You’re eager to get back to the normal swing of things—we all are. As we watch other cities open up or at least start the reopening phases, it’s easy to feel jealous or slightly anxious. But you have to be ready; don’t push it. If you’re a coach who works at a health club or gym, or if you’re an independent trainer who rents space to see your clients, there are a few boxes you have to check off to ensure you’re on …
At-Home Training for the Conscious Lifter
Chances are you’ve had a lot of your clients lose access to a gym, or at least to substantial training equipment, for quite some time now. Your training programs during the pandemic to this point should have been aimed at a small number of goals: preventing atrophy of muscle tissue, getting rid of some aches and pains, and addressing movement deficits created by overly specific training modalities. With gyms opening …
Preparing to Work with Chronic-Pain Clients 100% Online
If you’re about to go on a new adventure, to a place you’ve never been before, with the fear of hurting yourself, you probably want a guide with you. You want someone in front of you to prepare you for what you’re about to encounter and to calm your nerves every time something scares you. Having a guide through something new and intimidating can never be replaced by a list of instructions that you’d have to follow …
5 Tips to Reopen Your Gym Safely
We’re all eager to get back into the swing of things and get back into our normal routine. This is especially true for gym owners who want to open up their business again so they can provide a health service for all their loyal clients, as well as pay their bills and feed their families. This has certainly been a difficult time for all of us, especially the small business owners. But even though we’re all ready to …
Prioritize Your Clients Now More Than Ever!
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 future. To give you some perspective, Sam …
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 …