The Personal Trainer Hustle

Today I take you back to when I had just started my first personal training job. Things had gotten so bad I just wanted to quit and find a new job. Thankfully, I was able to figure things out and grow my personal training career where I was. In this episode I share with you that story and give you advice on what you should be thinking and doing if you find yourself in the same place. Mentioned in...

Today's question: How do you overcome inherit shyness when it comes to training clients? I don't want my introverted personality to keep me from getting clients. Listen to guest Crystal and I give our take on this subject. If you would like to purchase the book mentioned in this episode you can buy it here: How To Win Friends And Influence People.

Everything you learn when getting your certification is important. Today I share with you the three most important concepts I learned from my certification and the ways they helped me in my career. If you would like to purchase the book I mentioned in this episode you can do so with this link Illustrated Essentials of Musculoskeletal Anatomy book.

It's Thanksgiving 2023 and before I head out to visit family and eat some turkey, I wanted to share with you five things I am grateful for daily. Happy Thanksgiving!

Throughout the years I've learned many lessons, techniques and ideas that have changed and help me grow my career. Today I went back to my first year of personal training and chose the three most important lessons I learned that year. If you are early in your career and looking to grow I hope these help you as well.

Question: I am NASM certified with a college degree, but never was confident enough to start. I decided to take the leap for my own business. What would you advice, knowing I am a little late to the game?

These are three things to consider if you are looking to get beyond the ten client mark. While most personal trainers are always under ten active clients. Some manage to go beyond that. Sometimes even to twice the amount! What is it that they think and do that the rest do not? 

Question of the day: Do you think it's important for the personal trainer to look in shape in order to be successful with clients? Is that something that possibly factors into clients wanting to train with that trainer, on top of their skills? Or does that matter at all? ...yes! (and no kinda)

Today I went on a little bit of a rant about our brand messaging, our objectives with our content and losing track of our career goals. This is just a conversation to get you to think and consider your goals and objectives. I hope you will find something helpful and useful in the next thirty minutes!

Today's question: Have you ever dealt with a potential customer you did not want to train? Has there ever been a situation where, for whatever reason, you needed to decline someone? If so, how did you handle it? ...Yes.

After a while it is only natural that both you and your clients begin to lose focus on their goals and objectives. When we begin a training program motivation and excitement are high, but as time goes on and clientele grows sometimes we start to just get through training sessions. Today I wanted to share with you three things I made sure to do to keep myself and my clients engaged in their fitness...

Today I explain the difference between putting clients through exercises vs putting them through a training session. I explain the levels of thinking about personal training and how to continue to grow your craft in order to grow in your career.

Today I got to interview with gym owner and private personal trainer Lesley Goldberg. She successfully owned and operated her personal training gym for decades. I had a lot of fun learning from my conversation with her. I hope you will as well!

Should you give away sessions? If so, when and how many? Is that  good or bad for my business? Today I answered all of these questions and covered other concepts that better help you understand this topic.

One of the most anxiety inducing moments of the first meeting with a potential client is getting back to talking about purchasing a training plan. Even if everything goes well, we usually stumble through getting them back at the desk and back to talking about numbers. Today I'll teach you the easiest and most obvious way to get over this hurdle. 

I have made reference to consultations in previous episodes. Today I wanted to go deeper into what that really means and why a consultation is important. Text books show you the physical part of meeting a new potential client. On today's episode I want to show you mental and emotional part of that first meeting and why building that trust matters.

Listener Question: How do you go about giving nutritional advice as a personal trainer? I see a lot of personal trainers selling meal plans and macro programs but have also heard that's out of a personal trainers scope of practice. Is it wrong or right?

Coming from a guaranteed hourly pay structure into a pay per session structure can be difficult for most of us. Today I want to give you my thoughts on hourly pay, being productive and reframing how you think about your earnings at the gym.

Have you heard of the 80/20 principle? Reading about it, understanding it and applying completely changed the way I thought about my personal training career. I hope today's topic can help you the same way it helped me.

What do you say to a prospect in the gym even if they don't need help with anything? That is today's question sent in by a listener. Make sure to send in your own question at personaltrainerhustle.com55

When we are trainers we have a responsibility to our clients. We think about their workouts, their diets, their goals and concerns. What we don't always think about is what our managers goals or concerns may be. Today I cover five things that I know I have considered about my trainers when I have been a manager. My hope is that in knowing them and considering them you can put yourself in a better...

Today we want to go beyond the scale when it comes to tracking your clients progress. Check out today's episode to learn five basic ways to track progress and why it is so important to do so.

Today I got to talk with Pam Karamad. She has been a personal trainer for just about twenty years and had a lot of great advise and experience to share with us. Leaving an already great career to pursue personal training came with it's challenges, but Pam knew this was her passion. She built her client base from a single person showing up to her first class to a specialized full time in-home clien...

On today's episode I got to sit down and talk with Isai Hernandez from Anytime Fitness. I got to learn about his first job as a trainer, lessons he's learned through the years and advise he would give a new personal trainer. If you are a personal trainer looking to learn from an experienced, coach make sure to listen to today's interview episode with Isai.

Today I wanted to talk to you about why some of the people close to us sometimes seem to doubt us the most. It is easy to get upset, but I want you to listen to today's episode and maybe think about it differently. On this episode I cover why people may not understand you and why you should keep going anyway. To send your own questions to the show go to personaltrainerhustle.com