3 Clients Coaches Will See in the New Year
3 Clients Coaches Will See in the New Year And What You Can Do to Retain Them as a Client Prepare for The Resolutioners After the new year, gyms are flooded with new clients. Here are the three types...
View ArticleDevelop Skills Faster and Perform Better
Develop Skills Faster and Perform Better Look Backwards to Create Training Progressions If an athlete is looking to develop a particular skill for competition sheer volume is not the answer, skills...
View ArticleTake A Stance and Engage With Your Audience
Take A Stance and Engage with Your Audience To make a change in the world, you must take a stance on something you believe in. In a world that is consumed by fast-paced short term social media...
View ArticleCoach Case Study: An Overworked Professional
Coach Case Study: An Overworked Professional How to Establish a Client’s Personal Accountability This case study is pulled directly from our weekly coaching calls where OPEX Coaching Certificate...
View ArticleThe Comprehensive Guide to Competitive Functional Fitness
The Comprehensive Guide to Competitive Functional Fitness The Groundwork Has Been Laid, Now It’s Time to Act Mixed Modal is the latest course from the inaugural CrossFit Games winner, James FitzGerald....
View ArticleWhy Your Template May Work . . . at First [It’s Not You]
Why Your Template May Work . . . at First [It’s Not You] How the Rate of Adaptation Determines the Program Templates Do Not Equal Personalized Fitness Personalization is a word often lightly tossed...
View ArticleAn 8-Part Assessment to Identify Elite Athletes
An 8-Part Assessment to Identify Elite Athletes James FitzGerald breaks down the characteristics of an elite athlete on the Wodapalooza Seminar Stage James FitzGerald gave a seminar on the eight...
View ArticleOPEX Fitness Charitably Partners With IF3 To Support Global Functional...
OPEX Fitness Charitably Partners With IF3 To Support Global Functional Fitness Participation James FitzGerald has been a long-time advocate for creating quality and consistency within competitive...
View ArticleHow To Achieve Your Coaching Goals This Year
How To Achieve Your Coaching Goals This Year 3 Steps to Prioritize Your Goals The new year is officially here to stay, and it’s time to shift from creating goals to achieving goals. Most goals fall...
View Article3 Reasons Your Athletes Need Bodybuilding
3 Reasons Your Athletes Need Bodybuilding Go back to the basics to prepare for the future Functional fitness and bodybuilding are often described as two ends to a spectrum, but their relationship is...
View ArticleOne Change Caused a 40% Increase in Revenue
One Change Caused a 40% Increase in Revenue The Story of OPEX Condesa and How You Can See Similar Growth Today OPEX Condesa is one of the busiest gyms in Mexico City with over 165 clients using their...
View ArticleSleep: A Question of Priorities
Sleep: A Question of Priorities How To Help Your Clients Get More Sleep Consistently Not getting enough sleep is the worst, we’ve all been there. Whether it’s work or dealing with a newborn there are a...
View ArticleJust In: James FitzGerald AMA
Just In: James FitzGerald AMA An exciting addition to the OPEX Coaching Certificate Program (CCP) In order to support our goal of providing CCP Coaches with great coaching education, we are...
View Article10 Things You Don’t Want to Miss from OPEX Fitness
10 Things You Don’t Want to Miss from OPEX Fitness 10. How To Build A Profitable Micro Gym The future of fitness is personalized. Five of the top OPEX Gyms Owners and CEO Jim Crowell got together for a...
View ArticleHow Do I Track My Client’s Nutritional Behaviors? [Answered]
How Do I Track My Client’s Nutritional Behaviors? [Answered] The question we tend to get this time of year — you know, a month into resolutions and everyone is jumping ship — is: How do I track my...
View ArticleFrom Group Fitness Box to Personalized Fitness Gym
From Group Fitness Box to Personalized Fitness Gym How Personalized Fitness Will Scale your business When it comes to one-on-one coaching, OPEX Fitness has developed the education and business...
View ArticlePlay to Your Athlete’s Strengths
Play To Your Athlete’s Strengths The Opportunity to Plan Your Athlete’s Competitive Season Competitive functional fitness is one of the most complex sports to coach. Success in the sport demands...
View ArticleThe Mixed Modal Apprenticeship Recap
The Mixed Modal Apprenticeship Recap We just wrapped up the first Mixed Modal Apprenticeship in celebration of our newest course Mixed Modal. This three-day experience took place at OPEX HQ in sunny...
View ArticleHow to Decrease Workload and Increase Business
How to Decrease Workload and Increase Business The OPEX Regina Story Business is good for Steve Volke and Hayley Flegel, the owners of OPEX Regina. The gym is as profitable as ever and is still...
View ArticleThe Good, the Bad, and the Future
The Good, the Bad, and the Future The State of Functional Fitness with James Fitzgerald James FitzGerald sat down with the Barbell Life podcast to discuss the good, the bad, and the future of...
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