Chris is a former teammate, a former BCPTI instructor and we've had some cool adventures together. It was great to catch up with him on the web chat series! We talk about "paying yourself first" as a trainer and how important that is to building your business and sustaining your career.
Meet my former boss (and the best one I've ever had!) We had a great conversation about taking the leap, betting on yourself and having the "grit to not quit" in work and life. This is a fiery conversation but if you can handle the heat you're going to be super fired up!
Lindy Drope is a BCPTI grad and rose to being one of the top 3 trainers with SNFC within her first couple of years working as a trainer. We talk about how she became a trainer, obstacles that she had to overcome when she got started, and some of the resources that helped her develop. [...]
Meet Courtney – she’s a passionate fitness professional, a committed life-long learner and a BCPTI grad with an incredible story! We asked her to share what it meant to achieve weight loss and a better mindset about fitness, and what her life/career has been like since she started working as a personal trainer. Plus, [...]
Nicole went from athlete, to unhealthy, to fitness-focused and has experienced a transformation - physical and purposeful. Now she's working as a personal trainer and feels fulfilled daily as she helps clients reach their goals. She loves being surrounded by a team of people that help her prioritize and improve on her own [...]
On January 2nd 2019 Moreza walked into Day 1 of the BCPTI personal training program looking for his purpose. From our 7 week program to this 7 month update, here's his story. Part One - beginning of class "Hello, my name is Moreza. I’m originally from Tehran, Iran. My dad got me into working out when [...]
My road to becoming a personal trainer all started with me being a personal training client. A little over two years ago I was working full time in a high pressure, high stress position in health care. I was unhappy with my appearance and struggling with anxiety. I tried multiple online training programs in an [...]
How many times have you “started” something only to stop and then “start” again at a later date? One of the main obstacles in reaching our goals is the type of goals we set! Fitness professionals usually find people set vague or general goals that may look similar to these: I want to [...]
What is empathy? There’s a story about a trainer, Drew Manning, who purposely gained, and then lost, 70 pounds.1 He claimed he did this because, as a lifelong fitness junkie, he had a hard time understanding what some of his clients were experiencing. So he quit working out and started eating junk food. After gaining [...]
