Ltb Podcast

In this episode we chat about Steph's journey, how she thinks about success, why loving what you do involves tasks you don't like 70% of the time and how to create a body positive environment for your clients. Steph's Instagram Iron Lion Training Website

In this episode, Stuart welcomes on returning guest Tony Gentilcore. Topics Covered: How his career has changed since he's had his first child. Why he still feels in-person seminars are the best place to move your career forward. What does he think has been key to his career progress. Why taking responsibility with his finances was a huge lesson for him. Why he believes that owning your own studio is not the pinnacle of being a personal trainer. Why Tony thinks working in a commercial gym is a fantastic way to get a strong start in the industry. Why it's so important as a fitness professional that you still have a life outside of fitness. Tony's Website

In this episode, we welcome on Patrick Umphrey. I've followed Patrick for years and recently joined his free FB group called Eat, Train, Progress which is a fantastic online/ offline community for people who care about their health, lifting weights and generally just being good humans who have a laugh. Topics Covered: A 15-minute conversation around whether or not being in better or worse shape makes you a more effective personal trainer. What his journey into becoming a personal trainer has been. How he started his Eat, Train, Progress free group. How he's grown this to 17,000+ members and used it to build his business. What spending a few years answering questions in forums has taught him. What he's learnt from following Eric Helms. How the ETP group started. What does he think has been key to its growth and why does the group has such high engagement. Helping clients pick themselves back up after setbacks. Eat, Train, Progress Free FB Group

in today's episode, we welcome back on Molly Galbraith from Girls Gone Strong. Molly and the team at GGS have created a 5-day course called sexual harassment and assault in the health and fitness industry and as an education podcast for personal trainers, we want to help make as big a difference as we can to this topic. If we're to make any kind of progress, we need to all be on the singing off of the same song sheet and this is exactly where I see conversations like this and resources like the course GGS have created really moving us as an industry forwards.     Free 5-Day Course GGS Free FB Group    

In this short marketing mini-episode, Chris takes over the show and discusses how Personal Trainers can use social media to build their businesses.

"Nobody cares what I do, they care what I do for others"   Jason Leenaarts is a podcast host of the fantastic Revolutionary You!, a gym owner and writer. In this episode, we delve into his past as it contains some brilliant lessons I think we can all learn from. He's come from a place of being a drug addict and we chat about what this phase of his life has taught him and how it's shaped the coach he is today. He's also had his facility for just under 10 years and is still doing 10+ PT session days - if you follow him on social media you'll know this as he posts pictures of his clients constantly, which is another topic we also discuss!   There is an insane amount of lessons and stories in this and I'm confident any trainer will be able to take something from Jason's journey.   Books Endless Referrals by Bob Berg   www.jasonleenaarts.com www.revfittherapy.com (FB)www.facebook.com/jason.leenaarts (IG)www.instagram.com/jasonleenaarts

In this short episode, Stuart asks everyone who listens to send a picture of where you're listening to the episode to stuart@liftthebar.com and gives an update on the LTB Personal Training course which is currently live for signups.  LTB Personal Training Course Website

In this episode, we welcome on Chet Morjaria from Strength Education. We chat about putting the human first in your coaching, how to work out what your best working self is and how to help your clients take more responsibility. Book Recommendations Deep Work by Cal Newport Meaningful by Bernadette Jiwa Chet's Instagram Chet's Facebook 2-Week LTB Free Trial Link

"I've got a million and one ways to generate leads that don't include anything to do with FB ads or online marketing" - Travis Jones In this episode, Stuart welcomes on Travis Jones from Results Based Training. They chat about his journey, which contains many many unbelievable stories, lead generation strategies, referrals and selling. TJ's Instagram Roadmap to a Million Dollars FB Group

Episode two in a series of short marketing episodes from Chris Burgess. In this, Chris discusses the difference between getting good and bad quality leads in sales and how using pain points in your marketing could be problematic. Contact Chris - chris@liftthebar.com

In this episode, we welcome back on Mark Fisher from Mark Fisher Fitness and Business for Unicorns to discuss what's new, how they are improving their onboarding procedures at MFF, how Mark has got so good at articulating himself clearly, metacognition, nutrition coaching and much more! Mark Fisher Fitness Business for Unicorns LTB PT of the Year Award

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. 2-Week LTB Free Trial    

In this episode, we welcome on TeamUp's director Tim Green on to the podcast. Tim is incredibly knowledgeable about marketing, the customer experience and all things to do with TeamUp and how their service can be used to help and support trainers & facility owners. We spend a good bit of this interview discussing marketing, what they are discovering through their fitness journey project, the onboarding process for clients and then we get into what is it that TeamUp does.   LTB members get a fantastic 60-day free trial of teamup, which you can see more about on the trusted partner's page of the site or by checking out this link - goteamup.com/ltb   LTB PT of the Year Award

"Concentrate on the client's you do have instead of the client's you don't have"   I joined LTB back in December 2013 and the first person I spoke to was a guy named Ian Stevenson. When he started in LTB, he was running a bootcamp that he charged £1 per session for, now he's got a facility with over 120 members in it and 2 members of staff. If you ever wanted some inspiration for building something out of very little in our world of personal training, Ian is one of the best examples you'll see.   He's had more ups and downs than most and will likely be the first to tell you "the big red fuck-it button" still exists, but he's an excellent example of someone who has built something with his members in the forefront of his mind throughout, tried his best to learn & grow whenever possible and asked for help & support when he's needed it.    For anyone who tunes into this one and can't make out what we're saying, I'm sorry but you're just going to have to make do as the transcription service had no chance

"Use 90% of your time making your strengths stronger and 10% of your time neutralising your weaknesses"   Great to welcome Krista back on to the show. Her previous episodes have been incredibly popular and I've spoken numerous times about how much she's taught me, especially from a coaching standpoint. Loads of cool topics covered in this episode!   Topics Covered: 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 coac

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 - John@fit3sixty.co.uk

"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

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

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- Ryan@fortiseq.com

"99% of sales comes way before the close. The sale will take care of itself if you take care of people" -- Elias Scarr   Elias is the membership director at Results Fitness, the gym which previous podcast guest Alwyn Cosgrove runs. As he is the membership director when it comes to sales and the consultation process he knows his stuff inside out.    If you listen to this episode, here are a few big things I picked up: - Comparing being an expert vs being good enough in the numerous things that personal trainers need to do. - Creating a benefits list for getting over self-worth issues. - Making the asking for money stage as easy as asking a friend for money for something you have paid for by focussing on building the relationship. - Reframing objections as buying signals, which can be fixed.   Results Fitness University LTB 2-Week Free Trial