I’ve been calling my friend Cynthia Conde a celebrity trainer for years (mainly because  she’s been training major celebrities), but she’s really stepped into that role with her new show on VH1, Bridal Bootcamp, which aired last night.
I heard that she filmed the show two years ago, and I just assumed it already aired on [...]

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There was a time when I was once an innocent trainer with a very humble view of what it meant to be a trainer.  I was looking at what everyone else was doing and based my plan off of that.
So like everyone else, I was “working hard”, hustling for clients, and goofing off the rest [...]

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Based on the positive feedback the last blog post on a PERSONAL TRAINER DONE REAL GOOD, Dana White, I decided to come back with another installment …
Now this choice may be a little more controversial than the last one (and considering Dana that says a lot), but you’ll find it’s a guy that has no [...]

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I try to keep things as realistic as possible here, to help you achieve your immediate income goals and execute your current action plan so you can start getting results and making more money right now.  That’s the purpose of showing you a lot of success stories from blog readers, all the way to top [...]

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If you work for a big-box healthclub, or are even a staff trainer at a smaller club, I feel sorry for you.
When you work for a gym, you’re a commodity – when someone wants a trainer, the training manager’s eyes scan the gym floor and he randomly picks the first trainer walking buy to [...]

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7 Steps To Go Independent And Finally Quit Your Job
Guest post by Greg Crawford

Right now as I write this article, I’m on an airplane headed to the Fitness Business Summit. This will be my second one, but last year I was still a broke burnt out trainer working for a corporate gym. [...]

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If you’ve been following my advice and have an assistant or two and a few full blow employees under you, you know that you’re day is still filled from morning to night with new things to do.  The work (or a better word is opportunities) do not go away just because there are more [...]

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Personal Training is the best way to start a simple training practice paying you high hourly rates -you need about a dozen clients to earn pretty damn close to six figures.  Just make sure that even when things are small, you stay smart and treat it like a real business.
From there you can grow [...]

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“What usually wins fights is not so much style as content.”
A.J. Liebling (famous American journalist)
I would have to agree with A.J. – it’s usually substance that wins over style, hype, and flash in most battles – not just in the fight game, but in getting started with your personal training business as well.
That being said, [...]

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It’s pretty interesting what we’ve been talking about in this series so far -it hasn’t been client getting strategies, or advertising, or anything like that.
It’s been about getting more out of what you already have – getting more from each client and each training session.  And not in a sales judo kind of [...]

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(This article is adapted from THE SIX-FIGURE TRAINER MANUAL and originally appeared in Personal Fitness Professional Magazine.)

If you need a sudden jolt of credibility and need to add value to your training sessions so you can charge the highest rates in training, either for your solo or group sessions, progress tracking is it.
And [...]

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Uh, oh – just when you thought it was a good time to start work on your e-book, Joel Marion is back to launch another one of his fat-loss programs.
In case you don’t know about it, Joel has has been on a tear of breaking the CLICKBANK record on three day promotions since [...]

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Article on choosing a Personal Training specialty originally published in PFP Magazine.

Through this blog, emails, and speed coaching sessions I have held with MANUAL owners from time to time, I’ve talked personally to literally hundreds of trainers looking to start their own training business, get more clients, and make more money, and there’s one common [...]

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I sat down for coffee recently with someone I’ve known for a while  (and you may have seen featured on the blog), celebrity trainer Cynthia Conde.  She’s a fellow trainer and highly successful bootcamp operator in my area, and she’s been there from the beginning witnessed first hand how I took off as a [...]

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The internet’s strange in that you can express desires that you can’t or wouldn’t admit to anyone else or anywhere else.  Google has become everyon’s best friend.
This matters because we can get accurate and almost real time data about what’s going on in the general populations heads at any given time.  It’s a really unique [...]

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Guest post on a running a Personal Training Business from IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year Nicki Anderson:
After more than 12 years of owning my own business I have come to realize there are certain pieces of the “training” puzzle that are necessary to create and maintain a successful business; be it for independent trainers [...]

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Hiring and management advice for Personal Trainers and Fitness Entrepreneurs.
Although many of us are “just” Personal Trainers and not large company CEOs, you’d be hugely mistaken to think tat you don’t have something to learn from the top business minds.
Their knowledge in running multi-billion dollar companies and leading them to even greater results has [...]

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I’m starting a new category here on Super-Trainer called the SUPER-TRAINER AWARDS.  First off I’d like to hand out the award for THE WORLD’S WORST PERSONAL TRAINER.  Second place goes to this guy:

Oh and here’s the first place winner (this video is so raunchy I couldn’t house it on this site  – if you’re [...]

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