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Author: Jonathan Goodman

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How to Make It as a Personal Trainer

It's Wednesday at 3:27pm ...

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2 Ways to Motivate Your New Personal Training Clients to Stay

This is a post about motivation, but not the rah rah kind....

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The 12 Best Personal Trainer Articles of 2012

It's been a monumental year for thePTDC. Here are the 12 best personal training articles / blog posts in Jon's arbitrary opinion. Take some time and read through these. They're all fantastic.

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How to Stop Your Clients From Getting Bored

Exercise is pretty boring after a while. How many different ways can you teach somebody to lift, push or pull something? There are 2 creative ways to make programming more interesting.

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5 Secret Neighborhood Mavens For Personal Training Referrals

Here's 5 oft-ignored mavens for personal trainer referrals in the neighborhood who had trust and connections and interact with a lot of people over the course of the day and can blow up your business.

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Should You Copy Other Personal Trainers?

Do you even know exactly what you stand for, because if you don't how the heck can anyone else?!

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What I Think About When I Think About Training

When I prepare for a heavy squat I close my eyes for 4 seconds, tuning everything out. Check out what happens next...

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Should Your Train Distracted Clients?

Fatigued, stressed, distracted. Our clients come in with these issues every day. Should we train them?

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Upgrade Your Group Training Program

Do you really want to throw fifty burpees or heavy back squats at a client who has just been chewed out by their boss?

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Motivating General Population Personal Training Clients

It's the start that stops most people. You can write the best workout in the world and it doesn't matter if nobody does it.

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