The Strength Coach Podcast

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Chris Poirier, General Manager of Perform Better

We spoke about:

The upcoming Functional Training Summits

• Orlando- June 2-4 
• Long Beach June 30-July 2
• Chicago July 21-23
• Providence August 25-27

What's new?

Who is the Keynote speaker?

The future of live events.

THE FORMAT

Attendees will have a choice of two lectures and two hands-on sessions every 90 minutes. Sign up for each presentation is
not required; however space may be limited for select hands-on sessions.

THE STAFF

The presenters will include many of the most respected names in training, conditioning and rehab.

PLUS

Friday night complimentary social with the opportunity to network and exchange ideas.
Feature presentation with Q&A
Centrally located in downtown Orlando, Chicago, Providence and Long Beach

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Dr. Rob Bell, Mental Toughness Coach, author of "I Can't Wait To Be Patient"

We spoke about:

• Mental Toughness

• If You Can Wait, You Can Win
• Mental toughness from the perspective of looking at time
• The four laws of patience and the four killers to urgency

• Why he believe Patience is the recovery of the mind

• Why action not always the best answer

• How does GRIT fit in
• Understanding When to have urgency and when to be patient
• Much more

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We spoke about:

• Calculating Heart Rate Zones 
• His history behind heart rate training
• Speed work in-season

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

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Sumit Seth, co-founder of Naamly is on to demystify the Member Experience.  Today he talks about Mastering the Follow Up, some tips he learned from interactions with over 40 gym owners recently at different events

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

"7 Parts of Your Business That Need to be Ripped Apart" 

We spoke about:

Vince's upcoming seminar "Business Secrets for Gym Owners" in Rhode Island on May 5-6

7 Parts of Your Business That Need to be Ripped Apart

• Addressing Mindset

• Clarity on the vision
• Understanding Your Current Financial Position
• Pricing
• Your Organizational Chart (even if you are alone)
• Time Management Audit
• Evil Marketing Schemes
• Much More!

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Send an email to Vince  ([email protected]) with BROCHURE in the subject line

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Jennifer Broxterman, founder of Prosper Nutrition Coaching

We spoke about:

• The problem with nutrition coaching right now

• The importance of meeting people where they are
• 4 types of Nutrition Coaches
• What is Motivational Interviewing and how to use it the right way with nutrition coaching
• All the different levels The Iceberg of Success- what most coaches leave out
• Gamification for behavioral change with a few examples
• Prosper Nutrition Certification
• Much more

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We spoke about:

• Revisiting the Joint by Joint Approach
• Strength Testing and the 3-5 RM Test

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

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Sumit Seth, co-founder of Naamly is on to demystify the Member Experience.  Today he talks about a Not-So-Fine Dining Experience and the importance of knowing all of your member's touch points.

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 12 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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Jeremy Frisch- Performance Director at Teamworks Sports Performance

We spoke about:

• Where we have gone wrong in training young athletes

• The importance of making things fun
• Why it's important for kids to make their own rules
• Calisthenics defined and why they are important
• What can we take from gymnastics
  • Learning how to fall- front shoulder rolls
  • Back shoulder rolls
  • Cartwheels
• Jumping protocols
• Sprinting Windows and LTAD
• Much more

Watch my episode of Strength Coach TV where I visited Jeremy at his performance center.

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We spoke about:

• Spring Seminar recap and takeaways
• Middle Schoolers- What's the Challenge
• The boom in Middle School training

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

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Sumit Seth, co-founder of Naamly is on to demystify the Member Experience.  Today he talks about Personalized Attention- Part 2- The Sales Presentation.  A real life example from one of Sumit's recent trips..

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 12 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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Kevin Carr- co-founder of Movement as Medicine and CFSC, co-owner at MBSC

We spoke about:

• The evolution of your business' demographics

• Client perception of your business
• The idea that Everyone is an Athlete

• Why you should know about the "uninitiated believers"

• What it means to activate and acclimate
• Showing clients some success the first time out
• Why the conversation is the most important thing to master
• Understanding what motivates clients
• His lecture at the MBSC Spring Seminar- "Get Moving- How to get Clients Started and Make Them Stay"
• Much more

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We spoke about:

• Foam Rolling- why he still loves to use it
• “It’s a lot easier to run an athlete into an injury than to run an athlete into shape.”
• his article What's Fast?

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

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Sumit Seth, co-founder of Naamly is on to demystify the Member Experience.  Today he talks about Personalized Attention- Part 1.  A real life example from one of Sumit's recent trips.

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 12 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 

"7 Profit Drivers That Will Help You Make More Money at Your Gym" 

We spoke about:

Vince's upcoming seminar "Business Secrets for Gym Owners" in Rhode Island on May 5-6

• Pricing Power in the New Economy

• Time Management for Gym Owners
• Hiring Trainers in the New Employment Era
• Sales Mastery for Gym Owners
• What’s Next
• Small Group Personal Training Mastery
• Much More!

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Pete Houlihan- co-founder at WIN Performance Chicago

We spoke about:

• What is the skill set and the physical demands on each part of the Defensive Back positions

• What does a week look like in the off-season

• Philosophy on speed
• Philosophy on agility
• Conditioning for DBs

• The importance of strength for performance

• What coaches get wrong
• Managing load and overuse
• Much more

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We spoke about:

• Box Squats- should we do them?
• MBSC Spring Seminar
• Sprinting with an implement

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

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Sumit Seth, co-founder of Naamly is on to demystify the Member Experience.  Today he talks about Offboarding- Embracing the reality that customers will leave.

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 12 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 Giant Pile of Money Gym Owners Sit On...But Are Too Drunk on "More Leads" to Activate It" 

We spoke about:

• What happens once they get a lead

• What to do with unconverted leads

• The fortune is in the follow up

  • Immediate

  • Long term

  • Former members follow up

• Speed is essential in initial follow up-

  • why it should be automated BUT

  • Actually speaking to someone is the best way
    
    
• Why you should have an "incubator"
  
  
• Listen to the Howard Stern clip about Feedback that Vince spoke about
  
  
• Much More!

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Casey Wheel- Head Strength and Conditioning Coach at Pacific Ridge School in Carlsbad, CA
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We spoke about:

• Agility with a strength coach lens

• Defining agility

• Where do coaches get it wrong
• His 4 Tiers Agility system
• Creating and limiting separation
• Is there a place for Implement training during agility work
• Where does weight training fit in
• His thoughts on linear speed
• Vertical jump- is it overhyped?
  
• Working with teenage athletes

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White Board Breakdown and 3 Variations

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We spoke about:

• Information Overload for young athletes and what we can do about it in the weightroom
• Know the Lens Coaches are looking through
• The Lateral Jump Thread
• Understanding the conditioning from the sport and how to fill that bucket

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

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Sumit Seth, co-founder of Naamly is on to demystify the Member Experience.  Today he talks about Onboarding and all the touch points leading up to your experience.

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 12 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!