Hey Fitness Pros. One of the best ways to improve your skills as a Personal Trainer or Fitness Instructor is to have someone film you in action. It’s really impactful to see yourself as others see you! Once per year we film our entire team – it just happens to be this month. Then next…
Always finish a Training Session by Stretching out a Client!
If you want to enhance client retention, spend at least 5-10 minutes at the end of every training session stretching out a client and/or utilizing tools such as stretching sticks or balls to provide a muscle rub-down. There is a reason why we make this a mandatory component of all of our training sessions –…
Use YouTube to highlight and grow your business.
Hey Fitness Pros. We hosted our Summer Solstice event this past Saturday. I had a few of our volunteers take video clips with our $150 flip camera. Then I uploaded them onto YouTube. Mind you, it’s not professional editing but hey, it still gives people a great idea of what we’re all about. I can…
Host your own event and watch your business prosper
Hey Fitness Pros. I’m currently in the final preparation stages for our annual 6 mile Run/Walk and Live Concert fundraiser event at our studio this weekend. We’ve got the street in front of our business blocked off where we’ll start and finish the event, we’ll have a stage set up for the Live Band, vendors…
Father’s Day focus for Fitness Pros
Hey Fitness Pros. It’s Father’s Day this coming weekend and that should be a big focus all week. I’ve cut and posted some instructions I gave to our team this week. Hopefully it will help you too! High Priority: Father’s Day is this weekend so remember to suggest gift certificates and announce our Guys Bootcamp…
What’s more important – offense or defense?
If you watch sports like most people, you are probably impressed by the extreme athleticism, determination and focus of athletes from around the world. One of our favorite sports to watch and play is Beach Volleyball. We find that this sport can be used as an analogy for business excellence. In the sport of Beach…
The #1 way to get & keep clients!
The biggest problem working in the fitness industry is that we are offering a product that most people hate. Unfortunately, the majority of people do not like to exercise! So as fitness professionals, each and every one of us has to do whatever we can to make the exercise experience as enjoyable as we possibly…
We’ve got to start with the kids!
If our goal as Fitness Professionals is to inspire the world to fitness, then we should definitely involve the kids! I had the opportunity to work with some Vancouver kids today to teach them that working out and eating healthy can be a ton of fun. Check out the video above. It’s so cute! Here’s…
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care!
What is the easiest way to enhance team morale, increase job satisfaction, boost someone’s confidence, make a client feel great, increase a loved one’s inner joy and cure the world’s problems? Okay so maybe I’m going overboard there but telling and showing someone how much you love, respect and appreciate them goes a really long…
Hey Fitness Pros. Sorry about that monster huge head shot that arrived in your inbox yesterday. It must have frightened you! No one needs to see that! And I definitely did not like to see my face that big on the screen! Yikes! Anyways, I had the settings incorrect on our new enewsletter system and…