In this episode we are joined by Paul Standell, who is highly respected in the fitness industry. In part 1, we talk about biomechanics, how to simplify it and how it massively helps our coaching.

Part 2 with Paul, we dive into his personal life, in which we are grateful that he opened up about as this is an extremely valuable conversation. Paul talks about personal struggles, how they impacted him and how he has learned from them. 

In this episode we discuss stress, how we define it, is stress positive or negative, how we work with clients to come up with stress management  strategies and coping mechanisms, the effect it can have on reaching health and fitness goals and the physiological stress response. 

In this episode we are joined by James Sutton to discuss his new project The PT Project, his career to date including how he built a successful business within a commercial gym, the importance in building relationships and networks and the opportunities they provide, exercise mechanics and how we apply them to the general population.

In this episode we discuss how we programme for the general population client, how ongoing investigation is our preference to a one off assessment and variables for progression.

In this episode we discuss some of the foundations of nutrition, how we can communicate this to clients and how we work together with the client to help them adhere to changes in diet and lifestyle.

In this episode we discuss working with clients with obesity,  understanding the complexity of of this subject, our own experiences in working with clients from this demographic and does the fitness industry do enough to welcome and encourage people with the goal of loosing a lot of weight.

In this episode James sits down with Ryan Hook from Procoach to discuss their experiences with mental health, studying psychology and how this has helped them grow both as people and coaches.  

In this episode we discuss our experience in building and retaining a client base as both a new and more experienced  trainer in commercial gyms plus on social media.We discuss a few tools we used plus the importance in retaining a client base which can often be overlooked in favour of driving new business.

In this episode we continue the discussion with regards to helping clients with lower back pain and some practical take always with how we help within a session.