Outside In: Adding Tech To Your Programming
Your clients love novelty. They love new exercises. They love gadgets and apps. They're drawn to them, and then sucked in. As I wrote yesterday, you can try to compete…
The Pendulum Effect
Do you remember Bill Phillips? How about Kenneth Cooper? Andrew Weil? At one time, these were each the most popular fitness figureheads on the planet. Our industry doesn't…
Chasing The Minimum
Coaching isn't a competition to see how much you can cram into a session. "Value" in coaching isn't determined by how much homework you assign; how much extra time…
The Best Thing You Can Do To Improve Your Coaching
There's one way to improve your coaching that will make you a better coach today and forever: Get a coach. It's incredible how seldom we--coaches!--get coached. Sure,…
Who’s It For?
When you built your gym, who chose the equipment? How often do your favorite exercises appear in your programming? Who chose your class schedule? Twenty years ago, I was…
The Value of Accountability
Our gym is our canvas, and our workouts are our art. We love being creative. But sometimes love is blind: we don't see what our clients actually need, because…
Five Filters for Fitness Coaches
What really works? What works fastest? What's the proof? Double-blind, randomized, peer-reviewed studies--that sounds like science, doesn't it? But even the stuff that's published in scientific journals is subject to…
What Sticks?
Kids are sponges. Last night, a friend texted me about her son's experience at baseball camp. The boy is a very active, athletic seven-year-old. He's bright and fun, and…
Is Shadowing Overrated?
Let's think about how we learn new skills. In sixth grade math class, does a teacher say, "Watch me do math, and then YOU try it"? Or do they say,…