LTB Podcast

Tom Hamilton: Session Management, Programming Lessons & Testing Gen Pop Clients

Oct 12, 2020

59:42

In today's episode, Stuart welcomes back Tom Hamilton, a trainer who works out W10 performance in London and the IFBA, a coaching company that helps gym owners. They jump off their last interview, which was released back in October 2019, and discuss programming lessons, a bunch of things around better session management for 1-1 & semi-private and how W10 tests their clients.

Timestamps:

[09.27] - Why some clients stick around when you're a new coach who is learning and trialling things out.
[11.31] - How he's improved his self-awareness.
[19.26] - Does he do anything before going into his first session of the day to mentally prepare for it?
[23.35] - What starts to happen as members walk in? What does he do to get the gym ready before people start coming in?
[25.00] - Why it's important to give negative feedback to a member 1-1 rather than shout it out as a group.
[26.30] - Why W10 has a mantra of "we never see the same person twice"
[30.45] - Why it's important to have continuity of coaching between coaches.
[35.08] - Do they tell members what the session is going to entail during the warm-up?
[36.05] - Why they don't log every weight and rep lifted by their clients.
[41.52] - What their client testing every 12 weeks looks like?
[46.48] - How and when they do the testing?
[50.10] - Why it's smart to consider using fewer cues.
[52.53] - How W10 gathers feedback on their coaching and session quality.
[54.55] - How they create variation within a block using a squat.