Born to be Barefoot | From Science to Life Building a Fitness Community | Insights from Highland Fitness and Wellness
Feb 14, 2024
59:36
We have 2 lovely guests on the podcast today named Kristi Harrison and Matthew McKeown, who are co-owners of Highland Fitness and Wellness, a personal training studio and fitness community in Scarborough, Ontario. They fill us in on some great tactics of how they’ve been able to build their gym culture in the best way possible, and then we get into what to focus on when helping your clients in improving their physical health. Movement is very necessary for each day, especially for those who are working a sedentary job 8 hours a day and they give some good examples of how to do that.
“I think the hardest thing is teaching people there’s more of a mental side that this is the rest of your life. Not meaning that you have to use the rest of your life, but the goals you want to accomplish, they need to be the rest of your life, and you can’t convince them on that. You can maybe show someone that, but you have to get someone who’s pretty much there already, that they know ‘I need to make significant changes and I know this is gonna take long term.’” 17:18
www.highlandfit.com@highlandfitto
- About Kristi, Matt, and their gym 0:45
- Creating a community 7:30
- Focusing on the scapula and lumbar spine 16:30
- The worst thing about sitting 19:50
- Clients want professionalism 28:45
- Targeting specific people and groups 41:50
- Looking at feet and gait 49:00
“I think the hardest thing is teaching people there’s more of a mental side that this is the rest of your life. Not meaning that you have to use the rest of your life, but the goals you want to accomplish, they need to be the rest of your life, and you can’t convince them on that. You can maybe show someone that, but you have to get someone who’s pretty much there already, that they know ‘I need to make significant changes and I know this is gonna take long term.’” 17:18
www.highlandfit.com@highlandfitto