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Aug 30, 2021

In this episode, Stuart chats to Nate Green, an author, a contributor to Men’s Health magazine and the Director of Content Marketing at Waking Up. They talk about his time going from a PT to a gym owner, questions to ask yourself before writing a post or blog, coming with content ideas, learning about your clients, what skills he'd recommend developing and much more.

 

 

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Aug 23, 2021
In this episode, we have a repost with Laura Vanderkam from two years ago. Laura is an author and host of a few different podcasts including before breakfast and best of both worlds. One of her published books is called "off the clock", which, as you might have guessed, is about time management and using our time to have a better life. That's what Stuart and Laura discuss. They talk through why time management is important, why tracking your time will help you, how to structure your day and workweek and the concept of savouring.
 

 

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Aug 16, 2021

Stuart welcomes back on Jean-Claude Vacassin from the International Fitness Business Alliance (IFBA) and W10 Gym in London to chat about common issues gym owners face, what to do if you're struggling as a facility owner and how he thinks about staffing and pricing.

 

Topics Covered:

  • How involved is he in the day-to-day running of W10 nowadays?
  • What separates great gyms from average gyms?
  • If you're struggling as a facility owner, where should you start?
  • He's been running the IFBA since 2016, what's been some of the big things he's learnt in that time about helping gym owners?
  • What he has learnt from visiting many gyms for on-site visits?
  • Have you seen many gyms fail? Why do you think happens?
  • Does he think it's harder now as a facility owner?
  • When you go to do an on-site audit, what you look for/ typically spot that are some easy fixes?
  • How to think about up setting up your pricing?
  • How he thinks about staffing.

 

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Aug 9, 2021
In today's reposted episode from 2018, Stuart talks to Elias Scarr, the former membership director of Results Fitness. Elias has been selling fitness memberships and teaching sales to fitness professionals since 2010. They discuss how to think about sales, handling objections, building relationships so the sale takes care of itself and getting over self-worth issues with money.

 

 

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Aug 2, 2021
In today's reposted episode from May of 2020, Stuart talks to Nick Winkelman, who is the Head of Athletic Performance for the Irish Rugby Football Union, about the power of tough to hear feedback, reflective practice, creating coaching cues with your clients, coaching the push-up using a framework called the coaching communication loop and what Nick's favourite analogy/ coaching cue is. The section on the push up is a masterclass in coaching so even if you skip ahead and listen to that I promise you'll get a tonne from this episode!
 
 

 

Timestamps:
  • [05.30] - How he responded to receiving some hard to take feedback about the first editions of his book.
  • [07.05] - How important receiving feedback has been for him throughout his career.
  • [09.55] - Questions to ask your clients to help with collaboration when creating cues.
  • [17.45] - Why coaches are more comfortable talking about programming than they are about coaching, communication and motivation.
  • [22.45] - Where a trainer should start if they want to start learning more about the intricacies of coaching.
  • [28.05] - Nick explains what the coaching communication loop is.
  • [32.30] - Nick takes us through how he would coach a push-up to a new client using the coaching communication loop. 
  • [39.22] - If Nick thinks we should take the time outside of sessions to create coaching cues and analogies.
  • [42.10] - Nick's favourite cue or analogy

 

 

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