Over 40Fitness Classes and Personal Training
Getting into good physical shape after the age of 40 requires a specific approach and age appropriate training programs.
I am 59 and have been in the Fitness Industry for over 35 years. Let me teach you how easy it is if you have the correct mindset and tools to train effectively for your body and it's age related issues.
From weak and painful knees, sore backs, restricted shoulders to a host of other physical issues, you can improve your current condition and gain much needed strength and flexibility in a very short amount of time. Then it just becomes a matter of maintaining your base level until you naturally improve.
I am a Master Trainer and Rehabilitation Specialist and have worked with 1000's of people from very young to elders in their 90's years of age.
As someone who has aged well and remained healthy, I appreciate the effort it takes and the need to stay healthy and physically fit.
Please call or pm me for a consultation. Don't let injury and weakness define the rest of your life. Learn how easy it is to move freely with strength and grace again.
We are also starting morning FITCAMPS (Bootcamps) in different areas of the city. Bring your friends and meet new people! Play, have fun and get in awesome shape! All levels of fitness are welcome!
Dean Scott Kamauchi
TOTAL FITNESS CONCEPTS
Phnom Penh
010 555 820
Email; [email protected]
Experienced Personal Trainer/Rehabilitation Specialist now in Phnom Phen.
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There has been an increasing number of unqualified trainers appearing in PP. I'm not suggesting this is you, just saying that these guys will be some of your competition.
These trainers are not expensive (though not that cheap either, considering their abilities) and their main skills seem to be counting from 1-20 in English and Khmer.
I frequently watch (whilst I exercise) them scam out a living from middle aged, middle class Khmer folk who know no better.
All the best for your enterprise.
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These trainers are not expensive (though not that cheap either, considering their abilities) and their main skills seem to be counting from 1-20 in English and Khmer.
I frequently watch (whilst I exercise) them scam out a living from middle aged, middle class Khmer folk who know no better.
All the best for your enterprise.
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Where do you exercise?Khmerhamster wrote:There has been an increasing number of unqualified trainers appearing in PP. I'm not suggesting this is you, just saying that these guys will be some of your competition.
These trainers are not expensive (though not that cheap either, considering their abilities) and their main skills seem to be counting from 1-20 in English and Khmer.
I frequently watch (whilst I exercise) them scam out a living from middle aged, middle class Khmer folk who know no better.
All the best for your enterprise.
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Several different gyms over the years. Currently @ The Place. There have been foreign trainers around for a while, in the past few years there have been more local trainers - it's the new breed of local ones I was referring to.the_purple_turtle wrote:Where do you exercise?Khmerhamster wrote:There has been an increasing number of unqualified trainers appearing in PP. I'm not suggesting this is you, just saying that these guys will be some of your competition.
These trainers are not expensive (though not that cheap either, considering their abilities) and their main skills seem to be counting from 1-20 in English and Khmer.
I frequently watch (whilst I exercise) them scam out a living from middle aged, middle class Khmer folk who know no better.
All the best for your enterprise.
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Thank you Khmerhamster for your awareness, this is one reason I came here to Phnom Penh to offer my services.
I have lived in S.E. Asia for the past several years and understand the need for professional services here. I am also a Management Consultant for the Fitness Industry and had my first consulting business in NYC in the early 90's. as well as my first PT GYM. The idea of experience and knowledge is scarce here to say the least but I believe it can only improve giving the willingness of Gym and Health Clubs owners to understand the true meaning of what and why they have a club. Many here seem to think they are cash cows to fleece. Anyone who actually has owned or now owns a gym, knows the truth.
All the current Health Clubs are owned by rich business owners with several other business's. Thus, it is just another business to them and they have the money to cover their costs. The gym business is not an easy business as it is not essential, and health clubs here are built for more elite people, so they try to attract the people with new money who want status, or foreigners who won't go to a local local gym, The industry here is not built on health and well being.
Using high pressure sales and "Personal Training" up sale packages as their only means of revenue. Then marketing promotions are based on discounted price. The "Health Clubs" here are managed for one thing and one thing only, money. The current lack of understanding of the bases of their "Health Club" is missing.
Unfortunately, this translates into hiring unqualified, underpaid, uneducated and inexperienced people.
Then, turning them lose on their members to sell, sell sell to... or at least try.
Anyone with real talent and experience, either local or foreign, trying to work at these clubs, eventually run into issues with "Management" as they are continually bombarded with instructions to sell more, not apply their craft to the benefit of the people who they are there for. There are good trainers here, some not so good and many who should not be called "trainers" at all, as they don't even work out themselves and have watched Youtube to gain their base of "knowledge".
I am not concerned with competition at all on any level. I believe in cooperation. We should all be in this for the same reason. To HELP people. To be of service and to improve peoples lives. If any one holds ideas that are contrary to this, then most people are smart enough to eventually understand this and look elsewhere or most just quit, which is a shame. One problem is there are not enough qualified people and real "Health Clubs" and only one or two good gyms here to give people real options. A health club or gym, without the heart of "Health" is only a building with machines and mirrors. Anyone can do that. But to be successful, it must come from the Owners and management first to have understanding of the "why" of what they do. Same for anyone who calls themselves a Personal Trainer.
In my experience, I have trained many exercise instructors to become real Personal Trainers and I have turned many clubs into profitable business's. I find here, the one thing that always comes into play, is the misunderstanding of being able to learn and the willingness to learn. It looks like loss of face to them if they don't already know it. This alone creates a great divide in the difference between being a respectful and profitable enterprise or limping along with few members with a fancy environment.
Sincerely,
Dean Scott Kamauchi
TOTAL FITNESS CONCEPTS
[email protected]
I have lived in S.E. Asia for the past several years and understand the need for professional services here. I am also a Management Consultant for the Fitness Industry and had my first consulting business in NYC in the early 90's. as well as my first PT GYM. The idea of experience and knowledge is scarce here to say the least but I believe it can only improve giving the willingness of Gym and Health Clubs owners to understand the true meaning of what and why they have a club. Many here seem to think they are cash cows to fleece. Anyone who actually has owned or now owns a gym, knows the truth.
All the current Health Clubs are owned by rich business owners with several other business's. Thus, it is just another business to them and they have the money to cover their costs. The gym business is not an easy business as it is not essential, and health clubs here are built for more elite people, so they try to attract the people with new money who want status, or foreigners who won't go to a local local gym, The industry here is not built on health and well being.
Using high pressure sales and "Personal Training" up sale packages as their only means of revenue. Then marketing promotions are based on discounted price. The "Health Clubs" here are managed for one thing and one thing only, money. The current lack of understanding of the bases of their "Health Club" is missing.
Unfortunately, this translates into hiring unqualified, underpaid, uneducated and inexperienced people.
Then, turning them lose on their members to sell, sell sell to... or at least try.
Anyone with real talent and experience, either local or foreign, trying to work at these clubs, eventually run into issues with "Management" as they are continually bombarded with instructions to sell more, not apply their craft to the benefit of the people who they are there for. There are good trainers here, some not so good and many who should not be called "trainers" at all, as they don't even work out themselves and have watched Youtube to gain their base of "knowledge".
I am not concerned with competition at all on any level. I believe in cooperation. We should all be in this for the same reason. To HELP people. To be of service and to improve peoples lives. If any one holds ideas that are contrary to this, then most people are smart enough to eventually understand this and look elsewhere or most just quit, which is a shame. One problem is there are not enough qualified people and real "Health Clubs" and only one or two good gyms here to give people real options. A health club or gym, without the heart of "Health" is only a building with machines and mirrors. Anyone can do that. But to be successful, it must come from the Owners and management first to have understanding of the "why" of what they do. Same for anyone who calls themselves a Personal Trainer.
In my experience, I have trained many exercise instructors to become real Personal Trainers and I have turned many clubs into profitable business's. I find here, the one thing that always comes into play, is the misunderstanding of being able to learn and the willingness to learn. It looks like loss of face to them if they don't already know it. This alone creates a great divide in the difference between being a respectful and profitable enterprise or limping along with few members with a fancy environment.
Sincerely,
Dean Scott Kamauchi
TOTAL FITNESS CONCEPTS
[email protected]
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I don't think you understand Cambodia very well. Middle class Khmers don't go to personal trainers to get fit or get good service - they do it to boast and be seen to be doing what the whiteys do. They absolutely don't care about quality - they care about a trade off between looking good and paying as little as possible. You will have no market here at all.
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Maybe you did not understand my post, or did not take the time to actually read it thoroughly.
Or maybe I was just not clear enough for you to understand. I am not here for the local population. I am here for the Expat. population mostly. I did actually mention in my reply your very points.
I am also not here to get rich or open a brick and motor business. I have lived in Thailand for the past 7 years and know the mindset and culture here and am not bothered or interested in reaching out to most of the local population as they have their own ways and own people. I offer my services to people, Expats, who have the desire to improve. This is an Expat forum is it not? For the most part?
Having said that, for you to generalize all middle class locals into one group is typical, but I already have a couple of them that I am working with. So not all middle class people here or anywhere, are all the same.
But thank you for your opinion. Are you a Market Research Analyst? If so, I would like to talk more with you. If not, then again, thank you for you humble opinion. We all have them. lol
Or maybe I was just not clear enough for you to understand. I am not here for the local population. I am here for the Expat. population mostly. I did actually mention in my reply your very points.
I am also not here to get rich or open a brick and motor business. I have lived in Thailand for the past 7 years and know the mindset and culture here and am not bothered or interested in reaching out to most of the local population as they have their own ways and own people. I offer my services to people, Expats, who have the desire to improve. This is an Expat forum is it not? For the most part?
Having said that, for you to generalize all middle class locals into one group is typical, but I already have a couple of them that I am working with. So not all middle class people here or anywhere, are all the same.
But thank you for your opinion. Are you a Market Research Analyst? If so, I would like to talk more with you. If not, then again, thank you for you humble opinion. We all have them. lol
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we all have opinions, not so many of them are humble ones (esp. on here).Kamauchifit wrote:Maybe you did not understand my post, or did not take the time to actually read it thoroughly.
Or maybe I was just not clear enough for you to understand. I am not here for the local population. I am here for the Expat. population mostly. I did actually mention in my reply your very points.
I am also not here to get rich or open a brick and motor business. I have lived in Thailand for the past 7 years and know the mindset and culture here and am not bothered or interested in reaching out to most of the local population as they have their own ways and own people. I offer my services to people, Expats, who have the desire to improve. This is an Expat forum is it not? For the most part?
Having said that, for you to generalize all middle class locals into one group is typical, but I already have a couple of them that I am working with. So not all middle class people here or anywhere, are all the same.
But thank you for your opinion. Are you a Market Research Analyst? If so, I would like to talk more with you. If not, then again, thank you for you humble opinion. We all have them. lol
good luck!
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