Barbell Logic
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Applying MED to Coaching Beyond Programming - Coaching Success - #538
March 29, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes - 24.2 MBWe discuss applying MED to coaching beyond programming. MED principles underlie an effective, successful approach to online coaching. Applying MED to Coaching Beyond Programming (Some Principles) Matt and Scott developed the principles of MED programming, which approached programming by keeping as many variables constant as possible. Change as little as possible. This does not mean easy. Simple and hard is wildly ineffective. The approach focuses on intelligent resource allocation. F...
The Evolution of Training Expectations - Beast Over Burden - #537
March 26, 2024 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MBWe talk about the evolution of training expectations as you move from novice to intermediate to advanced lifter. How you you manage your mindset, so you can train for life? The Evolution of Training Expectations: Managing Your Mindset PRs measure progress, encourage buy-in and consistency, and help make training fun for novice, intermediate, and early-advanced lifters. This slows or ends. You want to keep training for the rest of your life, though. The driving force for keeping you tra...
When Should I Leave My Safe Job? with Jesse Mecham - Coaching Success - #536
March 22, 2024 09:00 - 22 minutes - 21.4 MBWhen should I leave my "safe" job? Jesse Mecham, founder and CEO of YNAB and author of the book You Need a Budget, joins Matt to discuss when you should leave the supposed safe job to make your side gig your main job. When Should I Leave My "Safe" Job? - There Is No Safe Job Totally safe, secure jobs do not exist. If you're an employee, whether it be at a small or big company, you could lose your job for countless reasons outside your control. If you work in the government, a shut...
Tips for Training While Traveling - Beast Over Burden - #535
March 19, 2024 09:00 - 30 minutes - 28.8 MBTips for Training While Traveling: Whys Why train while traveling? While, in part, it depends on how often you travel, your goals, the length of travel, and how consistent you are outside of travel. For those who are extremely consistent and rarely travel, it might make sense to take the week off. If you travel for business, you need to train. You will feel better if you train. The workout might not feel good, especially to start, but you will feel better afterwards. You might even ...
Online Coaching Success Story with Adam Skillin - Coaching Success - #534
March 15, 2024 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MBHear a motivating online coaching success story with Adam Skillin, a BLOC coach, who works full time at BLOC. Online Coaching Success Story: Before Coaching Adam Skillin worked various jobs, including banking, but always knew he did not want to go down the typical 9-5 path. Adam lives and grew up in New Jersey. He worked in the banking industry and also did various jobs including bartending. More than once he picked a job that did not align with good macroeconomic timing. He became i...
Menopause...Really We Need to Talk About It - Beast Over Burden - #533
March 12, 2024 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBWe really need to talk about menopause. What to expect, how you make changes to lifting, nutrition, expectations, and more. Menopause: Causes & Expectations Menopause is about a 10-year period of life for women where estrogen decreases, causing other changes to a woman's biology. Some changes include the end of the menstrual cycle, decrease in energy levels and trouble sleeping, increased difficulty trying to retain muscle mass, hot flashes, and sex drive changes. Let's face it, it do...
Reliability Costs Nothing, Changes Everything - Coaching Success - #532
March 08, 2024 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20 MBReliability costs nothing but changes everything. Show up on time every time and say what you are going to do. Reliability Costs Nothing - Integrity over Time Andrew Jackson shared his value equation a couple years ago, which includes ability, integrity, and benevolence. Reliability is essentially integrity over time. Do you show up each time, on time, and do the thing you said you would do. This costs no money. It takes time and effort. It means you will show up when you're sick, ti...
Better Your Bench - Beast Over Burden - #531
March 05, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBLearn how to better your bench with proper technique and good equipment. Improper gear and form means less weight on the bar. Bench more. Learn the way. Better Your Bench with Good Equipment For anyone who has tried to bench heavy in a commercial gym, they typically find that the experience is frustrating. Weights are harder than expected and may even come with missed reps. Bad equipment is often to blame. Whether it is slippery bars with nearly no knurl to those bench-rack combination...
Defining Your Core Values - Coaching Success - #530
March 01, 2024 10:00 - 24 minutes - 23.3 MBWe talk about defining your core values. These underpin your goals & actions, help you make decisions, & reflect your personality and aspirations. Defining Your Core Values: Brainstorming & Reflecting Matt discusses how to identify and list your core values. These should reflect your personality but also be aspirational. For example, for Matt, quite reflection would not be a core value. He verbally processes ideas, and he would be working against his natural tendencies. Rather, lean ...
Who's Your Daddy? Programming Difficulties for New Dads - Beast Over Burden - #529
February 27, 2024 10:00 - 32 minutes - 30.6 MBProgramming Difficulties for New Dads Having a newborn changes your life, and training has to change as well. For a dad, the change is different than for a mom. For the mom, she undergoes physical changes for 9-10 months leading up to the birth, so her training has to change prior to birth. For fathers, however, their changing (mostly) does not change before the birth. At birth it changes drastically. This is an especially busy time for fathers, and part of it is the lack of predict...
When One Teaches, Two Learn - Coaching Success - #528
February 23, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.4 MBWhen one teaches two learn. Matt shares his teaching approach - from interest to refined speech or presentation. Teaching and coaching with pressure are critical to mastering anything. When One Teach Two Learn: Importance of Teaching In order to become an expert coach, or to master any subject, you have to coach, or teach, when it matters. You may have found at some point that you had read or consumed a lot of material on a subject. When you tried to explain it to someone else, the app...
Don't Abandon Your Body - Beast Over Burden - #527
February 20, 2024 10:00 - 33 minutes - 31.5 MBNiki and Andrew interview Melissa MacGregor, wife of BLOC coach Mac and BLOC client, and her coach Joel Rasmussen. Melissa suffered a stroke but, with patience, perseverance, and strength training, was able to return to physical activities she never thought she could do again. Healing Through Strength Training: Perseverance & Experimentation Melissa saw her husband benefit from strength training and decided to give it a try herself. Joel, her coach, tried many creative ways to help her foc...
Building EliteFTS with Dave Tate - Coaching Success - #526
February 16, 2024 09:54 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBMatt talks to Dave Tate about building EliteFTS. What were the struggles, successes, and untold stories that created EliteFTS? Dave Tate & EliteFTS had a huge impact on Matt Reynolds & Barbell Logic, whether it be from introducing him to the Russian programming literature, to programming tips and principles, to recommending the e-Myth. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coaching effectiveness and efficiency with TurnKey Coach. You can learn more by going HERE...
It's Hard to Be Professional - Beast Over Burden - #525
February 13, 2024 10:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBWe explore professionalism and why it's hard to be professional. Professionalism is difficult, but deliver values and sets you apart. Professionalism: Competence, Integrity, Benevolence Andrew has delivered, through podcast and in-person talks, a deep dive on how competence, integrity, and benevolence make up a professionalism value equation. Matt also has also delved into this here. This framework or model to conceptualizing your coaching or business really helps you think more inte...
Chase Value not Status - Coaching Success - #524
February 09, 2024 10:00 - 18 minutes - 17.9 MBMatt discusses that, whether in life or business, you should chase value not status. This leads to a successful business and happier life. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coaching effectiveness and efficiency with TurnKey Coach. You can learn more by going HERE. Chase Value not Status In a social media world, it can be easy to pursue status. In the world we inhabit, it can always be easy to chase money. Pursue something else. Chase value. Deliver value...
Solutions Sans Suffering: Joyful Self-Improvement - Beast Over Burden - #523
February 06, 2024 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBWhat does joyful self-improvement look like (and is it possible)? Today, we explore solutions sans suffering. Joyful Self-Improvement: Struggling & Floundering People really struggle to make important changes in their lives (that they at least ostensibly want) such as to lose weight or gain more muscle. Reasons abound for the difficulty. People hear and see conflicting, extreme solutions or short-term, impossible solutions (e.g. 6 weeks to six-pack). Furthermore, every person is diff...
How to Find the Perfect Accountant with Mitchell Baldridge - Coaching Success - #522
February 02, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes - 41 MBMitchell Baldridge, CPA, CFP, talks to Matt about how to find the perfect accountant, something a growing business will have to do at some point. He owns Baldridge Financial and Better Book Keeping. Check out the Stupid Tax podcast, with Scott Hambrick and Mitchell Baldridge. How to Find the Perfect Account - First, Don't If you're starting a business, you first need to find clients and jobs. Start making money. When it comes to tracking and handling money, start a business bank ac...
The Motive is Muscle - Beast Over Burden - #521
January 30, 2024 10:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBWhat is the goal of long-term strength training or barbell training? Muscle is the motive. It's your health & capability 401k. Niki & Andrew explore their changing mindset and training. The Motive is Muscle - Shifting the Goal The measurement that is most correlated with force production (strength) is the cross sectional area of muscle mass. Basically, more muscle means you're stronger. Strength equates to more capability. At some point, though, if you only value force production, whet...
The Excuses that Derail Progress - Coaching Success - #520
January 26, 2024 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20.5 MBMatt covers the excuses that derail progress toward your goals, whether they be personal, business, or otherwise. Master and overcome these excuses. Excuses that Derail Progress - Valuable Things are Hard We at Barbell Logic value voluntary hardship. Simple, hard, effective training brings you toward your goals. Voluntary hardship is refining, whereas involuntary hardship may or may not refine someone who experience the difficulty. As we grow and encounter growing challenges, common pitf...
Fluff Updates and Sleep Strategies - Beast Over Burden - #519
January 23, 2024 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBAndrew & Niki talk sleep strategies & fluff updates: how snapping back after the holidays improves sleep, health markers, appearance, how you feel, and more. Sleep Strategies & Fluff Updates It's January, post-Holiday period, and time to snap back. Andrew & Niki share their fluff updates and tips and tricks for improving sleep. Niki has had a 19-day period thus far, which has included weighing and measuring, no alcohol, and reduced sugar. She is not trying to lose tons of weight, as she ...
Do You Own a Business or a Job? - Coaching Success - #518
January 19, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MBDo you own a job or a business? Does owning a business make sense for you? Either way, you need to approach this intelligently, thinking about the business you're in and the job you have. Check out the Stupid Tax podcast, with Scott Hambrick and Mitchell Baldridge. Job or Business - Should I Own a Business? Not everyone should own a business. Probably, most people should not own a business. It's not an insult: it's reality. Owning a business is too much risk and stress for some people....
Can You Smell What BLOC Is Cooking? - Beast Over Burden - #517
January 16, 2024 10:55 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MBLooking to 2024, we predict, hope, and share our thoughts on what you can expect from BLOC and what we are looking forward to. Looking to 2024 - Smell What BLOC is Cooking Matt, Niki, and Andrew share their predictions and goals for 2024 - fitness, fashion, and more. Fashion Predictions Matt: traditional, classic forms of clothing (feminine dresses & masculine suits and outfits) Niki: onesies & swapping of normal gender styles Andrew: 2000s are coming back, with belly buttons Goal...
BLOC Wrapped, pt 2 - Coaching Success - #516
January 12, 2024 10:00 - 37 minutes - 34.8 MBMatt, Niki, & Andrew continuing looking back on 2023 with The BLOCies, BLOC Wrapped, part 2 - favorite books, biggest surprises, and more. The BLOCies - BLOC Wrapped, part 2 Despite starting the podcast saying they'd look to 2024, they ran out of time (stay tuned for the next podcast). This podcast is Matt, Niki, and Andrew reflecting on more of their best and favorite of 2023. Below are some of the highlights. Best Experience Matt: Alaska trip with Rachel that included a helicopter...
BLOC Wrapped - the BLOCies - Beast Over Burden - #515
January 09, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MBEnjoy us look back on 2023 with BLOC Wrapped - the BLOCies. We share the best of our coaches & clients, fitness trends, & more. BLOC Wrapped - Coaches & Clients Our clients and coaches are amazing. We've got the stats to prove it. Matt joins Andrew & Niki to discuss clients who lifted the most tonnage, hit the biggest lifts, and more. They also discuss which coaches has the best on-time feedback and which lifts were the most programmed. We love celebrating our clients and coaches. Wh...
New Year's Resolutions - Coaching Success - #514
January 05, 2024 10:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBNew Year's resolutions get a bad rap, but, if done well, they're simply an opportunity to plan your goals for the upcoming year. Matt shares his 2024 New Year's resolutions with you. New Year's Resolutions Done Well New Year's resolutions have really been dismissed in recent decades, likely because of the high failure rate they have (especially when you consider fitness or health goals). It's true, New Year's resolutions can be done poorly. If this is the only time of year you make big, ...
What the Fluff!? Strategies - Beast Over Burden - #513
January 02, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes - 32.5 MBWhat the fluff!? What do you do when you suddenly realize you feel bad, aren't happy with you look, and want to get rid of the fluff? What the Fluff!? It's January 2nd (or maybe later). You pull the belt across you on the plane, you get into your pants, you look in the mirror...what the fluff!? You may have eaten normally for most of the holiday period. For many people who find themselves gaining weight, it doesn't come from the decisions they're making for lunch on Wednesday, it's the "...
Don't Prioritize. DE-Prioritize - Coaching Success - #512
December 29, 2023 10:00 - 23 minutes - 22.2 MBDon't prioritize. De-prioritize. First identify and remove the things that provide you no value. Pull those weeds! Don't Prioritize. De-prioritize. Remove Things That Provide No Value If you're looking to create your GAMEplan, first remove those tasks and goals that do not provide you value. Remove the unimportant and non-urgent. One way Matt has identified these tasks is by how he creates his daily to-do list. He has a to-do list that populates on his tablet or phone every day. He sim...
Q&A: BJJ, Nutrition, And Blown Out Pants - Beast Over Burden - #511
December 26, 2023 10:00 - 28 minutes - 27 MBNiki and Andrew answer your lifting and lifestyle questions on BJJ, nutrition, blown-out pants, and more! Approaching BJJ as You Age Don't train as if you have to prove yourself or go RPE 10 each time. Rather, focus on picking up the basics, because that foundation of basics will result in deep, impressive skill as you potentially move to your purple, brown, and black belts. Pay attention to the details in the basics. Don't try to skip ahead, but understand the small, subtle details of ...
Coaching is Secondary. Business is First. How to Be an Owner - Coaching Success - #510
December 22, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBCoaching is secondary. Business is first. Learn how to be an owner, not just a technician or manager, for business success. Check out the E-Myth Revisited to read more on this subject. Coaching is Secondary for Business Success Consider this scenario. Someone becomes an expert in creating a certain craft or providing a certain service. Maybe this is butchery, baking, or candlestick making. Because friends and family love what this person does, their friends and family encourage this ...
Do the Hard Things - Beast Over Burden - #509
December 19, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes - 34.3 MBDo hard things. Valuable pursuits are difficult - embrace these challenges to grow, improve, and crush your goals. Do Hard Things - Valuable Pursuits are Difficult Nothing worthwhile is easy. Maybe we'll be surprised by how easy it is (maybe we built up a certain pursuit or task that we have inflated its difficulty). Building habits of sustainable nutrition is difficult. Creating a training plan you stick too is challenging. Pursuing anything with regularity - which is what is requir...
Know Who You Are - Coaching Success - #508
December 15, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBKnow who you are & take advantage of the holiday season to pause, reflect, and write down your core values and mission statement. Know Who You Are You don't need to have a mission statement, business plan, or core values to begin coaching or even start a business. Get customers now. As your business grows, you should sit down and knock these out. And there really is no better time to complete these then over the holiday season, when work tends to lesson and you look back on this past y...
Common Beginner Questions - Beast Over Burden - #507
December 12, 2023 10:00 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBNiki & Andrew answer common beginner questions. Whether you're curious about equipment or protein, cardio or warming up, or wondering how long LP lasts, we give you the answers. Common Beginner Questions - Equipment You can't lift weights without weight to lift, and you need to wear appropriate clothes. Even running, while it seems the simplest of activities, comes with appropriate footwear and clothing (don't run in a 3-piece suit and oxfords). The first thing you should buy is shoes. ...
Managing Morbidity & Maintaining Vigor - Beast Over Burden - #506
December 05, 2023 10:00 - 33 minutes - 31.5 MBLearn about managing morbidity - staying active, vigorous, and capable to have as much of a human life as possible for as long as you can. You need to dance with your granddaughter, care for your chickens, and farm your fields. Managing Morbidity: Memento Mori We all die, and as lifters this means we all complete our last PRs. There is a day, and you may have reached it or may reach it soon (you will reach it at some point) when you won't hit any more PRs. This is okay. This is part o...
All In! - Coaching Success - #505
December 01, 2023 10:30 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBIt's time to be ALL IN! Go for that goal or project or task you've been putting off, swing for the fences, and get it done. All In! It's time to be all in. It's time to execute. It's time to complete that task or project or goal or dream or aspiration that you've been putting off. No more. Of course, you should complete a GAMEplan so you can define your goals, the actions you take to achieve them, and the metrics you use to determine if you've succeeded in meeting your goals. But ...
Holiday Training Strategies - Beast Over Burden - #504
November 28, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBWe share holiday training strategies so you don't lose all your gains. Learn the tips and tricks to keep training & gaining during the holidays. Holiday Training Strategies - Expectations & Mindset When it comes to holiday training, expectations need to match reality. For many people, they confront more variability which does not lend itself to normal consistency of training in more regular times. Travel, changes in gyms and equipment, different food and alcohol, time off work, time ...
STRONG Life with Zach Evan Esh Replay - Coaching Success - #503
November 24, 2023 10:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBThis is a replay from Strong Life with Zach Evan Esh podcast where Matt & Zach discuss coaching, online coaching, & business. Strong Life with Zach Evan Esh Replay Matt and Zach have interacted before, passing along business advice and Matt coaching Zach when he ran into some issues. Matt jumped on the Strong Life podcast to discuss why online coaching is better than in-person coaching. For many gym owners, they feel tied to the gym, without the ability to leave and get paid. A hybrid...
Managing Nutrition Through the Holidays - Beast Over Burden - #502
November 21, 2023 10:00 - 22 minutes - 21.5 MBManaging nutrition through the holidays can be tough. Follow these (or develop your own) simple, effective strategies for sustainable holiday nutrition. Managing Nutrition Through the Holidays - Big Picture It's Thanksgiving week, which for many begins the longer holiday period where they find themselves standing on a scale come January unhappy with the changes to their body over the past weeks. Where would you like to be standing come January? What's realistic? What does a holiday p...
How to Structure Holiday Promotions - Coaching Success - #501
November 17, 2023 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MBLearn how to structure holiday promotions, from timing (Black Friday, pre-Christmas, and post-New Year's), types of incentives and discounts you might offer, and the cyclical nature of the fitness business. How to Structure Holiday Promotions: Black Friday & Pre-Christmas The lead up to Thanksgiving and Christmas is a time people spend more money. Because you believe in your product or service, and in the case of fitness your service is clearly helping improve your clients' quality of li...
Deadlifts: Eat Your Spine - Beast Over Burden - #500
November 14, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBDeadlifts: Eat Your Spine. Is this the perfect cue or the reality of a dangerous lift? Andrew & Niki delve into the depths of the deadlift. Do Deadlifts Eat Your Spine!? Do deadlifts, in fact, eat your spine? It certainly feels like it sometimes. Deadlifts train the muscles of the hamstrings, quadriceps, adductors, abs, spinal erectors, lats, and more. Because the weight of the bar is trying to round your back, you strengthen the muscles of the back by maintaining a rigid spine despi...
What is Your GAMEplan!? - Coaching Success - #499
November 10, 2023 10:00 - 21 minutes - 19.9 MBWhat is your GAMEplan? How are you accomplishing the most important - not urgent - goals for your business? How are you determining whether you have actually accomplished this goals? You do this with your GAMEplan. Matt explains the GAMEplan and how you can use it (as Barbell Logic has) to prioritize and accomplish the most important tasks for your business or life. What is Your GAMEplan? Prioritize the Important Matt shares how he discussed the business metrics that matter with Cody Mil...
Strength for Golf - Beast Over Burden - #498
November 07, 2023 10:00 - 34 minutes - 32.4 MBMac McGregor and Niel Marr join Niki and Andrew to discuss strength for golf. Niel is a golf instructor, and shares how strength has improved his life and his golf game. Strength for Golf: Longer Drive & Better Stability for Putting As Tiger Woods' career demonstrated, strength does not destroy one's swing or ruin one's golf game. It actually helps it. Too many unfounded claims or ideas like this float around, despite the contrary reality. Strength helps produce a faster golf swing, wh...
Business Economics: The Metrics that Matter for Your Business - Coaching Success - #497
November 03, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.7 MBLearn the business economics - the metrics that matter - for your business. Matt Reynolds dives into macroeconomics and microeconomic or unit statistics, healthy rates, and how to calculate these statistics. You don't know the health of your business if you don't know these metrics. Business Economics: Know the Health of Your Business You cannot go off how you feel about your business to know if your business is doing well. The reality is real, and if you fail to know the economic realit...
3 Lifter Pathways - Beast Over Burden - #496
October 31, 2023 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBWe discuss 3 lifter pathways: competing, just training (thriving), and recovering. How do these looks, who might find themselves in one of these pathways (and why)? Andrew & Niki explore this. 3 Lifter Pathways - Competing This pathway involves a state of life where life can support training. For these lifters, training is a high priority. Nutrition supports training, lifters likely give up other pursuits to support training. Obviously, life needs to cooperate (and sometimes it doe...
Delivering a Consistent High Standard of Service for Online Coaching - Coaching Success - #495
October 27, 2023 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBYou need excellent customer service for online coaching, not just in-person coaching. Set your online coaching apart from the crowd, provide your clients more value, get more clients, and make more money. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coaching effectiveness and efficiency with TurnKey Coach. You can learn more by going HERE. Check out Coaching 101 - the new Academy course designed to cover the basics of coaching. It's leaner and tighter than our other of...
Metrics Aren't Your Master- Beast Over Burden - #494
October 24, 2023 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29.5 MBMetrics aren't your master. Don't sacrifice important pursuits to the altar of strength (unless you're specializing). Metrics Aren't Your Master - What Matters to You? Want to get strong, add some muscle, become more capable, and improve your quality of life and general health and fitness? This is where many of our clients live. Want to get fat, give up all other physical pursuits, and become less healthy so you can squat more? If so, that's awesome - seriously, some people seek the ...
Why You Should Take a Vacation - Coaching Success - #493
October 20, 2023 09:00 - 18 minutes - 17.4 MBWhy you should take a vacation: to get into the important, get out from under the tyranny of the urgent, and reset (for work & what is important to you). Why You Should Take a Vacation - Reset & Relax Life naturally contains cycles. You stress yourself in the gym, then you rest to allow recovery and adaptation to occur. Without the rest, there is no adaptation. Without the stress, there is no adaptation. Both contribute to the goal: improvement toward your goal. After day comes night...
Strong Families through Strength Training - Beast Over Burden - #492
October 17, 2023 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33.1 MBPeople build strong families through strength training. We're, of course, not simply talking about physical strength, but emotionally and spiritually strong families, who witness each other overcome hard things and help each other out through life's difficulties. Strong Families through Strength Training Mac started his fitness journey as a young lad preparing for the hurdles of the Royal Air Force. He deployed multiple times, and felt lucky to be able to complete certain extremely cha...
Automated Metrics are Awesome - Coaching Success - #491
October 13, 2023 09:00 - 12 minutes - 12.3 MBAutomated metrics are awesome - measure & celebrate progress toward your or your clients' goals AUTOMATICALLY. Awesome. This podcast is brought to you by TurnKey Coach. Enhance your coaching effectiveness and efficiency with TurnKey Coach. You can learn more by going HERE. Check out Coaching 101 - the new Academy course designed to cover the basics of coaching. It's leaner and tighter than our other offerings (and cheaper). Check out the Barbell Logic podcast landing page. Automated...
Lots of Squat Thoughts & New Cues - Beast over Burden - #490
October 10, 2023 09:00 - 32 minutes - 30.7 MBLots of squat thoughts & new cues. Andrew & Niki discuss what cues they've found useful on squats and how they've improved their squats and squat coaching. Lots of Thoughts on Squats Andrew & Niki discuss some squat thoughts - things they've been noodling over, observing, and applying in their lifting and coaching. They both have been thinking more about what it means to effect and maintain a rigid torso (as opposed to just extending your back). Too often, the focus here can be only ...
Be a Person of Integrity - Coaching Success - #489
October 06, 2023 09:00 - 17 minutes - 16.6 MBBe a person of integrity, every day, always. If you screw up, own it. This leads to business success (and it's the right thing to do). Person of Integrity: Be One, Always Integrity underpins business success. Yes, you may think of business that have seemingly grown despite scummy business practices. Don't worry about them. Life is not fair. Still, you will create loyal customers, have great reviews, and gain word-of-mouth marketing if you show up and do what you say you're going to do ...