Hey Dave I really enjoy your podcasts. The insight you bring to the conjugate have taken my lifting to another level. I am listening to my body for the first time in a long time. Keep up the great work. Happy New Year.
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I have enjoyed this company/website for many years; for the articles, the equipment, the quick receiving of any equipment I have purchased, and some good answers to some of my crazy questions over time.
I appreciate some of the content on your site, however as a older male that is a novice, seems like I am starting in the middle of a book that I need to be starting at the forward to it.
I would like to see a seminar on program design for general population. Luke Leaman would be a great person to do this!!! I would also be very interested in a seminar on coaching topics including how to read your athletes, effective cueing, behavioral psychology and creating compliance
Hey Guys,
I have been in Strength&Conditioning and Rehab for 30 years. Have referred numerous people to buy your equipment setting up gyms. Love all the high quality products. I have studied lots of Louie's stuff in the past. I think the things I would like to see most from you guys are proven protocols. Always looking for new info!
Frank Jasinski Certified Trainer, Strength Coach, Exercise Kinesiologist, Neuromuscular Therapist
Thank you for asking your readers and customers for our thoughts. Nobody does this anymore. Caring about your supporters is why elitefts has been around so long. Keep up the great work and have a blessed new year.
Your own team members killed the learn to train seminars by doing the same thing on their own for less money. This service has been devalued to the point I don’t see how it could be reborn making training seminars impossible to be profitable. I do think the coaching clinics are great and would love to attend another one. I don’t understand the attraction to online training and it seems to go against everything Dave stands for but everyone is doing it and elitefts has the highest integrity, trust and credibility in the market that this could be a huge service to the community and a strong revenue stream for elitefts. There are already enough junk certifications that I’d rather see a ranking of what elitefts feels is good. I don’t like the membership idea but have spent thousands with efs and would like to see something like “prime” for customers like myself that have supported the company over the years. I’d like to thank all those who work for elitefts, you all do a great job doing the right thing. A rare thing in the world today.
I contacted Dave on Instagram last year about online training and he referred three people to me and he’s done the same for several others in my gym. All of us were referred different people based on the needs Dave asked about. I know he doesn’t make anything on this because he told us to not tell the coach he referred them. He did ask us to get back with him on how it worked out. Dave is already in the online training business without knowing it. If elitefts can take what he’s already doing and make it part of the company it would do extremely well because the coaching industry lacks professionalism. I’ve personally been ripped off by big names in the industry and have friends that received terrible training by other companies that go out of their way to market how advanced their service is. I would drop my coach in a second to hire one from elitefts. Please do this!
Everyone else makes money on content today. Why not elitefts? How long have they been giving away everything for free? I think they have earned the right to make money on their stuff. There’s no money in retail. I know this as a fact! I’d also bet elitefts has present and past team members that take home more money per year than the company does. In large part to the exposure and credibility of elitefts.
I don’t understand some of these comments. Do you guys have any idea how much Dave and elitefts has given to the strength and conditioning industry for FREE? It’s easy to say it’s more than anyone else. It’s more accurate to say that nobody else comes close. I’m sure we all will agree the state of online training and certifications is a joke and here’s a company we all know would do this by putting the customer first. How is this selling out or not saying within the boundaries of what the company stands for? Do the math and you will see this could be a million dollar source of revenue that would carry a larger profit than anything else the company has done. I have no doubt much of this would turn around to become even more content for free. Online training is not going away and I’d rather see people put their money with a company I trust.
Think of how many loyal readers and customers of elitefts hire online trainers now that would much rather support the company that’s supported the industry for decades.
As a longtime customer of elitefts and someone that’s seen how much they’ve given away beyond what’s seen on the website it’s frustrating to see people whom I’d bet have never spent a dime with the company speaking about how they would be selling out.
How is it selling out if it’s what their customers and readers want? Wouldn’t it be worse to not give them what they want? I highly doubt they would cease all they do now or flip a price tag on it. I take this a services they would provide over and above what they already do. If anything it would generate more free stuff for all the entitled people that feel everything should be free for them.
Wake up! Powerlifting is no longer in the dark ages where meets are held in bowling alleys. It’s grown and has become big business for federations, meet directors, lifters and coaches.
If you run with the lame you will get a limp! Weak. Things. Break!!!
This could be tricky because most the elitefts team offer online training but I’m sure they wouldn’t have the clients they do if it wasn’t for elitefts and their role is to help elitefts build the elitefts brand not their own. This always seemed backwards to me because most of them don’t promote elitefts at all. Why build the business of those who are supposed to help you that would be competing for the same client base. Then again they used the elitefts seminar format that essentially yanked the learn to train seminar. It’s clear to see how they use elitefts for their own gain but wonder if they refer elitefts to their clients to elitefts. It may not be as tricky as I’m thinking because now I’m wondering how your team helps you at all.
I stopped doing business in 2018 because of all the whoring of online training your team members do on Instagram. Twenty year old kids thinking they are coaching Gods is a horrible look for the company!
Would love to see the learn to train seminar comeback. I don’t like the idea of a paywall or online training but you have to keep up with the times or die. Do what you need to do to keep the business moving forward.
I vote no for online training, certifications and pay site. I feel these services are pollution in an industry elitefts dominates with credibility. I do agree you have many representing the company that offer these things that are hurting the companies brand.
To Dave,
I appreciate you asking us about these services, not many business owners care enough to reach out to their customer base. Continue being you! You always give credit to others for the success of elitefts but the fact is most of us support YOU because of who you are and what you stand for. If you do what you believe in you will find the same support you’ve always had. If you do things you don’t buy into will you be ok with that? I do think elitefts can tackle any of these things in a more credible way than what’s being done now.
I'd love to see a seminar where people can come with injuries nobody has been able to figure out....the average PT is useless and even if a seminar can't cure you it can maybe help in just a small way.
I also think listening to what people want will weaken elitefts.....you guys just do what you've always done and don't let anybody outside your circle fuck it up. The right people will follow as well as not as long as YOU make the decisions.
At the end of the day you are a business. If something doesn’t make a profit get rid of it. It’s that simple. I think the podcast is great and you have a year into it. Add up the total hours plus equipment and start up costs. If sales are over last year how much are from podcast? If it’s very low or none you have to stop doing it. This should be the same rule for everything. Do the articles generate a profit? The team members you compensate? Time on social media? Dump what’s not working and double down on what doesn’t.
Online training is shady AF
Nobody wants to spend the money to attend a seminar in Ohio
It would be cool to have open gym hours for anyone
The podcast is the most honest in the industry
A pay-site screams desperation and low moral standards
I have been in Strength&Conditioning and Rehab for 30 years. Have referred numerous people to buy your equipment setting up gyms. Love all the high quality products. I have studied lots of Louie's stuff in the past. I think the things I would like to see most from you guys are proven protocols. Always looking for new info!
Frank Jasinski Certified Trainer, Strength Coach, Exercise Kinesiologist, Neuromuscular Therapist
Seminars are over played
Certifications I need to know more
Membership no
Learn to train i would do
Like podcasts
How to sustain and panned growth.
Think of how many loyal readers and customers of elitefts hire online trainers now that would much rather support the company that’s supported the industry for decades.
As a longtime customer of elitefts and someone that’s seen how much they’ve given away beyond what’s seen on the website it’s frustrating to see people whom I’d bet have never spent a dime with the company speaking about how they would be selling out.
How is it selling out if it’s what their customers and readers want? Wouldn’t it be worse to not give them what they want? I highly doubt they would cease all they do now or flip a price tag on it. I take this a services they would provide over and above what they already do. If anything it would generate more free stuff for all the entitled people that feel everything should be free for them.
Wake up! Powerlifting is no longer in the dark ages where meets are held in bowling alleys. It’s grown and has become big business for federations, meet directors, lifters and coaches.
If you run with the lame you will get a limp! Weak. Things. Break!!!
Get with the times
I appreciate you asking us about these services, not many business owners care enough to reach out to their customer base. Continue being you! You always give credit to others for the success of elitefts but the fact is most of us support YOU because of who you are and what you stand for. If you do what you believe in you will find the same support you’ve always had. If you do things you don’t buy into will you be ok with that? I do think elitefts can tackle any of these things in a more credible way than what’s being done now.
I’m in the Middle East and as such cannot get one on one training.
I also think listening to what people want will weaken elitefts.....you guys just do what you've always done and don't let anybody outside your circle fuck it up. The right people will follow as well as not as long as YOU make the decisions.
Nobody wants to spend the money to attend a seminar in Ohio
It would be cool to have open gym hours for anyone
The podcast is the most honest in the industry
A pay-site screams desperation and low moral standards