Personal Training Interview With IDEA Personal Trainer Of The Year Nicki Anderson

Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Kaiser.

If you know the message I’m constantly sharing on this blog, you know about my belief that personal training can and should be very easy.
Growing a business?  Reaching all of your personal and income goals?  Creating an amazing life?  Going past your preconceived notions of what’s possible?  Now that might be a little harder …
But [...]

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PERSONAL TRAINER HIRING PART THREE: RULES TO LIVE BY

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Kaiser.

I’ve got a nice piece of advice that’s totally free …
Whenever your hesitant about something – when you feel like you can’t do it, are under-qualified, overwhelmed, or inexperienced, the best thing to do is learn everything you can about it.
Get total immersion in the subject – pick up a few books, learn from [...]

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EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT THE FITNESS BUSINESS I LEARNED FROM WATCHING FANTASY AND SCI-FI MOVIES …

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by Kaiser.

You’ll never catch me at a COMIC-CON convention … 

But sci-fi and fantasy movies are some of the most powerful mythology we have today (call this sad if you will).  While we enjoy them as escapist entertainment, remember that they are the products of the work of hundreds of brilliant people in [...]

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HIRING EMPLOYEES FOR YOUR PERSONAL TRAINING BUSINESS: Biggest Myths Exposed (part one of three).

Posted on 03. Jan, 2010 by Kaiser.

Who doesn’t like an extra buck?  Obviously not me, since the field-tested info from my training career is for sale (although when you consider the ridiculously low price I charge for it, I must not like money that much .
But there’s one particularly hard earned piece of info in THE SIX-FIGURE TRAINER MANUAL that [...]

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Trainer And Strong Man Elliott Hulse Shows You How To Really CRUSH IT …

Posted on 17. Dec, 2009 by Kaiser.

It’s funny what you can do on the web these days …
What I mean is that as a trainer, there are a lot of ways the web can serve you.

You can of course get personal training clients on the web.  Then through your site you can bond with them before they meet you. [...]

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HOW TO RUN A PERSONAL TRAINING STUDIO (It’s probably not what you think!)

Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by Kaiser.

Running a Personal Training Studio is a hairy business.  Even though I’m all for trainers starting their own training practices, that DOESN’T always mean opening a training studio.
Training studios are a completely different animal, with their own set of rules and circumstances that can BREAK a trainer that isn’t prepared for them.
But on [...]

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Five Difficult Conversations Every Personal Trainer’s Gotta Have At Some Point …

Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Kaiser.

As personal trainers, our jobs for the most part are brain-dead simple.  Sure, we studied, we have certifications and many of us went to college to learn what we know, but here’s the irony …
We rarely use any of that advanced info on a day-to-day basis.
But personal training isn’t ALL easy. The hard [...]

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Personal Training On A Shoestring Budget | Bootstrapping Your Way To Some Real Money

Posted on 08. Oct, 2009 by Kaiser.

You’ve probably heard me refer to Personal Training as this really cool “loop-hole” for fitness enthusiasts.  It’s a way to make excellent money and start a tremendous career doing what comes easy to you already, selling a product that doesn’t require any inventory, and only takes a handful of clients to achieve it. [...]

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How Much Do Personal Trainers Make? The Shocking Truth About Personal Training Income …

Posted on 04. Oct, 2009 by Kaiser.

When I first got started as a Personal Trainer, I was excited as hell.  I heard the stories of trainers earning high incomes, charging $100 an hour, looking in shape, and doing what came easy and was fun to them. Could you imagine something more appealing than that?
And call me naive, but through [...]

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HOW TO GET YOUR BUSINESS DEGREE FOR FREE: Welcome To Personal Training …

Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Kaiser.

It’s hard to think of anyone that doesn’t want to start a small business – and the ones that say they don’t are just lying or are too scared.  I think it’s a secret desire of every man, woman, and child in America (and these days pretty much any country out there).
The [...]

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Dave Parise Talks TOP-LEVEL TRAINING …

Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Kaiser.

For all you you other trainers out there that are old enough to remember 80’s television, we really had some action hits …
There was the Incredible Hulk, The Amazing Spider-Man,the A-Team, and just too many more shows to count that probably shaped our addiction to action, speed, and muscle.

Among these shows was one I [...]

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MARC LEBERT’S GREATEST HITS: The Prolific Inventor of the Lebert Equalizer Tells All …

Posted on 28. Aug, 2009 by Kaiser.

In case you haven’t noticed or you’re new to S-T, there’s some really kick ass content in the archives of this blog.
We have the same people spilling better insider info here than on many of the compilation products or paid newsletters out there, and it’s all for free.
One guy that you don’t hear much about [...]

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JUICE AND GROW RICH! Meet the greatest that’s ever done it, Jack Lalanne (5th and final part, Top Five Trainers Turned Entrepreneurs of All Time)

Posted on 03. Aug, 2009 by Kaiser.

This five part TRAINERS TURNED ENTREPRENEURS series has been crazy – it’s the most fun I’ve had all summer (wow, that’s pretty pathetic!).
All jokes aside, it’s been fun to explore some of the biggest names in fitness, and that’s not even the best part …
What’s been amazing, and something I totally wasn’t expecting, is how [...]

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TOP FIVE TRAINERS TURNED ENTREPRENEURS OF ALL TIME: PART 1 – BILL PHILLIPS, The Supplement King.

Posted on 22. Jun, 2009 by Kaiser.

I love biographies! Something about reading about the successes of other people and how they got there that makes you realize what you’re capable of. What I especially love is to learn about their humble beginning and adversities, most of which make anything you think is stopping you look really small in comparison.

On that note I bring you the first a special five part series I’m calling TOP FIVE TRAINERS TURNED MARKETERS OF ALL TIME.

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A New Manifesto For A New Age: THE WHISTLEBLOWER REPORT 2.0 IS COMING!!!

Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 by Kaiser.

Something funny happened recently, and in the process I had a major breakthrough …
PFP Magazine just asked me to write an article on managing your finances for personal trainers, or something to that effect –
And there’s something that putting your thoughts down on a page does for your thinking, because in the process [...]

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DIRECT MARKETING FOR PERSONAL TRAINERS!!! Talking To THE MASTER – BEDROS KEUILIAN (listen to the mind-blowing 40 minutes of audio)!!!

Posted on 01. Apr, 2009 by Kaiser.

Although we might fight it,  at a certain point in every Personal Trainer’s career, marketing has to become your primary focus if you want to continue to grow.
And by marketing, we’re not talking about the sexy GUCCI billboard ads you see driving home.  We’re talking about direct marketing – marketing that is created to [...]

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FITNESS MARKETING: TALKING TO THE GODFATHER!!! Ryan Lee Talks Big-Time Marketing And Puts A Hit Out On His Haters (45 minutes of audio from our converstation)!!!

Posted on 25. Mar, 2009 by Kaiser.

“I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
Don Corleone; The Godfather

Haha – and just like the Don, there’s been a guy in the fitness industry that’s making trainers an offer they can’t refuse for years now – that man’s Ryan Lee.  He’s been telling trainers to look beyond just their hourly sessions,  gyms, and [...]

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HANGING WITH BIG-TIME PERSONAL TRAINER SAM BAKHTIAR!!! Watch All Three Killer Videos About Sam’s Business (and take out a notepad and prepare to be schooled)!

Posted on 17. Mar, 2009 by Michael Duivis.

We’ve had some big time trainers on here – people that have set  great examples  we can learn from and lessons we can apply to our own businesses.
But right now, we have a trainer that takes the cake – Dr. Sam Bakhtiar!  In terms of running a successful business and doing it in a way [...]

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