
LTB Podcast
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.
Latest episodes

Jan 26, 2017 • 39min
LTBP #6 - Peter Davison Interview: 50+ PT Sessions & Nailing the Basics
In this episode, Peter Davison comes on the show to discuss his career and how he's built himself up to a stage of doing 50+ PT sessions per week while building an online coaching group and still enjoying life. We discuss what he's learnt along the way, how he manages all those clients and what it's actually like doing that many personal training sessions.

Jan 22, 2017 • 18min
LTBP #5 - 6 Tips for the Newly Qualified Personal Trainer (Minisode)
In this episode, Stuart runs through 6 tips that will help a newly qualified PT, or a trainer who is still finding their feet, move forwards in their career. Tips include: 1. Prioritising getting good at what you do first 2. Seeking out mentors 3. Treating people how they want to be treated 4. What to do when you consider quitting 5. It's all about the client 6. Join LTB

Jan 17, 2017 • 45min
LTBP #4 - Gregg Slater Interview: Common Programming Problems & Practical Session Design
In this interview, Stuart interviews LTB Head of Education, Gregg Slater about all things programming for Personal Trainers. Gregg reveals his thought processes when it comes to creating training programmes for clients and we get right into how to design actual training sessions.

Jan 16, 2017 • 17min
LTBP #3 - Free Sessions (Minisode)
In this episode, Stuart covers how to better run your free personal training sessions. A lot of trainers offer a free session to show a potential client a sample of what personal training is, but could these be run better, which would then increase the likelihood of gaining a sale?

Jan 13, 2017 • 40min
LTBP #2 - Chris Burgess Interview: Immediacy and Enquiries
In this episode, Stuart interviews Lift the Bar owner, Chris Burgess about his career where he has transitioned from a full-time job in advertising to 50+ hours of Personal Training a week to now running Lift the Bar, which has 650+ members. As well as this, Chris discusses the concept of something called "immediacy" and why this is so important for Personal Trainers. We also touch on how to respond to enquiries like "hi, how much do you charge?".

Jan 12, 2017 • 12min
LTBP #1 - Lift the Bar Podcast Preview
The Lift the Bar Podcast is the podcast by personal trainers, for personal trainers. This episode is an introduction to what the podcast will be about, why we are starting it and how it will be set-up.