Student Ashlee Boettge talks about how she balances being a personal trainer with school.
BY: ASHLEY BIUNDO
Online Editor
Balancing between work life and school life can be challenging. Ashlee Boettge works as a personal trainer at Club Fitness while studying at Meramec. She said that it is difficult, but manageable.
“I’m lucky enough to only be in class one time a week and the workload with work and school isn’t too overwhelming. I always dedicate Sunday to be my day to catch up on everything and it’s really relieving to have the flexibility at work to where I can take any day off I want in order to make sure I stay on top of my studying,” Boettge said.
Not only is she studying and working, Boettge has found time to stay active and workout at the gym. She said that her biggest inspiration for staying active is herself. “[My biggest inspiration is] myself really. I wasn’t an overweight kid but I was usually pretty active. I taught myself the vast majority of what I know now,” she said. “Starting to try and get better with my health at a young age definitely helped me in picking [personal training] as my career.”
While at Meramec, Boettge wants to stay in personal training and says that she also competes in shows. “I wanna stay with it for sure. I’d like to stay in the health/fitness/healthcare field. Me just getting into working out at 16 and never really stopping or letting up on the breaks. Working out led me to meet a lot of people and it got me into competing,” she said.
Boettge started working out when she was just 16 years old and hasn’t stopped since.
“I started getting into working out when I was 16, I started competing when I was 19 and I turned into a personal trainer at 20,” she said.
After Boettge finishes Meramec, she plans on setting sail to the east coast to work with chiropractors.
“I’d like to be a PTA partner with chiropractors either in Tennessee or the east coast,” she said. “And have my own online business when it comes to training.”
Boettge enjoys her job because it keeps her active and meeting new people everyday. It also helps her with competing, another event she enjoys. “I just enjoy competing. I’d like to venture out into other sports but I’ve been liking the body building life for some time now,” she said.
