we are in a recession and no one is spending money. These are the excuses that people struggling in business say to compensate for their inability to run a successful business.

No I don’t mean as a trainer inflicting physical pain on your clients is good, although it is fun. What I am talking about is the emotional pain that drives people to make the unconfortable step of coming to see you.

The amount of times I have heard personal trainers opening their own personal training studio and not asking for help when it comes to leases, equipment, how best to use dollars (and generally the very limited amount of it) and what to actually purchase before they open just amazes me! Please please ask for help! [...]

Lets face it, who wouldn’t love to have your personal training business grow that fast? And of course, we all want to know… what is it that you have to do to get to that point? But it’s not what you do as much as who you are that determines how you will go in [...]

The key to authentic leadership is to listen to your followers, and then open the door for them to lead themselves. The secret is empowerment. The main incentive is genuine caring and recognition. The five most important words a leader can speak are: “I am proud of you.” The four most important are: “What is [...]

At the moment the single greatest killer in the world is not Al-Qaeda, it is not drink driving, it is not guns, it’s not even cancer. The single biggest killer in the world today is completely preventable through exercise and sensible eating, both are relatively simple. But somewhere along the lines, the people who are [...]