June 29th, 2009
My Crazy Schedule
The weather has been hot the past few days and more people are realizing that they need to show more skin. It's been a busy two weeks for new enrollments, good news for the company but bad news for me. My schedule is nearly unbearable and the reason why is all these new clients are difficult to delegate to my staff of 5 other trainers. Time scheduling, qualifications and just specific client needs are my main constraints and the reason why I'm handling the big load. As a business owner this is not my intentions on running a good business in fact it's NOT running the business, and more like BEING the business. I should spend more time focusing on managing and developing new improvements, but at the moment I have no choice but to take the challenge while it's needed and eventually I will find a solution or perhaps I may just work myself to death. (figure of speech)
Sweat Studio is approaching the end of the 2nd quarter of it's 3rd year of business and I'm very optimistic. One reason are the wide variety of clients that we've attracted. I'm a trainer with nearly 8 years full time experience, (that's 30 to 40 hours a week average for eight years) and I've seen so many different types of clients. You name it, from rheumatiod arthritis to athletes and this quarter brings a fresh new batch of excitement.
Training client for the Navy Seals/Special Opps
I had a client enroll last February and is determined to make the Navy's special operations. He came to me with less than 20 push ups, 2 pull ups, 36 sit ups and very poor running abilities struggling at the 1/2 mile mark. After about 4 months, he now is capable of 72 push-ups, 10 pull-ups, 76 sit-ups and running a mile in about 8 minutes! This is one of the biggest short-term achievements I've ever seen from a client. I just hope it's enough to get him into the Seals/Special Opps, because we are talking about the best of the best worldwide and sometimes "it's just not good enough."
Figure Competition
Last year I trained a client for a Figure competition and pleased to say she took 5th place and a trophy despite that it was her very first competition. This year I'm consulting one of my trainers and so far the results are awesome. Since she is already an NASM, ISSA, AFPA and IFPA certified personal trainer and she doesn't need much help. However, her representation as a Sweat Studio trainer brings optimism and therefore our entire team should be excited.
Ninja Warrior
On cable tv channel G4, there is a physical competition reality show called "Ninja Warrior" and has a spun-off USA version called "American Ninja" I'm amp'd up and stoked about training a client that wishes to pursue this competition. It's a totally new type of challenge for me and I will be tested on my personal training skills. If you ever get a chance to watch an episode it's quite amazing. Contestants need to climb walls utilizing their hands and feet, climb and maneuver across several feet on ledges with their arms only, leap and swing across gullies, and so much more. This will require agility, unprecedented upper and lower body strength, endurance and power. Whoa, can I really train someone for this?
300's
Last year I performed the Spartan 300 workout, as done by the actors for the movie "300."
It's a brutal 300 workout with pull ups, deadlifts, push ups, box jumps, floor wipers, clean and jerk for a total of 300 repetitions. This year I've created a whole new series of routines each with 300 reps, and a few of these workouts may even be more brutal than the original 300 workout created by Gym Jones. Of course I have scaled versions of the routines so almost anyone can participate. Anyone hardcore enough to try?
