1255: How Trainers Can Maintain Their Businesses While Gyms Are Closed
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin give actionable ways trainers can adapt to maintain their businesses and even thrive during this period of gym closures and uncertainty.
- How the coronavirus crisis has impacted society, affected the economy & MORE. (3:21)
- Why Mind Pump love trainers so much. (5:41)
- What a trainer's true role is for their clients. (8:32)
- Do not be reactive, be proactive. (11:42)
- The value a trainer can provide through Facetime. (16:35)
- Placing a focus on mobility and holding your clients accountable. (19:45)
- The importance of breaking up your client's sessions to build lifers. (25:50)
- How to be assertive, creative and communicate with confidence. (28:20)
- How to accept payments. (37:50)
- Stay in your lane and build value. (38:30)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mind up, mind up with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | In this episode of Mind Clump, we're talking to trainers. |
| 0:17.0 | You know, a lot of gyms are closing down right now. |
| 0:20.0 | A lot of trainers are freaking out. |
| 0:22.0 | How are they going to maintain their business? |
| 0:24.0 | How are they going to train their clients? |
| 0:26.0 | So we give you some solutions in this episode. |
| 0:30.0 | Now, we start out by talking about why we love trainers so much. |
| 0:34.0 | We talk about what your true role is as a trainer and how your clients need you now more than ever. |
| 0:40.0 | And then we give you some solutions. |
| 0:42.0 | We talk about how you can proactively call your clients and what kind of conversations you can have with them. |
| 0:47.0 | We talk about using FaceTime to take them through workouts. |
| 0:51.0 | How you should probably focus on mobility. |
| 0:53.0 | Mobility requires no equipment. |
| 0:56.0 | So this is a great time to work on something that's usually neglected but extremely important for every client. |
| 1:03.0 | We talk about breaking up their workouts instead of doing an hour session like you normally do in the gym. |
| 1:08.0 | 20 to 30 minute sessions through FaceTime and do them more frequently. |
| 1:13.0 | So instead of training them twice a week, now you see them four times a week. |
| 1:16.0 | We talk about how to communicate with confidence and of course how to accept payment. |
| 1:21.0 | So you can continue building your business even through these strange times. |
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