People are anxious about ever returning to some sort of normalcy after months of lockdown, and one thing many of them miss most is hitting the gym and other fitness facilities. Thankfully, states are slowly reopening their business communities, and many of your clients (not to mention you) can’t wait to get back to routine training. While there’ll be a lot of excitement when that finally happens, we think it’s …
7 Nuggets of Advice to Keep Growing Your Business
Not every trainer you know has the perfect success story from the very beginning of their career. In fact, we can guarantee that nearly all of your fitness role models have been through some serious challenges when they started out. All of the obstacles they fought through were exactly what brought them to the success they have today. Hopefully this serves as some encouragement to all the gym owners and coaches out …
Future Lessons for Fit Pros
You can learn from anyone, from anything, and at any time. This is true now more than ever. Consider this: We’ve had to step out of our comfort zone as in-person strength coaches, personal trainers, and fitness professionals. No more high-fives, fist bumps, or congratulatory pats on the back with our athletes and clients. No more being able to spontaneously chat, interact, and catch up. This is all …
Create Your Coaching Checklist
Do you know why your clients hired you as a coach? They need your guidance, they need direction on how to do something they know is important (working out) but don’t know how to do themselves. Guidance doesn’t come in the form of a spreadsheet or an app with a list of exercises. They know that already. And they didn’t hire you to invent new exercises. They hired you to: Tell them WHAT exercises they should be …
6 Tips to Keep Growing Your Business During COVID Quarantine
There are a lot of unknowns right now in the fitness world. Not only do we not know when our gyms will reopen, but it’s difficult to know how the industry will change after quarantine is over. No need to stress over the future, though. The best you can do as a trainer, coach or gym owner is to keep building your business the best you can and stay positive about the …
6 Pieces of Advice from a CEO Who Runs a Successful Online Coaching Business
We have all been through some pretty big changes over the last couple months. If you’re in the fitness business, you’ve probably had to make some shifts in the way you generate income, train your clients, and build your brand. It’s likely that you’ve run into some roadblocks along the way. You might even be feeling defeated or a little discombobulated about how to move forward. Don’t worry—you’re not …
5 Tips to Keep Your Fitness Business on Track For Success
We’re getting used to working from home and exercising in a small space in our living room. But that doesn’t mean transitioning our fitness business to an online endeavor is easy. In fact, you’re probably running into plenty of obstacles of your own if you’re new to remote coaching. One of the best ways to sharpen your online business skills is to learn from fitness folks who have been in the game for a long time and …
5 Steps the Founder of Barbell Logic Took to Create a Thriving Online Business
We’re all still at home doing the best we can with what we’ve got. If you’re a fitness professional, you might be feeling antsy to get back to the gym and your in-person clients. But hopefully you’ve been using this time to build up your online business and remote clientele base. There are tons of useful resources out there to help you grow your brand—podcasts, books, blogs, interviews, etc. After all, one of the …
6 Things You Should Be Working on Right Now If You Aren’t Scrambling to Make Ends Meet
The world was just turned upside down and the world of small business and even big business will be different from here on out. As we all set our sights on taking our business online, never forget that the online business world is so powerful that it was able to take down one of the most historical brands to ever exist—Sears. Sears used to be the largest retailer in the world and at one point, they were the retailer. …
A Comprehensive Guide to Creating More Content
It might feel like a lot of things are out of our control at this point. You don’t know exactly when things are going to start reopening, when you’ll be able to see your in-person clients again, and you might not even be sure what the future of your business looks like. However, there is one thing you definitely can control while we’re enduring the COVID shutdown: you can create …