Gymnazo Podcast

Have you ever felt like you aren't getting the success you want as a personal trainer? Maybe you suffer from low confidence, or are making one of the other five mistakes we see personal trainers making. Rest assured, you're not alone, but after working with personal trainers and training elite movement coaches for a decade, we've learned a few things about what holds personal trainers back from truly being gifted coaches who stand out from the crowd.

In this episode, our CEO, Paden Hughes shares the six mistakes she sees personal trainers making and why it's holding them back from reaching their truest potential.

If you're a personal trainer, fitness coach or fitness professional, you'll want to tune in to this episode and figure out which of these mistakes you could be making that could be setting you up for another year of less than desirable results.

In this episode Michael Hughes, Owner of Gymnazo, and Mitch Schroth, Movement Specialist and Coach at Gymnazo dive into why having an Anatomy & Physiology class on your personal training resume doesn't really cut it.

They cover how schools are teaching anatomy today, how applicable it really is, and where the gaps are in many trainers' knowledge of the body.

Being a brand new trainer in the fitness industry is tough enough without having a global pandemic to throw you the curve ball of the century.

In this episode, we share our advice for new trainers who are trying to launch their services and grow their business. We will cover our biggest learnings and mistakes over the past 8 months, how we transitioned to virtual training and what it's going to take for you to get your services up and running.

Eco-challenge: what it’s like to train for the world’s toughest race in Fiji 2019. Join Sonja Weick, from team Iron Cowboys, as she shares her top strength training tips to prepare her for The World's Toughest Race Eco-Challenge Fiji, a hit series on Amazon Prime, hosted by Bear Grylls. This Ironman ultra athlete shares how she and her trainer prepared both physically and mentally for her to survive this multi-sport endurance adventure race. CJ Kobliska, Head Programmer at Gymnazo, shares his best tips for training endurance athletes, specifically adventure race preparation!

If you're a personal trainer, then we know you have some kind of opinion about functional training. You want to talk about a polarizing topic in fitness.... it's this.

So Michael sat down with our Director of Programming, CJ Kobliska, to break it down and unpack why functional training can benefit personal trainers and your clients.

In this episode you'll learn,

• What functional training actually is (there is so much misinformation about functional training)
• Why it's a valuable asset to any personal training and we'll make a case for why it should be understood by next generation personal trainers
• How to use it to help your clients
• BUT.... also how to not get sucked too far down into that functional training camp so that you end up becoming a sold out personal trainer with really only one main skill you use to train.

If you're our kind of personal trainer or fitness coach, you're someone who is open to whatever is scientific, proven AND of course delivers your clients the results they are looking for. But you're also a natural skeptic and not easily fooled by fan fare and hype.

If that's you, welcome to the Gymnazo Podcast! Subscribe to get more insight into training methods, science and results that will set you apart from the sea of average personal trainers. You weren't born to be average, but it will take strategic work to rise to the level of a Movement Master.

Welcome to our very first episode! 

We love podcasts and have a habit of tuning into the first podcast episode to learn about the hosts and their story. This is our story told in a different way.

If you're a fitness entrepreneur, you know you face obstacles that either stop you in your tracks or force you to overcome them to keep pressing on. In this first podcast we share with you the 6 hurdles we experienced that forced us to become the business and people we are today.

Here's a quick roadmap of what we share in this episode:

How we jumped 6 hurdles to build a 7 figure fitness business 

• Hurdle 1: Rejected from physical therapy programs (2 years in a row) 
• Hurdle 2: How to get clients to trust me that I could help them with their pain
• Hurdle 3: How to replicate myself and build a team of coaches 
• Hurdle 4: How to open our own facility and could we afford it? 
• Hurdle 5: How to retain clients and sustain their lifetime value
• Hurdle 6: How to scale…. brick and mortar or train trainers?