Category: personal trainer

What are you doing for Mother’s Day?

Dear Fitness Pros, Mother’s Day is just around the corner. Plan special activities, events, classes etc to celebrate women! Here are some ideas for you: *Host a Mother/Daughter class ie Dance, Yoga, Kickboxing…*Organize a Mother’s Day Bootcamp*Organize a fundraiser with the beneficiary being an important woman’s cause*Hold a Woman’s Health seminar*Bring in a massage therapist…

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‘Bring your Child to Work-out Day!”

Hey Fitness Pros, Next Thursday April 22nd is Bring your Child to Work day. In order to encourage a healthy lifestyle in our kids, take a spin on this national holiday and host a “Bring your Child to Work-out Day!” Encourage your clients to bring their kids to a class or to their personal training…

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Photos from my Fitness Professional Resort Trip…

Hey Fitness Pros, My teaching vacation at the resort in Mexico was absolutely fabulous. I wanted to make sure I let you know whether it was a positive or negative experience and it was all amazing! It was such a fabulous way to meet people from all over the world and since I’d be working…

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The key to staying on top!

Dear Fitness Pros, Stop learning and then start dying! The key to staying on top and on the cutting edge is an ongoing commitment to MCI (Measurable Constant Improvement). Read trade journals, invest in business leadership and success books, listen to webinars, watch and learn from other colleagues and attend conferences and workshops. At NWPT,…

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Plan a healthy and fun St. Patty’s Day celebration

Hey Fitness Pros, Next week is St. Patty’s Day. Plan something fun for clients. Encourage everyone to wear green, play some fun Irish music, give out some door prizes, plan some fitness challenges or Exercise Trivia with an Ireland flare so people can test their Irish luck, serve green healthy drinks… Same old, same old…

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Fitness Pros can vacation for Free!

Hey Fitness Pros, Sorry it’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted. I’m celebrating my 40th Birthday next week and have been enjoying a fun 40 for 40 day celebration. It’s been a blast! Anyways, today I wanted to let you know about an opportunity that exists for Fitness Professionals that I don’t think enough…

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Add an Olympic theme to your training…

Hey Fitness Pros, The Olympics are well on there way and the world is inspired and captivated by the athleticism, determination, and focus of these athletes. So use this as an opportunity to incorporate some fun Winter Olympic challenges or workouts. For example, maybe each day during the Olympics set a new drill, challenge or…

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The #1 Key to Success is…

Dear Fitness Pros, I’ve found that success has nothing to do with money or intelligence. Instead success seems to follow those who know exactly what they want and are willing to do whatever it takes to get there! So I want to ask you… Do you clearly see what you want for your life and…

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Why a trainer needs to schedule a workout with a trainer…

Hey Fitness Pros, This month all of our trainers are taking me through a workout. I would suggest other trainers, owners and managers to do the same for a variety of reasons: 1. Quality control – I will evaluate our team based on a set criteria of what we believe a great session looks like…

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Fitness Pros for Haiti

Hey Fitness Pros: Have you organized some form of workout, exercise-a-thon etc to help the people in Haiti. It’s a wonderful way to give back, get your clients together doing something amazing for themselves and those in need and just make a difference. Some ideas: Exercise-a-thon – 15 minute samples of various types of fitness…

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