Jon Goodman on Building a Fitness Business & Reaching Your Goals

By Greg O'Gallagher | April 2, 2015 |

 

How to Build a Fitness Business

In this podcast, I sit down with the founder and owner of the Personal Training Development Centre, Jon Goodman, to discuss how to build a successful fitness business.

I know many of my readers and listeners are personal trainers or are considering a career or business in the fitness industry. What better way than to get on one of the top experts on building a successful fitness business.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • Why it’s important to build gratification points into a long term fitness program or business (9:00)
  • How to achieve your goals by breaking the journey down into small manageable chunks (11:30)
  • How to use NLP ‘priming tactics’ to get yourself into state for training or work (13:50)
  • The dark side of building a successful business (21:00)
  • The power of an isolation period to experience clarity and your ultimate purpose (30:00)
  • How to stop chasing validation and start living now (37:00)
  • The two best books for building a successful fitness business (47:40)

Jon Goodman is the author of the top selling book, Ignite the Fire: The Secrets to Building a Successful Personal Training Business. If you’re interested in building a personal training business, it’s a must have resource!

Watch The Video Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2A3ptBz2pk&feature=youtu.be

 

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27 Comments

  1. Matt on April 14, 2015 at 10:28 pm

    GREG RELEASE YOUR SEXY COOKBOOK SOON PLEASEEEEEEE!

  2. Alex on April 10, 2015 at 10:29 am

    What workout should i do for my physique? I’m 6’1 and 170 lbs.

  3. sidney on April 7, 2015 at 1:15 am

    hi, i just thought this was important to mention, i was talking to this boy i met online, and he claims to be your brother, i just wanted you to know that many people are pretending to be him (brayden)

    • Greg on April 7, 2015 at 11:23 am

      That’s fucked up…. How did that happen? Where did you meet him online?

  4. Trent on April 5, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    Hey Greg,
    I have aquestion since I am not sure you ever brought it up. But, I was wondering how many calories are burned during the fasting period itself? I know you have talked about its hunger blunting effect.
    Thanks!

    • Greg on April 7, 2015 at 11:27 am

      This isn’t really an important question because it’s about the total calories you burn per day vs. the total calories you ingest. You’re likely not going to be burning more calories fasting than you would if you were fed. The advantage of fasting is that you’re not consuming calories so you’re helping to support a greater deficit.

  5. Phil on April 4, 2015 at 4:34 pm

    Hey Greg!

    Regarding the use of RPT, in my gym dumbbells go up in big increments (5lbs each, so it’s a 10lbs increase on bilateral exercises), so using RPT with dumbbells is hard (especially on less compound exercises like curls and tricep extensions) because of that very big drop in weight.
    What do you recommend instead? Straight sets? Rest-Pause?

    Thanks!

    • Greg on April 7, 2015 at 11:28 am

      You can always do straight sets with dumbbells. Or drop by 10-20% and increase the reps by 2-4 with each drop in weight.

  6. az on April 4, 2015 at 11:04 am

    Hey Greg,
    I have been your Greek god program for a while now and had managed to get my lifts up to 200 on incline 134 on shoulder press and 100 on bb curls at the weight of a 168 lbs and a height of 5 10. However last month I had my body fat percentage checked and it was 15 percent. So for the past month I dieted aggressively and lost 2 lbs a week eating only 1700 calories a day with only ine refeed a week and now am a 160 pounds. Where do u think I should go from here? Should I recomp or continue cutting/dieting and which program should I do next?
    Thanks

    • Greg on April 4, 2015 at 12:45 pm

      Congrats those are some solid lifts! Hard to say without seeing pictures. You could lean bulk back up to 170 lbs.

      • az on April 4, 2015 at 4:09 pm

        Would the Stephen amell workout be good to follow? Also whenever I lean bulk I feel like I always gain extra fat

        • Greg on April 4, 2015 at 4:19 pm

          Yes. Then you’re going too high in calories

  7. Tz on April 3, 2015 at 6:55 pm

    Hey Greg, I just wanted to share with you and all your followers one bizzare thing that happend in my country. I’m from Bosnia and Herzegovina and our governemnt spent about 99000 dollars on creatine for prisoners in 2014 which is quite a lot since our country is very poor and there is many poor people… that’s it, just wanted to share it with you :) cheers

    • Greg on April 4, 2015 at 12:45 pm

      What? That’s so weird. Why would they spend money giving creatine to prisoners, I’m not following.

  8. John on April 3, 2015 at 11:47 am

    Hey Greg!

    I just have one doubt regarding your programs I’d like you to clarify: In the GGMBP you say sticking to the same reps and adding weight is a better progression model than using the same weight and increasing reps, which makes perfect sense since the change in total lifted weight is smaller in the former.

    However, in your SHP and in most routines you post here you use a double progression model and advise us to build up to the upper end of the rep range before increasing the weight. Why is that? Wouldn’t using the “same reps, increase weight” model be better?

    Thanks!

    • Greg on April 3, 2015 at 12:27 pm

      Hey man!

      You can do the microloading protocol for superhero bulking as well. I’ve used both protocols with success. I find that if you’re switching routines every couple months and rotating exercises, then the double progression model works well (increase reps, then weight).

      If you’re sticking to the same exercises and workout for a while, you need to microload. Make sense?

  9. Kelly on April 2, 2015 at 2:41 pm

    Jon and Greg, I particularly loved the thoughts on the Theory of Abundance. Any recommendations on further reading/info?
    Thank you, Gents!

    • Jonathan Goodman on April 2, 2015 at 3:13 pm

      Hey Kelly,

      Not specifically. I’m sure that there have been books read about it but the concept is pretty simple – not much more to know other than the following:

      “Give as much as you possibly can every second of every day and you will receive more than you could ever hope for. Don’t look at anybody as competition. If you are confident in what you do, the quality you provide, and the value that you bring, then you have nothing to worry about. People confident in their abilities try to shield their potential customers from knowing what else is out there.”

      Hope that makes sense. Have an awesome rest of the week.

      • Kelly on April 2, 2015 at 3:43 pm

        Thanks, Jon! It sounds like having a generous spirit towards life and others, absence of worry and focusing on the present, expecting good while giving your best. I dig it! :)

  10. Arthur on April 2, 2015 at 1:55 pm

    Great episode! I love you podcasts. Been a visitor for years and I love your content! Few people seem to really get that we want to have a good looking, proportional body.

    This is kinda unrelated to this episode, but I haven’t got the chance to ask when you released the episode about building sleek leg:

    What’s the size (circumference) of your quads?

    Arthur

  11. Jonathan Goodman on April 2, 2015 at 11:35 am

    My man, thanks for having me. It was a blast speaking with you and the recording sounds pretty good considering that it was done from a remote house in the middle of nowhere in Uruguay. Thanks for bearing with me while the Internet decided to work. I’ll pop in here from time to time if there are any questions or comments.

    -Jon

    • Greg on April 2, 2015 at 1:23 pm

      Dude it was an honour! I’ve been following you for a good two years now. Thanks again :)

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