Best Hour of Their Day | Podcast

Ackerman drops some knowledge on how you can become a better coach while you're not coaching.

My name is xxx I’m 24 years old, head coach at CrossFit xxx in xxx! I coach 15-20 classes a week and have 25 personal training sessions a week. I make just under 3k a month which isn’t bad but obviously it’s not good. My question is what does the end game of a full time CrossFit coach look like? How is there any retirement or even supporting a family by coaching CrossFit. As a head coach who enjoys coaching and helping others, how can I make this a career? If CrossFit as an organization could somehow take care of their full time coaches and gym owners with insurance and retirement plan it would be so much easier to keep coaches bought in for the long haul, and focus on being a professional coach instead of coaching as a hobby. I don’t know if you are familiar with the 4/9th model. But basically any PT or specialty course I do I only take in 44.4% of it. And the gym takes 55.6% of it. This never seems fair to me I would like to get your thoughts on it as well. And if it’s not fair how should I go about making it fair?

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.

Dave Colina of O2 is back for round 3.  Dave and Fern discuss the power of giving as a leader and entrepreneur and some simple ways to do that.  They also discuss the mindset that can help get through uncertain times in the box and what box owners can do to create a better culture.  The 50/50 coalition for CrossFit Affiliates is going on right now, get involved, give back to your members and get help in return.

Ackerman dives into what it really means to have a passion for coaching.

Ackerman answers a listener's question about his fellow coaches not following the affiliate's programming.

Ackerman answers a question from one of our listeners that was promised ownership of their box but has not received it.

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.

A quick sprint with Jason Ackerman.

As Founder and CEO of Exercise Professional Education, Greg’s vision for Physicians Fitness was shaped over 29 years ago, while he was working as a lay assistant to physicians in a sports medicine clinic. It was during this tenure that he became award of an  unfortunate reality: Most of the patients of the clinic were there as a result of poor physical conditioning. He observed that the patient base consisted of individuals who would return to the clinic for treatment of re-injury to a problem area, or the development of new symptoms, possibly due to compensation patterns created by the original pathophysiology. The medical and chiropractic staff encouraged these patients to participate in exercise and fitness programs, but had neither the time nor the resources to effectively assess, develop, and implement a safe, global health-fitness plan. Greg’s involvement in the fitness industry includes authoring articles for fitness and medical publications, presenting relevant topics to fitness professionals at continuing education conferences, and achieving the “Master Level” designation as a personal fitness professional from IDEA. Greg received the IDEA International Personal Trainer of the Year Award for the year 2003 and was the Chairman of the IDEA Personal Trainer Committee, an influential body steering important issues related to fitness professionals.