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High Intensity Business
Hosted by Lawrence Neal · EN
High Intensity Business is a high intensity strength training and strength training business podcast offering content to help you realise your health goals, become a great personal trainer, and build a successful HIT business. Content includes training protocols, workouts, exercise science, nutrition, and biohacking. From a HIT business perspective, we cover personal training, coaching, startup, sales, marketing, operations, systems, hiring, scaling, etc. Guests include Dr Doug McGuff, Drew Baye, Skyler Tanner, Patty Durell, Walter Vendel, Fred Hahn, James Fisher PhD, James Steele PhD, Luke Carlson, Adam Zickerman, Kyle Recchia, Adrian Antigua, Bill Crawford, Joe Cirulli, Dorian Yates, Simon Melov PhD, Roger Schwab, Simon Shawcross, and many more.
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574 - Monk-Mode HIT: How Steve McKinney Does 30 Sessions a Day (and How He Stays Happy and Organized)
5d ago00:46:53Tap to summarizeWhat if the secret to growing your strength studio wasn't just more ads or longer days, but the right mix of sharp marketing, tight client session management, and smart training choices? Fitness and More Founder Steve McKinney returns to talk about his surprisingly strict 15-minute sessions, how he manages his daily activities while maintaining discipline and happiness, and how he keeps clients happy and coming back for more — regardless of any "good" or "bad" workouts! Plus, we talk about how the right paid ads can give you incredible bang-for-your-buck leads, managing overly talkative clients, preventing and managing shoulder and arm injuries, adapting to and optimizing on your strengths and weaknesses, and more. If you've ever felt stuck or slowly slipping downwards in your strength training business and in life, then this episode with Steve can give you the boost you need to get back on track. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Start or Grow Your HIT Business Faster Like Steve — Join the FREE HIB Skool Community Here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Want more help? Book a Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get NEW Precision-Engineered MedX Machines here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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573 - This Works: Get More HIT Clients Without Being "Sales-y" Using This Simple Email Marketing Method (with Lawrence Neal)
2w ago00:15:50Tap to summarizeYou've got your personal training business going and you have your ideal clients in mind, but how can you attract more of them effectively without being pushy about it? This is probably one of the most effective ways to attract clients without being all sales-y about it: the "Client of the Week" email. We'll talk about how it works, why you'll love it, and maybe even why your other prospects and clients can get inspired by it and share it themselves! If you want a simple, very low-pressure way to market your HIT strength training business that's proven to attract prospective clients, give this episode a quick listen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Join the FREE HIB Skool community here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Want more help? Book a Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Ready for serious growth? Join HIB Pro here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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572 - Big Lessons From Over 40 Years of HIT Strength Coaching (with Matt Brzycki)
3w ago00:51:01Tap to summarizeWhat's it like to be a HIT strength coach training high-performing athletes at every level? Matt Brzycki is a highly regarded university lecturer and strength coach with more than 40 years of experience working with athletes from college to the NFL. He returns to the show to share how he used HIT to separate great athletes from average ones, the timeless strength training principles that matter most, his mindset toward training as an older athlete, and more. If you want to know what it takes to become a successful, high-level strength coach who can pull in and help produce high-performing athletes, tune in to this episode with Matt! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Join the FREE HIB community here and get help growing your strength training business ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need more help growing? Book a HIT Business Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get NEW Precision-Engineered MedX Machines here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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571 - The Best MedX HIT Machines You Didn't Know Existed — How MedX Europe Made Something Already Great Even Better (with Luke Carlson)
4w ago00:47:53Tap to summarizeMedX is already a legendary HIT machine brand, but someone quietly made them better. Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson returns to talk about his experience discovering, using, and kitting out strength studios with MedX Europe's version of MedX machines — including the ones that you didn't think existed! Luke talks about the differences between MedX US and MedX EU, the differences and improvements in build quality and feel, which machines you should get if you're starting a new HIT strength studio, how to use unique machines to attract (and keep) more clients, and more. If you're a HIT equipment nerd, this one's for you — we will get technical! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Join the FREE HIB community here and get help growing your strength training business ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need more help growing? Book a HIT Business Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get NEW Precision-Engineered MedX Machines here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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570 - Will AI Replace Personal Trainers? What The Future of HIT Look Like (with Simon Shawcross)
Jul 101:25:31Tap to summarizeIs High-Intensity Training still the smartest way to build and grow a strength training business today? HITuni Founder Simon Shawcross returns to talk about how the strength training world is training and how HIT personal trainers and studio owners can adapt and continue to thrive. We talk about what clients are increasingly looking for when it comes to fitness, how AI is changing the way everything – including strength training – works, and what you need to know to not be left behind but to actually ride the wave. Changes are happening, and there are things you need to know — make sure to check out this episode so you can continue to stand out and scale right. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get 10% Off Any HITuni Course Here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Join the FREE HIB community here and get help growing your strength training business ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need more help growing? Book a HIT Business Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get NEW Precision-Engineered MedX Machines here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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569 - Doug Holland's HIT Workouts — How He Runs His 30-Minute Client Sessions from Start to Finish
Jun 2400:31:29Tap to summarizeIf you wanted to average over 100 client workout sessions a week, how would you do it? One of the best to ever do it, Doug Holland, talks about how he does his 30-minute HIT Client workouts from start to finish, and he does so in the most Doug Holland way possible (so make sure your kids are out of earshot when you listen to this one!). We go into detail about new client intro sessions, running the actual workout sessions, handling payments and late arrivals, adjusting to different personalities, how he runs his 1-trainer HIT business, and so much more. If you want to learn from the gold standard of lean HIT strength training businesses, don't miss this one! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get a FREE course to grow your strength training business faster here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Want even more help growing? Book a HIT Business Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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568 - A HIT Business Owner's Guide to Time Blocking: Grow Your Strength Training Business Faster and Get More Free Time Back In Your Life (with Lawrence Neal)
Jun 1700:28:54Tap to summarizeAre you a personal trainer or strength studio owner who feels pulled in too many directions while trying to grow your business? This episode is your guide to time blocking, one of the most powerful tools you can use to grow your strength training business while getting back more free time for the rest of your life's important things. We'll talk about what time blocking actually is, how you can adapt it to your business and your everyday schedule, why it's so powerful, and real-world, practical steps to help you get started and seeing the benefits. If you're serious about making your strength training business work for you and not the other way around, then tune in to this episode and put this powerful tool in your arsenal. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get a FREE course to grow your strength training business here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need more help growing? Book a HIT Business Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get NEW Precision-Engineered MedX Machines here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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567 - How I Earned Up To 3X More as a HIT Personal Trainer by Doing Virtual Training (with Daniele Schittone)
Jun 301:01:56Tap to summarizeHow can a strength training business help you earn almost 3x more than you used to while giving you more free time and a lot less stress? Renfo Max Pro Founder Daniele Schittone knows exactly how that feels, because he's done just that! He joins the podcast to talk about how he went from working in the hotel industry to almost burning out as a personal trainer, and finally having it all click for him after discovering HIT and virtual training. We'll talk about how he realized virtual training was going to be great for him, how he runs his virtual workout sessions, group virtual training, developing the skills you need, and advice for trainers who want to get into it. If you want to get into personal training with the lowest barrier to entry and the highest potential upside, tune in to this episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get a FREE course to start or grow your own strength training business like Daniele ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need more help growing? Book a HIT Business Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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566 - The Marketing Mindset That Attracted 20,000 Clients — with Tim Dettmann
May 2701:25:19Tap to summarizeWhat's the best way to get more people to strength-train at your studio? There's probably no one better to talk about being really effective in marketing than Tim Dettmann, who isn't just a marketing expert in title, but he's actually done the work to attract over 20,000 new clients! In this episode, we talk about the mindsets and the frameworks that let you attract more new clients, how to train your staff – and your current clients! – to be your brand's best ambassadors, which tactics work best (and how often to execute these), mistakes business owners make, and more. There's so much gold in this conversation, and you should give it a listen if you want proven methods that will grow your studio's client base! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get a FREE course to grow your strength training business here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need more help growing? Book a HIT Business Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Get NEW Precision-Engineered MedX Machines here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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565 - How I Built A Highly Successful and Enduring HIT Business Brand — 20 Lessons From 20 Years of Discover Strength (with Luke Carlson)
May 2000:47:38Tap to summarizeHow can you build a successful strength training business that stands the test of time? In this episode, Luke Carlson talks about the 20 biggest lessons he's learned about making Discover Strength successful over 20 years in business and how you can apply it all to your HIT personal training business. We talk about everything from the workout, marketing, branding, training your staff, creating great customer experiences, effective client education, and so much more. If you want to learn how to build a successful HIT business that stands out and outdoes the competition, this episode with Luke is a must-listen. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Start Strong, Grow Faster — Get a FREE course to grow your strength training business here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ Need more help growing? Book a HIT Business Strategy Call with Lawrence here ━━━━━━━━━━━━ For the complete show notes, links, and resources, click here
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