The Complete Personal Trainer Podcast

Let's be honest - no client likes doing correctives and no coach likes coaching them. In this episode, I teach a little strategy to make your correctives more effective and reduce the amount of time you need to do them by the correct application of tempo in your main training lifts. 

Tempo has some very specific applications to improve training performance. In this episode I discuss some practical tips you can implement immediately for better results. 

Welcome to Season 2! In this season we will be sticking to short and actionable items you can use immediately to get results for your clients.  In our first episode this year, how to train your calves properly! This is a hugely misunderstood topic and just by implementing these tips, we can start turning calves into cows!

In this episode I address how to deal with a client with aesthetic goals in a helpful and respectful manner. This is part of the series on obesity, HAES and fat shaming.

This episode was inspired by James Walsham of Hypertrophy Hub, who gave a very thoughtful and nuanced view on obesity on his instagram story. In this episode and upcoming series, I talk about the multitude of factors contributing to this issue and in upcoming episodes we will discuss fat shaming, health at every size, aesthetic goals and much more. A must listen for personal trainers.

Exercise complexity is an interesting topic that has recently been blowing up on social media. In this episode I address my thoughts on the matter and provide some context on how we can do it better. 

In this episode, I talk about the misapplication, misuse and misunderstandings of corrective exercises. This will hopefully clear a lot of things up for a lot of people. 

In this episode, I talk about the extremely common mistake of letting our own biases into the program design progress. Quite often we let what we think the client needs take over what they actually want. In this episode, I talk about how to achieve the best compromise between the two. 

Following arbitrary strength standards has made a comeback in the fitness industry. This is a mistake I see a lot of trainers make, where they forget about the client in front of them at the expense of the so called “standard”. In this episode I discuss the pitfalls of this and also how you can use these standards without being dictated by them. 

In this episode I discuss the next most common programming mistake that many coaches aren't aware of - matching the strategy of progressive overload to the clients nutritional status and current lifestyle.

I've been writing programs for 17 years now. In that time, I have made nearly every mistake you can think of. In this series, I go over the most common mistakes I see and how you can avoid them in your own personal training practice.

The placebo effect is powerful. The nocebo effect - maybe more so. In this episode I talk about how our communication can negatively impact our clients into thinking they have things wrong with them that they certainly don't have.

One of the hardest things as a coach is admitting we don't know something and communication that to our clients. In this episode, I go over exactly how to do that!

We all have our own cognitive biases and these can often be a direct detriment to our ability to successfully communicate with our clients. In this episode I discuss the Confirmation Bias and the Selection Bias.

I see a lot of trainers trying to impress their clients with how smart they are. In this episode, I discuss the downsides of this approach and a better way to go about it.

In this episode, I discuss the "Fixer" narrative. I see this all over social media, where people claim they can fix others problems. In the podcast, I discuss why this is a disempowering approach and a better way to approach things. 

Communicating to Our Clients   How we speak to our clients is incredibly important. I see a lot of trainers who do great work setting themselves backwards with how they communicate with their clients. Here are the most common mistakes I see   1. It is very common to see fitness professionals shame goals   The amount of times I see trainers post on social media bout the fact that you...

Mixed modality tools are the ones we dont know where to put in a program. In this episode I go over what goals best suit kettlebells, Swiss and medicine balls, theTRX and the lauded gymnastics rings. 

In this episode, I discuss how strength training can be used to achieve the following: Health, joint capacity, power, hypertrophy, nervous system stimulation, sports performance and more. 

In this series, I discuss how each tool can be used to achieve multiple goals - cardio for heart health, energy expenditure, metabolic flexibility, parasympathetic recovery and more - You will learn how too apply this all depending on goal and context.

In this episode, I talk about how I now look at information and give practical takeaways on how you can improve your ability to learn and integrate new information into your personal training business.

In this episode, I discuss how I learnt about cognitive biases and the evidence hierarchy, which influenced me greatly on how I learn new information. This is extremely useful information for anyone who is trying to get better as a coach or trainer and isn't sure what information is true. 

In this series, I discuss my journey in learning and integrating new information in my personal training business. This is an area where I see coaches make a LOT of mistakes so I thought I would share my lessons. In this episode, I talk about how I used to learn from gurus and the pros and cons associated with that. 

Range of Motion (R.O.M) and Tempo are two of the most hotly contested and debated acute exercise variables. In this 3 part series, I offer my take on how to use these variables to get the best outcomes for your clients. In this third episode, I go over the many different applications of tempo to get better results.

Range of Motion (R.O.M) and Tempo are two of the most hotly contested and debated acute exercise variables. In this 3 part series, I offer my take on how to use these variables to get the best outcomes for your clients. In this second episode, I go over the many different applications of range of motion to get better results.