The FITSPRO Podcast

HOW TO TRAVEL THE WORLD - TIPS AND TRICKS. Important things for travel prep, like travel insurance? For travel prep I am going to say you have a few must need, or need to know items. These include but are not limited to: Travel insurance - we use World Nomads. Fun fact, we were exempt from needing insurance in 2018 because we were out of the country for the months that we did not have insurance. S...

ALL THINGS Q&A FOR TRAINING AND PROGRAMMING. Question 1: What would you describe as “science based programming”? A lot of trainers prompt that now. In short, to claim something is science based or evidence based, THERE NEEDS TO BE SIGNIFICANT SCIENCE BASED EVIDENCE TO BACK THE CLAIM. There need to have been scientific studies performed, proving the tactic or method to be true or false. Ideally, th...

TEACHING CLIENTS TO ADJUST WHEN FEELING PAIN Episode 40 came about after my experience at the Prehab 101 Seminar with Dr. Jacob Harden in Victoria B.C. Canada in September. If you're in the fitness space and don't follow him, I highly suggest you find him on the gram @dr.jacob.harden. And if you need CEU's for the NSCA or other organizations, his Prehab 101 course is approved - which is amazing. T...

YOU NEED TO TAKE ACTION ON YOUR DREAM(S). If imma be straight up with you, I get super irritated when people sit on their rear ends when they could be working towards their dreams. As Rachel Hollis would say, I literally want to shake them until they get it, until they believe they are worth it. I don’t need you to drop your whole life, and put all your eggs in your dream basket. Sometimes I think...

3 things I used to believe about business If you missed it, last week’s episode was the 5 things I used to believe about Fitness. So, I figured I would just continue that theme this week but with business. I think as humans we should always be challenging our beliefs and philosophy whether in life, fitness or business. There are things that I believe to be true now, that in a few years I might dis...

5 things I used to believe about fitness I feel like today’s episode is one that I could do every three to five years. I say that because the field of health and fitness changes SO FAST. There are always new trends, and new info about old trends. So for now, I believe what I believe, but I am sure some of that will change in the future as I learn more and challenge my current beliefs. On that note...

Stages of belief in life and training This episode on belief and philosophy is for all the humans in any area of life. Nate and I had been talking about this phenomenon in religion and then I started to see it happening among professionals in the health and wellness field. So, I figured it would be worth bringing up here, on the podcast. That is, that there are stages to building your philosophy a...

Biggest Launch Takeaways of 2019 If you want to understand where I was with my knowledge of business when I started out, this should make it pretty clear... I bought B school by Marie Forleo in 2016. When we got to the marketing section, I skipped most of it because it was terrifying and I had nothing to market yet. When she mentioned launching, I didn’t even know what a “launch” was. I had no rea...

Fact: You need to refer out and stay in your own lane So today’s podcast is really about something I was terrified to do for years in this industry. I was functioning out of a scarcity mindset in regards to this and it was doing a disservice to my clients and really, to myself because I wasn’t happy and it didn’t feel good. It was a lose-lose for everyone involved. I also want to share some experi...

How to build you offer pyramid Today I want talk about something that was a mistake for me in the beginning. And it is a mistake that I see a lot of online coaches make. I think that they make this mistake because they see everyone else doing it, and they view those people as successful, so they copy what they are doing. The issue that I’m talking about in today's episode is not paying attention t...

How I Chose What Mastermind To Invest In Today’s episode is from my recent experience in choosing between two mastermind options. I am a pretty intuitive person, and I’m also rather particular. I am a questionnaire, and it’s hard for me to trust people or things or products, but once I trust them I am extremely loyal. That is just some background on me so you know who is behind this decision makin...

In today's episode, we talk about how to build your email list. You have options here. And here’s the deal, I want to talk about building a mailing list specifically because I see this phenomenon (on Instagram) where entrepreneurs are neglecting their emails lists. While you are likely going to have success making money from selling your product or service from Instagram and or a social media plat...

Being a female strength coach in a male dominated field - part 2 This is a follow up from episode 27 - being a female strength coach in a male dominated field. And I did a follow up because after that podcast, I had a lot of awesome conversation with some of you via my DMs over the gram. And a few common themes kept surfacing so I thought it was worth it to touch on those today. This is a much sho...

Let's talk about how to find success as a female strength coach in an industry dominated by males shall we? I lay it all out in episode 27 fam. You might not like some of what I have to say. Maybe you will. Either way, this is JUST MY OPINION and speaking from MY EXPERIENCE. Everyone's perspective will always be skewed by their experiences right? That is part of human nature. With that said, I do...

How to deal with unruly clients I want to start off by saying that this was a suggested it podcast topic. And at first I rolled my eyes at it. Because I no longer have these or have to deal with them. But then thought back to the time in my business when I did have to deal with this type of client. Today is where I share what I did in my business in order to weed out unruly clients. First off, you...

How to be good at programming part 2 I for one understand how hard and overwhelming it can be write programs. So, for those of you who feel like you don’t know where to start or you can’t comprehend how easy it is for other trainers, remember that we all likely felt that same way. We all had a “first” program. We all felt like there were 3 million exercises and 200,000 rep schemes and somehow we w...

How to be good at programming Part 1 I cannot tell you how many times I’ve received DMs on Instagram from coaches asking how to get good at programming or what my favorite go to books are for writing programs. It’s funny because there isn’t a book that teaches you how to program fam. There are books that include programs, sure. But programming as a whole is so freaking broad and complex, I think i...

Calling all entrepreneurs in the online space. If you use instagram for your business, then you can be making more money from this platform than you currently are. Just a guess? Whether you have a following of 100 or 10,000 people on instagram, this episode is going to improve your revenue. If you follow the steps I lay out for you, that is. Instagram is changing, it has changed, and will continue...

Today we dive into how the decision to travel the world for a year grew my business. And it might not be what you think. I’m returning to the states with a much more successful biz than when I left, plus I got to travel the world for a year. For the back story, I’m sure you’ve heard a million times now, I have only been self employed since we left to travel the world on May 22 2018. So 2019 is act...

While this episode might not be directly about fitness or business, those things were certainly effected by our year of world travel. And with that coming to an end, I thought it would be fun to dive into what I actually missed while living abroad. Maybe you’ll be surprised by some, or maybe by what’s NOT on the list. Either way, that's what today's episode is covering. People asked us what we wer...

Today's episode goes out to all humans who have every experienced a change in their "normal." For those times when you graduate, move, start a new job, enter a relationship, end a relationship, change your lifestyle, bring a human into the world. You know, the times your "normal" changes and becomes a NEW "normal." This particular episode was inspired by my current life events (or soon to be). At...

There is a lie in the industry of health and fitness that might be more relevant than ever before. That is that your body is your value as a trainer. If you don't look a certain way, your voice is not valuable, your brain is not valuable, your experience is not valuable and perhaps you have no place in this industry. Well friend, I call bull shit. You stop believing that TUH-DAY. And you start ste...

If you've followed me on social media for any period of time, you've likely heard me talk about the practice of ESSENTIALISM. This idea of essentialism is not something you wake up one day and have mastered. It takes a deep understanding of what it is, what it demands, and the determination to practice it daily. I have been at this for three years, and still haven't mastered it, BUT it is somethin...

Having an injury sucks. We have likely all been there. If you have played a sport, are any level of adventurous or you're human, you've probably experienced pain and wanted it to go away. Today's episode is AAALLLL ABOUT that. What it really takes to get through an injury and recover FULLY. Because we don't want to have pain forever right? I call those perma-injuries. The injuries that just nag, g...

Episode 16 of The FitsPRO Podcast is all about my first experience with quarterly planning in regards to my business. Although I've technically owned a business for four years, I NEVER did quarterly planning. In fact I'd never really heard of it until November 2018 when my friend Paige brought Amber McCue's Fresh Start Workbook and Planner to my attention. I always did Hilary Rushford's yearly rev...