What’s the difference between training clients and educating them?
Personal training and strength and conditioning coaching… the two require a very different mindset and approach to programming.
Barbells are the most awesome items in any gym. Check out what these guys use and why.
Sports and strength coaching is all about biology. Physical performance is all about biological adaptations, and training is about manipulating and improving biological outputs.
Youth participation in athletics is more than just a pastime, it is a valuable resource for growth and positive development.
As Justin Kompf explains, “Instead of taking a bulldozer to bad health, I’m now using a pick axe, slowly chipping away at bad habits.” If you have a few habits to break, here’s a way that might help you succeed.
The girl steps into the gym for the first time and is met with the smell of sweat and the sound of metal clanging violently.
The key to a lean anterior upper body (mainly chest and abs) is your total amount of body fat.
Most personal trainers want to do one thing as soon as someone hands them money for personal training—run!
With many great things, the precise point of origin is not always obvious.
Responding to popular demand, I’d like to cover something I see lots of guys doing on websites and in articles.
Remember, there is more to eliminating the clueless trainer paradox then simply doing what they cannot.
It’s very common to walk into a commercial gym or fitness center and see the most asinine movements being demonstrated without any rational purpose.
I’ve been contemplating for a while whether the training industry is in a race to the bottom.
Be confident in yourself and the value of your service, but also be a sponge and soak up as many different ideas as you can from different people.
You’re fired—two words that every trainer or coach should learn and not be afraid to use with their clients.
The best advice I can give you is find the closest warehouse gym in your area and sign up!
For many people, having the ability to train people for a living is a dream come true.
I’ve had plenty of time to think about my experiences in the corporate fitness world over the last year, simply because that’s where I cut my teeth and then subsequently got them knocked out.
This is just a small list of things that I’ve learned and observed over my ten years of training.
The only thing holding the personal training industry back from taking the next step is the fact that there virtually isn’t any regulation.
Here is part 1 of an interview I did with Alwyn on Oct 27, 2007.
However, I’ve had to fire a few clients. I love a business where the business owner fires his clients.
What happens when you get a potential client who is all about doing the most hard core exercises, who moves mountains and is willing to go the distance to achieve his goals? As I imagine, you’d probably be happy to have a motivated, determined, and disciplined trainee.
Ten thousand hours. According to Malcolm Gladwell in his book, Outliers, that’s how much time industry leaders have committed to their chosen vocation.
At my facility this past summer, I was lucky enough to have the privilege of coaching 40 different athletes four times a week. This was double the amount of kids that I was responsible for the previous summer, so it was really exciting to watch the business grow.
The other day in the gym, the topic of ab training for strength came up. I figured there was nobody better to ask than 1100 pound squatter Matt Wenning.
Plyometrics have been a part of most athletic development programs for many years.
“Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.” —Napoleon Hill
In part one of “How to Open a Warehouse Gym,” you learned of my struggles as a student of fitness, a personal trainer, and an employee of a mega-sized “health club,” where most worthy trainers are treated like cogs in the big malfunctioning machine of the fake fitness facade.
Since I enlisted in the U.S. Army, I’ve wanted to be a coach. My drive is directly related to my high school experiences as a student athlete and the positive impact one person can have on another individual.
As I sat here reading the new articles on EliteFTS.com, I wondered why many of the authors weren’t female
Running a personal training facility isn’t easy, but it’s not rocket science either. Since starting Synergy Athletics, I’ve learned a lot through trial and error (emphasis on a lot of error).
I’ve been reading the site for a while, but we have our own training studio business, and in the past couple of years, it’s been about a hundred-twenty-five miles an hour, every single day.
Some personal training businesses are struggling mightily right now, but others are thriving. Why? What’s the difference between the two?
My name is Dr. Chris Fox. I’m a chiropractor who specializes in spinal rehabilitation. I’m 35 years old, I’ve been lifting since I was 13, and I’ve been seriously bodybuilding since I was 20.
Have you ever been asked a question or heard a statement that made you think or say, “WTF?!?”
An aspiring strength and conditioning coach’s first taste of training athletes usually begins with an internship. While interning, there are many things you can do right and a million things you can do wrong.
ZE: Matty, tell the readers of EliteFTS about yourself, how you started in the fitness industry, and what you have going on right now.
When Henry Ford invented the automobile, it nearly bankrupted him—more than once. It’s a popular story, a testament to perseverance and belief in oneself. It’s quoted by business gurus and fans of Americana. It’s retold to aspiring entrepreneurs and turned into near poetry by the self-help industry.
When I was four-years-old living in Long Island with my parents, my uncle ran into some hard times. He had just gone through a tough divorce at the age of only 23
Two shoe salesmen from competing companies were assigned by their firms to sell shoes in the middle of the jungle in Africa.
After being around some of the most financially successful fitness professionals in North America a few weeks ago, the difference between them and the typical trainer struggling to stay afloat became very evident.
That’s it. I can’t take it anymore. These sissified commercial gyms and their clipboard holding trainers have just about ruined the weightlifting world.
The goal of this series is to give aspiring strength coaches and fitness professionals the optimism and tools required to get things rolling quickly, easily, and without a loan or business partners.
If you don’t have a referral system in place, you’re losing dozens of potential new clients. Check out this system and learn the right way to ask for referrals. (If you do this wrong, you will lose clients!)
In 2006, Google spent a lot of money ($1.4 billion) to buy YouTube. Fortunately for you, Google is a smart company and isn’t going to waste that investment.
This was certainly different. I mean, it’s not every day that I get an email from Dave Tate, and I have never, and I mean never, ever been invited to train with him. If I was excited to attend this seminar before, well, that had just been ratcheted up by a factor of eleven!
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