Fitness Business Insights with Matt Robinson

Alex Lenkowski has been with Pro-Fit Personal Training for over 4.5 years and is now a key member of the Pro-Fit Education Team. As someone who delivers our 8-week education, Level 4 Education & Level 5 Education, Alex is in a perfect position to see, first-hand, what it takes to start, grow & succeed as a Personal Trainer & Fitness Business Owner.

In this episode I dive in to some statistics to answer the question..."Is Personal Training dead?". I also give some suggestions as to why people might be thinking this way and how we might need to change our perceptions of the industry if we believe it is failing or dying.

Today’s episode is a quick announcement that you can now find all of the show notes for each podcast episode over at www.mattrobinson.blog.

This site will be used to share all the links, resources and free giveaways mentioned in shows we have recorded.

Tom Bainbridge is the head educator and manager of the BTN academy, alongside its creator - Ben Coomber. His level of knowledge and expertise in the area of 'Nutrition Coaching' are second to none, and in this episode, we dive deep in to a couple of key nutrition coaching concepts.

Tom also talks about; the future of the fitness industry and the impact we WILL see from AI (Artificial Intelligence), his most recommended books, some key dieting myths...and much more.

In this episode I interview Andy Ramage, founder of One Year No Beer and Author of 'The 28 Day Alcohol-Free Challenge'. Andy starts by sharing his own amazing personal journey/story of success, failure and his life-changing discovery when giving up alcohol for a short period of time. He share psychological strategies and models, for those looking to change habits and routines, as well as offering tips on support and advice you can get on going alcohol-free.

You can check out the full show notes at http://www.mattrobinson.blog/014

In this episode I talk to Adam Cummins, who is head of the Education Team at Pro-Fit Personal Training and is highly regarded Nutrition Coach. In this episode we talk about his journey as a Fitness and Nutrition professional, as well as the key strategies he now uses with clients, and teach to other trainers, to best educate people on what 'good' nutrition actually is.

In this episode we are joined by Ben Coomber, who is considered an expert in the Fitness Industry, especially in relation to Nutrition. Ben has an extensive range of knowledge and experience and in this specific episode, I actually wanted to move away from the 'Nutrition Talk' and ask about some of Ben's ideas around other aspects of Fitness & Business. At the end of the show, Ben gives away a free copy of his book 'How to be an Awesome Personal Trainer' - so make sure you listen right until the end to grab a free copy of that.

In this episode we look back at the first 10 episodes of The Pro-Fit Podcast and give you a little taste of what we covered in each show. These review will be done periodically to give you a little summary of what we have covered in each show, so that you can easily decide which ones to listen to if you can't list to them all.

In this episode we talk about a subject many of us don't like discussing...losing clients. We take a look at a simple 5-step process for helping you handle the loss of a client better and using it as a mechanism for improving your business and better understanding how you can help people.

Today I discuss three non-fitness related books that have helped me in boosting my fitness business and the work I do with my clients. We take cover a brief overview of each of the three books and discuss how the key concepts have helped make some changes in our lives and business that have helped move things forwards.