Here’s what podcast cohosts Jonathan Goodman, Carolina Belmares, and Ren Jones talked about this week on the Online Trainer Show: In Episode 41, How to Train Online Without In-Person Experience, Jon admits this topic contradicts what he wrote in The Wealthy Fit Pro’s Guide to Online Training. He told readers it’s "crucial … to get in-person experience for a minimum of a year" before working with clients online. It’s not like he buried this advice; he wrote it in the introduction and repeated it in the first chapter. And it’s not like the book is old and outdated. It came out in the fall of 2019—which, you may recall, was a few months before COVID-19 caused gyms to close. Some still haven’t reopened. That’s why he changed his thinking about starting out online. If you’re an inexperienced coach, you have two choices: Start out online, or delay your career as a personal trainer. In fact, Jon says, new trainers actually have a marketing advantage. When you’re honest
about your inexperience, you can make your first clients partners in your learning experience. In Episode 42, The Procrastination Behaviors That Stall Your Business, Ren reveals the secret to getting things done: Poverty. When you’re broke, you have no choice but to move forward and do what you can to land clients and grow your business. It’s the only way to pay the bills. Not-broke fitness pros find any number of ways to procrastinate, as podcast producer Amber Reynolds explains. They tinker with their websites, they
focus on their workout clothes, or, as Carolina says, they simply go down a "Google spiral" of searching for perfect information instead of accepting that they know enough to get started. You’ll find every episode here: --> The Online Trainer Show
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