With all the airbrushing and camera tricks these days, the asses of some of these celebrities will always be unattainable to the average person. Much to their dismay, they will spend the rest of their lives trying to attain the physique of the hottest A-list celebrity and never become satisfied with the goals they do attain. As long as beautiful celebrities grace the covers of magazines, people will always be willing to pay for personal trainers to help them “get in shape.” The beauty of this generalized goal is that most people have nothing to shoot for other than the person with the great body who happened to be on the cover of Us Weekly. Sounds like a great deal, right? Not to mention, you are pretty much always guaranteed to have work.
What It TakesĪs a personal trainer, you can have a flexible schedule, make good money, and work in a laid-back atmosphere with beautiful people. Based on a true story, JD’s real-life confessions provide a look at the lesser-known aspects of personal training. I Like Your Form is a hilarious and honest collection of stories giving advice for personal trainers and clients. However, it’s very difficult to turn away from the attention of many attractive and sexy women. All it would take is his girlfriend or any one of his clients’ spouses to find out about their sultry affairs, and everything could blow up in his face causing him to lose his career. JD starts to fight an internal struggle between making money satisfying his clients and knowing what he is doing is wrong. As time goes on, he finds that not only can he help with their physical demands, he can also help them out with their erotic ones.
He then started learning the ropes of the business and carved a niche for himself training well-to-do housewives and successful older women. It puzzled him just how much money people were willing to spend to train with him despite the fact he was so inexperienced. Baltimore Post-Examiner is proud to present an excerpt from ‘I Like Your Form: Confessions of a Personal Trainer’ by JD Holmes available at Amazon.Īfter graduating from high school and working several dead-end jobs, JD landed a job as a personal trainer at a newly opened gym.