LTB Podcast
Claire Winter
The Lift the Bar Podcast is a place where personal trainers can gain education, insight and knowledge from other personal trainers. It's aim is to provide personal trainers with the know-how and inspiration to build the kind of career they want to build.
Every week the show will feature interviews with fantastic guests who are at the top of their game in different areas specific to helping personal trainers.
Every week the show will feature interviews with fantastic guests who are at the top of their game in different areas specific to helping personal trainers.
Episodes
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Nov 8, 2017 • 55min
LTBP #72 - Pete Dupuis: Price Increases, Niches and Developing a Personal Brand
Topics and questions covered in today's episode with Pete Dupuis. How did getting into owning a fitness business happen for you? Have you loved it since day one? Did CSP have a clear vision from day one? How does Pete find being the "man behind the man"? Some of the costly mistakes the team at CSP made initially. How to increase your prices for current clients. Do business owners or PT's need a niche? How do they set-up their general population strength camps? Working with Eric - what's your relationship like?
Nov 1, 2017 • 51min
LTBP #71 - Rog Law: Showing Up As The Best Personal Trainer That You Can Be
Fantastic to welcome on Rog Law for the first time to the LTB Podcast. We discuss: - pre personal training rituals - what he's learnt being a new coach at Mark Fisher Fitness and how he thinks about using social media as well as loads more!
Oct 25, 2017 • 1h 4min
LTBP #70 - Omar Ganai: Challenges With Applying Self-Determination Theory for PT's
Third time on the podcast for guest Omar Ganai from Habitry. In this episode, we get into some of the challenges that Self-determination theory presents, why autonomy is so hard to grasp, book recommendations and plenty of other motivation related topics.
Oct 18, 2017 • 1h 1min
LTBP #69 - Kevin Larrabee: The Fitcast, Opening a Gym and Dealing With Comparisons
Kevin Larrabee, from The Fitcast Podcast, joins me in this episode of the LTB Podcast. We discuss lessons he's learned from 11+ years of The Fitcast, why he's decided to jump into owning his own facility, how he deals with his own body image and comparison issues and much more!
Oct 11, 2017 • 1h 3min
LTBP #68 - Krista Scott-Dixon: Teaching Resiliency & Self Awareness When Coaching
Krista Scott-Dixon from Precision Nutrition joins Stuart for an in-person interview to discuss all things coaching.
Oct 5, 2017 • 1h 1min
LTBP #67 - Gregg Slater: The Science of Coaching & How You Can Use This to Run More Effective PT Sessions
In this episode, we welcome on LTB's Head of Education, Gregg Slater to discuss his newly designed coaching course and how trainers can use to run more effective PT sessions.
Oct 2, 2017 • 1h 2min
LTBP #66 - Leigh Peele: Thoughts on Online Training & The Importance of Sleep
Second time onto the podcast for Leigh Peele (from Leighpeele.com), who is a guest I love chatting to. We get into two big topics: online training and sleep, as well as some other things around transformations and managing work: life balance.
Sep 27, 2017 • 1h 8min
LTBP #65 - Steve & Lindsay Bergeron: The Importance of Building a Community
Love doing these in person episodes - the conversations are always so much more raw. Steve & Lindsay run AMP Fitness in Boston and I asked them to come onto the podcast to chat about how they've built up AMP and how they manage being married while also running a gym together. We also get into a lot of cool stuff around building community and lessons learned from opening a gym.
Sep 20, 2017 • 54min
LTBP #64 - Michael Keeler: The Foundations of Great Customer Service
In this episode, I welcome on Michael Keeler from Business for Unicorns and Mark Fisher Fitness. Topics covered: - Michael's journey to starting MFF. - Biggest customer service lessons learnt from working in the Four Seasons Hotel. - What is good customer service? - How do you not get frustrated with people in a customer service setting? - Is the customer always right? - What can we do better as personal trainers when it comes to customer service? - How do we not become interrogators with asking too many questions? - How do we get better at speaking to our potential clients? - How are they managing 1,000 MFF members? How have they kept things personable? Blog post mentioned (dear fitness industry)
Sep 16, 2017 • 25min
LTBP #63 - How to Set-Up & Run a Seminar or Workshop
In this episode, I go into the why what and how of everything to do with running a seminar or workshop for clients. Topics include: Why should you do it? Where to begin. What to call it? How to get people to come? Should you charge for it? What content to talk about? Length & creating the content for it. How to encourage interaction? What to do about being terrified of public speaking? Generating clients from it?
