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Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Business Gain Glen Oliver: Choosing Short-Term Pain for Long-Term BusinessGain Over the course of five years, 500 people came in and signed up at Glen Oliver’s gym. But...
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The Latest From OPEX this June Fran – What Are You Really Testing? 21-15-9 What Are You Really Testing? leverages the classic workout “Fran” to demonstrate the difference in proper test selection....
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Is It Worth It To Be a Personal Trainer? What makes a career worthwhile? This is a huge question, but let’s make it simple and boil it down to two things–paycheck and passion. Our CEO Jim Crowell...
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From Clock Starter to Professional Fitness Coach Brandon Burchfield: From clock starter to professional fitness coach Brandon Burchfield was tired of being “a clock starter.” “Coaching was so...
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From Babysitting to Becoming a Professional Fitness Coach Bobby Scott and OPEX South Shore After 10 years of working as a personal trainer, Bobby Scott knew there was a better way: A better way of...
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Uprooting From London to Become an OPEX Coach Mark Brockhurst: Uprooting from London to become an OPEX coach Mark Brockhurst’s entire life changed when he took the OPEX Coach Certificate Program (CCP)....
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Bringing OPEX Fitness to Puerto Rico Henry Torano: Bringing OPEX to Puerto Rico 38-year-old Henry Torano has been all about fitness for more than 20 years. “I basically trained myself since I was a...
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Serving Her Clients, Her Coaches and Her Own Life Melissa Guitron: Serving her clients, her coaches and her own life Melissa Guitron used to lie to her clients. Or at least she pretended she could help...
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How Hard Is It To Become A Personal Trainer? Answering the three big questions about becoming a personal trainer Short answer – It is extremely easy to become a personal trainer because there are no...
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How to Stand Out as a Fitness Coach How to Stand Out Among the Masses of Fitness Coaches Though it’s tough to get the exact number of personal trainers and fitness coaches in the United States today as...
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How to Determine Your Client’s Training Age James FitzGerald on Determining Your Client’s Training Age In this month’s Knowledge Series webinar James FitzGerald discusses the concept of training age,...
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6 Steps to Coaching a Client Recovering from an Injury 10 Minutes of Fitness: 6 Steps to Coaching a Client Recovering from an Injury If you’ve ever watched a client struggle to return from an injury...
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Solving the Issues with the Group Class Model How the OPEX Model Solves the Issues of the Group Class Model Whenever we speak with gym owners whose main business revenue comes from running group...
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Intrigued By the OPEX System of Coaching? Check out our free resource page for coaching tips and tools with big impact Looking to improve your coaching skills with the OPEX System of Coaching, but...
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Learn Individual Program Design At our fall program design workshops. Thinking of registering for the OPEX Coaching Certificate Program (CCP) but want to get your feet wet first? Learn Individual...
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What is Triphasic Training? What is Triphasic Training and How Does it Apply to Functional Fitness Coaching is complex, we would be lying to you if we said it was easy. Thankfully our founder, James...
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How Do I Measure My Retention Rate? Measuring Your Client Retention Rate In the fitness world, you need to constantly improve two things: How many new clients you bring in each month How long you keep...
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What Impacts My Retention Rate? What Impacts My Retention Rate and the Three Types of Retention If you came directly to this article, please make sure you’ve already boned up on “How To Measure Your...
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