Better yourself and improve your business by getting honest client feedback. This is one of the most important and often overlooked, ways to improve your personal training service. Keeping up with the latest science and techniques in order to be the best at what we do...
Mike Kneuer
Mike Kneuer is a professional health and fitness coach and retired pro physique athlete in Boca Raton, FL. He is passionate about health and fitness and helping others make positive life changes. Mike holds numerous advanced training certifications included 2 nutrition certifications from the National Academy of Sports Medicine and the International Sports Sciences Association. He has helped thousands of people around the world change the way they think about eating healthy foods and helped them reach their health and fitness goals by posting every meal he's eaten since 2012 on www.WhatMikeEats.com. (@WhatMikeEats)
Help Clients Beat a Bad Mood with this 10 Minute Workout
Exercise has been shown in numerous studies to be an effective reliever of stress, anxiety, and depression. Exercise releases the feel-good chemicals in the brain called dopamine and serotonin that improve mood and help fight mental health disorders. Some experts even...
Everything You Need to Know About Food Journals
As fitness professionals, our job is to help our clients achieve results. A large part of their success depends on their nutrition and although prescribing specific meal plans may not be in the scope of our practice, getting our clients in the habit of journaling...
Top Five Marketing Strategies for Personal Trainers
Without employing sound marketing strategies for personal trainers to grow a business, new personal trainers may struggle to get new clients. This is one of the most challenging aspects of the business that I hear about from other certified personal trainers. As...
Healthy Grocery Shopping Tips for Your Clients
Make the grocery store less confusing for your clients. As you know, there are many misconceptions about what is and isn’t healthy. Food marketers make it ever more confusing with false and exaggerated claims about their products. Nutrition starts in the cart and...
5 Quick Tips for Top Notch Personal Trainers
It's the small changes that make a big impact on your business. You know this to be true with your clients. The little tweaks they make to their lifestyle have long-term, lasting effects. Here are five tips you can easily implement into your fitness career/business...
How to Know When to Leave Your Fitness Job
Is it time to leave your personal training "job" and go out on your own or find a new fitness home that suits you and your clients better? This question, inevitably, only comes up when a trainer is not satisfied with their situation. There are a myriad of reasons for...
Leverage Your Time For More Income and More Freedom
It's tough to have career longevity by personal training clients anytime, anywhere without additional streams of income. You run out of either money, energy or both. Don't let this profession that you're so passionate about end before it gets a chance to really...
Write Your Own Fitness eBook
There are a few different ways that trainers can add a secondary income to give themselves more freedom, time, and money. With an Info product like an eBook, a personal trainer can leverage their expertise into something that could create income without actually...
How Personal Trainers Can Help Clients Prevent Osteoporosis
Approximately 54 million Americans have osteoporosis or low bone mass, placing them at increased risk for osteoporosis. This often-silent disease causes bones to become weak and fragile. Typically, there are no symptoms to indicate someone is developing osteoporosis....
New Years Resolution Check Ins – How and Why You should talk to your clients about their progress so far
It’s February 1st and one month of the year is officially gone. How was January? Did your clients make meaningful progress towards their health and fitness goals? Have they been sticking to their plans? If you haven’t already been discussing the progress of their...
The Unique Considerations of Ice Hockey Training Programming
Winter is here and it’s hockey season! Hockey is a fast paced and exciting game that is unlike any other major sport because it requires a completely different mode of transportation. Hockey is the only major sport that isn’t played on your feet; athletes are on...
Business is Booming with Baby Boomers Part 2
In part 1 of “Business is Booming with Baby Boomers” we discussed the possibility of increasing your business and some special considerations when working with this huge demographic. In today’s article, we are going to look at some of the benefits of working with, and...
Business is Booming with Baby Boomers
According to the Census Bureau, there are over 76 million Baby Boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964) in the United States In 2016, Baby Boomers will be between ages 52 and 70; this group represents a great opportunity for fitness professionals to increase their...
Keeping Your Clients Accountable
As a trainer, one of the hardest parts of my job is to get my clients to adhere to the program the 23 hours a day they aren’t with me. How great would our client’s results be if we could be coaching them 24/7 to make sure they exercise, eat right, take their...
How to Avoid Burning Out
Burning Out: It’s an all too common story in the personal training industry. I’ve seen some great and very enthusiastic trainers start a career in fitness and 6 months later they're gone. This life we choose to live can take its toll on our mental and physical health...
How to Use YouTube to Build Your Fitness Business
YouTube is one of the best ways for personal trainers to connect with potential new clients and continue to develop relationships with current clients. People don’t buy training; they buy the trainer–YOU. In order to be comfortable enough for someone to invest in...
7 Ways Coaches Can Help New Clients Reach Their Goals
Oftentimes new clients come to us either brand new with no fitness experience or having tried on their own and failed. Either way joining a gym and starting a new fitness program can be intimidating and confusing. There are a lot of variables that will determine the...