2536: Avoid These 3 Kinds of Fitness "Professionals" & More (Listener Live Coaching)
episodePreviously titled “2536: Avoid These 3 Kinds of Fitness “Professionals” & More (Listener Live Coaching)” — renamed by the publisher on Aug 5, 2026
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These people are the downfall of the fitness industry. Look, don't listen to people who do these three things. Here's the first one. 30-day fitness challenges. If that's their business, turn the other way and run.
Oh, you're going to ruffle some feathers with this one.
It happens a lot. This is like a staple way to... that a lot of courses that teach trainers how to build businesses, this is like one way they teach them is to create these 30-day fitness challenges. But they don't teach people a successful method at all. And it really does encourage this all or nothing, do it, stop type of deal. Really, it's just a way to get leads from a lot of people who are through hype.
Capture that momentum. Yes. There's no sustainability in that message.
I think you have to share with the audience. This is a good conversation, also a bit nuanced and going to piss some people off because we have a lot of trainers that follow the show. And I know a lot of trainers that mean well, but also have been sucked into this trap of thinking that this is a good strategy. And to your point, there's a lot of fitness marketers that sell to these trainers to do these challenges. Now, what is it from a marketing perspective? Why is it so successful for people? This is why trainers do it. They do it because, not because it's successful because the client gets results success, but because people buy. People are more likely to buy. And there's some of the obvious reasons, like obviously selling somebody 30 day transformations versus, hey, this could take you two years. Right. That's odd. But there's more than that. There has to be a reason why it works so well for selling people on getting in shape that you have just a cult of trainers that are using this tactic to get clients.
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