Ep 125 - Pete Holman: TRX, inventing, and scaling through mindfulness.

Pete Holman is an inventor and entrepreneur, and the brains behind the Nautilus Glute Drive and the TRX Rip Trainer. But this episode is more than just about innovation. Pete gives us a deep dive into the spiritual, mental and physical influences that benefit short and long term strategies in business to set your intention while still keeping your health and relationships in check.

Through Pete’s experience, discover the links between physical goals and business execution, and how mindset is key in both creating innovative products and scaling to a multi-million dollar venture.

 

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Pete Holman was originally planning to follow in his parents’ footsteps as a psychologist until he was put off by the intensity of what negative behaviour humans are capable of. Instead, he decided to go down the path of physical therapy.

Developing a love affair with movement, motivation and mindset, he found his skillset suited to martial arts, quickly becoming US National Taekwondo Champion in addition to studying and training.

He graduated from the University of Colorado with a Master’s of Science degree in Physical Therapy in 1997 and went on to work at the renowned Aspen Sports Medicine clinic prior to opening up his own private practice in 2001. His client list has included Fortune 500 business owners from Jones Apparel, Progressive Insurance and Fiji water, as well as Hollywood stars including Ed Bradley and Kevin Costner.

Today Pete is a certified strength and conditioning specialist, international presenter, author and fitness product inventor living in Aspen Colorado.

Pete Holman is available for speaking engagements and training sessions for instructors, coaches, athletes and staff. He specialises in rehabilitative medicine, core performance and foundational movement assessment. Confidence and cutting edge concepts are born from 30 years of hard earned experience and training.

 

For more information visit https://www.ph1performance.com/

 

Episode highlights - 

• How keeping life varied is both liberating and stressful in its openness of opportunity and many paths to follow.
• Why having a side-project, whether part of the passion or completely separate, can be incredibly useful to your progression in your original career.
• The importance of processes, whether in sports, business, relationships or hobbies, and how following them will ensure progress on the road to success.
• How education in any form is paramount to success, but it doesn’t necessarily have to involve traditional routes of learning.
• Why you can’t force acceleration and how you have to allow time for education and understanding to take place and implement itself correctly.
• How inventing a sustainable and effective product often comes from trying to solve a problem, and looking to resolve that issue as efficiently as possible.
• What challenges come with inventing a new product as an entrepreneur and forging a new relationship with a larger business when it comes to selling the product, rights, and working together for future success.
• How to handle the financial burn rate when launching new products and coping with every business essential.
• Why sometimes you have to ignore your ego and back out of a venture if there are parameters that you can’t fulfill. Through failure is how we grow.
• How your work ethic is imperative to your success, but why you also need to take time for yourself in order to preserve both your physical and mental health.
• What you can do to link mindset between body and business, for progressing both to the success levels that you intend to hit.
• Why planning your time out with achievable and audacious goals will ensure that your attention is focused, while allowing you to tick off achievements. A timeline on projects mean that hard work and planning goes from arduous task to almost like ticking items off a shopping/grocery list.
• How training to compete often ends in injury, even with professional sports such as the NFL.
• What’s going to happen when the pendulum swings back away from technology, in favour more of community and experiential workout facilities that take you away from distractions at home.
• What the challenges are of complicated digital products when it comes to educating trainers around the country or internationally, and how you can talk to both newbie and experienced fitpros with the same message.

 

Join Matthew Januszek in conversation with Pete Holman…