The Show Up Fitness Podcast

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Show Up Fitness has helped more trainers get hired at Life Time than any company. In fact, 2025 we had 3 SUF-CPTs who were top performers bringing in over 200k into the company (Yes, it's possible to make over 100k as a QUALIFIED personal trainer.)  How to get hired at life time? The Lifetime Fitness practical can feel like a...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! IG: dr_tebos Physical Therapist in Kentucky.  Most people treat an ankle sprain like a simple checklist: rest, ice, wait, repeat. That advice can feel comforting and still be wrong for your recovery timeline. We sit down with physical therapist Dr. TeBos to unpack what ice actually does in the body, why inflammation is a normal par...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! A client leaves a voicemail that would make most trainers panic: “I’m 79 years old, I had a hemorrhagic stroke, and I need someone to train me at home.” We’re joined by Poojan from Shaw Athletics to walk through what happens next, step by step, and how a qualified coach thinks about safety, scope, and real progress with a stroke su...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Become a nutrition coach w/ SUF NC working alongside RD's to build you team and streams of revenue. Torey Berry, SUF instructor talks about her success with having an RD on her team. Most personal trainers talk about nutrition all day and still leave money and results on the table. We want the opposite: clear boundaries, bette...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Rowing exposes your weak links fast: sloppy wrists, rushed recovery, too much layback, and suddenly your “cardio day” turns into cranky elbows, tight hip flexors, or a low-back flare-up. We want trainers and everyday lifters to use the rower as a real conditioning tool, not a pain generator, so we walk through the exact cues we coa...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! One canceled client should not be able to wreck your entire month. We’re laying out a clean, numbers-first blueprint for personal trainers who want a sustainable six-figure personal training business without grinding 50 sessions a week. The framework is a 60/30/10 revenue split that adds up to $100,000 per year: a strong core of in...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Struggling with programming for your personal training clients? Enter the 8 core movement patterns and the CCA within the SUF CPT. Most training plans fall apart for one simple reason: they’re built on random exercises instead of a clear movement system. We walk through the eight core movement patterns we use to coach real people a...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Meet SAM & Paul. SUF-CPTs who are discussing ways to get clients at big box gyms. Sam already has 3 clients at Equinox and she was hired within 4-weeks with her SUF-CPT. The fastest way to get personal training clients at a big box gym is not a clever pitch. It is being the trainer people actually see, trust, and remember. We’r...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! You can spend weeks “learning” the NASM CPT textbook and still walk into the exam feeling blind sided. We take the opposite approach: study to pass, fast. If you’re stuck on the OPT model, acute variables, tempos, and rest periods, this conversation turns the chaos into a simple set of rules you can memorize and apply under pressur...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Anyone can get certified.  Very few know how to charge. Most trainers underprice because they lack confidence, experience, and a real system. So they default to $40 to $60 sessions… and wonder why they burn out. In this episode, we break down how to actually set your personal training rates based on value, not fear. You’ll learn:  ...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Push the house gym (Pinellas Ultimate Strength House) in Tampa, FL will be hosting Show Up Fitness and our level 2 seminar May 30/31st Saturday 12-5, Sunday 9-1. General Manager Javi Fraga IG-jfragatraining You can have an exercise science degree, know every muscle action, and still fail as a coach if you can’t run a session that m...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Your knee pain might not be a “weak glute” problem or a fancy gadget problem. It might be one missing piece of motion: full knee extension. When the knee can’t straighten, the quad stays inhibited, your gait gets weird, and every step becomes practice at not using the muscle that’s supposed to protect the joint. That’s why we broug...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Meathead_rehab = DPT breakdown of the FMS. A movement screen can feel like a truth serum, but what if it’s really just a narrow test that gets mistaken for a diagnosis? We sit down with Dr Motley (DPT) to talk through the Functional Movement Screen (FMS), why it often fails great athletes, and how it gets misused by trainers and cl...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! You can take classes six days a week, sweat through your clothes, and still feel stuck when you want bigger glutes, a tighter waist, and that athletic “trained” look. We’re talking about the classic cardio bunny: the ClassPass regular who does Pilates, yoga, and body pump style workouts, yet never gets the overload needed for real...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Life Time DPT: IG Donovan_will_ Running is easy to start and hard to master, and that gap is where most people get stuck. I’m talking with Donovan, a coach at Lifetime Dumbo in downtown Brooklyn, about what actually makes runners improve: a clean foundation, the right intensity, and a mindset that doesn’t crumble when things get un...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! A client tells you they have diabetes, hands you their card, signs up for training and then refuses to get medical clearance. Do you keep the money and train them anyway, or do you draw a hard line and risk the refund? We walk through the real decision personal trainers face when safety, ethics, and liability collide, including why...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! A client tells you they have a fused disc and suddenly every squat, hinge, and loaded carry feels like a liability. We break that moment down into a repeatable coaching process so you can stop guessing and start programming with clarity. From the first questions we ask about surgery timing and what level was fused, to when it’s wor...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Most trainers think the “assessment” is where you prove how smart you are. We think it’s where you prove you’re safe, clear, and worth paying. We break down a client assessment process that changes based on context, whether you’re stuck doing a required movement screen at a big gym or you’re an independent personal trainer building...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! “Get certified and start making $100K” sounds great until you are standing on a gym floor with five clients back to back and no real plan. We get blunt about why the personal training industry chews up new coaches, and why the biggest problem is not motivation, it is the lack of supervised experience, real systems, and honest expec...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! The on-deck circle is full of traditions that feel right, but “feels faster” can be a trap. We dig into bat speed and bat velocity through a Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research study on warm-up devices, then translate it into coaching decisions you can actually use with baseball players. We talk through why hitters swing...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! A brand-new Equinox trainer asks a simple question with huge stakes: how do you program for a 54-year-old lawyer who’s 260 pounds, 42% body fat, fresh off a divorce, and dead set on getting to 200? We walk through exactly how we’d run the first two Equifit sessions so the client feels safe, seen, and genuinely excited to come back,...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! IG Glenda_garay GYM eleva_fitness_studio Glenda walked into her first gym role with a big goal and a shaky toolkit then built a studio that’s now heading into year three. We sit down with the Eleva Fitness owner from the San Francisco Bay Area to talk about what actually changed her career: investing in education, learning real ana...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! A physical therapist can be the difference between being “just another trainer” and becoming the coach doctors actually trust. We kick off with a real question from Wayne in Alaska: he found a promising DPT partner, but he’s early in the relationship and doesn’t have clients to refer yet. So how do you grow that connection so you’r...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Personal training certifications look simple until you realize the industry is split between marketing machines, legacy nonprofits, and smaller programs that bet on real skill. We build a March Madness style bracket to compare the big names in fitness certification and then pull the curtain back on what actually drives popularity:...

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why! Picking a gym is not a vibe check, it’s a career decision. We build a March Madness bracket of the best places to get hired as a personal trainer in the United States and tell you what the bracket is really measuring: income potential, quality of clients, coaching “reps,” interview standards, and how fast you can grow from new trai...