The Strength Coach Podcast

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Vince Gabriele, owner of Gabriele Fitness and founder of Fitness Business University and Kiss Marketing

"The Year Ahead"

We spoke about:

• Planning for the year ahead
  • After action review- What worked?  Repeat it
  • What are your pillars
  • Working in quarters
• Building Marketing Assets, not doing Marketing "Stuff"
• Have a "reason" for your marketing- it doesn't have to be huge
• Why email marketing is so important
• Leveraging the fingers of the Glove
• The Surge Program- learning the skill of Marketing
• The Skill of Writing- how to get better
• Being relatable 
• Much More!

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Pete McCall, Senior Director of Education for EōS Fitness, Author of Smarter Recovery- A Practical Guide to Maximizing Training Results

We spoke about:

• Specific Modalities of recovery
• History of Recovery

• Overtraining?  Is it really a problem?

• The role of outside stress
• Functional Overreach
• High Intensity Exercise
• Built-in recovery
• Can we adapt to repeated recovery methods
• An overview of his new book Smarter Recovery- A Practical Guide to Maximizing Training Results

We spoke about:

• His take on recovery and what they do at MBSC
• TRT
• Working with endurance athletes

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

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About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

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John Graham, Senior Network Administrator for Fitness & Sports Performance at St. Luke's University Health Network, Author of Metabolic Training: The Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Workout

We spoke about:

• What is Metabolic Training
  • Is it Just HIIT?
• How it can Complement Serious or competitive athletes training
• Can we work on strength and power AND Aerobic methodologies
• EPOC
• An overview of his new book Metabolic Training- the Ultimate Guide to the Ultimate Workout

We spoke about:

• How Sport Coaches can get conditioning in without end of practice finishers
• Hip Thrusts
• Slow strength work for tendon health

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

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Sumit Seth discusses "The little things that make a big difference- little amenities that can turn your gym into your member’s haven."

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Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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Vince Gabriele, owner of Gabriele Fitness and founder of Fitness Business University and Kiss Marketing

"The Formula for a Serious Cash Flow in January"

We spoke about:

• "50 Strong": The MOST successful challenge he has had over the last few years 
• What he offered in the challenge
• Offering something other than a Fat Loss program
• Getting current and former members involved
• Attracting new members
• Building community with the challenge
• Much More!

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Chuck Wolf, Human Motion Associates joins Mike Boyle, a conversation about essentially Adapting to Change- how things have changed over the years really from a technological perspective but how so much has stayed the same.

We spoke about navigating those changes through the years.

Combined with the Hit the Gym segment

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Sumit Seth discusses The Secrets of Escape Rooms and how they can supercharge your gym's success

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention. 

Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

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Dan Hellman, founder of H3, physical therapist and SOMA teacher

We spoke about:

• Taking a different look at fascia
• Why it's important to look at the direction of fascia 
• Why muscle is "a stupid piece of meat"
• Myofascial stretching
• Why foam rolling might not be the best option
• How fascia plays into injuries
• The fascia as a computer in your body
• Much more

We spoke about:

• Can you maintain strength with 8-10 reps
• HIT Training 
• Language in S&C
• How he uses Tempo Runs

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

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Sumit Seth discusses deliver the feeling of joy and delight with the Art of Surprise.

ing Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention.  Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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Vince Gabriele, owner of Gabriele Fitness and founder of Fitness Business University and Kiss Marketing

"Marketing to Athletes"

We spoke about:

• Why he stopped working with athletes during COVID
• Why he started again
• the GRIT Athlete Program
  • using a simple website
• Why you need a separate brand from your main business
• Facility considerations and mixing adults with athletes
• Using the scarcity trigger
• "Go where the fish are"- Who is going to buy this program
• Why you need to keep "Pouring gas on the fire"
• How to use sponsorships to your advantage
• Licensing the GRIT program
• Much More!

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Dennis Dunphy, Founder of Stick Mobility 

We spoke about:

• Defining Mobility and the factors that can improve it
• Can we really improve mobility?
• How isometrics play a role in mobility
• Considering the fascia 
• Breathing and it's role in becoming more mobile
• Where does the Stick fit in?
• Much more

Check out Stick Mobility

We spoke about:

• Outsourcing around the gym
• Isometrics- when and where in his program
• Weight training for speed

Check out my special interview with Coach Boyle "40 Mistakes, 40 Years"

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Sumit Seth discusses the importance of Self Care

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention.  Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

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Dr. Brian Watters, Owner of Indy Muscle & Joint Clinic

We spoke about:

• Being a Chiro- It's more than just popping
• 3 Aspects of patient care
  • Soft tissue
  • Joints
  • Rehab
• The importance of patient history
• Assessments and the decision about what modality to use
• Teaching breathing
• Giving homework to patients
• How does bodybuilding shape his practice
• The influence of DNS on his practice and personal training
• his lecture "The new Core- the Role of Core Stability in Athletics"
• Much more

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We spoke about:

• Extensive ploys and where they fit in the program
• Coach Carvel's 3-2-1 philosophy
• Squeezing the 2s

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No segment this week

Naamly is the member experience platform for modern training gyms - It puts all of your communication with your members in one place, allowing you to keep track of that communication, so important for retention.  Go to Naamly.com, you can schedule a demo to get a feel for what it’s about. 
Use referral code StrengthCoach to get started on a free 30 day trial.

About "Be Like the Best"

During the last 17 years of interviewing many strength coaches, fitness professionals, physical therapists and gym owners, Anthony Renna has accumulated a rolodex of “The Best of the Best” in the fitness profession.

This book is a collection of interviews with some of those top successes. Through his conversations, you’ll learn how they evolved in their careers, what habits and traits they believe made them successful, their goal setting processes, how they get through the hard times everyone faces and even some books to read and people they recommend following.

After each interview, you’ll find a challenge or action step based on an important takeaway from each interview.  These are designed to encourage you to build the habits to Be Like the Best on your journey to dominating in this profession.

As a fitness professional, you’re already making an impact in your clients, athletes and patients. This book will help you stand out in a crowded field and help guide you on the road to success.

Go to BeLiketheBest.com for more info

Thanks for Listening!

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"How Coaching Has Taken 3 Gyms to the Next Level" with 4 Members of the SPF Mastermind

Joseph Riggio, Varsity House Gym
Ben Quist, Form and Fitness
Tony Bianchino, Out Run Your Fork
Dan Goodman, Varsity House Gym

Fitness Business University and Kiss Marketing

We spoke about:

• What was the pain that got them to hire a coach for their business
  
• What was the turning point in your business since you have been with SPF
• What is one part of the coaching that you wish you had sooner
• What makes Vince Gabriele's group special
• The key to partnerships
• Why every coach needs a coach
• Much More!

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