LTB Podcast

In this short episode, LTB's Chris Burgess discusses how personal trainers can make better choices with their marketing so they can get more clients. This will be the first in a series of short marketing episodes from Chris.

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• How she structures and sets up her day.
• Why self-care is such an important value to Krista and to Precision Nutrition.
• How the meaning of self-care has changed over the course of her career.
• How she has managed a huge recent life change.
• How to embrace the uncertainty that life sometimes brings.
• How much of her own life she reveals to her clients.
• How to use strategic self-disclosure to improve connection.
• Why it's fantastic that so many new coaches are coming into the industry having been in other careers.
• Why it's so important to go and get other experiences as a coach.
• What she would tell herself if she could go back to day one of being a coach about understanding how to figure whom you enjoy training.

Books Mentioned:

• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Pema Chodron's work
• The Desire Map by Danielle LaPorte

In this episode of the podcast, we welcome back on John Clark from Fit3Sixty.

Topics Covered:

• In 4 years you've gone from just surviving in a sports development career to being the owner of 3 gyms, what do you think has been key to your success?
• How he has gone about bringing on and continuing to improve his staff.
• Why the creation of culture has been essential for Fit3sixty's growth.
• If John thinks you have to look the part to be a personal trainer.
• How he's dealing with working so many hours at the minute.
• Why he puts such a focus on customer experience.
• How they've managed to get 50% of new sales from referrals.
• If John feels personal trainers should have a goal of getting their own facility.
• How his role has changed since the growth of the business.

Books Mentioned - Shoe Dog & Legacy

John's email - [email protected]

"Downtime is not unproductive. What is unproductive is spending your downtime in ways that are not particularly meaningful or enjoyable to you" In today's episode, we welcome on Laura Vanderkam. Laura is an author who has written some excellent books and her newest release is one I loved called Off The Clock, a book all about how we can better manage our time. It's one of those books I was more than happy to read twice as I took so much away from it and in this interview, we get into where Laura's fascination about TM comes from, how she sets up and plans her day & week, what she would recommend to someone who is just starting to think about better managing their time and much more.

• Why time management is such a big topic nowadays.
• If she thinks it's harder to manage nowadays.
• What Laura still struggles with when it comes to managing her time.
• Why she tracks her time and has done for over 3 years now.
• What big lessons she's learnt about time management since she's been studying it.
• How she sets up her week and day.
• Why she thinks a good idea to try tracking your time.
• Why stepping back and reflecting can make you feel like you have more time.
• How to use the concept of savouring to improve your life.

Laura's Site

Off The Clock Book

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In this episode, of the podcast, we welcome on Mike James from The Endurance Physio. If you're an LTB member you'll have no doubt seen Mike commenting and posting some incredibly useful info in our FB group over the last two months. He's incredibly knowledgeable when it comes to all things endurance sports and injuries and that's exactly where we take this conversation!

• How Mike got started with The Endurance Physio.
• What he thinks separates the people who take part in extreme endurance.
• How PT's can help endurance clients who get injured.
• What most injuries come down to in endurance sports.
• How we can encourage active management of injuries with our clients.
• Why it's so important that you build up a referral network in your local area and how to go about doing this.
• Are PT's skilled enough to work with endurance athletes?
• Does what we do as trainers actually help reduce injury?
• How do we ensure that the training we're doing doesn't interfere with their endurance training?
• Some misconceptions around running form and stretching.

Mike's Website

Mike's FB

In today's episode, we welcome on Ryan Doris. Ryan is a world class bodybuilder and powerlifter. He is an incredibly deep thinker and we delve into a whole host of cool topics today including overwhelm, what tools he is using to help his life, how he managing being deep into bodybuilding prep and much more.

Ryan's Site

IG- @thenattypro

YT- Youtube.com/thenattypro

Email- [email protected]

In this short episode, Stuart discusses a simple tip to go about identifying what you need to work on as a personal trainer to improve the way you do things.