In today's episode, we welcome on Sean Armstrong. Sean runs a semi-private Personal Training facility near Newcastle in England. The main reason I asked Sean to come on is because he's doing fantastic work with his facility and because he used to be known as the member of LTB who was forever complaining. But, this isn't the Sean of 2019, so we get into how his journey has seen him find the confidence to open a facility and make a success out of it. 

Topics Covered:

• How he got started as a Personal Trainer.
• He found starting early in his career as an online PT.
• Why he spends less time freaking about losing a client or two nowadays.
• Why Sean thinks it's important to ensure you're tracking your numbers.
• Why he takes time to do things that force his mind to concentrate on other things.
• How he's found owning his own facility.
• What his goals are for over the next few years.
• The importance of spending time developing yourself.

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In today's episode, we welcome back on Chad Landers. Chad has been in the industry as a personal trainer for over 25 years. He's completed over 30,000 sessions and has worked with some of his clients for 24 years. In this episode, we get into his fav thing about being a trainer, how he realised this career is all about the client, what his experiences with online training have been and much more.

Topics Covered:

• What he enjoys most about being a PT.
• If he has ever thought about stopping being a trainer.
• Has he developed his communication and relationship building skills?
• How he learnt it was all about the client.
• Why you need to have challenging and honest conversations about aligning their behaviours and goals with clients.
• What his experiences with online training have been.
• How many sessions per week he's discovered is right for him.
• What were Chad/s biggest lessons at key points in your career? (Louise Johnstone)
• Did he ever have 5 year/10 year plans or just keep going without ever thinking too hard about the future? (James Jones)
• When does waking up at 5am start to suck? (Tony Cottenden) 

Find Out More About Chad:

• Calendly Link
• Chad's Instagram
• Chad's Facebook

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• Facebook

In this episode, we welcome on Kevin Ashworth. Kevin is an expert on the topic of anxiety. He's studied it for years and has authored publications on anxiety focused training. We get into what anxiety is, strategies to help overcome it, how effective meditation and positive thinking are, why changing your behaviour is more powerful than changing your thinking and how making an ass of yourself is totally normal!

Topics Covered:

• What he means by the quote “you’re already miserable, you may as well be miserable on purpose.”
• Why feeling confident is not the opposite of feeling anxious.
• Whether feeling anxious is a choice.
• How to change your inner dialogue.
• If meditation is effective for managing anxiety.
• How to change our thinking.
• Whether or not positive thinking is an effective remedy for negative thinking.

Strategies for changing your relationship with anxiety download

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In this short episode, Stuart covers whether or not you should use monthly or block payment plans. How to transition across to monthly and how to work out what to charge so that you get paid holidays is also covered.

In today's episode, we welcome on James Jones. James is a Personal Trainer who owns his own facility. He's been an LTB member for nearing on 5 years now and his journey into the industry, as well as how he met his now wife, makes for a very interesting and at times hilarious conversation. We discuss how he got into the industry, mistakes he's made, why following the wrong people nearly had him leaving the industry and why he doesn't tell all his clients to have steak and nuts for breakfast anymore.

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In this episode, Stuart covers 5 tips that will help you run more effective initial consultations. These will help you learn more about the client, improve rapport and increase the chance of them signing up to your Personal Training services.

If you're a Personal Trainer, the chances are pretty high that you'll work with people who have weight loss based goals. Gregg has created an in-depth course that looks into exactly this, but it isn't just about calories in, calories out, his course goes into essentially every aspect of weight loss you can think of. 

Topics Covered:

• Why Gregg has decided to focus on business as one of his Q1 professional development goals.
• What he's learnt in the process of creating his understanding weight loss course.
• Why our bodies hate losing weight.
• How understanding more about weight loss has informed his coaching.
• Metabolic adaptation and how this affects weight loss.
• What other factors we should be looking at with regards to weight loss.
• How important exercise is for weight loss.
• Whether we should be using large or small deficits.
• How many calories we typically burn during exercise.

Exercise: Fat Loss Paradox Video

In this short episode, Stuart discusses principles and methods you can use to generate leads whilst working out of a commercial gym.

In this episode, Stuart welcomes on Dan Salcumbe from my personal trainer website to chat about all things websites.

Topics Covered:

• How he got started building PT websites.
• What makes an effective website.
• How to decide whether or not you should have a website.
• What type of situation should a PT be in to justify having a website?
• How easy it is to create a website.
• Why user experience and design should be at the top of your website priorities.
• Where he sees PT's going wrong when it comes to creating their websites.
• What kind of things should you have on your website?
• Should you put your prices on your website?
• Whether SEO is worth investing in.

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