Gym Tips

Online Personal Training Periodization Plans: RIR and RPE

How do you successfully offer RIR (Reps in Reserve) and RPE (Rated Perceived Exertion) in Online Personal Training Periodization? What is RPE? Rating of perceived exertion, or RPE, is often used to assign a rating that corresponds to how challenging a set was. Often this is used for just a top set in online personal […]
Patryk Piekarczyk
Sep 29, 2021 5 min read

5 Tips To Get Your First 10 Personal Training Clients

Congratulations! You finally did it, you made the leap into the future by launching your online coaching business. However, chances are you’re starting off with zero or only a couple of personal training clients.  But don’t worry, there are five easy things you can do to quickly add your first 10 personal training clients using […]
Patryk Piekarczyk
Aug 13, 2021 5 min read

Fitness Business Solutions for the New Wave

COVID-19 has shown us how vulnerable the fitness industry is. Thousands of trainers immediately lost all of their income when gyms closed. Countless more are making career changes in anticipation of another shut down in the near future. However, if you’re a great trainer and this is something you truly love to do, there’s no […]
Patryk Piekarczyk
Nov 16, 2020 3 min read

Online Fitness Coaching: 5 Tips for Successful Client Management during COVID-19

As a result of gym closures due to COVID-19, there has been a significant increase in digital coaching for fitness clients. The transition from in-person training to virtual coaching is not an easy task.  Aside from adjusting training programs to be suitable for an outdoor workout or at home setting, trainers also have to stay […]
Everfit Team
Oct 11, 2020 5 min read

How To Train With a Face Mask

As part of the process to implement safety measures including touchless check-in, cleaning stations, distancing in uses of machines and equipment, an increasing number of gyms in the United States are requiring members to wear face coverings while working out in gyms. Wearing a mask during training isn’t ideal but there are ways to mitigate […]
Patryk Piekarczyk
Oct 05, 2020 4 min read

5 Strategies To Build A Successful Digital Fitness Business In The COVID-19 Era

Fitness businesses have shut down across the globe in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in public spaces. Even as some States announce reopening plans that include health clubs and gyms, the protocols for social distancing will definitely remain, requiring owners of fitness businesses, both ones that have reopened or those mandated to […]
Everfit Team
Aug 05, 2020 6 min read

Everything You Need For Gym Reopening

Gym reopening is happening in most of the United States and what your gym is doing to keep members safe is front-page news (literally). As a fitness director of Pinnacle Heath + Fitness, a large health club in Madison, Wisconsin, I’ve had to make sure we are prepared. Initially, most of your members or clients […]
Patryk Piekarczyk
Jul 31, 2020 6 min read

6 Tips to get ready for Gym Reopening as an Independent Trainer

Aaaaaand we’re back! Almost. Gym Reopening. One-on-one personal training sessions have resumed in most places across the US. It’s been so awesome to be back in the gym with my clients and be able to see everyone in person again. However, It hasn’t just been “business as usual”. There have been some adjustments that had […]
Laura Su
Jul 02, 2020 5 min read

Tips on Programming Workouts for Clients post Quarantine

Shelter-in-place orders have lifted a bit in some areas of the USA. Here in Seattle, we are resuming one-on-one personal training as well as workout builder programs and some counties down south have reopened private training facilities for members to come train.  One glaring commonality between all of my clients who are now back in […]
Laura Su
Jun 30, 2020 4 min read