06/14/2024
I don’t know enough about Nick’s programming so I am not here promoting what he is offering.
But what I do know. he’s dead on his thoughts in this article on training every day clients. Trainers and coaches if you want to have happy clients and high retention with your clients for years an years and that’s what every trainer/coach wants you need to listen to your clients stay in tune with your clients abilities and goals.
Not some program resource from someone that is not even training every day clients, they most likely are not even be training clients at all.
It’s funny how out of touch programming information for trainers is to what we everyday trainers are actually seeing most often while working with regular clients.
Here’s one of many glaring examples of this disconnect:
Program design resources are always raging against constantly changing exercises. However, the single biggest, and most common positive feedback both myself and many of the busiest trainers (with long client retention) are always hearing from our clients is: “I like the variety” - “I love how you always change some things up.”
If you’re a trainer working with everyday clients, I promise this is the #1 compliment you also hear most often for why your clients are happy and keep coming back to you. And, even when you try to stay consistent, you’ll have many clients complaining by saying “didn’t we do this last time?!?!” Or, they’ll come in and say “can we not do legs today because my knees are sore from gardening all weekend.”
The fact that this is never addressed in programming resources, and in fact, if you listened to what many of these resources say, they’d cause your business to fail by honoring what these authors want instead of listening to your clients, shows you a lot.
It shows you that the majority of folks who produce these programming resources are often like the out of touch celebrities or politicians who are clueless about your everyday life while trying to act like they know how you should be living your life.
Fact is, most program design resources aren’t designed by people who are everyday trainers who are working with everyday clients. So, they don’t address everyday issues like this because they’re not dealing with them to understand, and therefore aren’t qualified to know how to provide you with practical solutions to real world training issues. Issues like how to keep your clients staying consistent with the main movement patterns for progress while varying the expression of those movement patterns to keep your clients staying consistent and excited about working hard.
That’s exactly why I created my own digital programming resource, Practical Program Design Mastery. It’s designed specifically for trainers that work with everyday clients and includes 12 learning modules as well as over a year’s worth of done for you programs. Click the link below to learn more 👇🏻
https://practicalprogrammastery.com
