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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

If you want to be an exceptional Personal Trainer, mastering exercise cueing can be an essential tool to get your clients to move how you want them to move, keep them safe and help them 'feel' the exercise where they should.

In this episode, you will understand why cueing is important, external vs internal cueing, environmental cueing, voice commands and our favourite cues here at the PTC.

Timestamps:

0:37 - Why cueing is important

2:27 - Cueing systems

3:47 - External vs internal cueing

8:01 - When to use internal cueing

9:08 - Enabling learning

11:09 - Environmental cueing

16:20 - Tactile cueing

18:35 - Voice commands

21:00 - Our favourite cues

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 - Intro

3:27 - What does client onboarding mean?

4:26 - Why onboarding clients is important

6:34 - Maintaining a high level of service

8:29 - 30 day window

9:36 - Providing education for your clients

10:47 - The first session

13:24 - Making the client onboarding seamless

19:01 - Phase 1

22:12 - Phase 2

23:51 - Common mistakes

24:35 - Post phase 2

27:22 - Resources you’ll need to create

30:14 - Summary

Timestamps:

0:28 - Intro

2:00 - Re-cap of previous podcast

2:42 - Luke’s first PT session

4:58 - Being too specific with one style of training (performance based)

8:48 - Thinking it will be easy

14:18 - Getting caught up in social media drama

17:28 - Making things too restrictive for clients and only focusing on short term goals

20:45 - Getting stuck doing previous types of coaching you no longer enjoy

23:58 - Selling sessions and body transformation packages

27:05 - Doing the bare minimum for ‘freebie’ clients

30:37 - Posting content to seek approval from other Personal Trainers rather than providing value for potential clients

34:10 - Trying to programme too specifically for every single client you have

37:20 - Trying to sell the features rather than the benefits

40:35 - Reluctant to start online coaching and building out systems

Timestamps:

00:22 – The Consultation

01:55 – Qualifying Leads

03:19 – Difference between a Lead and a Prospect

04:35 – Know who you want to work with

05:22 – Why should have a Pre-Consult

09:05 – What questions should you ask?

14:25 – Use Calendly. Here’s why.....

17:56 – The Consultation environment

22:42 – Consultation Do’s and Don’ts

26:55 – Write down follow up questions

29:09 – The recap

30:22 – Pitching yourself. Reduce the jargon!

32:10 – Highlight a specific client of yours similar to them

34:20 – Objections. How to deal with them

36:40 – Setup a checklist. What to include in it

38:38 – Limitations of online consultations

39:19 – Post consultation

Timestamps:

0:24 - Intro & bulk creating podcasts talk

1:06 - Intro to the podcast

3:33 - What to consider before creating or purchasing an online course

8:04 - Luke’s journey into Personal Training

13:00 - Tom’s journey into Personal Training

20:35 - Why you should be a generalist and not a specialist when starting out

21:40 - Why did we create the PT Core?

27:43 - The ideation phase

29:35 - Creating a unit by unit structure and breaking this down

41:13 - Creating systems and the importance of this

43:45 - Planning phase 1

47:54 - Planning phase 2

51:37 - Creating the PTC acronym for trainers to use

54:20 - The value of creating scripts