Personal Training Seen As Boom Business In Next Five Years

By Tracy Kershaw-Staley

Dayton Business Journal

When Karen Siebert began her career as a personal trainer three decades ago, most clients wanted to muscle up or slim down.

Today she encounters clients with a different motivation: to get healthy.

That change is helping fuel a boom in the personal training business. Baby boomers are seeking trainers as they look to keep active, lower their resting heart rate or lower their cholesterol, she said. The rising number of boomers, along with people searching for solutions to the country's growing obesity epidemic, is making personal training a lucrative career, industry observers say.