When life gives you a room full of darkness, you can either choose to sulk or rise above the pain. This is exactly how the story of BestowFitnes, India’s most sought-after fitness venture began.
BestowFitness academy a Mr. Amol Kyatam one of the oldest fitness trainers in the industry. The academy collaborates with various international fitness trainers to provide quality training to Indian gym trainers.
Fitness was never the first career choice for Mr. Amol Kyatam. He lived in a modest house of 100 sq ft and was bullied in school for being overweight. For several months he slept on the footpath. But, he had a keen inclination towards one thing- fitness. Despite all the adversities, he never missed going to the gym.
His father was a salesman and his mother sold hand-rolled cigarettes (Bidis) as a means of livelihood. His father got paralyzed due to which he began working at a very young age.
He became a gym trainer in 2004 with a monthly income of just Rs 2500 and has not stopped training until today. As time passed, numerous doors opened for him. He found his solace in this field and pursued various international courses for his professional development. He is now a celebrity fitness coach who has worked closely with celebrities such as Vicky Kaushal, Ram Charan, Ayush Mehra, and many others.
He observed that gym trainers all over India were lacking in terms of knowledge, skill, and proper training. The training provided in India did not match up to international standards.
The team consisted of physiotherapists, nutritionists, etc. This team worked day and night to design a fitness course that can match up to international standards. Not only are the courses affordable, but also wholesome. They have designed a holistic course that provides proper training to Indian fitness coaches. Mr. Amol states that “This course has everything a fitness trainer requires. After taking this course, you need not go anywhere else. Choose BestowFitness, there is no better option”.
BestowFitness now offers 7-8 courses and conducts several workshops. It provides certified training courses for fitness, sports and nutrition. The academy began with a small batch of 4-5 participants and it now has expanded into several chains in India. It has franchises in Pune and Ahmedabad.
With the onset of the pandemic last year, several challenges were laid before the team. Fitness sessions and coaching had to be shifted online. Initially, it was very challenging to convince people to enroll and participate in classes. People in India were not familiar with online setup especially for fitness training. However, with time and a sudden increase in online classes normalcy resumed. Today people are comfortable with a blend of online as well as offline classes.
It is rightly said that “ If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain”. The journey of BestowFitness was quite dynamic and full of obstacles. However, the passion to uplift Indian fitness trainers and spread awareness about fitness in India is what kept the two founders going.
Makrand kalburgee who used to operate one academy until 2018 decided to start his own academy. He met his childhood friend and celebrity fitness trainer Mr.Amol kyatam who has tremendous knowledge and expertise in teaching.
They both decided to give their best to the industry for the betterment of the Trainers community. We hired the best sports scientist, physiotherapist, nutrition experts panel to make the courses syllabus.
We spend lot of time to do this and finally launched our academy with grand in 2019 as BFA fitness academy which our own Bestow fitness academy.
Beswto Fitness Academy founded by Amol Kyatam and Makrand Kalburgee
BFA have been working in the fitness industry for 20 long years, and in India, there is still not much awareness about health and fitness. In that, there are no qualified trainers also. To get qualified trainers, we should have qualified, experienced on-the-floor worked academies. Not only the knowledge from the books, but we should also have knowledge and experience from the floor. So we took five long years to work on it. We had a team of qualified doctors, sports scientists, physiotherapists, our own
This is a huge milestone for all of us. To do one course abroad online or offline also costs in lakhs. Keeping that in mind, we started this academy and got all the advanced techniques, all the knowledge from across the world in one place officially. Our main idea behind this brand is to reach every trainer personally and provide all international knowledge at one click and doorstep at an affordable price. Trainers are underrated in India; they themselves don't have confidence that they are real game changers for all in terms of health, not the pharma or insurance companies. Trainers are
working for 8000 INR per month. They should charge at least 12 sessions per month for one client the same; that's the goal. One trainer should earn a minimum of 1 lakh INR per month. That's our goal. Of course, it takes time to achieve that, but gradually it's possible. We have students who are actually earning the same. The main brain behind getting all this together is our marketing head, Makarand Kalburgee, who brought all of us under one roof. He has 10 years of experience in gym management and academy management. He plays a vital role as our brain behind marketing and brand building.
It has branches in Pune , pimpri Chinchwad , expansion in process Hyderabad, Delhi and Ahmedabad
As BFA know, bodybuilding has become the face of the fitness industry, and many bodybuilders become trainers who don't have any knowledge of training. Just because they played this sport and built their body, they dominate this industry. BestowFitness wants to educate all of them and work more professionally, using their already existing USP of their body. The fitness industry is huge; bodybuilding is just one small sport in it. We can't neglect it nor completely follow it for all. So our sincere try and deliver scientific and more practical approaches to achieve people's goals towards fitness by making a complete package of a trainer who knows in and out about all aspects of fitness. They know how to make a bodybuilder, how to train an
athlete, train a normal layman, train physically challenged persons, and train special population also. Bestow Fitness Academy personal trainers will be known for being multitaskers and experts in everything. Trainers should be known as an equal profession to doctors; they are not massagers. That's why our tag line is: LEARN TRAIN EARN. Everything we have for the trainers from the oldest trainers in the industry to the future trainers of India for MAKE IN INDIA. At the end, making skilled labor (trainers) also helps India in the FIT INDIA MOVEMENT. BestowFitness trainers should be in demand not only in India but also abroad. We shouldn't need to hire any trainer from abroad because we are pioneers in this industry. Even if we don't have research happening in India, what our ancestors left us is far more than what we should look after.
BFA are the only one in India who takes all workshops. We have been giving 100% job assistance.Our trainers are working across the globe and all cities in India We provide internships along with the course so our trainers are aware of the floor where they are going to work. We conduct review meetings with our trainers every 3 months after placement. We give access to our courses for trainers if they want to re-attend that too without any extra charge. We have our sources in the Indian film industry (Bollywood, Tollywood), so whenever a requirement comes, we send trainers to train celebrities.
Our directors are working in the industry for 20 years Out of all trainers our success rate of trainer is 70% of earning more than 5 digit income per month.
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