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Highlights of Episode 376

"Hit The Gym with a Strength Coach" Segment

Clifton Harski, Operations Officer at Pain-free Performance Specialist Certification

We spoke about:

• Athleticism as it relates to athletes and general population
• Why just "playing the sport" is not the answer
• Ignored Athletic Qualities
• His "BA Progression"
  • Be Able
  • Be Athletic
  • Be Adaptable
• Movement confidence and movement competence
• Progression and positions without going down a rabbit hole
• Example of progressions
• much more

The StrengthCoach.com Coaches Corner with Coach Boyle

We spoke about:

• His article "Don’t get caught Flatfooted"
• His article "Preparing for the 1 Mile Run"
• Strength & Conditioning coaches are forgetting about the conditioning part

Check out the MBSC Spring Seminar April 13-14

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

"Maximizing the Member Experience" 

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Sumit Seth discusses "The art of follow-up and communication with both prospects and members"

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention. 

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About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

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Highlights of Special Episode 375.5

Vince Gabriele, owner of Gabriele Fitness and founder of Fitness Business University and Kiss Marketing

"5 Common Traits of the Most Financially Successful Gyms"

We spoke about:

• What they know about their numbers
• How they get a leg up with their digital marketing
• Understanding whether or not multiple locations is a good idea
• The "line in the sand" when it comes to standards
• The one thing they all do right away (that you can do right now)
• Much More!

Check out the book: Big Book of Marketing for Gym Owners :

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Highlights of Episode 375

"Hit The Gym with a Strength Coach" Segment

Jake Tuura, founder, JackedAthlete.com 

We spoke about:

• Tendons vs. Ligaments
• How do we train tendons
• As you increase performance, you increase likelihood of injury
• Can we prevent tendon injuries
• Is getting stronger the answer to helping tendons
• Slow for Health, Fast for Performance
• Protocols and progressions for tendon health
• An overview of his lecture, "tendons for Trainers" at the MBSC Spring Seminar
• much more

The StrengthCoach.com Coaches Corner with Coach Boyle

We spoke about:

• Why teaching starts are a waste of time
• Training philosophy- what you like vs. what you have learned
• Check out the MBSC Spring Seminar April 13-14

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

Partner Offer from AG1 by Athletic Greens

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"Maximizing the Member Experience" 

Brought to you by Naamly

Sumit Seth discusses "The power of systems"

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention. 

Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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Highlights of Episode 374

"Hit The Gym with a Strength Coach" Segment

Ali Gilbert, founder, Silverback Summit and Silverback Coaching by Ali G

We spoke about:

• Her intake process with new clients
• Labs she recommends and results she focuses on
• Big rocks to keep testosterone levels high
• GPP for TRT
• Is TRT the new steroids
• Myths and misconceptions about TRT
• Her upcoming webinar, The Silverback Shred: Our approach to getting you shreddy and sexy 
• much more

Click here to see more info

The StrengthCoach.com Coaches Corner with Coach Boyle

We spoke about:

• The StrengthCoach.com forum
• His upcoming lectures, including the Sport Performance Clinic at Endicott College on Sat. March 9, 2024
  
  
  
  
• His disdain for isolation exercise machines
• Dumbbell drop broad jumps

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

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"Maximizing the Member Experience" 

Brought to you by Naamly

Sumit Seth discusses "Building trust and providing value for members and staff by having guest speakers"

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention. 

Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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Highlights of Special Episode 373.5

Joe Hashey, Founder of Synergy Fitness and Lead Business Coach at SPF Mastermind Fitness Business University and Kiss Marketing

"Building Community"

We spoke about:

• Internal community management for gyms
• Retention- strategies for keeping members 
• Using local joint ventures to help your community and help your business
• Using clients as mentors
• Keeping members excited about your gym
• Giving the staff autonomy to build deeper relationships within the gym
• Staff management 
• Safeguarding from employees stealing business
• Breaking David Goggin's Pull up record and what it has to do with business success
• His role as Head Business Coach for the SPF Mastermind
• His best advice for gym owners to take it to the next level
• Much More!

"6 Weeks to Add 30 Clients"
Check out the Surge Program starting Jan 30, 2023

Check out the book: Big Book of Marketing for Gym Owners :

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Highlights of Episode 373

"Hit The Gym with a Strength Coach" Segment

Erica Suter, Youth female Speed and Strength Coach, author of "Female Athlete High Performance"

We spoke about:

• Training young female athletes
• Empowering young woman with strength and conditioning
• Teaching girls they are NOT broken
• Her thoughts about fear mongering with "injury prevention" and ACL injuries
• Controlling what you can control to make sure you are prepared
• The fine line between being prepared and over-prepared
• Can "being relentless" be taught
• How the "self-love" movement can have the opposite effect in building confidence
• An overview of her new book Female Athlete High Performance

The StrengthCoach.com Coaches Corner with Coach Boyle

We spoke about:

• The evolution of training female athletes in his career

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

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"Maximizing the Member Experience" 

Brought to you by Naamly

Sumit Seth discusses "Celebrating Member Wins, a retention powerhouse to help transform the entire member experience"

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention. 

Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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Highlights of Episode 372

The StrengthCoach.com Coaches Corner with Coach Boyle

The Year End Interview with Coach Boyle:

• The biggest change this year
• Challenges with the transition
• The importance of a great manager
• Making partnerships work
• His favorite book of 2023
• much more

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

Partner Offer from AG1 by Athletic Greens

Get a 1 year supply of Vitamin D, 5 Travel packs

"Maximizing the Member Experience" 

Brought to you by Naamly

Sumit Seth discusses "Decision paralysis, often created by too many choices, and how it can be a hidden hurdle in crafting the best member experience "

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention. 

Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening! 

Brought to You by PerformBetter.com.  Click here for the current sale.

Highlights of Special Episode 371.5

Vince Gabriele, owner of Gabriele Fitness and founder of Fitness Business University and Kiss Marketing

"The Year Ahead"

We spoke about:

• Planning for the year ahead
  • After action review- What worked?  Repeat it
  • What are your pillars
  • Working in quarters
• Building Marketing Assets, not doing Marketing "Stuff"
• Have a "reason" for your marketing- it doesn't have to be huge
• Why email marketing is so important
• Leveraging the fingers of the Glove
• The Surge Program- learning the skill of Marketing
• The Skill of Writing- how to get better
• Being relatable 
• Much More!

"6 Weeks to Add 30 Clients"
Check out the Surge Program starting Jan 30, 2023

Check out the book: Big Book of Marketing for Gym Owners :

Partner Offer from AG1 by Athletic Greens

Get a 1 year supply of Vitamin D, 5 Travel packs

Thanks for Listening!

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Highlights of Episode 371

"Hit The Gym with a Strength Coach" Segment

Pete McCall, Senior Director of Education for EōS Fitness, Author of Smarter Recovery- A Practical Guide to Maximizing Training Results

We spoke about:

• Specific Modalities of recovery
• History of Recovery

• Overtraining?  Is it really a problem?

• The role of outside stress
• Functional Overreach
• High Intensity Exercise
• Built-in recovery
• Can we adapt to repeated recovery methods
• An overview of his new book Smarter Recovery- A Practical Guide to Maximizing Training Results

The StrengthCoach.com Coaches Corner with Coach Boyle

We spoke about:

• His take on recovery and what they do at MBSC
• TRT
• Working with endurance athletes

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

Partner Offer from AG1 by Athletic Greens

Get a 1 year supply of Vitamin D, 5 Travel packs

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

Brought to you by Perform Better

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Highlights of Episode 370

"Hit The Gym with a Strength Coach" Segment

John Graham, Senior Network Administrator for Fitness & Sports Performance at St. Luke's University Health Network, Author of Metabolic Training: The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Workout

We spoke about:

• What is Metabolic Training
  • Is it Just HIIT?
• How it can Complement Serious or competitive athletes training
• Can we work on strength and power AND Aerobic methodologies
• EPOC
• An overview of his new book Metabolic Training- the Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Workout

The StrengthCoach.com Coaches Corner with Coach Boyle

We spoke about:

• How Sport Coaches can get conditioning in without end of practice finishers
• Hip Thrusts
• Slow strength work for tendon health

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

Partner Offer from AG1 by Athletic Greens

Get a 1 year supply of Vitamin D, 5 Travel packs

"Maximizing the Member Experience" 

Brought to you by Naamly

Sumit Seth discusses "The little things that make a big difference- little amenities that can turn your gym into your member’s haven."

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention. 

Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!