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Personal Trainer
A personal trainer is generally a fitness professional involved in instruction. They setgoals and provide feedback to clients as well as measure their clients strengths and weaknesses with fitness assessments. You may need a certification from preferrably an accredited personal fittness instructor school. Most such schools require a high school diploma, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillator (AED) certification, and some type of examination.
In addition to the certication, you will need business licenses because you are in the business of fitness instructor.
All personal training businesses must be identified either with a federal tax ID or the ss# of the owner if sole proprietorship.
All other personal training business entities, such as LLC, Corp, Partnerships, need a federal tax ID number. In addition, if the business sells any merchandise whether wholesale or retail or if it leases equipment, it will need a sales tax ID number. Furthermore, employers will need both a federal EIN, and a State EIN.
Finally, if the business uses a trade name, such as "Build Your Muscles personal training ," the name must be registered with an assumed business name certificate also called a DBA doing business as.
Note that since you have to select a personal training business structure, if you select to be an LLC or corporation you will not need to file an assumed business name. |
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