The Dale & Kyle Show

Now we’re several months into various stages of lockdown, it’s time to look at your online sessions (and face-to-face one’s too) and start adding back in some wow and excitement.

Dale’s run hundreds of bootcamp sessions and workshop sessions from all around the world. Often to groups of people where a lot of them don’t know him.

He shares how he gets people engaged and having fun quickly and then leaving the session talking about what they experienced to others.

Topic Times:

• Welcome to the show! [0:00]
• What to add to the start and end of your sessions [3:20]
• Dale share’s 6 icebreaker games to kick off your session [5:50]
• Using games as breaks and a tool for connection [12:30]
• Keeping clients engaged in your Facebook group [16:00]
• Right here, right now [19:50]

Who We Are

Dale and Kyle use this podcast as a way to share their advice and learnings in a casual, unfiltered format. We also both have ‘proper’ businesses where we help trainers and instructors improve their skills through various products. You can find out more about Dale and his offerings at Energetic Education and more about Kyle on Bootcamp Ideas.

Show notes:  

In this much more personal episode, Dale and Kyle check in on what they are feeling at the moment, the struggles of living in a global pandemic and what they are doing to try to stay hopeful and positive.

Show notes: https://www.bootcampideas.com/soup-trainers-tribe/

This week on The Trainers Tribe podcast we look at books and reading and share 3 books each that forever changed out lives after reading them. Kyle's 3 involve productivity, changing the way you think about things and courage. Dale's more of an autobiography man and shares 3 books that helped him change his priorities in life and to see struggle and failure in a new light.

Plus, early on in the episode there is a HUGE personal announcement from Dale. You’ll have to listen to find out what it is.

• Different habits you can try to read more [2:35]
• Book 1: Shoe Dogs by Phil Knight [5:50]
• Book 2: Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh [13:00]
• Book 3: That Will Never Work by Marc Randolph [17.55]
• Book 4: The 4 Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris* [23:45]
• Book 5: The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau* [31:00]
• Book 6: The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown [37:10]
• Right Here, Right Now [45:25]

Support The Podcast

We keep this podcast ad-free, so here's an un-addy ad (of sorts) in our show notes!

You can support this free podcast by signing up for paid resources from Dale and Kyle like BootCraft and Fitness Game Zone. It's a Win, Win, Win because you get access to a great resource that will help your fitness business, we get money to keep making the podcast and that improves the fitness industry overall with trainers armed with good knowledge.

Show notes: https://www.bootcampideas.com/books-trainers-tribe/

How can you possibly fit everything you need to do to grow your group fitness business in one day?

To do lists seem like a good idea but between planning and teaching classes, being there for your clients, and all the behind the scenes that need to be done in the business and then taking care of your house and family the time runs out quickly.

Especially when finding time for marketing? Between the 17 thousand social media platforms, each with a different strategy you need to learn, it can all seem utterly overwhelming.

So today we want to help!

We cover what works for us and discussion time blocking, urgent versus important, to do lists, how to stay consistant and the Joy Of Missing Out.

Timestamps:

• 168 hours [1:00]
• What is consistency? How can I get it? [6:10]
• I do really well for a while, but then I fall off the productivity wagon [8:55]
• How to know what task most important [18:30]
• Tips for To Do Lists [21:00]
• Where to spend your time with your marketing (JOMO – Joy Of Missing Out) [30:30]

Full show notes & links: https://www.bootcampideas.com/time-management/ 

Sometimes it seems that no matter how good your sessions are and no matter how much energy that you pour into creating and running them, some clients still find excuses not to come.

Cancelling last minute, not showing up, arriving late, injuries, getting sick, sleeping in and more. I’m sure you’ve experienced your fair share of these.

In today’s episode Dale and Kyle share with you what’s going on in the minds of clients who are repeat offenders of being flaky and how you can get them motivated and inspired to come once more.

Here’s some of the topics we cover:

• The client who keeps saying they’re coming and never turns up [1:15]
• How to discover your Ideal Client [10:15]
• Build in some accountability [13:45]
• Understanding what’s going on when a client is flaky [15:35]
• Make it magical [25:20]
• Dale champions resilience in young’uns [29:20]
• Right here, right now [32:10]

Support the Podcast

Clients flaking out because your workouts aren’t very good? You can support podcast and get awesome group fitness ideas by signing up to Fitness Game Zone or BootCraft.

Resources Mentioned

• Podcast: Marketing Without Marketing – The Trainers Tribe
• Cadbury
• Book: Braving The Wilderness by Brené Brown*
• Annual Bootcamp Ideas Competition voting is open
• The Ready State
• Audible
• *NEW* Fitness Game Zone

Full show notes: https://www.bootcampideas.com/flaky-clients-ttt/

This week on The Trainers Tribe we're continuing on from last weeks episode which is all about how to return to running your face-to-face sessions and make them even better than before.

The original episode was so long that we decided to split it into two pieces. Last week we covered guideposts 1 to 4, this week we're covering the 3 remaining guideposts.

Guidepost 5: Time To Increase Your Prices (and what to do with clients who can’t afford it) [1:15]

Guidepost 6: Think Of Another Revenue Stream [11:30]

Guidepost 7: Be Kind To Yourself [27:40]

Support the Podcast

Love this episode? You can support the continued creation of this ad-free podcast by purchasing the services we offer like Fitness Game Zone and BootCraft.

Full show notes and links: https://bootcampideas.com/relaunching2/

There is a great opportunity to be had right now for group fitness business owners.

Exercise has been one of the few things that our governments have continued to recommend we do through out this pandemic. Now, with small gatherings of people outdoors being introduced in Australia and other countries, people are going to be looking for ways to rebuild their exercise habits.

In today's episode we talk about how to relaunch your bootcamp to the world and make it better than before (for both you and your clients).

In this episode, Part 1, we cover:

Guidepost 1: Design It How You Want It To Be [2:15]

Guidepost 2: Select The Clients and Hours You Want To Work [8:00]

Guidepost 3: Add Extra Value [10:00]

Guidepost 4: Introduce Wellbeing Challenges Each Week [14:10]

In Part 2, which will be released next Friday, we cover:

Guidepost 5: Time To Increase Your Prices (and what to do with clients who can’t afford it) [21:00]

Guidepost 6: Think Of Another Revenue Stream [31:20]

Guidepost 7: Be Kind To Yourself [47:15]

Support the Podcast

Love this episode? You can support the continued creation of this ad-free podcast by purchasing the services we offer like Fitness Game Zone and BootCraft.

Full show notes and links: https://bootcampideas.com/relaunching1/

As restrictions begin to ease, what’s the best way for you to return to face-to-face training?

Should you stop doing online stuff? Should you do a bit of both? Will your clients even want to come back?

That, and more, is what we cover in today’s episode of The Trainers Tribe.

• 0:55 – Listener Question: What is going to be clients biggest barriers to returning to face-to-face training? What can we do to alleviate this and motivate clients from a heart-centered place?
• 4:50 – Dale talks about the opportunity here.
• 7:15 – Keep your clients updated (daily at the moment)
• 11:30 – The power of personal check-ins
• 17:15 – Use this Personalised Check-In Message Template
• 20:30 – Why bookings are essential! Get members to commit.
• 32:30 – Is it worth running extra sessions (because gathering sizes are limited)?
• 36:05 – Right here, right now

How to support The Trainers Tribe

If you’ve been loving these new episodes of The Trainers Tribe and you want some way of supporting us here’s a couple of ways we’d really appreciate support:

1. Apple Podcasts users: Leave a Review for us in the Apple Store. Simply tap the Reviews tab, then tap “Write a Review” at the bottom of the screen.
2. Or if you’re not already, you can become a member of BootCraft and/or Fitness Game Zone. Both are amazing resources for trainers and the income they provide allows us to do things like make this podcast for free with no ads.

Participate

• Join our free Facebook group: The Trainers Tribe
• Ask us a question

Full show notes: https://bootcampideas.com/returning-to-face-to-face-training/

Did you know the questions you ask yourself can have more impact on your success than knowing the right answers?

For example: Spending a week asking yourself whether your sessions should be at 6:00 or 6:30 will leave you feeling worn out without much to show for it. If you spent that same week instead asking yourself what you'd like to help your clients achieve in 5 years, you'd end up with a much better idea of where you are going.

In this episode Dale and I (Kyle) talk about the difference between high quality and low quality questions. I share some stories about getting stuck on low-level questions and what I did to move forward and Dale shares 6 amazing high quality questions he asks himself each day.

We then finish off the pod by answering a bunch of common questions so that you don't have to spend lots of time thinking about them:

• How long is the best session? 45 minutes or 60 minutes or another time? (thanks Peter from Wales) [skip to 14:40]
• What is the best course to do for trainers? (Or place to get qualified as a trainer?) [skip to 18:20]
• What is a good system/software for tracking my clients? [skip to 21:00]
• Should I offer a free trial? [skip to 22:50]
• After this is all over, what is a good way to set up a hybrid offering for my sessions (virtual sessions and face to face)? [skip to 26:30]
• What is a good formula for a 12-week challenge? [skip to 29:45]
• How do I get noticed? [skip to 34:05]
• How can I help clients with their nutrition? [skip to 36:55]

Got a question for us? Ask away.

Other useful timestamps:

• 4:30 – Asking questions as a way to avoid doing what you need to do (instead of taking action)
• 7:00 – Start your day with good questions
• 11:00 – What can you do when you get stuck on a question?
• 14:20 – Rapid fire questions (see times above)
• 39:00 – Right Here, Right Now

Support the Podcast:

Love this episode? You can support the continued creation of this ad-free podcast by purchasing the services we offer like Fitness Game Zone and BootCraft.

Resources Mentioned:

• Apps:
  • Jugar Life (for journaling questions)
• Client Management Software:
  • Mind Body Online
  • PTminder
• Explosive Custom Macros
• Globber Scooter
• Links to see if you can train face to face again:
  • Australia State by State:
    • FITREC
    • Fitness Australia
  • USA State by State:
    • New York Times
  • I’ll add more countries as I find them. If you know of a good resource, tell me!
• Ask us a question!
• Join The Trainers Tribe Community Facebook Group
• Instagram:
  • Dale Sidebottom
  • The Virtual PT
  • Bootcamp Ideas
• Facebook:
  • Bootcamp Ideas
  • Energetic Education

Full show notes: https://bootcampideas.com/questions/

Is being successful really about adding new clients to your business every week? When is enough clients... enough?

Today’s episode is inspired by a question from a listener, Donna from New York (if you have a question for us you can ask it here).

She wrote:

This question lead Dale and Kyle on a 30 minute conversation about success, poor marketing techniques, B.S. and comparing yourselves to others.

Links and timestamps are below.

• 0:45 – Quick update on how some state’s are letting face to face group fitness sessions resume
• 4:00 – Are the terms ‘grow or die’ and ‘maintenance is a myth’ true? Do I really have to keep growing my business?
• 7:45 – False dichotomies and bad marketing
• 10:15 – Investing in new clients versus your existing clients
• 13:30 – Defining your own version of success
• 16:50 – Being present with what you DO have
• 19:30 – The endless treadmill of comparison
• 24:00 – More on defining your own version of success
• 28:45 – Right Here, Right Now

Quotes

- Dale Sidebottom

- Kyle Wood

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Full show notes: https://bootcampideas.com/success/