The FITSPRO Podcast

Programming is a SKILL Let’s make clear that you don’t learn programming from one freaking podcast episode, book, or blog post. It takes practice, trial and error and experience to become a proficient and confident programmer. For those that are confused, I am talking about writing strength and conditioning or fitness training programs for a client or group of clients. Here’s the thing with progra...

I just took three women through a launch. And it got me thinking a lot about my first few launches of each of my programs, and the launch mistakes I made along the way. Why? Because these women were experiencing some of those same early launch feels that CAN happen. Not always, but often. For those of you who don’t know, you have a few options when running an online business. You can launch, do pu...

I discussed the topic of post-rona fitness as a guest on Daniel Hong's podcast. So, I thought I'd echo that here, on my own show. Because I think there are great takeaways for you, my audience. While fitness definitely changed for my clients and myself during different stages of quarantine due to the pandemic, it is mostly going back to normal for us. By normal, I mean we are all somehow, someway...

Two options for scaling your business... I wanted to do today’s short episode because I think it’s common for coaches in the online health and fitness space to create an offer, likely 1:1, have some success, and then be like, “Shit, what now?” Your roster is full, your time is spent, and you literally can’t do more work. So you can’t make more money either, unless you raise your prices. Which is f...

I am a student of the gram. And I encourage all those who take my Instagram 101 course to also embrace the status of “student of the gram.” If you want to use any social media platform to grow and solidify your business or brand, it will behoove you to learn about it - to observe the platform objectively. Market research is a powerful tool. It sounds fancy but it’s not. Take note about what is goi...

You’ve likely seen or heard of the hierarchy of needs within fitness in some capacity. In my Built by Annie program my clients get access to something called Annie’s Secret Laboratory of Brain Gains. And in that lab, I have a video training on the two hierarchy of needs that I see and use in working with my clients. I have also seen other ones that are different than these. So I don’t want you to...

I straight up felt the need to create this episode based on some of the content I’ve seen on the gram in the past few months. Some of it is spot on and absolutely amazing. Some of it is, well, not - which leads to today's post of 3 ways to improve your content. Not all content is for everyone. I rarely do IGTVs, while I follow professionals who post multiple per week. I’d say it’s their main form...

Get ready for a fitness question/myth busting mash up. This episode is a compilation of fitness related questions I have received over the years or as of lately. While each of these could nearly be individual episodes, I kind of dig the mash up vibe. Like rapid fire fitness Q&A or debunking session. Before we get to it, we will be covering: What is a shock phase? What causes muscle soreness and th...

If there’s one thing that I have become known for in the online health and fitness space (from a business standpoint), it’s the fact that I don’t use and have never used sales calls to generate revenue. This is not a magic trick. Just like sales calls, there are specific tactics and pieces that make a sales call successful or not. And the same goes for a sales page. I did an Instagram post about t...

Today’s episode is specifically speaking about a strength or hypertrophy based program. The honorable mention will cover conditioning if that is a part of your program, but this assumes that you have an aerobic base to work with when it comes to your strength training. If you lack an aerobic base, that would need to be an additional part of your program. Having a strong aerobic base allows you to...

Today’s episode is one that you need to take with a grain of salt. These lessons are very personal to me, but may apply to you, so don’t think that just because I found one of these distracting and un-useful, that it must be distracting and un-useful for you. Always stay true to you, your biz, and your gut, as much as you can. My five early lessons in biz (some useful, some distracting at the time...

Today we get to bro out a bit. To talk shop in the gym. Covering the mistakes people could be making. I often find that people could get way more from their training than they do with a few simple changes to their time in the gym. That is literally why I created fitdesignbyannie years ago. Between going to school for fitness training and then exercise and sport science, I would go to the gym and w...

The relationship I want to discuss today is one that I have lived. I have been aware of this but didn’t put an actual name to it until Dr. Sean Pastuch brought it to my attention during my appearance on the Active Life Podcast. And he said it came from Adee Cazayoux. I am not positive where this idea originated from, but it’s apparently called the “Success Funnel” and my plan today is to discuss m...

If you don’t know, I am a big fan and supporter of using quarterly planning in life and business. Really it’s like creating a macro phase of strength training. Same concept. You define a large goal or two and then plan out months and weeks and the process by which you plan to reach those goals. We are half way through this very historical and interesting year of 2020, and quarter two was made up o...

If I have been known for one thing on Instagram from day one until now, it is hands down, my reputation for not exploiting my body, but still providing value and growing an audience. It can be done my friends. This comes up often in my DM’s. How to grab attention, get interaction and grow without showing your butthole. That’s the goal today - to give you some legit ideas on how to make that happen...

Today’s episode idea came to me last month, with everything happening here in the states with Covid, injustices and people’s behavior overall. During some of my personal work, I found myself reflecting on some of mentors/heroes/people I hold in high regard. Soooo I figured why not share some of that with you humans. These are strong attributes, practices, and constants that I see in the humans I g...

Okay I think this is going to be a very fun episode. Mainly because I look forward to the implementation + conversation that comes out of this topic of polarization. I was VERY scared to be TRULY polarizing in the only space that I have. While I was never a normal fitspo, and never “fit in” in the what I would consider to be the norm of the world of online fitness, I also didn’t REALLY start activ...

I asked the gram fam what kind of content they wanted from me in this season. How to transition back into the gym was a very popular answer, so I thought I’d make a more in-depth episode for you. There are MANY things to consider when entering the gym after a long break. These are just a few that I’ve been talking about with my clients over the past few weeks. Keep in mind that everyone’s set up,...

Remember that you need to check the show notes to see if you were review-er of the week, and then keep an eye out to see if you were listener of the month as well. That will be in the show notes and Annie’s Weekly Wrap. You can subscribe to Annie's Weekly Wrap at anniemiller.co/news. This will likely be a quick episode but hopefully useful for those of you if you run a biz and think you need a web...

MY TOP RESOURCES FOR ENTREPRENEURS. I can’t tell you how often I get asked about books, courses, and resources in general for humans starting or running a business. This episode is about to blow your freaking mind if that’s you. Imma list off and break down all my favorite courses for building an online business. As well as resources for possible specific pieces of that business like podcasting, e...

It's time for a Listener Q&A. These are some of my favorite episodes. I asked you guys to give me questions on IG on literally any topic - life, travel, fitness. I'll be answering them rapid fire, but since I'm long winded it won't be THAT quick. I have no prepared answers and have not looked through them, so I have no idea how long this will take. I hope to answer as swiftly and clearly as possib...

THE INS AND OUTS OF EXERCISE AND TRAVEL. I wanted to talk about this topic because it’s been a huge portion of the last two years of my life. And that is working out while traveling. Like, what does that reality look like. What I’ve experienced and some of the ways I go about moving while traveling the world. First off - nothing will be as good as having consistent structure with a purposeful prog...

PIVOTING IS INEVITABLE. You’re not on a one way road for eternity with no turns, road blocks, or change of direction. You will at some point, in business, in life or in training, need to pivot. And while pivoting on a soccer pitch or basketball court is a quick and often explosive event, it doesn’t have to be in other areas of life. Not always anyway. I want to discuss when to pivot - what might i...

MONEY, BUSINESS, LIFE AND TRAVEL. Not an accountant, not a financial advisor. Simply sharing my experience and takeaways with finances after almost two years of world travel, growing a biz and doing life in and out of the states. A huge thing for us when we want to do ANYTHING in life is the HOW. How do we travel the world? And how do we save for a house? Or how do we budget for x and y? How do yo...

I HAVE PHASED OUT + ADDED ALMOST TEN PROGRAMS IN TWO YEARS. I hope that if you’re an entrepreneur or you want to be, you learn A LOT from this episode. Today I am aggressively pulling back the curtain on the past years of my business and the transition to what it is in present time. This episode came from this idea that people see my biz now, where it is, and may not know where it came from. And t...