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Coaching & Mindset
Interviewing for the goal under the goal, building the feeling a client comes back for, and coaching the person rather than the programme.
Keep Asking Why Until You Find The Goal Behind The Goal
A client's first answer is rarely the real goal. FASTER's Why Why So So process, taught on the Motor Skill Application Specialist course, is how you dig past it without turning the conversation into an interrogation.
We Teach Personal Trainers How To Program In Blocks For Great Client Results
Movement Trainer's Skeletons and Blocks system gives programming a specific, repeatable deliverable. An Escalating Density Block is one of them: same time, same pair of exercises, more work each time you run it.
Change What's Around A Client, And Their Movement Changes Itself
FASTER's Movement Trainer course teaches six ways to shape a client's movement by changing the space around them, a wall, a line, a gradient, instead of adding another verbal cue.
Turn 'I Need To Sort My Diet' Into A Plan Your Client Believes In
FASTER's Results-Based Nutrition Coach course teaches the TGROW model, five stages that turn a vague client concern into a specific plan they agreed to themselves.
Ask about menopause the way you already ask about everything else, and a client's biggest variable stops going unspoken
A menopausal client rarely raises it themselves. FASTER's courses teach the interviewing that catches it anyway, and the reasoning to programme for it.
Match the session to the body in front of you, not the plan you wrote last night
One programme rarely fits a sedentary client, an injured one and your fittest without a change. Level 3 asks trainers to explain exactly what shifts for each.
Read the shoulders, the breath and the pace to know whether your cue landed
A client says the cue makes sense while their shoulders climb toward their ears. Level 3 asks why non-verbal communication matters: the answer is in the body.
One question gets your client to name the barrier that is really ending sessions
Clients rarely quit because training was too hard. They quit over something in their week they never mentioned. Level 2 teaches you to find it first.
Why some personal trainers have confidence, and it has nothing to do with believing in their own programme
A trainer's product is invisible: it gets judged on a feeling. Confident trainers read whether they are creating that feeling, and that is a learnable skill.
Some clients aren't 'just flexible'. They were taught to move well, and that is a skill you can coach too
Mobility is a taught skill: joint range someone learns to control and use, not a genetic gift. Skill Driven Mobility Coach turns that into hands-on technique.
Bits of paper, a pile of Google Docs, or £60 a month. Programming for clients deserves better
Skeletons and Blocks is the FASTER way to build programmes: mimic the best patterns, then train the client consistently in a way they love. In PT Manager.
Personal Trainer Imposter Syndrome, Part 4: Owning Your Authority
The final step isn't the disappearance of doubt — it's the arrival of authority. Here's how to lead sessions instead of just surviving them.
Personal Trainer Imposter Syndrome, Part 3: Programme Design
Imposter syndrome shrinks when programme design stops being guesswork. Here's the FASTER order of priorities — long-term plan, session design, and story beats.
Personal Trainer Imposter Syndrome, Part 2: A Programme Design Checklist
Imposter syndrome when writing programmes usually means you're missing a system. Here's the checklist I use to cover every angle of programme design.
Personal Trainer Imposter Syndrome, Part 1: Programme Design
Programme design is where imposter syndrome hits many trainers hardest. Here is what a programme really is, and why doing it right builds your confidence.
How to Spot a Dodgy Fitness Technique or System
The fitness industry has more answers than questions. Here is a simple filter for working out why a technique seems to work — and whether it actually does.
Using Games with Clients in Pain
Why bringing games into sessions with clients in pain builds engagement, gives you real-time assessment, and helps people rebuild a healthier relationship with movement.
Putting the Fat Personal Trainer Debate to Bed
Does a personal trainer have to be lean to be good? The industry loves this debate. Here is why it measures the wrong thing entirely.
New Year, So What? Trainers and Weight-Loss Preaching
Exercise is not just for January. A trainer's job is to help people reach their goals when they are ready, not to guilt-trip them into a workout.
Success Series: Truly Knowing Yourself and Your Clients
The self-awareness exercise that underpins everything from marketing to retention — because long-term success as a trainer starts with knowing what makes you and your clients tick.
How Not to Finish a Client Consultation
A popular bit of consultation advice — 'is there anything important we haven't covered?' — is worse than it sounds. Here's why, and what to do instead.
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