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Do you remember your first time? By first time, we mean your first client... In this episode, Luke explains the story of how he got his first Personal Training client for you to laugh at but also learn from

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This weeks episode is taken from our Online Coaching Blueprint course where Luke discusses 'the productive day' as a Personal Trainer, in order to maximise your time and be as productive and efficient as you can be

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Following on from last weeks episode, Luke, Founder of the Personal Trainer Collective discusses why you shouldn't be selling sessions and instead be taking monthly payments as a Personal Trainer. Find that your clients are constantly cancelling sessions and you feel awkward about chasing payments from them? Then this is the episode for you!

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Speaking on camera can be a daunting task for most people. You've probably told yourself that 'you just can't do it' and that you will never be able to do it. In this weeks podcast, we give you some tips on how to overcome feeling awkward on camera, dealing with imposter syndrome when it comes to voicing your opinion online and why speaking on camera will be a vital skill to learn for the future

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When was the last time you increased your prices as a Personal Trainer? You may have wanted to do this for a while but you don't know the best way to approach this, how much to increase by, how to communicate this with your clients and so on.

In this episode, Luke breaks down the do's and don'ts of increasing your prices, when you should increase your prices and how to execute this effectively.

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If you haven't heard the news, we are launching a brand new service called PT Coaching! If you are unsure what this is and if you would be suited for this coaching, then give this a listen where Tom & Luke further outline what exactly PT Coaching is and who it is best suited for!

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Gym floor marketing is dead! (says the trainer who can't seem to get any in-person clients). Is the market dead or are you just not implementing the right strategies to attract leads and potential clients? In this episode, Luke covers 17 different marketing tactics/strategies you can implement at your gym, on the gym floor, to help attract more leads.

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We welcome onto the show Mr Chris Tombs who was worked in professional sport for over 2 decades in the, including the Men’s England Rugby team who won the world cup in 2003

Expect to learn about the difference between an athlete and a player, how Chris has taken the velocity-based training model forward, the difference between coaching pro athletes and everyday clients and much more

Happy New Year PTC listeners!

In today’s episode, Tom and Luke have a look at some data on fitness trends in 2021, and then give their predictions for fitness trends in 2022

This includes Fitness NFTs, online coaches taking payment in cryptocurrency, why building an online community will be essential and much more

When discussing Personal Training, it is easy to focus on the negatives, what mistakes people make, the difficulties arise with being a Personal Trainer... but what about the best parts?

See, we all become a Personal Trainer for different reasons. In this episode, with over 15+ years of experience between them, Tom & Luke discuss their favourite aspects of being a Personal Trainer

Timestamps:

2:48 - Making many long term friends

5:47 - It doesn’t feel like a job

9:35 - Networking opportunities in other business from clients

12:01 - A self-fulfilling, rewarding career

15:31 - Can eventually, dictate your own working hours (once you get better)

17:03 - Lifestyle business

20:03 - Everyone will have an opinion on fitness (this can be a positive and negative)

25:00 - Always going to be a need/high demand for a Personal Trainer

28:12 - You get to make your clients better people

29:22 - Active career

Part 2 of our coaching nutrition as a Personal Trainer discussion.  Expect to learn 10 factors of a healthy diet, 12 dieting methods you can suggest to your clients and much more

Timestamps:

10 factors to a healthy diet:

1. 1:49 - Respect personal taste and preferences
2. 2:12 - Supports physical and mental performance goals
3. 2:42 - Covers macro and micronutrient needs
4. 3:22 - No unnecessary/scientifically unfounded food restrictions
5. 4:13 - Respects medical intolerances/allergies
6. 4:48 - Convenient
7. 5:02 - Affordable
8. 6:21 - Socially acceptable
9. 6:28 - Compatible with personal ideologies
10. 6:49 - Sustainable long-term

12 dieting methods that you can suggest for your clients:

1. 8:42 - Ad libitum
2. 9:34 - Ad libitum with photos
3. 10:30 - Habit based
4. 11:28 - Adherence based
5. 12:50 - Score-based approach
6. 15:56 - Portion control
7. 17:34 - Protein track
8. 18:22 - Protein semi-track
9. 19:59 - Calorie tracking
10. 21:31 - Intermittent macro tracking
11. 22:58 - Macro ranges
12. 23:55 - Exact macros

25:09 - Rate of weight loss

26:10 - Rate of weight gain

27:50 - Weight maintenance factors

When a client asks you for nutrition advice, this can be an awkward situation to be in as a Personal Trainer. You probably know more than your average Joe but equally, you know you should not really be prescribing meal plans unless you are a qualified dietitian.

As we know, diet plays a massive role in how you feel and how you perform in the gym so it is not something you can ignore in the modern day world.

In this episode, Tom & Luke discuss whether or not you should coach nutrition as a Personal Trainer, how to analyse a client's past, present and future nutrition as well as some example questions you can use as a Personal Trainer to understand your client's eating habits.

Timestamps:

1:34 - Should Personal Trainers coach their clients on nutrition?

4:17 - Advise, don’t prescribe

7:40 - Stages of nutrition

9:15 - Analysing a clients nutrition

29:24 - Question examples you can use for your clients

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:10 - Being self employed as a Personal Trainer

2:40 - Disclaimers

4:54 - Step 1, Assess your current situation

10:50 - Step 2, Your current work situation

15:18 - Step 3, Save 3-6 months worth of living costs

20:50 - Step 4, Set financial targets from your fitness business

23:33 - Step 5, Be prepared to work 80 hours per week

26:31 - Step 6, Ask yourself, what is the worst that can happen?

28:07 - What’s the best thing that could happen?

28:51 - Step 7, Create your transition plan

0:00 - Intro

0:15 - Not using templates

2:00 - Not being flexible with your plan

5:15 - Having a specific style that everyone does

8:50 - Not making the client work hard enough

12:45 - Not future planning meso cycles

16:03 - Giving too much junk volume to fill time

19:15 - Exercise selection not being optimal for clients gym

21:09 - Not using rest periods effectively

24:03 - Changing too many variables too often

27:10 - Programming cardio for the first 10-20 mins of a session

30:20 - Trainers forgetting when their client needs a new programme

Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:38 - 7 stages a client will go on when working with you

2:32 - Awareness stage

4:00 - Engaged stage

5:44 - The lead stage

9:53 - Converting stage

13:55 - Delivering and over delivering stage

15:46 - Retention stage

18:08 - Referral stage

20:00 - Common mistakes Personal Trainers make

Timestamps:

0:00 - Why it is important to know how to train general population clients

2:34 - Who are the general population?

4:15 - Common goals of a gen pop client

8:24 - First steps with a gen pop client

11:32 - Common dysfunctions within the movement screen for most gen pop client

18:18 - Building a programme

29:10 - Why you have to be adaptable as a coach

31:19 - Most important aspect of training gen pop clients

34:17 - Catering for client requests to make their sessions more enjoyable

38:39 - Setting goals as the coach

41:37 - Coaching considerations for gen pop clients

43:14 - How you communicate as a coach matters

48:21 - Don’ts when working with gen pop clients

52:39 - How to programme for an in-person session, including supersets, tri-sets, rest times etc.

56:32 - How to progress sessions

59:05 - Summary of the full session overview

1:02:11 - Final advice