The Show Up Fitness Podcast

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! How to program workouts for beginners GIRL. Become a successful personal trainer w/ SUF CPT A certification can tell you what a muscle does, but it will not tell you what to do when a paying client shows up with a cranky shoulder, high stress, and big goals. We start with a real text from a trainer moving from group classes to one-...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! How to program workouts for beginners, if you're a struggling personal trainer, SUF-CPT is the certification that will help you become qualified. Most trainers don’t struggle with effort, they struggle with structure. A listener asks a deceptively simple programming question: if you bench press on Monday, should you bench agai...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Email info@showupfitness.com for the sale of the century w/ SUF FREEDOM sale. All certs, 1 seminar and life time access to the SUF platform to become ELITE. Four-week certifications and “just learn on the job” sound convenient until you watch trainer after trainer burn out, undercharge, and disappear. We are celebrating the weekend...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Dan Garner - Vitality Blueprint co-founder review on swearing FB post July 3rd 2026. One word can change your output, and the data is wild. We’re talking about swearing and physical performance, sparked by a 2024 mini review in Frontiers in Psychology that pulls together controlled studies on what happens when you repeat a swear wo...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Become a nutrition coach w/ Show Up Fitness Nutrition Coaching Certification learning how to interpret blood panels w/ the Vitality Blueprint partnership while networking with RD's A 40% testosterone increase in your 40s sounds like hype until you see the labs, the timeline, and the unsexy habits that actually move the needle....

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! IGs to follow: heather gregory realtor, conniebegonnie, dr. ashley dwyer, amanda.thebe, mike doehla, jeb She spent decades avoiding gyms, then a single question lit the fuse: which burns more calories, cardio or weight training? Heather’s answer, plus the surprising reaction she saw online, pushed her from curious to committed and...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! $120,000 as a personal trainer is not a mystery, it is math plus strategy. We start with the clean target of $10K per month and work backward into what your week actually needs to look like, including the part most people ignore: clients say they will train three times a week, then life happens. Missed sessions, weak cancellation p...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! The fastest way to fail the NASM CPT is to study like you’re trying to become a walking textbook. We take the opposite approach: pass the exam quickly, then put your energy into the hands-on coaching skills, people skills, and business confidence that actually keep trainers in the industry. We walk through the NASM OPT model in a w...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Want to become a successful personal trainer? SUF CPT, SUF STM, SUF NC will help trainers build the streams of revenue, confidence and teams to become successful making over $100,000/ year. Random circuits look creative, but they usually produce one thing fast: tired clients who are not getting stronger. We break down a clean, repe...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Most new trainers think the first job interview is a quiz on anatomy. It usually isn’t. What hiring managers really watch is whether you show up early, communicate like a pro, and can connect with everyday members who want results, not gym jargon. We walk through how to prepare for a personal trainer interview when you are still fi...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! The fastest way to fail the NASM CPT exam is to study like you’re trying to become a walking textbook. We’re personal trainers, and most of us learn by doing. So we break down how to pass the NASM CPT without drowning in chapters you’ll never use, and why a focused plan can realistically get you across the finish line in less than...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Improve your soft skills as a trainer and you will get more clients. PTL1 Mike from Toronto Canada, talks about how Show Up Fitness helps trainers level up their business and technical skills. How to improve your people skills? That's what we discussed today. Your schedule isn’t empty because you “need a better certification.”...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Thinking about becoming a personal trainer after 50? SUF has helped over 10,000 people pass NASM CPT.  In this episode, we sit down with Shiv, who passed her NASM exam at age 59 using the Show Up Fitness Study Guide and is proving it’s never too late to start a second career in fitness. We discuss:  • Becoming a personal trainer la...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! How to Become A Successful Personal Trainer vol. 2 interviews coaches and trainers who have lead a successful personal training career. HINT HINT, they don't praise textbook certifications, they focus on hands on learning and building teams. If you want to make real money as a personal trainer, “getting certified” is not the f...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Your clients say they are eating “1,200 calories,” but the photos tell a very different story. We walk through a clean, practical way to do macro calculations that you can explain to real humans, then zoom out to the bigger issue: macro targets only work when they are built on honest intake data and consistent habits. We start with...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! If you want to become a nutrition coach and make over 30k EXTRA dollars as a personal trainer, SUF-NC teaches you the fundamentals of nutritional science, teaches you how to scale a new stream of revenue and you get to work alongside of a registered dietitian. showupfitness.com Two tacos should be an easy entry in a food tracker, r...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! How to become a successful personal trainer vol 2 has an entire chapter on getting clients - 10 R's of getting clients. If you want to become a successful personal trainer, start by reading the book, not an 800 page textbook. You can be an amazing trainer and still struggle to get clients if your marketing is built on hope ins...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! SUF STM is the BEST corrective exercise certification because it helps personal trainers build a better team, assess clients in pain and charge more per hour. The avg suf-stm charges between 100-150/ hr whereas a NASM CES charges on avg $61. With purchase of the SUF-STM, you also get 1 year access to the Prehab Guys Exercise Librar...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! You can spot the difference between a trainer who memorized a manual and a coach who can change someone’s life, and it usually shows up in the messy middle: the first gym job, the first hard “no,” the first client who trusts you with a real goal. We’re joined by Caleb Kinney Woods (PTL1 at Lifetime Westminster) to talk about what i...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! A personal training certification can get you hired, but it will not automatically make you feel like a coach, and Lily says the quiet part out loud. She joins us from Phoenix, Arizona to share what it’s really like starting out at a busy commercial gym: the fast hiring process, the pressure to deliver results, and the moment you r...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Shoulder pain? Become a SUF-STM soft tissue mobilization with access to the Prehab Guys Exercise Library to charge more as a personal trainer. Shoulder pain during overhead training isn’t just a “tight muscle” problem, and it definitely isn’t fixed by tossing random stretches at it. We break down scapular upward rotation in plain c...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Become a nutrition coach w/ SUF-NC to work alongside of RD's and drive in streams of revenue. SUF-NC on average make an additional 30k per month Why is fat loss so confusing? Because trainers are taught shortcuts instead of systems. In episode 1 of the How to Become a Nutrition Coach series, we break down the 1st law of thermo...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! SUF NASM Guide: How to pass the NASM CPT exam in 2026 without reading 800 pages. In this Show Up Fitness podcast, we break down the 7 most important NASM CPT topics including the OPT model, overhead squat assessment, planes of motion, muscle imbalances, behavior change, programming, and nutrition. Show Up Fitness has helped 10,000+...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! You can rest an injury until it “feels fine” and still end up stuck at 80%. That’s the trap that keeps athletes and active adults cycling through flare-ups, compensations, and reinjuries and it’s exactly what we dig into with Dr. David Waltman, DPT. We talk about what most people never get from the traditional physical therapy clin...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Shoulder Pain? SHOWUP20 for 20% off Prehab Guys exercise library for training clients in pain w/ the CCA program.  Shoulder pain is everywhere in fitness, and the fastest way to lose trust is to improvise “rehab” when you should be screening, referring, and coordinating care. We walk through what it looks like to stay in your lane...