Can You List Your Priorities?  If you Google the definition of “priorities” you get this: “a thing that is regarded as more important than another” People operate based on what they value and that will translate into a set of priorities that dictate their behavior.  So what happens within a coach-client relationship when you have […]

James FitzGerald talks strategy as well as indirect assessment while EC Client Laura Dickerson does a test of 15 second all out effort sprints on the new Stairmaster Air Bike. If you’re interested in setting up a free consult and are ready to get started with your personal assessment and fitness plan you can fill out your information here.

“So you are 3 years into coaching, now have a podcast, “success,” and are teaching folks how to “scale it” online; Stop it! Go back to teaching people, in person, how to move, towards autonomy, for another 10-15 years, then come back and attempt to teach others the “good word.” We need better craftspersons in fitness coaching, not technician to perceived master jumpers; and ironically, you will be more efficient when you come back and actually make sense.”

3 Reasons Even Experienced Coaches Should Take the OPEX Coaching Certificate Program (CCP).

In the fourth article of this six-part series, we’re going to look at how you can incentive your coaches to care.

I had the best weekend—it was completely full and utterly fulfilling.  I completed phase 2 of a new corporate gym I’m setting up, packed and got ready to leave for Sweden, I trained and PR’d, made & ate really good seasonal food, hung out with a dear friend, read a book, listened to good music, slept well, supported Kent at the opens, took my daughter to volleyball, survived as she drove us home (she just got her learners), connected with old friends, had very philosophical conversations, played laser tag with my boys, went shopping, drove my kids to their activities at all hours, and had an extra teenager at my house for a grand total of 5 kids for the weekend.

It’s a concept of digging deeper under the hood. It’s not pessimism, its reality versus fantasy when we want to speak about success.

I recently worked with a group of children, a troop of Girl Scout Brownies, about 8 or 9-years-old, came into OPEX to earn one of their badges

One hundred and twenty five clients who pay USD$355 a month for individual program design and monthly consults: Doing the math on that sounds like the dream for many who aspire to be a full-time professional coach.

All too often coaches doubt themselves, play the comparison game, and waste time overanalyzing their program designs. But coaching isn’t about knowing everything. It’s about knowing who you are and not trying to be someone else.

And so creates a situation where the gym owner is the only one checking in with clients who suddenly go MIA, the only one actively seeking new clients, the only one taking clients for coffee or lunch, and the only one going to a client’s Christmas concert or having clients over for dinner.

Each year we get asked “how do I become a fitness coach?” thousands of times. Thankfully, it’s simpler than you might think and you can have a new career in an industry you love in as little as six months. Here is how to become a fitness coach and what the career path looks like.

For example, large gyms like 24 Hour Fitness and L.A. Fitness require almost 30,000 square feet of space. Though the costs of leasing such a facility size are astronomical, they are able to maintain profit by offering cheap gym services and coaching while operating a very large client base. The same analysis can even be applied to most CrossFit or group fitness gyms, because the overlap in when clients train necessitates larger facilities and more equipment.

That’s the number one tip OPEX CCP Coach Sam Smith has for the thousands of coaches who are suddenly transforming themselves into remote coaches since their gyms closed because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Or maybe you have discovered coaching 20 group classes a week, sometimes four a day where you administer the same workout over and over, becomes tedious in a hurry. That’s certainly not your perfect day. 

As many gyms of all sizes have lost clients or closed their doors completely, and people have quickly grown bored of Zoom classes, OPEX CCP Coach Benny Evien has taken advantage of the pandemic by using it as a time to show people the value of having a personal coach in their corner. 

Have you ever looked at a day of programming and thought, “Are all contractions (repetitions of exercises) contributing to the priority?” If you are new to writing individual programs, this may not be an obvious question to ask.