainer to be successful? What factors will lead to personal training success in 2026 and beyond? Let me know in the comments! Love you guys! -Jeff You can download the forms we use in our personal training business by going to this link: https://www.sortahealthytrainered.com/freepersonaltrainingforms ---- Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/17X4Pb7gYJ5LLTiQwuAkhQ Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sortahealthyjeff Our in-person business: https://www.commencefitness.com