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The podcast designed by Personal Trainers, for Personal Trainers. Want to become better at what you do? Learn how to build a full list of client's? Learn from some of the best of the industry? This is the podcast for you.
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Now displaying: July, 2019
Jul 30, 2019

In this episode, we welcome on Tom Morgan, Dai Lees and Alex Gibilaro from Hy3rid. We cover bodyweight training, what it's like working as three mates who are business partners and why it's ok as a PT to lose your motivation for training. Hy3rid provides online coaching with the primary aim to help people fall in love with training by making it fun again and providing a ridiculously positive and supportive community.

They also run workshops that explore movement and bodyweight skill training. Hybrid are running a workshop for us at LTB in Maidenhead on the 1st of September 2019 where they'll be covering warm-ups and then breaking down the handstand as well as loads of other bodyweight drills you can use with clients and in your own training. Head here to find out more about that!

 

Questions/Timestamps

2.30. If you could only do one exercise for the rest of your life, what would it be?

3.50 - Why do they love and enjoy bodyweight training so much?

8.35 - How can a trainer go about introducing more bodyweight training into a clients programme?

15.05 - How much of their programming is bodyweight based?

15.50 - what is it like being 3 good mates and business partners?

23.05 - do they think they put people off as they are all in great shape and put a lot of topless photos on social media?

27.35 - losing your motivation as a trainer for your own training.

35.35 - why spending time with other trainers is invaluable for both your own growth and love of being a PT.

 

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Jul 23, 2019

In today's episode, we welcome on Mark Tregilgas. Mark is a 40-year-old personal trainer with 13 years of experience. He founded 30 Plus Men's Fitness in 2010 and has Bootcamp locations across the UK and an online membership and community of over 30s men from across the globe. There are some episodes of the podcast that completely catch me and I think the guest by surprise, which is one of the beautiful things about having conversations with cool people. This is one of those episodes - Mark discusses a part of his life where he lost someone incredibly important to him and how this encouraged him to push on and form his entire business mission. Alongside this, we delve into the success of his bootcamps and what he wishes more personal trainers knew.

 

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Jul 16, 2019

Semi-private personal training (SPPT) is a model that many trainers get into to advance their careers. It allows you to work with more people, earn more money and not become stuck with the standard 1-1 model that only allows you to do so many hours. But, SPPT isn't easy and there are many trainers who get into it and decide they don't like it as they don't know how to make it work.

In this episode, I speak to 7 trainers from a range of backgrounds who are all running SPPT in some form within their business. Some own facilities, some do it out of other people's studios and some do it out of commercial gyms.

We go over:

  • What SPPT is and why it may make sense to consider doing it.
  • The big differences between SPPT and 1-1.
  • How to do it in a commercial gym.
  • How to create effective programmes for SPPT.
  • Whether or not clients should write out their own weights during the session.
  • Coaching tips.
  • Managing nutrition.
  • Pricing.
  • Booking systems.
  • Tips for transitioning into when you're completely new
  • and much, much more!

 

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Jul 12, 2019

Have you ever wondered how to improve your communication skills so you can better connect with your clients? In this from the archive episode from back in February of 2017, guest Cathy MacDonald from The Art of Communication answers this question and many more about improving and understanding communication. 

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Jul 9, 2019

Referrals are not only one of the cheapest ways to get in new clients, but they are also a sure-fire sign you're doing well as a business. So, what can you do to increase the chance of your current clients telling their friends, family members or colleagues about you? That's exactly what I cover in this episode.

 

You'll learn:

  • How to create a referral system that runs without you needing to do anything.
  • A sample script to use with current clients to ask for referrals.
  • How to make referrals simple for your current clients.
  • The importance of staying in contact with old clients.
  • How to increase organic referrals,
  • and much more!

 

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Jul 1, 2019
In this episode, we welcome on Nikki Strong. Nikki is a registered dietician, the owner of an online coaching company called Strong Nutrition and an assistant coach at Precision Nutrition's level 2 programme. We get into how to help a resistant client, what something called the therapeutic alliance means and why understanding this helps build the relationship between you and your clients and how she's got over imposter syndrome to become more effective at coaching clients.
 

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Timestamps
 
2.00 - what first got Nikki interested in the world of fitness.
4.10 - how her business works.
4.40 - how she finds being based mostly online.
7.45 - why being caught by imposter syndrome got in the way of her helping clients when she first started.
12.25 - why building a "therapeutic alliance" is an essential part of working with new clients.
16.00 - what she does to build a strong relationship foundation.
21.00 - how has the process of behaviour change been different in her experience coaching.
21.45 - why she now trusts her clients more.
23.45 - what are resistant clients.
28.10 - why resistance now excites her as a coach.
30.00 - an example of client resistance in sleep behaviours and how Nikki would support someone here.
39.00 - when there is a place for calling out a client who just isn't doing the thing they say they want/ are going to do.
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