The FITSPRO Podcast

YOUR TIME NEEDS PROTECTING. Time is THE MOST important in my opinion. It’s one of the only things in life we don’t get back. I don’t say that to be dramatic, rather realistic. When it comes to relationships, goals, rest and anything valuable to you, I encourage you to focus on learning to protect your time. You have choices. And those choices often either include you being in control of how your t...

CARDIO IS NEEDED. PERIOD. It’s no secret that I like lifting weights more than doing cardio. That includes any form of cardio - lifting weights faster, running, rowing, biking, stairs, hiking, all of it. BUT - we need cardio and being conditioned has awesome carry over into lifting more weights. So here we are, talking about cardio. Imma share five reasons to do cardio. And I’ll likely dive a bit...

HOW TO DEAL WITH INCONSISTENCY. My goal for this episode is not to stop inconsistency for good, or give you a three step process to be consistent with everything always, but to help form a new mindset around inconsistency and give you some important questions to ask in that process. We can’t talk about inconsistency without first having SOMETHING we’re trying to be consistent with. You have a goal...

WHERE IS YOUR PLACE IN THIS FIELD? I am coming at this from the perspective that some of you are trying to find your place as a coach and some of you are trainees. And I honestly think it’s beneficial for coaches to understand WHERE their clients are so they can meet them there. It can be SO HARD and take a long freaking time to feel like you belong in the health and fitness space. Whether it be o...

QUARTER REVIEW + GOAL PLANNING. This is early - and I clearly haven’t recapped my entire first quarter. But I have gathered all data thus far and started planning quarter 2. I really hate waiting to plan a quarter until I’m in it. If you’re new here or I haven’t mentioned it, I prefer to be a month or two ahead of schedule with as much as I can. That way I’m only doing real time work with things t...

TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG? I purposely have this following the episode where I say if you’re in the online space you need to be better at writing. Because in some aspects, yes, I think blogging is dead, or is slowly dying. Perhaps it’s just a phase. It’s not dead in A LOT of places, which is where I have decided to spend my time and shift my focus over the the last year or so. I will say, I am not a...

THE ONE THING I SUGGEST YOU WORK ON AS AN ONLINE BIZ OWNER. This episode is really two things I think online entrepreneurs should always be working on, but even if you know one...it doesn’t do you any good if you can’t do the other. We communicate in the online world, MOSTLY via writing. Now there is a caveat here. And that is if you solely use video or some other medium to communicate in the onli...

HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST EXERCISES. There are infinite exercises in the world. And if an exercise is any form of movement, then the choices are, quite LITERALLY, infinite. The issue with this is that it can be overwhelming when you need to choose only 5-6 exercises for a lift and there are HUNDREDS to choose from. I get it. The other issue I see with this is that coaches, trainers and trainees often...

ARE YOU REALLY HEALTHY? Today will challenge your view of health and it might just ruffle a few feathers but what’s new? I am not here to make you feel good. Or for us to agree on everything. I am here to challenge you and raise the standard. So here we are. This topic came to me in 2018 when we started traveling and continued to intensify as we made our way around the globe. Here’s the pressing q...

IF YOU'RE HUMAN, YOU'VE EXPERIENCED A SLUMP. I have wanted to speak on this topic for a long time. And I think that’s partially because sometimes I feel like people think I don’t experience slumps, or low motivation. Which is hilarious because motivation is NOT how people become successful in any area of life. Discipline and a strong why is how I believe people build success - in the gym, in life,...

To offer FREE or not to offer FREE? Before we dive into this episode I am officially starting to pick reviews of the week and reading them at the beginning of each episode! This is low key super exciting for me because it still baffles me that there are human beings who listen to me week after week. I’ll receive DM’s from people who find the podcast, binge listen to it and then tell me how much it...

[lack of humility and credentials amongst “health coaches”] This is a short follow up episode to last week’s talk on the importance of training people in person before transitioning to the online space (focusing on the different types entitlement with coaches). Even when I posted in my stories that I was going to touch on this topic, I was immediately flooded with DM’s from people looking forward...

DO NOT COACH ONLINE BEFORE HAVING COACHED IN PERSON. In the world of online health and fitness, it is becoming more and more common for people to want to be online coaches straight out of the gate instead of coaching in person first. I may even do another episode on that issue all together and how I see it as entitlement and a desire for quick success vs. client servanthood and changing this indus...

MY VIEW OF MANTRAS + FAV MANTRAS TO DATE. I actually used to think mantras were kind of woo woo and stupid. But when you learn more, you know more and you can then make decisions based on that knowledge. Now, I didn’t look up, nor do I know the definition of a mantra. But I know I was thinking of them in a restricted manner before. So I’ll share my journey to embracing mantras and then walk you th...

LIFE. TRAVEL. BABIES. NATE. WORK LIFE BALANCE. Life updates! Today is the first podcast of 2020 and at the date you’re listening to this, Nate and I are likely aboard a plane to Mexico City, which is our first location of many on round two of world travels. Now, I realize I titled this podcast episode “Life Update & Travel Itinerary.” But it’s going to feel like a travel podcast simply because tha...

LETTING GOOD THINGS GO, FOR THE WIN. Today’s episode is based in something that I’ve talked a lot about before, and that is the book Essentialism by Greg McKeown. I first read this book from an entrepreneurial standpoint, but I think the practice of essentialism is applicable to anyone and everyone. For me, the biggest take away from the book was this idea that in order to become an essentialist,...

2019 was honestly one of the best years of my life thus far. That is largely in part to traveling the world. It didn’t suck. As well as business growth and financial stability. YES, I believe we ought to be grateful in all states, which is easier said than done. But if we’re being honest, money does, to some extent, allow for more freedom and less specified stress IF dealt with like a good steward...

3 TRUTHS YOU NEED TO EMBRACE ABOUT PAIN The topic of pain is so important to discuss as professionals in the health and fitness industry, and really, as a human being. If you’re human, you’ve experienced pain. And it’s so multifaceted because pain is, in a physical and emotional sense, perception. It’s subjective. Which for me is beautiful because it really takes away the comparison of one person'...

YES TO LESS STRESS AROUND FINANCES & MONEY. Oh money. Something we all have. But rarely talk about. We have so many stigmas around money. We believe lies based on what we observed before age seven.  It’s something we don’t learn nearly enough about in school (in my opinion) and quite frankly we often allow it to have far too much power in our lives for better or worse. This is all magnifies if you...

HOW MANY DAYS PER WEEK SHOULD YOU TRAIN? This is a question I have received so many times via the gram and in real life conversation. I’d say it’s more common among newer lifters, people who are just starting out or new to weight lifting specifically. The question is multifaceted and I plan to cover the topics of: “How many days should I lift?” “Is three or five days per week better?” and“Can I pr...

GOAL SETTING 2020 As we near the end of 2019, I thought it would be fun to recap some of the things I learned this year + how that changed my planning tactics for 2020. My hope is that you gain some insightful takeaways from this episode for your own new year plans. Now, I must preface this by pointing out that I am THE BIGGEST fan of NOT waiting for the new year or any date for that matter to sta...

I WENT FROM POSTING SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK TO ONE FOR A MONTH. For those of you that don’t know, I went from posting seven days per week to posting once or twice per week or the entire month of October. I was still in my stories almost daily. Today I will cover why I did it, how the experiment came about, the numeric results from the experiment and the subjective/emotional results from the experiment...

Today I’m taking you through a few topics around money from a consumer and biz owner point of view. We’ll cover: Why we buyMoney mindset (something I’ll likely work on five ever)A pricing formula Pricing is one of those things that seems so simple to me now, but I remember it being crippling so many times earlier on in biz. Now I have a bit of a formula to follow. Formulas make things easy. They t...

THREE FACTORS HAVING THE LARGEST EFFECT ON YOUR HEALTH. I called this episode the 3 Biggest Health Factors because it could have been titled three factors affecting your health, affecting your training results, affecting your quality of life, your energy levels, your sleep, your hormones, or literally EVERY aspect of health and probably your LIFE. So, I decided on The 3 Biggest Health Factors. It’...

CURE FOR YOUR CONTENT RUT. Sometimes creating content can seem bothersome, annoying and time consuming. Other times it’s super fun, you feel inspired and are filled with creative ideas. This episode is moreso for the first situation. When you need some structure, someone to get you going as you stare at the wall, or blank piece of paper or empty notebook app. I should preface this by saying if you...