Meet Manny: Work placement pilot participant

Originally published on 29 October

Hi I’m Manny, I will be working with Collaborative Future over the next 2 weeks. I am going to be helping out with Collaborative Future social media account and sharing blog posts from those involved in the scheme.

My passions include physical exercise such as weight training, running and HIIT cardio training and calisthenics training which includes bodyweight training with movements such as pull ups, many variations of the push up, explosive training and functional movement training. Some of my other passions include martial arts mainly Brazilian jiu jitsu. I’ve been training jiu jitsu for about 10 months now and I love the beneficial effects it has on both the body and mind.

One of my main aims is to become a certified Personal Trainer. I joined the work placement scheme at Collaborative Future mainly because I saw it as a great opportunity to expand my skills in coaching people and learning how to expand my brand and market myself. I know these are essential skills if I want to be successful as a personal trainer.

I’ve been working on designing a personal training session to promote to Work Social members which is really beneficial for my experience. I’m also going to work with Impact People and change which is a great opportunity for me to learn how to coach people and bring out the best in them.

Some of the skills I’ve been able to develop so far include: Business planning, knowing where to get funding from and how to promote myself to potential clients. I’ve also learned some skills concerning website building and designing social media posts that I didn’t have before. Another essential skill that I’ve been able to learn is setting the right goals and calculating how those goals can be achieved.

My main ambitions going forward are to build my own successful freelance business around personal training and to create a whole host of successful online training programmes that help people reach their fitness goals. Where I see myself in 10 years time is working for myself as a freelance PT with a of clients and travelling the world doing what I enjoy.

I’m hoping to launch a website soon but if your interested in a personal training session email me @ mannymbetewa@yahoo.com

This pilot has been made possible thanks to the support of Works Social, Cleo, Armakuni, Tech Nottingham and s.p.o design. You can find out more about our crowdfunding campaign here and pledge to support future cohorts here.