Dan McDonogh - Experience the Equipment You Use
VertiMax Vive
English - August 04, 2020 18:01 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSports Health & Fitness Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Dan McDonogh is a highly respected fitness professional with a very diverse background in the commercial fitness space. In his career, he has worked as a RP and Program Director for Les Mills, and with TRX in helping to take a unique functional training tool and democratize it for the fitness world through education, and has been instrumental in building a global training team with over 350 professionals with TRX.
In this episode hosted by Robert Dyer, one of the business partners of the VertiMax Group, Dan shares his experience using the VertiMax Raptor. As a strong believer that fitness professionals should experience and understand their equipment and products before recommending them to clients, Dan has a lot of experience in using VertiMax equipment. He shares some of the different applications of this equipment and the benefits to clients, as well as how commercial fitness centers can leverage them. Tune in to find out more.
Key Takeaways:
[:34] Robert introduces his guest for this episode - Dan McDonogh.
[6:27] Dan shares a little more about himself.
[8:23] From Dan's experience using the Raptor, how would he describe it?
[13:08] This podcast is being sponsored by VertiMax.
[13:55] Robert and Dan discuss how important it is to actually experience and use the equipment or products we are selling and promoting.
[19:10] Where can the Raptor be used?
[22:41] What is the feeling that Dan has when he is using the equipment, and what are the benefits to fitness clients?
[00:28:17] What are the different applications that Dan uses the equipment for?
[31:26] Dan's definition of a workout has completely changed over the years. He shares what he focuses on now.
[33:54] What's going to get people back into your facilities as things slowly start to reopen?
[35:19] How does Dan see equipment being used in commercial fitness centers?
[36:46] Dan shares a bit more about outdoor training.
[38:47] Dan will be taking over hosting the commercial fitness segment of the podcast.
[41:42] Dan has some advice about influence.
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Tweetables:
"It's a very, very, very small world. No matter how big it is, the industry is very small and it's very connected." - Dan
"It's important to learn before you teach, not teach before you learn." - Dan
"I'm a firm believer in the way you train should mimic the things that you love to do in everyday life." - Dan
"You can have the greatest piece of equipment in the world, you can have the greatest programming in the world, but if you don't have buy in and you don't have education, it's useless." - Dan