Most personal trainers that I know are very serious about creating training programs for their clients. That’s great! It’s important that the programs give clients the results they are looking for. That said, people also like to have fun and love to laugh. Whenever you can create some fun, you will engage your clients more and keeps them wanting to come back. Let’s face it, if you had your choice of a good workout or a good workout that was also fun, which would you choose? It can be a great differentiator between you and your competition.

If you can work the fun into the workout itself, that would be best. Maybe you can create a game-based workout (i.e. hopscotch can be a fun plyometric and balance challenge). Now work is work and exercises aren’t always fun in and of themselves. So, maybe the fun comes in the form of requiring that your client dances from exercise to exercise or perhaps teach them to floss between sets or simply joking with your client. 

Of course you have to choose things that you and your clients feel comfortable with, but the important note is to add fun where you can. Leaving your clients in a better mood than when they came in creates one more layer of client loyalty, not to mention that when they leave happier, so do you.