By Ember
What to have ready when the trainer comes to the door
Package, floor, parking, and any movement you cannot do in the house. Those four facts are the session.
An in-home session starts in the hallway. The trainer is carrying a bag, looking for a place to put the car, and trying to learn the week from a doorway. If the ticket only says "training," the first ten minutes are a tour.
Have the package in one sentence. Single session, session four of an eight-pack, or the first of twelve. Say whether it is already paid. A trainer who drives to you cannot discover at the mat that this hour was a free consult and the next client is a paid eight-pack across town.
Have the door in one sentence too. Floor, elevator or stairs, gate code, visitor stall, and which room has space for a mat without moving a crib into the hall. A third-floor walk-up with street parking is a different arrival than a garage with a rack and a driveway.
Have the movement you cannot do, in your words. "No overhead on the left shoulder" is enough. Ember writes it down and does not turn it into a diagnosis. Your own clinician stays your clinician. The trainer uses the note so the first exercise is not a press you already know you cannot do.
Leave a clear spot for the mat before the knock. The clock should start when the trainer is in the room, not when they are still circling the block for the visitor stall.