High Intensity Business

Every year, there is one event I look forward to more than any other: the Resistance Exercise Conference (REC). REC is designed to develop you into the exercise authority. You get to connect with your HIT / evidence-based tribe, learn from scientists, practitioners and operators, and figure out how to make your HIT business more profitable and successful. Register for REC 2020 HERE Unfortunately,...

Eric Feigl (owner of Eric Feigl Personal Training ), Jesse Schmidt and Liam Bauer (hosts at Truth Not Trends ) join me on the podcast to discuss their virtual personal training program, exercise equipment for home workouts, their tools and technology, and much more. Learn more about personal training, nutrition, and evidence based exercise: Eric Feigl ( Fitness Candor Podcast ) Jesse Schmidt and L...

Eric Feigl (eric @ ericfeigl.com) is the owner of Eric Feigl Personal Training located in Cincinnati, Ohio. He helps individuals at all skill levels to get strong, move better, and live a healthier lifestyle by using evidence based resistance/strength training principles. His objective is to educate and hold clients accountable while providing effective personal training.   Backed by  Mission 5 Fi...

Logan Emmet Herlihy (logan @ how2lookgoodnaked.com) is a personal trainer at Discover Strength at Woodbury, Minnesota for over three years of experience and supervised over 5,200 HIT workouts. He is an ACSM and HITuni certified as a high intensity resistance exercise specialist.    Logan is a graduate of BS Broadcast Journalism with a minor in Exercise Science at the University of Central Florida....

Gary Griffiths (gary @ getsocialengine.com) is the founder of Gym Engine , a company based in Sydney, Australia. Gym Engine's membership acquisition program helps gym owners profitably add 20-30+ members every month without Facebook Ads. Currently, Gym Engine has 927 fitness facilities grown and more than 1,880,000 leads nurtured.  In this episode, Gary Griffiths breaks down the ARRC strategy for...

Dr Doug McGuff  is the co-author of  Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week  and  The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole . Doug practices full-time emergency medicine with Blue Ridge Emergency Physicians and owns,  Ultimate Exercise , where he and his instructors continue to explore the limits o...

Ted Naiman is a board-certified Family Medicine physician at the Department of Primary Care at a leading major medical center in Seattle. His personal research and medical practice are focused on practical implementation of diet and exercise for health optimization.  He is the author of The PE Diet , a diet and exercise book that breaks down every single dietary strategy into one simple metric: PR...

Ratna Singh (ratna.singh @ carolfitai.com) is the co-founder and CEO of CAR.O.L . The CAROL Bike is based on advanced AI technology to provide a very efficient and effective HIIT workout. Ratna is a serial entrepreneur, with two companies sold at successful exit. One company was in the nutrition space, while the other in health care consulting. On top of this, having studied molecular biology at K...

In this podcast, I describe how to sell and deliver Virtual Personal Training services. Virtual training is an important service to explore during this difficult time to protect your business, retain clients, continue to drive revenue, and actually reach more people outside your local area. As well as helping you get through the lockdown, virtual personal training training can help you grow your b...

This podcast was recorded on the 25th March. The content will show you how fast things have moved on regarding COVID-19 since that day. Ad Ligtvoet  is a training instructor and former MedX therapist for  Keiser Training  in Aachen, Germany. He also runs his own business,  Ad Ligtvoet Training Therapy Nutrition,  which focuses on helping people restore metabolic health through an efficient and pra...

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Matt Hedman (matt.hedman @ theperfectworkout.com) is a Master Level Super Slow instructor and the founder of  The Perfect Workout , which is the largest privately-owned 1-on-1 personal training company in the United States with over 60 fitness studios nationwide. He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Washington. H...

Luke Carlson  (luke @ discoverstrength.com) is the founder and CEO of  Discover Strength , a fast growing personal training business based in Minneapolis and four other personal training facilities in Minnesota. Discover Strength offers a variety of strength training sessions facilitated by educated and expert trainers. Their personal training facilities are among the highest volume/revenue traini...

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Greg Merrilees is the founder of Studio 1 Design , a website design and online marketing company located in Melbourne, Australia. He is passionate about creating good looking website design that gets results. Over the past few years Studio 1 has custom designed over 1,500 websites for high level entrepreneurs including Kevin Rogers, Perry Marshall, James Schramko, Chris Ducker, Ezra Firestone, Jor...

Kyle Recchia  (kyle.recchia @ theperfectworkout.com) is the Chief Operating Officer (COO) for  The Perfect Workout , the largest high intensity training studio chain in the United States with over 60 locations.  Check out Kyle's first appearance on the podcast HERE , where he describes how  The Perfect Workout   use GTD® to drive maximum business results.  Skyler Tanner  (skyler @ smartstrengthaus...

Matt Hedman (matt.hedman @ theperfectworkout.com) is a Master Level Super Slow instructor and the founder/president of The Perfect Workout . He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Washington. He worked briefly as an engineer in GE, until he found his passion for HIT, and pursued a career in personal fitness trainin...

James Fisher PhD  (james.fisher @ solent.ac.uk) is a Course Leader and Senior Lecturer for the School of Sport, Health, and Social Sciences at  Southampton Solent University  in the UK. He is regarded as one of the leading researchers in exercise science, and in particular, resistance training. Check out my previous interviews with James HERE Luke Carlson (Luke @ DiscoverStrength.com) is the found...

Dave Smith PhD (d.d.smith @ mmu.ac.uk) is a Health Care and Professions Council registered Sport and Chartered Exercise Psychologist. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University and Associate Editor of The Sport Psychologist , which is one of the most prominent peer-reviewed sport psychology journals. His research interests include psychol...

Luke Carlson (luke @ discoverstrength.com) is the founder and CEO of  Discover Strength , a fast growing personal training business based in Minneapolis and four other personal training facilities in Minnesota. Discover Strength offers a variety of strength training sessions facilitated by educated and expert trainers. Their personal training facilities are among the highest volume/revenue trainin...

Walter Vendel (walter @ fit20.nl) is the CEO of   fit20 Group , overseeing the expansion in the Netherlands and abroad in directing innovation. The first fit20 studio opened in 2009. Today, they have more than 150 studios in the Netherlands and continue to grow fast internationally having licensed Master Franchisees in 9 countries on 4 continents.  fit20 is an innovative training studio that offer...

Panos Papadiamantis (info @ mypnoe.com) is the co-founder of PNOE , the first portable cardio-metabolic analyzer that gives the most comprehensive and insightful health assessment allowing users to develop an accurate nutrition and workout plan, in just 10 minutes. The product is trusted by hundreds of gyms, coaches and team. PNOE's team of passionate engineers are dedicated to bring cardio-metabo...

John Briggs (john @ incitetax.com), is a tax genius and runs Incite Tax and Accounting in Sandy, Utah, a multi-million-dollar firm and the largest in the country, adapting Michalowicz's Profit First concept serving micro gym owners focusing on tax and cash-flow strategies. He has been featured in CrossFit Journal, Box Pro Magazine, and on micro gym podcasts such as Two-Brain Radio, WTF Gym Talk an...

I wanted to start a personal training business in one form or another for several years now. However, the  podcast  and  HIT Business Membership  have always taken center stage. More recently, I realized it makes a lot of sense for me to start a personal training business in terms of the benefits in documenting the journey, developing my expertise, and providing more value to you in both the podca...

Thom Tombs (thom @ smarterexercise.org) has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, and is a former U.S. Marine and Senior IT Director for a fast-growing biotech company. He is a certified Super Slow instructor, and the proud owner of  Smarter Exercise  in Encinitas, CA which provides evidence based strength training services to clients of all ages and of all fitness levels. In the past...