We’re excited to partner with Precision Nutrition to give TrueCoach users everything you need to successfully coach nutrition—in one proven system, including premium articles, infographics, and training to help you meet your client’s health and fitness goals. Want to feel confident and qualified to coach nutrition with anyone? Now TrueCoach users get a special offer on the Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certification …
Static vs. Dynamic Stretching: What We Know and How to Apply it
Stretching is an activity that is widely used across many populations including people participating in rehab programs, athletes, as well as the general population with goals of improving range of motion and performance. There has often been a debate of which mode of stretching static or dynamic is more effective. Let’s first define these two. Static Stretching: Holding a position for a certain length of time …
5 Soft Skills Every Coach Should Have
Your soft skills enable you to interact effectively with other people. As a coach, it’s your ability to help your clients and the glue that holds everything together. Hard Skill vs. Soft Skills Hard Skills: Program design, biomechanics, anatomy, assessment, exercise technique. Soft Skills: The ability to relay that information in a way that is understandable, applicable, and conducive to your …
What are BCAAs Worth?
We’re excited to partner with Precision Nutrition to give TrueCoach users everything you need to successfully coach nutrition—in one proven system, including premium articles, infographics, and training to help you meet your client’s health and fitness goals. Want to feel confident and qualified to coach nutrition with anyone? Now TrueCoach users get a special offer on the Precision Nutrition Level 1 Certification …
#FindYourTrueCoach as a Way We’re Helping Coaches Grow
TrueCoach has been an amazing online platform that has grown exponentially over the past couple of years with a primary goal of supporting the growth of strength coaches and personal trainers. Consider how much change and growth has occurred in the online world recently, which has truly forced coaches and trainers to change up their overall services as a way to stay afloat. TrueCoach has been a shining light …
Keys for Building Up Client Fitness Levels Post-COVID for Summer 2021
Winter came and went. Like most of us, you likely spent a lot of time on the couch crushing a Netflix series and ordering Uber Eats. Spring is almost over, which had you stepping outside from time to time to avoid being called a vampire, or better yet, a homebody. Now, summer is right around the corner, you want to build up your fitness levels, but you’re clueless as to where to begin. Here’s a major key: …
3 Forms You Should Include in Your Onboarding Sequence
Your onboarding sequence is an opportunity to learn your clients’ unique goals, struggles, and why they want to work with you in the first place. All of which are invaluable when creating programs that garner results. To gather this information, you can create forms using Google Forms (or any other system you prefer). Once they’re created, it’s as simple as emailing the link or having them placed directly on …
Retain Clients and Build a Bulletproof Business
Trainers should focus less on client acquisition and more on client retention. When you’re good at what you do, you won’t have to look for business. It’ll come looking for you. As Greg McKeown (author of Essentialism) puts it, “When you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. When you focus on what you have, you get what you lack.” Rather than focusing on what you lack (i.e. more clients), focus …
5 Ways to Incorporate Arm Farm without Going Overboard
Arm farm has definitely become popularized in recent years for obvious reasons. Everyone wants to fill the sleeves. Well, now that summer is upon us, it’s a good time to start! Without getting too far ahead of ourselves though, let’s highlight key areas that you’ll want to target on your quest to Arm Farm County: Build the bicepsTrain the tricepsStrengthen the shouldersUse tempo work to your …
8 Fat Loss Mistakes to Avoid This Summer
Ah yes, the summer shred. Every spring, gym goers put themselves through self-inflicted torture in (and out of) the gym to strut their stuff on the beach. But with this annual motivation comes a myriad of mistakes. Whether it’s impatience or grossly impractical expectations, too many people are focusing on how fast they can lose fat instead of how long they’re able to keep it off. This year, go …