Best Hour of Their Day | Podcast

***Sign up for the Own Your Eating Nutrition Challenge*** Fern and Ackerman have found that the number one problem that CrossFit affiliates face is not identifying who they serve.  In today's episode we will breakdown why that is vital to the success of your business.

Fern and Ackerman have big news!  

We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of Their Day" and for the audio book he took a deeper dive into each chapter.  Interviewed by James McDermott, in each chapter you'll get loads more information, stories, lessons, and more, not available in the original book. You can buy the paperback and ebook versions of "Best Hour of Their Day" on amazon, here is the link. You can buy the audio book on audible, here is the link. If you love the book or this podcast, please leave us a review.

Jared Stein is owner of five Willy B CrossFit affiliates.  In today's episodes we discuss the pros and cons of owning multiple affiliates, the struggles of being in New York City during the pandemic, and his online competition with Ten Thousand.

Alec Zirkenbach is the Adaptive Training Academy Director and CEO.  He is an adaptive athlete himself as well as a L1 Seminar Staff team member.  Fern and Alec discuss his upcoming trip to the games a s judge and then they deep dive into the value of the Adaptive Trainer course, how they took the course online and how it is beneficial to all coaches even if they never coach and adaptive athlete.  Fern just finished taking the course they have just made some really great upgrades to the course as well.  Discount code for all Best Hour listeners is BESTHOUR for 10% off.

How Fit and Wealthy Do You Really Need to Be?  Recently, Ackerman was on the Seven Figure Box podcast with Andrew Frezza. ⠀ On this show we discuss the merit of the hook grip, what we feel are the greatest areas of improvement for most coaches, and much more.

Hey guys, love the podcast! I am not sure if this was covered in a previous episode or not, but Could you guys share some of your experiences and/or best practices when changing up your gym’s class schedule? I’m debating to change my evening classes from 4:30pm, 5:45pm & 6:45pm to 4pm, 5pm & 6pm. Some days my 4:30pm & 5:45pm classes are maxed out (14 members in each) but the next day, we might only have 8 members in each class. My 6:45pm class is on the smaller side at 2-3 athletes. So I am not consistently full every single day, but I guess I am trying to plan for growth & having space for all member while also spreading out the members to that later class time to have better energy and maybe more attendance as well. I have lots of members that work rotating swing shifts and some weeks it feels that we don’t have enough space in classes and then the next week you wonder why you were so stressed out about it the week before! Just trying to paint a picture of what I am looking at. I have surveyed the members and I’d say 80% would be good with the change. I worry about losing a few members and I think that is my hold up. Anyways, thanks for considering and for any insights!

We are bringing you special episodes of Best Hour of Their Day every Friday. Jason Ackerman wrote, "Best Hour of Their Day" and for the audio book he took a deeper dive into each chapter.  Interviewed by James McDermott, in each chapter you'll get loads more information, stories, lessons, and more, not available in the original book. You can buy the paperback and ebook versions of "Best Hour of Their Day" on amazon, here is the link. You can buy the audio book on audible, here is the link. If you love the book or this podcast, please leave us a review.

Fern starts off this episode by asking about Ackerman's "Fran" time but really it was just a ploy to take a deeper look into how affiliate owners and coaches can be doing a better job retaining their current members.

Ackerman follows up on our recent Instagram post about scaling appropriately as well as touching on why doubling single unders is not a proper scaling option for double unders.