LTB Podcast

By Claire WinterHealth & Fitness Education Fitness

LTB Podcast episodes

May 04, 2020Larry Gold: Effective Leadership During Challenging Times
For the last 30 years, Larry Gold has spent most of his working life as the CEO of numerous different hospitals throughout the world. He's helped brand new ones start from scratch and helped struggling ones grow and become huge parts of their communities and at times he's managed over 3000 people. Nowadays he's a consultant to executives who work within healthcare. This episode is split into two sections: the first 15 minutes is about Covid-19 and how to effectively lead through this and the section after is all about Larry's career, leadership, managing people and building relationships.

Timestamps:

[03.20] - The difference between a manager and a leader

[06.00] - The three critical leadership components that must be present during times like this

[10.59] - What don't you want to do as a leader during times of disaster?

[13.34] - Dealing with the uncertainty that Covid has brought everyone

[17.02] - Larry sums up his career and tells us what he's doing just now

[18.20] - How he got started in healthcare

[28.10] - How he's approached growing within each new job he's done

[30.45] - How he managed to get 3000+ staff all on the same page working as a CEO in a hospital

[36.40] - Why every single person in an organisation needs to know why what they do is important

[40.25] - Why he used to walk the halls in his hospital every single day to connect with his employees

[43.25] - Why building relationships has been so important to his leadership style

[45.05] - How to approach challenging staff situations

[46.25] - Giving tough feedback and saying the things that need to be said

[52.15] - How he's approached building up his weaknesses

[54.52] - Revealing personal aspects of himself to his colleagues and employees

[62.25] - Making the whole community proud of his hospital and what you can learn from it

[66.28] - What he wishes he could go back tell his younger self

Find Out More About Larry:

LinkedIn Profile

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1 hr 12 min
April 27, 2020Adam Feit: Time Management, Feedback & Creating a Motivational Environment
Adam Feit is Precision Nutrition's head strength and sport psychology coach. He's been an S&C coach at every level you can think of and currently, he's a PhD Candidate in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Springfield College studying the use of mental skills among S&C coaches. In today's episode with Adam we talk about time management tips, managing overwhelm, helping clients use their skills in other life areas to manage exercise and nutrition challenges, motivation science and much more.

Timestamps:

[03.14] - How Covid has affected Adam's day-to-day

[07.22] - Whether he's structured all the time or allows some unstructured time

[10.50] - Time management tips

[15.07] - Managing overwhelm

[18.39] - Looking for what PN call 'bright spots' when coaching clients

[20.37] - What kind of coach was he prior to starting with PN

[31.52] - The importance of having someone to check your blindspots

[34.07] - How he's got better at receiving feedback

[36.52] - Roses, thorns and buds daily reflection exercise

[38.37] - What his PhD is and what it's teaching him

[47.57] - How he used to think about motivation compared to how he thinks about it now

Find Out More About Adam:

PN Bio

Facebook

Twitter - @Adam_Feit

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58 min
April 20, 2020Dr. Yoni Freedhoff: Obesity, Weight Management & Childhood Nutrition
Dr. Yoni Freedhoff is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa, and since 2004, the medical director of the Bariatric Medical Institute, an ethical, evidence-based, interprofessional weight management centre. We discuss why a compassionate approach to obesity is absolutely necessary, how to help our clients manage their weight, reducing scale weight importance, whether education changes behaviour, childhood nutrition and much, much more. I know you're going to enjoy this episode, just make sure you've got somewhere to take notes as there are a bunch of times you'll want to pause and write something down!

Timestamps:

[01.55] - Why obesity isn't as simple as move more eat less.

[05.00] - Why personal responsibility is always touted as the most important part of obesity.

[07.30] - How we can improve the message we put out there about obesity.

[09.35] - Does education help behaviour change?

{12.26] - What country is leading the way in terms of weight management?

[14.23] - Why environment is the main element of weight management.

[16.14] - How knowing that environment is important for his patients informs his practice.

[18.55] - How to teach our clients that exercise is not just something that burns calories and is used to lose weight.

[20.32] - What we know for sure about weight management

[23.50] - Does he think PTs should be working with their clients on behaviour change around nutrition?

[25.59] - The two questions he asks his patients to consider when they want to eat junk food.

[21.13] - How important is a clients why.

[34.35] - What role the scales play in helping clients maintain weight loss.

[37.55] - Helping clients remove the scales importance.

[39.20] - Underreporting calorie intake.

[44.55] - Helping kids develop healthy relationships with food.

Find Out More About Dr. Yoni:

Weighty Matters

Twitter

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54 min
April 13, 2020Brian St. Pierre: Helping Clients Manage Their Nutrition During COVID-19
Brian St. Pierre is the director of nutrition at Precision Nutrition. He's coached Olympic champions, NFL and NBA teams on nutrition and written some of my favourite and most shared articles on the PN site. We discuss COVID-19 and how he's thinking about its effects on how to coach clients just now, what his coaching evolution has looked like, why some emotional eating is perfectly ok, the PN process for creating blogs and why he used to remove potatoes from his now wife's Irish stew.

Timestamps:

[02.36] - Considering COVID-19, is now the time for fat loss?

[04.45] - If he remembers trying to place his goals onto a client?

[13.02] - The evolution of the coach

[14.52] - Other things to consider when coaching clients during COVID

[17.48] - Helping clients manage being at home and around food all the time just now

[20.55] - Why it's important to normalise emotional eating

[26.15] - What role do trainers and coaches have with clients and their nutrition

[29.35] - Getting clients more in touch with their internal cues?

[31.32] - Helping clients who feel eating slowly etc is too small a habit to help them move them forward?

[34.45] - Why it's ok for clients goals to change throughout the coaching process

[38.05] - His article "the cost of getting lean" and how it uses it when coaching clients

[41.06] - The PN process for creating blog posts

[45.20] - What he wishes he could tell himself about what he's learnt about writing in the last 10 years

[46.37] - Why he isn't big on social media

Find Out More About BSP:

PN Bio

The Cost of Getting Lean Article

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50 min
April 06, 2020COVID-19 #8 w/ Chris Burgess - Will The Zoom Novelty Factor Start to Wear Off?
Chris Burgess is the owner of Lift the Bar, an education company for Personal Trainers, and Curious Fitness, a semi-private gym in Paulton, England. Stuart and Chris discuss whether the novelty of zoom sessions will start to wear off on clients who bought into in-person PT, how to think about retention during COVID-19 and what you should do if all of yours clients have said no to doing online training.

Timestamps

[03.33] - Will the novelty of zoom sessions start to wear off for your clients?

[06.43] - Why the question has to be "is this real?"

[11.43] - How to embrace the novelty of delivering sessions online

[16.09] - Is he worried about how long this is going to take to get back to some form of normality?

[19.53] - How he is viewing retention

[25.13] - How to handle going from 5/10-20 sessions a week to zero as your clients don't want to do online sessions

Find Out More About LTB:

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Instagram

Facebook
37 min
March 30, 2020COVID-19 #7 w/ Mark Fisher - Adjusting to The New Normal
Mark Fisher runs Mark Fisher Fitness (MFF) in New York, a two location gym and Business For Unicorns (BFU), an education and support company for business owners. Like most fitness businesses, MFF has had to go from being an in-person one to one that is now fully online. We discuss how MFF has pivoted to support their members during this time, how they are going about building and growing their community, whether or not they are trying to market and sell their online programmes and why it's so important to be a human.

Timestamps:

[01.13] - How COVID-19 has affected things in Mark's world

[04.50] - What Mark Fisher Fitness' current plan is

[08.29] - How the MFF members have taken to being trained online

[12.03] - What else MFF are doing to support and grow their community

[14.58] - What silver linings Mark has seen with everything that has gone on

[17.21] - Are they trying to market and sell considering everything that is going on?

[19.13] - How are they are approaching their marketing and positioning just now

[21.49] - How this will affect Mark's ability to make decisions moving forward

[25.07] - Any books Mark would recommend

Find Out More About Mark:

MFF Website

BFU Website

Mark's Instagram

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33 min
March 27, 2020COVID-19 #6 w/ Mike Waywell - Seeing Opportunity Within The Uncertainty
Mike Waywell runs a gym called Steel Habitat in Liverpool, England and a company called Gymownr. Mike is one of the people I turn to for advice on helping gym owners as he's built Steel from the ground up to become one of the most impressive facilities in the UK working with over 400 active members. We cover how to see the opportunity among the uncertainty of COVID, why Steel are running a 6-week challenge just now and how to run one yourself, how they are approaching marketing and why you have to remove the emotion out of what's going on to ensure you survive.

Timestamps:

[02.26] - Why and how it's so important to see the opportunities that are available just now for gym owners and personal trainers

[06.56] - Mike tells us how he's handled things so far

[09.26] - Mike talks about a 6-8 week challenge they are using for accountability and retention just now

[13.06] - Why Mike's business has seen 95% + retention rates even though they are now fully online

[17.21] - How's he's handled pricing

[18.41] - How he plans to handle a big drop-off in members

[24.26] - If he's going to change his marketing copy to mention things like quarantine and lockdown

[26.26] - What novel things they are doing to provide extra support to their members just now

[28.19] - How he's feeling about the long term

[33.11] - Whether he's managed to keep all his staff

[34.11] - What book he'd recommend for times like this

[36.41] - Why now is not the time to sulk, become frustrated or argue about politics

Find Out More About Mike:

Steel Website

Gym Ownr Instagram

Gym Ownr Webinar

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41 min
March 26, 2020COVID-19 #5 w/ Cameron Cummings - From a Commercial Gym to Fully Online in 7 Days
Cameron Cummings works in a Pure Gym and supports and advises the commercial gym trainers of LTB. In the past week, as with most of the world, the UK has gone on lockdown and he's had to go fully online. We discuss how he's done this, how he's managed losing clients, what his plans are for the long-term and some marketing approaches. Timestamps

[03.18] - How he's dealt with what the coronavirus has done to his business

[07.32] - How many clients he's lost since having to go online

[09.01] - How receptive his client base has been to going online

[16.35] - Why you should plan for 12 months rather than just a few

[22.00] - How to start approaching marketing during this time

Find Out More About LTB:

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30 min
March 24, 2020COVID-19 #4 w/ Gregg Slater - How to Create Effective Home Training Programmes
Gregg Slater is Lift The Bar's Head of Education. Gregg comes on to talk about creating effective home workouts, what equipment you need to create home workouts, what some blocks of training may look like for home training and much more. If you'd like to gain access to the units that Gregg mentions that will help you create solid home training programmes, head to liftthebar.com and sign up for our two-week free trial! Current members can find them in the Facebook group under units and on the members site under browse member content > coronavirus. Timestamps

[01.58] - How is how own training is going just now?

[02.58] - What equipment you need to create effective home workouts?

[08.03] - The difference between online and remote personal training

[10.34] - How and why to coach intentionality with clients when doing an exercise

[12.28] - Why to use analogies when coaching

[15.03] - Why you want your home workouts to look and feel similar to your PT sessions

[18.03] - What a sample home workout could look like

[22.18] - Creating blocks of training for home workouts
32 min
March 23, 2020 COVID-19 #3 - You Will Get Through This
A solo episode with Stuart covering what the coronavirus is doing to personal trainers careers and how they can innovate to get through it.
16 min

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