Posts Tagged with "personal training"
Vetting Your Personal Trainer
I became a personal trainer and coach back in 2002. Shows like Alias and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy were all the rage, *NSYNC still had Justin Timberlake, and The Two Towers (the second movie in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, duh!) was rocking my world. Who can forget that epic battle scene… Read more
A Tale of Two Clients
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times….. Even for those who aren’t avid readers, the words above are fairly recognizable. At some point in everyone’s life they’ve (probably) heard the phrase absent of whether or not they know the origin: Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities. Yeah, I haven’t… Read more
Your Career in Fitness: A Guide to Professional Success
I get asked all the time from new and incoming trainers and coaches what they can do to better position themselves for (long-term) success in the fitness industry. Statistics show that most trainers burn out within a year and a half to two years. Granted there are many, many trainers who have long, prosperous, and… Read more
What Every Personal Trainer Should Know
Like many of you I’m a member of a few Facebook groups. Some private, and some not so much. There’s a family page, a Cressey Performance page, a page that’s dedicated to my old JUCO baseball team, another one that I frequent which is for movie nerds, and another that may or may not be… Read more
An Open Letter to (New) Fitness Professionals
I know for some this may come across as nothing more than me playing the role of some ornery old man yelling at you to get off his damn lawn. And it some ways, you’re correct. I like to think, though, that after 12 years of doing what I do, logging thousands of coaching hours,… Read more
The Key to Fitness Industry Success?
Cue small rant now. I’m writing a little later than usual today partly because I slept in today and had a later start than usual** and also because I had a Skype date earlier this afternoon with Matt Pack (of Primal Fit Miami) and Ted Ryce for the brand spankin new podcast they’re releasing soon…. Read more
Jedi Mind Tricks to Make You Instantly Stronger
Today I have a guest post by St. Louis based personal trainer Ian Fagala. Ian actually reached out to me right before I left for vacation about writing a little sumthin sumthin for the website while I was away, but unfortunately I dropped the ball and forgot to put it up. Oopsies. In any case,… Read more
Finding Your Niche as a Trainer or Coach
Not to rub it in or anything, but as I type these words I’m sitting poolside here in the Dominican Republic. I’m on vacation!!!! And while yes, I snaked away for a little bit to hop on the internet for a few minutes…….it’s all good, because Lisa is currently enjoying a cocktail…..;o) We arrived here… Read more