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Setting Up An Online Coaching Business
A practical guide for personal trainers wanting to set up online.
Time Management Tips for Busy Personal Trainers
Here are practical time management tips to help busy PTs stay productive, reduce stress, and make room for growth.
Helping Clients Stay Motivated When Progress Slows
Here’s how to help your clients stay motivated when progress slows and how to turn plateaus into powerful growth opportunities.
Helping Clients Understand the Need for Progressive Overload
Whether your client wants to build muscle, increase strength, improve endurance, or lose fat, progressive overload is the key to long-term results.
But how do you explain it in a way that clicks?
Supporting Clients in the Age of Weight Loss Medication
A Practical Approach Beyond Media Hype
When “Basic” Is Too Hard: Programming for Clients with Limitations
A look at how to approach programming when your go-to exercises are out of reach for the person in front of you.
How Much of You Should You Share on Social Media as a Personal Trainer?
As a personal trainer, your social media presence isn’t just about showcasing client results or promoting your services, it’s also about showing you. But how much of your personal life should you share? Let’s break it down.
Balancing Variety with Consistency in Client Programming
This blog explores one of the most common challenges personal trainers face, striking the right balance between keeping workouts fresh and maintaining the consistency needed for progress.
How To Adapt Your Coaching Style To Different Personality Types
Every client brings their own mindset, motivation and emotional landscape to the gym floor, and recognising these differences can help you build trust, improve communication and ultimately deliver better results.
Staff Management Tips
Managing staff is a lot like working with clients. With clients you work to set and manage expectations, listen to understand not just to reply and aim to help them create an environment in which they motivate themselves. The same applies to a staff team.
Here are 3 areas that need to be addressed when you become a boss.
Common Mistakes PT’s Make About Client Results
Getting caught up in certain results can leave both trainers and clients feeling dissatisfied. Take a look at ways to avoid common mistakes.
How to Create a Profile Board That Stands Out
In a busy gym or studio environment, your profile board might be your first and only chance to make an impression on potential clients. Whether it’s displayed on the wall or featured online, a great profile isn’t just about listing your qualifications, it’s about connecting with people, telling your story, and showing how you can help them.
Building Your Confidence
Doubting yourself and feeling much less than confident in your abilities is a common place that trainers can find themselves stuck in. Whether this is a temporary thing or a more chronic situation it is important to know that you are not alone and that we have all been there at least once.
Are you A Personal Trainer Or Therapist?
A look at the importance of knowing and maintaining boundaries in your fitness business.
Should I Train My Client When They Are injured?
Work for a short space of time as a PT, you’ll quickly understand that you will come across a client who picks up an injury. The big question then is, should you train them?
Create Your Marketing Tool Box
Use the prompts and examples in this blog to set yourself up for marketing success.
Coaching A Turkish Get Up
Maggie shares her tips on coaching a Turkish Get Up
Learning When To Say No To A Potential New Client
Not every potential client is right for you and learning when and how to say no to a client is a very important skill to learn
Stages Of A PT Business
Recieving advice and inspiration from other trainers is brilliant but sometimes it's useful to consider how thhe advice might benefit from same context based on what stage the other trainers are at compared to your own.
Training Women Through The Menstrual Cycle: What Every Personal Trainer Should Know
The menstrual cycle isn’t just about menstruation. It’s a powerful driver of physical and emotional changes that can affect energy levels, motivation, sleep, recovery, and even injury risk.
The Importance Of Coaching Older Adults With Compassion And Purpose
Coaching older adults requires more than technical skills, it’s about fostering trust, understanding their unique challenges, and creating an environment where they feel valued.
Redefining Body Confidence and Coaching Culture
Exploring body confidence, coaching culture, and inclusivity in fitness opens the door to a more sustainable and compassionate approach, one that moves away from restriction and instead prioritises self-awareness and long-term wellbeing.
Embracing Change: What Fitness Coaches Can Learn from Industry Shifts
This blog outlines four key principles to help trainers stay grounded while embracing ongoing change.
Exercise Mechanics
By Jake Weekes
What are exercise mechanics and do you need to know about them?
Attracting The Clients You Want
Whilst you can’t guarantee that everyone who you work with will fit your ideal, you can absolutely adjust your marketing to attract more of the people who you do enjoy working with. Click the read more button for more.
Who Belongs in The Fitness Industry
The fitness industry, like any industry, should be made up of a mix of ages, backgrounds, genders, experiencees, sizes, shapes, ethnicities, everything that makes us individuals. Yet too often there is a judgement of others, or ourselves that makes people question their place in it.
Overcoming Overwhelm
It can be difficult to move forward when you are feeling overwhelmed. This blog looks at ways to break that deadlock.
Is your Business Sustainable?
There are two main areas which regularly cause fitness businesses to intentionally or unintentionally find themselves in an unsustainable situation: Finances and Time, so this article takes a look at those in more detail.
Applying Self Determination Theory To Business
By Chris Burgess
Self Determination Theory is often spoken about in relation to motivation and customer service.
Making sure you support your clients' feelings of autonomy, competence and belonging.
But does it have a role to play in growing a business? Check out this article for more
The Value Of Accessory Exercises In Programming
This article delves into the role accessory movements play in creating effective programmes our clients love.
Class Instruction As Lead Generation
If you enjoy teaching classes alongside your personal training it can be a good idea to cross refer and increase the number of things that people come to you for. This blog focuses on how you can attract people from your classes into your PT services.
A Personal Trainer's Guide To Teaching Classes
Teaching classes are often forced upon gym instructors or PT’s in gyms or encouraged within LTB as a method of lead generation. Both of these completely overlook some important considerations which we look at in this blog.
My Experience With RED-S
By Sally Eccles
Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport is a syndrome with long reaching effects that can be easily overlooked. Sally shares her experiences with it in this blog.
Better Coaching
We all want to be good coaches and that often drives us in our pursuit of more technical knowledge. However, for the majority of clients, the things that make the biggest difference to their results, and their enjoyment, have nothing to do with advanced technical details. This blog explores some of the areas that get overlooked.
Converting People From Fixed Term Programmes
A look at how you can maximise conversion rates from challenges, trials and fixed term programmes into your ongoing services.
Using Offers And Fixed Term Programmes
There are lots of reasons why you might want to use an offer or create a fixed term programme. This blog explores how to get the best from them.
Getting New PT Clients
Getting clients is often an area that personal trainers are prone to overthink and stress over but it doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. This blog contains lots of simple and effective ways of attracting new people.
Consent And Coaching
By Chris Burgess
It’s funny where life takes you—and let’s be clear, an article on this topic wasn’t on my career bingo card when I qualified all those years ago. Then last year, I took on the role of a football coach for an under-9 girls' team, and from the very outset, it made me question the entire concept I had of coaching.
