#86 - Transitioning Clients Online (Legacy Episode)

10/25/24 • 38 min

Build Your Business: From Fear to Freedom

Moving Your Personal Training Clients Online: Online Coaching Business Model

Successfully transitioning your clients from in-person to online makes a ton of sense for your quality of life and business model as a strength coach.

The biggest value of in-person training comes primarily during those initial sessions, when often drastic technique changes need to be made and you develop a relationship grounded in trust, expertise, and benevolence.

As the relationship progresses, however, the value of in-person coaching decreases. Form correction becomes less frequent and less drastic, whereas programming changes become more complicated and necessary.

Asynchronous online coaching allows the client to lift wherever and whenever is convenient, and then the coach to respond within 24-48 hours wherever or whenever works for the coach.

It increases the dollar-per-hour pay to the coach while decreasing the cost to the client.

How to Move Your Personal Training Clients Online: Make More Money & Improve Your Quality of Life

Matt Fever has made the transition from personal trainer and leader of group classes to professional coach. Attending an in-person lifting seminar with Barbell Logic was a turning point, as Matt Fever signed up for the Academy, started receiving online coaching from Matt Reynolds, and really honed his knowledge and expertise and learned about the online coaching business model.

He has been transitioning his clients from in-person to online. This has allowed him to spend more time with his family. It has also led to his clients having higher compliance, as he can coach when he is on vacation (whereas previously he could not coach and did not get paid). His clients can also lift and receiving coaching if they travel.

Moving your personal training clients online dramatically improves your quality of life and helps you develop a successful online coaching business model.

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Moving Your Personal Training Clients Online: Online Coaching Business Model

Successfully transitioning your clients from in-person to online makes a ton of sense for your quality of life and business model as a strength coach.

Asynchronous online coaching allows the client to lift wherever and whenever is convenient, and then the coach to respond within 24-48 hours wherever or whenever works for the coach.

It increases the dollar-per-hour pay to the coach while decreasing the cost to the client.

How to Move Your Personal Training Clients Online: Make More Money & Improve Your Quality of Life

Moving your personal training clients online dramatically improves your quality of life and helps you develop a successful online coaching business model.

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#85 - Time Audit (Legacy Episode)

Time Audit: Why It Matters – Know Where Your Time is Going

You are your biggest time waster. You may feel that others (e.g. your boss, kids, etc.) waste most of your time, but a couple things in response to this notion of your.

One, you cannot fully control these things. Two, insofar as you can control them, it often comes with how you react to them, approach them, or major life overhauls (e.g. changing jobs).

C. Northcote Parkinson describe in a 1955 essay in the Economist what has called Parkinson’s Law – works expands to fill the available time.

If you give yourself a month to complete a task, it will take a month. That same work could have taken you a week or day if you had assigned that amount of time.

Ultimately, this has limits (you cannot assign a nanosecond to something and assume it will get done), but this law has value. Instead of considering it a negative reality, give yourself less time and hold yourself accountable. Work to develop better habits of time management.

Just like nutrition or budgeting, worst knowing what you are consuming or how you are spending helps you begin to modify your actions.

Time Audit: What It Is & How To Do It

A time audit is a method to track how you spend your time over a given period. It helps you identify non-urgent, non-important tasks you can eliminate and urgent tasks you can delegate. Additionally, you will likely fine that the simple act of completing the time audit will improve your time management actions.

Track blocks of time down to the 15 or 30-minute increment for one week. If something takes less than that time, you can write that down.

Matt has a 15-minute timer that he uses. When it goes off, he quickly jots down what he did.

Matt uses Clockify, but you could use a spreadsheet or pen and paper.

You can read an article Matt recently wrote about the time audit here. You may also be interested in reading Dan Martell’s book Buy Back Your Time.

Matt recommends, even if you have done pretty well with time management, doing this annually or bi-annually to check-in and continue to improve your time management.

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#87 - Choose Hard Things with Cody McBroom (Legacy Episode)

Choose Hard Things: The Transforming Power of Fitness

Cody had been an overweight youth but decided to begin to take his health and fitness seriously. When he wedded his nascent health and fitness journey with a passion for learning as he changed his major in college, he never looked back and pursued a career as a strength and nutrition coach.

Cody found that by simply doing hard things regularly and improving his health and fitness, he improved all other aspects of his life. Truly, embracing voluntary hardship can alter the course of your life for the better.

The decision to do the hard things matters.

Choosing Hard Things in Business & Life

Cody, like Matt, saw the downsides of the in-person coaching model. He started an online coaching business in 2017, the year after Matt began Barbell Logic Online Coaching. He has focused on tailored nutrition and fitness coaching, prioritizing normal every day people looking to avoid the tragically-too-normal slide to obesity and disease.

He has had to learn about business (again, embracing hard things) to help his business grow, which ultimately helps more people transform their lives.

Choose hard things every day.

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