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Learn about moving your personal training clients online - how to do it and how it improves your online coaching business model & life.
Matt Reynolds interviews Matt Fever, a coach at Barbell Logic, who discusses how we transitioned from personal trainer to professional coach to professional online coach, and how he have moved his in-person clients from in-person to online.
Moving Your Personal Training Clients Online: Online Coaching Business ModelSuccessfully 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 LifeMatt 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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Learn how to get your back back after a chronic injury. It takes patience, focus on recovery, and a focus on what is truly important.
How to Get Your Back Back: What Is Your Goal?You have to remember what your goal is. What matters most to you?
Niki had an emotional attachment, built over years with baked-in assumptions she had to reevaluate, about the need for the weight on the bar to go up on a few lifts in a limited rep range.
She had to ditch this as the metric that mattered.
What she REALLY wanted was to build muscle mass, enjoy the gym, and limit or eliminate pain. Dreading the gym and waking up in pain every morning was not working.
Do you HAVE to deadlift to build muscle mass? No you do not. We love the deadlift, but if the deadlift is causing you to hate your workouts and be in pain all the time, then it is not moving you closer to your goals and you should ditch the deadlift.
Niki also decided to stop BJJ. While she enjoyed it, she was underrecovered and it was not bringing her closer to her most important goals.
How to Get Your Back Back: PatienceInstead of lifting heavy, Niki had to reduce stress and prioritize recovery. This first looked like lighter bodyweight and light implement movements. Then it moved onto machines. For Niki, the jump to machines was huge, because she was able to train hard without making her back worse.
Ironically, the crooked path toward her goal has brought her closer to PRs than the path of beating her head (or maybe her back) against the wall of pain, frustration, and trying to do the program.
She had to train curious and see if the exercise hurt, be ready to modify the weight or range of motion. She had to emotionally detach from weight on the bar. She had to rather focus on other things - did she wake up in pain. Did her back hurt during the workout?
Waking up without pain was a win aligned with her goals that was worth celebrating.
Learn how to get your back back.
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Use a time audit to know where your time is going, enhance your efficiency & effectiveness, and boost your productivity. This simple tool may transform your life.
Time Audit: Why It Matters - Know Where Your Time is GoingYou 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 ItA 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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Prioritizing your health helps boost all other priorities in your life. Respect yourself and your boundaries and learn how to prioritize your health, no matter what.
How to Prioritize Your Health: Set & Protect BoundariesDo not allow work travel or other obligations cause you to abandon your priorities. If you lose your health your work and those other responsibilities will suffer.
Prioritizing your health means understanding this is important to you and putting time and effort into it, even when time and effort is severely limited.
When you fail to prioritize your health, not only does your work suffer, but you will likely feel growing resentment, as you have failed to defend your goals and have your actions reflect your core values.
Prioritizing Your Health During Travel & Difficult TimesFor Andrew and Niki, investing in health during travel looks like consistently getting to the gym, maintaining a habit of walking, and picking better food choices.
This does not mean two hour workouts or the same diet one might eat during a strenuous cut.
It means, however, ensuring you maintaining the habit of exercise and working toward your goals. It means attempting to get 10,000 steps. It means looking for healthier food options, prioritizing protein and fiber insofar as you can.
You cannot completely let your guard down. You cannot relax your standards with reckless abandon. This is not how you accomplish your goals long-term.
This is especially important and true if you travel regularly.
Prioritizing your health means respecting yourself, your goals, and your boundaries.
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Don't be lazy because of the freedom that comes from being a business owner or your own boss.
Don't Be Lazy: You Can Do MoreMost people do not do enough. The evidence for this is all the time people waste performing non-important, unurgent tasks such as watching TikTok, doom-scrolling through Twitter, or binge-watching Netflix.
Do not build walls around your time that should not exist. "It's unhealthy to work on the weekend" or "I deserve to not work on the weekend" can be the difference between your business succeeding and growing or failing.
You have more time than you think. You can do more than you think. This does not mean that you do not enjoy time with your family or in leisure activities. People, however, by and large, are too lazy. People generally do less than they can.
Don't Be Lazy Because of Your FreedomBusiness owners and the self-employed enjoy the freedom to set their own schedules and choose how to spend their time. This may be the single greatest aspect of starting a business or being your own boss.
If you give in to your worst tendencies, however, you will not do enough. You will choose laziness.
Matt, for example, gets up early to complete urgent tasks when no one else is awake. He does this on the weekend as well, which leaves him ready to perform on Monday as the CEO. He does not begin work Monday morning having to catch up on email.
Don't let freedom lead to laziness. Don't be lazy, but rather do the work.
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A powerlifting meet gives lifters and coaches an opportunity for performance under pressure. Learn the whys, hows, and whats of powerlifting meets. Learn about this and the exciting new International Barbell Federation (IBF).
Powerlifting Meets for Everyday LiftersYou don't have to be a 700 lb deadlifter to benefit from a strengthlifting meet.
People of all ages and backgrounds have found the purpose-organizing power of signing up for and preparing for a meet.
Putting the meet on the calendar gives a time and place where you need to perform. It helps you organize your training, eating, even vacations and such around this.
Sometimes, this is not appropriate. You might not want to schedule this when life is throwing you severe involuntary hardship.
Still, novices and experienced lifters, young and elderly, the painfully average or elite can benefit from adding this to their training. As a coach, the best way to get better at helping lifters at meets is to have your lifters go through meets. Second best way is going through a meet yourself.
Powerlifting Meet: The Power of the PlatformBeyond the training-organizing function, the environment of a meet - especially an in-person meet - is powerful.
People regularly experience PRs as they get cheered on.
On the other hand, the unique elements of a meet can throw people curve balls. You have judges and an open platform (as opposed to staring at a wall). You have less control over when you lift and have weird equipment and clothing. Judges may give you commands. You have to handle emotions.
With all this, it is certainly an experience worth having under your belt as a lifter and coach.
Try a powerlifting meet or strengthlifting meet, so you can perform under pressure.
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Pick your battles for tranquility, happiness, peace, & prosperity. Assume the best in others, and work toward goal accomplishment.
Pick Your Battles: Cool, Calm, CollectedSomeone in the All In conference Matt, Niki, Andrew, & Josh recently attended said "that's below my line."
What does this mean? It means certain things should be below "your line" that stirs up your anger.
Of course, anger is an emotion, and emotions arise sometimes whether you want them to or not. That being said, you should avoid outrage culture, and if you find yourself dominated by your passions, you should step back and deal with it.
Matt has identified that addressing a situation in anger almost never works out well. This does not just mean yelling or punishment, but even talking in anger - it usually does not come off well.
If accomplishing the goal is the goal, and anger does not help, then don't lean into the anger. Acknowledge, overcome, and try to make peace.
Pick Your Battles: Assume the BestOne component of picking your battles is assuming the best in others, especially others who have built up a level of trust with you.
You cannot be in a healthy relationship with your spouse or really any other important person in your life if you assume the worst possible motives for their actions.
Reach out to the other person and listen. Winning an argument or seeking to dominate conversation is not a good way to reach understanding or peace.
Pick your battles, seek peace, and overcome anger and other passions.
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Why participate in barbell competition, and if you decide to compete how do you approach it. Learn about this and the exciting new International Barbell Federation (IBF).
Barbell Competition BenefitsAndrew interviews Jordan Stanton, owner of Next Level Barbell and the Strength Union, both in or around Portland, OR, as well as former owner of the United States Strengthlifting Federation (USSF). As a gym owner, in-person coach, online coach, lifting federation owner, and competitive lifter, he has experienced barbell competition in all its aspects.
Why compete?
Competition focuses lifters' training, organizing it around a purpose connected to time. It also provides some motivation, not only mentally because the meet is on the calendar, but also to train hard and take recovery seriously.
Consider participating in an online or in-person meet, regardless of your training level.
Barbell Competition Tips & General ApproachGenerally, you want to taper before a meet and practice heavy singles. You definitely need to be familiar with the rules of the meet. Having a coach can really help here.
For many, though, the most important thing is not stressing about the meet or how you do but simply experiencing the meet. Lift heavy as people cheer you on. See how all the different rules and aspects of a meet change your lifting and your training leading up to your programming.
Barbell Competition OnlineThe USSF went online during Covid. Now, the USSF has been reflagged and is the International Barbell Federation (IBF).
If you're seeing this before or in October 2024, sign up for the online meet from October 9-20, 2024.
You can do a powerlifting version (squat, bench press, deadlift) or strengthlifting version (squat, overhead press, deadlift).
Make sure you read the rules and ensure you execute accordingly the day you lift.
An online meet is a great lower stress way to compete in your normal environment, not having to take a day out to go somewhere and spend most of the day competing.
Consider participating in barbell competition as part of your overall training approach, even if just one time.
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Learn how many go from client to coach, crushing the client life cycle. This is Micaela Bickel's story.
Client to Coach: Fitness to StrengthBarbell Logic has identified a somewhat typical progression among a cohort of its clientele. These folks go from fan to strength client to Academy client to coach using TurnKey Coach.
Micaela Bickel followed this path.
She began more in the fitness space, programming circuits and endurance. Barbells were sprinkled in.
Despite her skepticism and fears, training with barbells produced the results she wanted and not only did not hurt her back but actually helped her back.
She attended a seminar and left humbled but ready to pivot to strength-based training for both herself and her clients.
Client to Coach: The Business of CoachingShe soon found the Academy and learned many of the practical and academic things it teaches. Despite having an exercise science degree, she derived a huge value from the academy.
She opened a gym in February 2023. That was a steeper learning curve.
She learned as she went, though the Academy also not spends more time addressing the business of coaching.
Her first important transition was from charging per session to charging monthly. Soon thereafter, she moved to a hybrid model of coaching, where clients receive usually 2-3 months of in-person coaching from her and then are moved to online through TurnKey Coach.
This has increased her ability to coach more clients and decreased her time at work.
The way TKC measures progress and PRs has encouraged compliance, and clients are able to train while away from the gym (and Micaela can coach away from the gym).
Learn about Micaela's story from client to coach and how she crushed the client life cycle.
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When you know you have a good product, service, or solution, you have unshakeable confidence. How do you develop this? Learn what this is and how you develop it!
Unshakeable Confidence: Is It Possible & What Is It?Andrew saw a video of someone handing out bags of money and reacting to people accepting or not accepting it.
Seems pretty crazy, to turn a bag of money, right!?
Now, in a big city, we can acknowledge that people might not fully understand what is going on, might be skeptical, and other reasons may exist. But in a situation this obvious - do you want free money? - the person handing it out is not insulted if you turn it down.
Why? Well, because this person is delivering such obvious value.
Andrew realized that when you know you have a good product, good service, good solution, this is how you react to rejection. You don't get incredibly defensive or emotional. You might take it as a learning opportunity.
While you want to spread the word about the good thing you have, your emotions are not so wrapped up in defending the value because you know, deep down, this thing has value.
Unshakeable Confidence: How to Develop ItBe honest with yourself and invest in ability, integrity, and benevolence. If the product needs work, be honest with yourself. That might be part of your pitch and you should charge accordingly.
For example, if you are trying to become a coach, you might initially charge nothing or very little and pitch it as something that will likely provide them value while allowing you to improve your coaching. If they receive value, request a testimonial.
Pick something that keeps you curious, and grow and expand your limits within that thing. Improve your craft. Improvement requires honesty, because you have to acknowledge your deficiencies and work to improve those areas.
When it comes to sales, this will look like not being obsessed with closing the sale, but rather offering a service where you help the other make a decision. Occasionally, it will not be a good fit. That's okay. Do not force something bad when it does not make sense.
Develop unshakeable confidence and then deliver.
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Learn how to avoid, identify, and get out of occupational burnout. Like overtraining, this is better to avoid then dig yourself out of.
Burnout: Definition & IdentificationThis is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion. It comes from doing too much for too long, especially too many urgent things. Some people have performed some great feats of endurance in their lives, but they often focus on the important, not the urgent.
You will experience a lack of desire to work, even with things that used to motivated and excited you. It will affect all areas of your life.
There is a clear parallel with overtraining. Overtraining is actually less common than most people think, but if you become overtrained it is debilitating. Overtraining and becoming burned out are better to avoid than dig yourself out of.
Burnout: Avoidance versus Digging Yourself OutThis is one of those instances when important things become urgent. You drown in an overwhelming amount of urgency for too long, and you will have to confront it. It is better to get out in front of it.
Ensure that you are making time for the important. You are taking days off and there are things you do unrelated to the urgent every day.
Take care of your health always: physical, medical, spiritual, psychological, social.
Do not medicate with activities that can exacerbate the problem, such as alcohol or other drugs, unhealthy foods, empty pleasures, risky behaviors, or excessive spending or gambling.
To dig yourself out will require more work and greater effort than if you had never found yourself burned out in the first place. And, of course, some people never dig themselves out.
Avoid burnout, but reach out for help if you find yourself burned out.
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Stronger means harder to kill, more able to fulfill your work and domestic obligations, and more useful overall.
Listen to Matt's talk to the Tactical Response alumni. This group of people cares about being prepared, protecting themselves and their loved ones, and more capable overall. If they are weak, however, they have a gap, and they need to be stronger. This applies to you too.
Stronger Means Harder to KillWould you like to be harder to kill, more resilient, healthier, and more useful overall or softer, easier to kill, more susceptible to death and sickness, and a burden on others?
If you're weak, you have a gap that needs to be addressed. You need to get stronger.
Getting stronger is brutally simple. Eschew complication, follow the simple, hard, effective way. Receive the greatest return investment for your time and effort by following basic barbell movements such as the squat, bench press, deadlift, and press.
Strength is about overcoming cancer, staying out of a nursing home, becoming a better father or mother. It is about building the confidence to regularly do hard things, and to be more prepared when involuntary hardship comes.
Act now! Exercise today and work toward training to get stronger and harder to kill.
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Learn when to break the rules and when to follow them. Generally, you follow the rules, but not always.
When to Break the Rules: Increase Speed & Decrease CostsIn many industries and organizations, there are general guidelines, rules, or ways of doing things. You may learn, early on, that generally, for example, employees should have one manager only or that you should never divide your forces in the face of a larger force.
Great victories and advantages, however, lie in consciously not following these rules.
For start up companies, your advantages over larger companies come from nimbleness and low costs. When you start your business, you are the technician, the manager, and the owner. You wear all the hats.
You will hire employees, and they will begin to take some of those hats.
Do not, however, force your people and processes under principles that slow you down or increase your costs.
As you scale, you will reach higher level nodes where payroll will increase. As you do this, profitability may decrease as you take on more people, but then it will improve as you improve and grow at that node.
Move fast and move cheap. Know when to break the rules and knowingly break them for the good of your business (when it makes sense).
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We cover the good, the bad, and the ugly in the recent games in this 2024 Olympics Wrap-Up. 2024 Olympics Wrap-Up: the Impressive & the Controversial
You have to admit it, Olympians' performances are impressive.
The amount of work over years and decades is immense. Genetic gifts abound, but so do mindset and work ethic abilities.
Olympians' RPE 10 is not the same as our RPE 10.
We value voluntary hardship and appreciate what the human body can do. We stand in awe of the excellence on display in the Olympics, but rather than demotivate us it inspires us. In some small way, we get to participate in the same pursuit to not accept mediocrity and burdening others, but improving ourselves.
Enjoy this 2024 Olympics Wrap-Up!
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Learn about the ultimate time efficiency hack - the pomodoro. This ultimate productivity is a game changer those those urgent & important tasks you don't really want to do. Get them done faster, so you have more time for those important tasks you want to do.
Time Efficiency Hack: The PomodoroYou have tasks you need to do but you do not want to do. It might be something on the computer for work. It might be a manual labor task, such as fixing the lawn mower.
We can find ways to sabotage our own intentions unconsciously with distractions.
A pomodoro is a set period of time (you might start with 25 minutes) where you focus on only one task with no distractions or context switches.
When you are done with the pomodoro, you take a break. The break is important. Go to the bathroom, stretch your legs, get some sun, quickly chat with someone.
The goal is to be able to do more back-to-back pomodoros and have the pomodoros be longer.
Matt will often have a notepad next to him with a pen. If some random idea comes in his mind that he does not want to forget, such as "I need to buy cilantro at the grocery store," he just quickly writes down "cilantro" and then continues on his task.
Chris recommends for those distracted by noises to get foam ear plugs and white noise headphones.
It might seem not fun to buckle down and get the work done, but see how much faster you get the work done and how much more time you have to do other things.
Try this time efficiency hack, this ultimate productivity tool, this effectiveness game changer - the pomodoro.
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Back pain for lifters can be scary & frustrating & varies in severity. Learn the causes, treatments, approaches, & red flags as a lifter and coach.
Rebekah Krieg, Exclusive Coach & former long-time physical therapist, discusses back pain, how to approach it as a lifter and coach, and red flags contraindicate training.
Back Pain for Lifters: Part of the Human ExperienceBack pain happens.
Whether an MRI of your back would look "normal" or "bad," back pain seems to be part of the human experience for those who exercise and train and those who do not.
It is better, all things being equal, to train and strengthen your low back. A strong back is a resilient low back.
Back pain comes in many intensities and durations, from the short-term tweaks, to the multi-month or year variety, to chronic back pain.
As lifters and coaches, we have to approach back pain with some flexibility but basic principles, an openness to refer out, active listening to our clients.
Back Pain for Lifters: Treatments & ApproachesThe general approach is to focus on what you can do.
If a lifter experiences a tweak during the workout, a general approach is to do the following:
reduce load first next, reduce range of motion next, vary the exercise selection be prepared to end the workoutAs a coach, do not encourage or support client catastrophizing. Training curious, see what works. Even if the workout has to be ended, most likely the client will feel better after a day or two and with something easy movements like bending over at the waist to get blood flowing into the back.
Motion is lotion.
For someone with new back that comes in, encourage them to see how the back feels after a warm up (and likely a slower, longer warm up). If they are still not feeling good, than follow the steps above. Often times, though, they will feel better after a warm up.
If someone comes in with chronic back pain, they are used to back pain. Focus on excellent technique and be more conservative with them. Ensure that the back pain does not get worse, and see if it gets better. Communication will be critical, and you may include a back pain metric that helps you and the client ensure pain monitoring is a regular part of the coaching process.
If the back pain is bad and normal enough, they might never do the conventional deadlift. Focus on what they can do. If the conventional deadlift or low bar squat causes significant pain or things to get worse, it does not make sense to force them into these movement patterns.
Back Pain for Lifters: Red Flags that Contraindicate TrainingSometimes, clients should not even warm up. If the client reports any sudden loss of function since the back pain, this contraindicates training. Below is a longer list:
lack of bowel control sexual dysfunction bilateral pain loss of motor function (e.g. foot drop)Do NOT let them warm up. They need to go to the doctor.
Bekah even has said that she has had to fire a client who would not follow her recommendations and guidelines for lifting and would not see a doctor. This may be the kindest thing you can do to them.
What type of glaring signal might it send to someone that a coach will no longer take their money unless they change their behaviors?
Back pain for lifters and coaches can be frustrating and scary. Do not catastrophize, follow some basic steps and principles, and do not be afraid to refer out to another healthcare professional.
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Leverage education to identify your constraints. Put things you learn into action, and build trust as a business owner with content that leads to conversions.
Leverage Education: Put Insights Into Action As a Content ConsumerYou almost certainly consume content in some form. Free or cheap content abounds: podcasts, social media, YouTube, reels, articles, books, audiobooks.
You should be consuming and encountering meaningful, challenging, useful content. You should constantly be learning.
That being said, too many people do not put lessons learn into action. Don't be one of these people. Then, your education is really just infotainment.
You do not improve yourself or your business by knowing more but by improving yourself and your business by changing your habits and applying the insights you learn from these educational resources.
Leverage Education: Build Trust to Create Leads & Conversions as a Content CreatorSome businesses focus on monetizing content and making money through content.
That is not Barbell Logic, and that is not most businesses.
Content is a means to build trust and demonstrate value and expertise. Potential clients (leads) consume your content, they become warm leads, and eventually some of these people will purchase your products or services.
For example, Matt has purchased Alex Hormozi's books (which are cheap) and watched some of his free online content. Because of the value he has gleaned from this, he was willing to pay more to attend an intensive in-person seminar.
Why? Because the free and cheap content, and Matt and Barbell Logic's application of the lessons contained in that content, have provided value. Matt was willing to invest more deeply in a higher level of service with a higher price point because of this trust from previous experiences with the content.
How are you building trust with your potential customers?
Leverage education and build trust.
Leverage Education to Identify Your ConstraintsBarbell Logic used the seminar, and has used free and cheap content from Hormozi and acquisition.com to identify constraints within the business and levers to pull that will provide the most return for the least effort, time, and money.
Sounds a lot like MED (not on accident)!
MED does not mean do the least you can. It means valuing your time, money, and effort to get the biggest return on investment you can. It applies the law of diminishing returns. It asks, if you can add 5 pounds to your squat every 2-3 days with 1 set of 5 repetitions of the deadlift, why would you do a program that involves 3x5 or 5x5?
Leverage education to identify constraints and improve yourself and your business.
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Take action and train because time & strength wait for no one. Get the most out of your training, & don't spend any more time without barbell training.
Take Action and Train: Time & Strength Waits for No OneTime is our most valuable asset because we can never earn more of it. We can make changes to make more money. We cannot make changes to earn more time (though we can make changes to spend our time in more valuable ways).
You do not want to spend another year, month, week, or even day without moving toward your health and fitness goals. You do not want to be ten years older having not trained. Not only will you be no closer to your goals, you may be further away. Furthermore, you will have lost ten years' time to train and reap those benefits.
But there is no better time to begin training than now. Make the change now. If you're short on time, that is no problem: spend time with simple, hard, effective training that delivers the minimum effective dose for maximum return on investment.
Take Action and Train: MED Strength Training for Maximum ValueYou get no better return on your investment of time and effort than using compound barbell movements, such as the squat, press, deadlift, and bench press.
Too many people - especially template peddlers - know because all they are selling is a program, they need to show off by including complexity and many exercise. Because of this, these programs often take 2-3 hours and have needless complexity, as it looks like you received more value with the longer, more complex workouts.
Simple, hard, effective is the way. If you're extremely limited on time, you may even simply perform one exercise a day.
You don't know how much benefit you can get from how little time. It is not easy, but it is simple. It is brutally simple and brutally effective.
Take action and train today.
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Matt talks to Greg Hess, who is implementing simple, hard, effective strength training at West Point.
Strength Training at West Point: Simple, Hard, EffectiveGreg Hess is an instructor and athletic trainer at West Point. In this role, he has a host of responsibilities, including immediate treatment of injuries, overseeing mandatory physical training of all cadets during their cadet basic training, and leading an elective course on compound barbell lifts.
Really, what he is doing, in his roles, is trying to spread the benefits of simple, hard, effective training.
During basic training, he exposes cades to the deadlift and bench press, despite the limited time.
In his elective, however, he has more time to instruct technique on the four main lifts, along with the power clean and power snatch. Cadets also learn how to coach other cadets.
This is a good thing. Cadets at the United States Military Academy (West Point) are being exposed to simple, hard, effective strength training.
Learn about something exciting that is going on at West Point.
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Tackling tweaks can be terrifying. You're lifting and suddenly - OUCH - pain. We discuss how to handle these tweaks. Tackling Tweaks: Don't Catastrophize
You're lifting, all is going well, then suddenly you feel pain.
What do you do? How do you handle this? Why me, why now!?
It can be easy to catastrophize, to immediately assume the worst.
The reality is, your workout may be over, it may not be, you may be able to do something. You want to do what you can do, and most tweaks may affect one or two workouts but will have a quick return to normal.
Tackling Tweaks: Step-by-StepAndrew & Niki break down how Niki dealt with a recent adductor tweak and how this can apply to similar situations for you.
Evaluate for red flags Calm down Check for range of motion Incrementally start loading itThe first two steps may be interchangeable, but first check in with your body. Do you feel tingling? Is there bruising or swelling? Is it unilateral or bilateral? If you feel tingling or see bruising or swelling, it is more than a tweak.
Depending on how you are feeling, you may need to calm down. This may involve sitting or walking around.
Check for range of motion. Move into a position of discomfort and see if it gets better or worse. Stop if it gets worse.
Then, assuming you encounter no red flags, begin to load incrementally. It is probably a good idea to do the movement slow and controlled - maybe a tempo variation with a pause. You may adjust the movement to limit the involvement of the muscle that hurts.
Winning may look like getting some movement done - it will likely not look like getting the programmed workout done.
Tackling tweaks does not have to be terrifying. Learn how.
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