personal training Archive

Under The Bar: WTF0August 17, 2009
Under The Bar: WTF

Have you ever been asked a question or heard a statement that made you think or say, “WTF?!?”
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By Dave Tate
Making the Most Out of Your Internship0August 13, 2009
Making the Most Out of Your Internship

An aspiring strength and conditioning coach’s first taste of training athletes usually begins with an internship. While interning, there are many things you can do right and a million things you can do wrong.
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By Chris Ronald
1August 9, 2009
Matt Holmes’ Journey of a Warehouse Gym

ZE: Matty, tell the readers of EliteFTS about yourself, how you started in the fitness industry, and what you have going on right now.
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By Zach Even-Esh
How Henry Ford Wrecked Your Gym0August 6, 2009
How Henry Ford Wrecked Your Gym

When Henry Ford invented the automobile, it nearly bankrupted him—more than once. It’s a popular story, a testament to perseverance and belief in oneself. It’s quoted by business gurus and fans of Americana. It’s retold to aspiring entrepreneurs and turned into near poetry by the self-help industry.
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By Catalyst Fitness
How to Open Your Own Warehouse Gym0July 30, 2009
How to Open Your Own Warehouse Gym

When I was four-years-old living in Long Island with my parents, my uncle ran into some hard times. He had just gone through a tough divorce at the age of only 23
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By Elliott Hulse
0July 29, 2009
Recession Strategies for Fitness Trainers

Two shoe salesmen from competing companies were assigned by their firms to sell shoes in the middle of the jungle in Africa.
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By Alwyn Cosgrove
0July 9, 2009
The Five “Cs” of Successful Fitness Entrepreneurs

After being around some of the most financially successful fitness professionals in North America a few weeks ago, the difference between them and the typical trainer struggling to stay afloat became very evident.
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By Jim Labadie
EFS Spotlight: Cornell Key0June 12, 2009
EFS Spotlight: Cornell Key

I met New Jersey’s Cornell Key at a seminar a few weeks ago, and was immediately impressed by his size – he’s obviously an athlete – his training acumen and his willingness to get out and ask questions of anyone and everyone in order to expand his knowledge base.
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By The Angry Coach
The Return of Hardcore0May 9, 2009
The Return of Hardcore

That’s it. I can’t take it anymore. These sissified commercial gyms and their clipboard holding trainers have just about ruined the weightlifting world.
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By Jason Hanisak
Weapons of Mass Construction0May 7, 2009
Weapons of Mass Construction

At EliteFTS, we carry an amazing diversity of barbells designed for every conceivable purpose. Whether you’re working on a specific weak point or you’re recovering from an injury and can’t use one of our line of “conventional” barbells, our selection of bars will meet your particular needs. In this roundtable discussion, we asked various Q&A members – some of the best lifters and trainers in the world – about their favorite bars and how they like to use them.
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By Dave Tate
0March 26, 2009
How to Run a Successful Gym During the Recession, Part I

This is part one of a two-part video series. The goal of this series is to give aspiring strength coaches and fitness professionals the optimism and tools required to get things rolling quickly, easily, and without a loan or business partners. Now, I said “easily.” But what I really mean is without all the complications, [...]
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By Zach Even-Esh
EliteFTS Spotlight: Charles Bailey0March 12, 2009
EliteFTS Spotlight: Charles Bailey

The subject of this week’s EliteFTS Spotlight is Q&A staff member and EFS sponsored lifter Charles Bailey. Charles, a 45 year-old personal trainer from Jacksonville, FL, is poised to make a major move in the powerlifting world in 2009, and we thought it was about time we gave one of the world’s strongest lifters a chance to introduce himself on the site.
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By The Angry Coach
0March 12, 2009
How to Receive Automatic Referrals from Your Personal Training Clients

If you don’t have a referral system in place, you’re losing dozens of potential new clients. Check out this system and learn the right way to ask for referrals. (If you do this wrong, you will lose clients!)
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By Pat Rigsby
0February 26, 2009
How to Get the Most Traffic (and Money) From Your YouTube Videos

In 2006, Google spent a lot of money ($1.4 billion) to buy YouTube. Fortunately for you, Google is a smart company and isn’t going to waste that investment.
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By Craig Ballantyne
0February 26, 2009
Passion into Profit EliteFTS Small Business Conference Feb. 2009

This was certainly different. I mean, it’s not every day that I get an email from Dave Tate, and I have never, and I mean never, ever been invited to train with him. If I was excited to attend this seminar before, well, that had just been ratcheted up by a factor of eleven!
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By Paul DArcy
0February 19, 2009
Eight Marketing Mistakes That Fitness Pros Make

We all make mistakes. And when it comes to marketing, most of us make some really silly ones. Unfortunately, we seem to keep making those same mistakes over and over again.
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By Pat Rigsby
EliteFTS Spotlight: Julia Ladewski0February 12, 2009
EliteFTS Spotlight: Julia Ladewski

EliteFTS Spotlight is a weekly feature here on EliteFTS.com where Q&A member The Angry Coach interviews athletes and strength and sport coaches from various disciplines in order to find out more about what they do, how they train and how they do business.
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By The Angry Coach
0February 12, 2009
Five “Web 2.0” Marketing Tips for Personal Trainers

The internet changes fast and personal trainers interested in harnessing its power for marketing purposes need to keep up. The landscape has changed. Simple websites that act as a static business card are no longer enough
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By Jim Labadie
0January 22, 2009
The Top Six Ways to Quickly and Easily Increase Your Revenue per Client

You’ve got your marketing in order and have a steady flow of prospects coming in, and you’re converting those prospects to clients at a high rate. Now, you need to get them to spend more money when they do spend.
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By Pat Rigsby
The Dungeon0January 9, 2009
The Dungeon

Wabush, Labrador, Canada. A small mining town nestled in the cold and desolate woodland of northern Canada. Seven months of the year this isolated town in the middle of nowhere is covered in a deep and cold blanket of snow.
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By Sean Barker
The Diesel Compound0December 18, 2008
The Diesel Compound

Things have been swamped here at Diesel. My wrestlers are starting the season right now and I just put together a profile on one of them. Mike, a high school junior, has been with me for five months now and has made incredible progress.
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By Jim "Smitty" Smith
Under the Bar: December Update0December 10, 2008
Under the Bar: December Update

Under the Bar: December Update
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By Dave Tate
EFS Roundtable: Office Space0December 10, 2008
EFS Roundtable: Office Space

Let’s face it – for most of the members of the EliteFTS Q&A staff, the internet has been both a blessing and a curse
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By EFS Staff
0December 10, 2008
Under The Bar: How to make Dreams come true.

How to make wishes come true? EliteFTS athletes know that with the right mindset, even the toughest challenges can eventually be overcome. This takes both dedication and an iron will. Only you can make yourself give up. It’s about resisting the urge to surrender, showing how strong you are, sticking together with your team, and [...]
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By Dave Tate
Rhodestown0October 10, 2008
Rhodestown

"Shutting it down" means that I'm backing off for a while
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By Matt Rhodes
The Making of Elite Sports Performance0October 9, 2008
The Making of Elite Sports Performance

There are many great gyms in the United States. Ohio has the great Westside Barbell, California has Diablo Barbell, New York has Adirondack Barbell—home of the Metal Militia, and Nebraska has Big Iron.
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By Daniel DiPasqua
Making It Work0October 9, 2008
Making It Work

As a powerlifter, grad student, father, and husband, I hear piles of insane BS from the general populace. “Wow, I could never do that.” “You can lift how much?” “You must be on steroids.” “I used to do that and then I broke ____.”
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By Adam Plagens
Words of Wisdom0September 9, 2008
Words of Wisdom

Last night, I was sitting in my office going through some of my training journals and notes that had accumulated over the years. These writings contained diagrams, personal training notes, clients’ training notes, personalized diets, book drafts, unpublished articles, and various research articles.
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By Jamie Hale
0August 12, 2008
Back and Forth: An Interview with Dave Tate and Alwyn Cosgrove

AC: Dave, you’re an Elite powerlifter and own one of the most successful strength training equipment companies in existence—and by extension a website that has become one of the best educational companies in the field. So, what’s the plan from here?
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By Dave Tate
Countdown0August 9, 2008
Countdown

We arrived at Metropolis (a night club) at 6:00 p.m. The fights were scheduled to begin at 8:00 p.m. The time had finally arrived—Ryan Farhat’s mixed martial arts (MMA) debut.
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By Jamie Hale