In this episode, Stuart welcomes on Thomas Plummer for a wide-ranging conversation.

In this episode, Stuart runs through 6 Personal Training systems that will help you have a successful start to 2018.

In this wide-ranging conversation with Ross Stewart from Improve Glasgow, we cover planning for 2018, how Ross would sum-up and reflect on 2017, where he has gone wrong this year and loads more!

Meghan Callaway from ultimatepullups.com comes on to the show to discuss how we can help our clients hit their first pull-up.

In this episode with Alex Pearson, Stuart and Alex discuss motivational interviewing. We get into what it is and how you can use it in your coaching as a personal trainer.

In this episode, I welcome on Sarah Duffield, head of nutrition at Mac-Nutrition to have a conversation around consultations, improving your service, dealing with tough clients and so much more.

In this short episode, we welcome back on Dan Mitchell to have a conversation about running a free FB group.

In this episode, I welcome back on Martin MacDonald from Mac-Nutrition University to discuss MNU, calling out misinformation, what he has learnt from doing this and how we can help our clients stick to the plans we set up for them.

In the second instalment of client insights, I speak to one of my 1-2-1 personal training clients about her experiences with gyms, how she's got to a place of being content with where she is at and what personal trainers could do differently with their marketing.

I'd love to know what you think of this episode so please feel free to email me at stuart@liftthebar.com!

Fantastic to have on long-time LTB member Jamie Tucker to discuss his thoughts on what it's been like running a mobile personal training business.

We cover:

Topics and questions covered in today's episode with Pete Dupuis.

Fantastic to welcome on Rog Law for the first time to the LTB Podcast. We discuss:

- pre personal training rituals

- what he's learnt being a new coach at Mark Fisher Fitness

and how he thinks about using social media as well as loads more!

Third time on the podcast for guest Omar Ganai from Habitry. In this episode, we get into some of the challenges that Self-determination theory presents, why autonomy is so hard to grasp, book recommendations and plenty of other motivation related topics.

Kevin Larrabee, from The Fitcast Podcast, joins me in this episode of the LTB Podcast. We discuss lessons he's learned from 11+ years of The Fitcast, why he's decided to jump into owning his own facility, how he deals with his own body image and comparison issues and much more!

Krista Scott-Dixon from Precision Nutrition joins Stuart for an in-person interview to discuss all things coaching.

In this episode, we welcome on LTB's Head of Education, Gregg Slater to discuss his newly designed coaching course and how trainers can use to run more effective PT sessions.

Second time onto the podcast for Leigh Peele (from Leighpeele.com), who is a guest I love chatting to. We get into two big topics: online training and sleep, as well as some other things around transformations and managing work: life balance.

Love doing these in person episodes - the conversations are always so much more raw. Steve & Lindsay run AMP Fitness in Boston and I asked them to come onto the podcast to chat about how they've built up AMP and how they manage being married while also running a gym together. We also get into a lot of cool stuff around building community and lessons learned from opening a gym.

In this episode, I welcome on Michael Keeler from Business for Unicorns and Mark Fisher Fitness. 

In this episode, I go into the why what and how of everything to do with running a seminar or workshop for clients.

Topics include:

• Why should you do it?
• Where to begin.
• What to call it?
• How to get people to come? 
• Should you charge for it?
• What content to talk about?
• Length & creating the content for it.
• How to encourage interaction?

• What to do about being terrified of public speaking?

• Generating clients from it?

It was a huge pleasure to welcome on Adam Ali from Physiqonomics. We covered:

We welcome back on to the show Mr Mark Fisher from Mark Fisher Fitness & Business for Unicorns. We cover:

"Play the long game and figure out why you're doing this"

In this episode with the brilliant Todd Bumgardner we get into:

1. What does Strength Faction do?
2. How to find your work: life balance?
3. Practical tasks to get clearer on your why.
4. How does BSP run client reviews?
5. How do they manage these client reviews in a semi-private model?
6. The importance of being unique.

In this minisode, I discuss all things retention based. Why clients leave us, what we can do to increase retention rates and simple tasks that will lead to better retention rates.

We welcome back on Alwyn Cosgrove for episode 58.

In this show we discuss:

1. What Alwyn is working on just now.
2. What he see's as the next big thing in fitness.
3. Challenges with working with so many people.
4. What would he look for in a coach who applied for a job at results.
5. Does he think a fault of the industry is how easy it currently is to get in to it.
6. Comparisons - how does he think about these?
7. The importance of sorting out an educational curriculum for yourself.
8. Advice for trainers who find asking for money awkward.