Training Tips

Building workout programs from scratch for every single client is one of the most time-consuming things a personal trainer can do. When you have five clients it is manageable. When you have twenty, thirty, or fifty, the hours stack up fast and something starts to give, usually either your quality or your sanity, (or both!)....

Getting to 10 clients as a personal trainer or fitness coach is a real milestone. It means your service works, people are seeing results, and word is starting to spread. The challenge that comes next is a different one entirely: how do you grow from 10 to 50 clients without burning out, dropping your service...

The online fitness coaching market is crowded. There are coaches at every price point, and clients have more options than ever. What separates the coaches charging premium rates and retaining clients long-term from those constantly chasing new sign-ups isn’t always better programming. It’s the overall experience they deliver. A premium online coaching experience is the...

Getting a new client through the door is a win. Getting them set up, informed, and ready to train without a mountain of paperwork and back-and-forth messages? That’s the real goal. Digital onboarding lets you create a professional, streamlined experience for new clients from day one, whether they’re training in person, online or a mix...

Managing clients online is one of the most valuable skills a personal trainer can develop. Whether you’re coaching five clients or fifty, having a clear system for delivering programs, tracking progress, communicating and getting paid makes the difference between a business that runs smoothly and one that keeps you up at night. This guide covers...

Tracking client progress is one of the most important things an online personal trainer can do, and also one of the easiest to let slip. When you are not seeing clients face to face every week, the data has to do the work that an in-person session might do naturally. Without a clear system for...

If you’ve been coaching online for any length of time, you have probably had a spreadsheet phase. A tab for each client, one for check-ins, another for nutrition, maybe a mastersheet pulling everything together. It works, until it doesn’t. And when it stops working, it usually does so at the worst possible moment. The good...

If you’re running an online coaching business, client check-ins are one of the most valuable things you do. They keep clients accountable, give you the data you need to adjust programming, and show clients that you’re paying attention. The problem is that doing them manually, creating forms, sending reminders, chasing responses and writing individual feedback,...

Online coaching removes a lot of barriers. Clients don’t need to commute to a gym, you don’t need a physical location, and you can work with people across different cities or time zones. But it also removes something that in-person coaching provides almost automatically: the natural accountability of showing up somewhere and having someone right...

For personal trainers thinking about transitioning to online coaching, few stories are more instructive than Mark Ross’s. Mark has been in the fitness industry for 15 years. He started as a personal trainer on a gym floor, became a studio owner, scaled a group transformation program to 500 participants, and built one of the most...