Excuses, Excuses… As you all know all too well…Eighty percent of people still do not exercise consistently enough to enjoy any health benefits. And clients come up with a ton of excuses as to why they’re not sticking to the program. Over the next 5 weeks I am going to share the most common stumbling…
Group Fat Loss Program
Spring is here and people start thinking about shedding body fat in time for summer. So it’s a perfect opportunity to offer a Fat Loss program or Weight Loss challenge. At Northwest Personal Training, our Spring Weight Loss and Makeover program has been a huge winner both from a financial and a client success perspective….
What is your B.A.M.?
Last night I was helping Brianna with a project and checking her homework that was due today. As I was going through her work, it became very obvious that she put in the bare minimum and didn’t check her work because there were so many errors. So I was trying to explain to her at…
Fitness Pros – Do you want to get lucky?
Hey Fitness Pros, “The harder I work, the luckier I get!” I always related to this quote throughout my entire working career. No matter what position I held…whether I was a waitress making really good tips and all my fellow co-workers asking “How do you make such good tips?” I always thought it was so…
Host educational health and fitness workshops and lectures for clients
Health and fitness lectures offer a wonderful opportunity to educate your clients about important topics. We believe that Education + Action = Results so we value offering education to our clients and then, inspire and guide them to take action, therefore, producing fabulous results! You can’t do better if you don’t KNOW better! In addition…
Fit Pro Marketing Rule: Don’t Sell The Braces
I had braces all through high-school. Imagine going through those awkward years wearing braces when the opinion of your peers was so important to your feelings of self-worth! Well as I neared the end of high-school and was approaching Senior Prom and Graduation, I scheduled an appointment with my orthodontist and asked him to remove…
Valentine’s ideas for Personal Trainers
Hey Fitness Pros, 1 week until Valentine’s day. A couple action steps to inspire people to think ‘give the gift of fitness’ to their special loved ones. 1. Get in the habit, and train your staff, to ask each client over the next week “Do you need to pick up a Valentine’s Day gift certificate?” …
Striving for excellence in the Personal Training business
Hey Fitness Pros, “Anyone need advice on making the transition from 5.12 to 5.11?” I saw this quote today. Climbers will understand the significance of this. 5.12 is a much harder climb than 5.11 and the message is, it’s easy to go backwards, to do what you’ve done before, to choose the easy road….but true…
#1 Mistake Personal Trainers make in first session with a new client
Hey Fitness Pros, The biggest mistake that I see trainers make in a first session with a new client is trying to fit way too much stuff into a one hour time period. Inevitably they run over time and if they have another client waiting, they rush through or eliminate the most critical aspect of…
Fitness Pros going above and beyond…What are you doing?
The key to success as a Personal Trainer is understanding that you are offering so much more than an exercise program. We are in the customer service industry so you have to exceed expectations and go above and beyond. Here’s a few things we do to show our clients how much we love them. 1….