Red Bank Lifetime Fitness trainer Amanda From BS Kinesiology, GNC manager to top trainer

Ever wondered what it takes to turn a passion for fitness into a thriving career? Join us on the Show Up Fitness Podcast as we sit down with Miss Amanda Farina, a personal trainer at Lifetime in New Jersey. From her days as a collegiate track and cross-country runner to earning her CSCS certification and working at GNC, Amanda shares her impressive journey and the lessons she's learned along the way. You'll discover how Amanda's background in kinesiology and her personal interests, like motorcycles, shape her unique approach to training, emphasizing genuine care and building strong client relationships.

Amanda brings a wealth of knowledge about the fitness industry, discussing the business and interpersonal skills necessary to succeed as a trainer. Listen as she navigates the complexities of coaching, touching on the emotional highs and lows of training athletes. Amanda shares her insights on managing client expectations, the impact of social media on fitness professionals, and the importance of ongoing education. She also provides a glimpse into her life at Lifetime, where she finds fulfillment by helping others achieve their fitness goals.

Finally, we preview our upcoming New Jersey seminar, a two-day event packed with hands-on learning experiences covering human movement checkpoints, pain management, anatomy, and programming techniques. Amanda discusses the value of such seminars in staying current in the field and fostering continuous learning. Whether you're a new trainer or a seasoned professional, this episode offers valuable insights and inspiration from Amanda's journey and expertise. Don't miss out on this engaging conversation filled with practical advice and a deep passion for fitness.

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Welcome to the Show Up Fitness Podcast, where great personal trainers are made. We are changing the fitness industry one qualified trainer at a time, with our in-person and online personal training certification. If you want to become an elite personal trainer, head on over to showupfitnesscom. Also, make sure to check out my book how to Become a Successful Personal Trainer. Don't forget to subscribe, rate and review. Have a great day and keep showing up. Howdy everybody, and welcome back to the Show Fitness Podcast.

Speaker 1: 0:33

Today we are lucky to have Miss Amanda Farina. You can follow her on Instagram at mandu M-A-N-D-U-H-F. She is a personal trainer at Lifetime in New Jersey and that is how we connected for our New Jersey seminar, which will be this weekend, june 8th and 9th, at the Red Bank Lifetime with our partnership All 170 Lifetime gyms except the Show Up Fitness CPT, because they're looking for more qualified personal trainers, and today's podcast was really awesome. We talk about her life as a trainer having a degree in kinesiology, being a runner, collegiate athlete, getting her CSCS, working at GNC, learning the business and people sides of the equation, and then now being a trainer at Lifetime. She's doing over 114 sessions, which is full time, and then now being a trainer at Lifetime she's doing over 114 sessions, which is full-time. She sees herself in the Lifetime ecosphere for numerous, numerous years, maybe even her entire career, which is really neat to hear her talk about that. Listen to her voice. She's super passionate about what she's doing helping people and I just really love today's podcast. Make sure you join the QPTC, which is our new Facebook group, the Qualified Personal Trainers Community. This is open to anyone who wants to turn their passion for fitness into a career, leveling yourself up to be that medical professional. So many trainers quit within the first year because you take it as a side gig. You're doing this as an influencer, but when you learn anatomy programming, level up your professionalism, you absolutely can turn your passion for fitness into a career.

Speaker 1: 2:15

So what we talk about in the seminars I'm going to go over this weekend's itinerary. If you're in the Jersey area and you still want to show up, it's going to begin on 12 o'clock on Saturday. We're going to go over the 10 checkpoints of human movement ankle, knee, hip, lumbar, thoracic, cervical, shoulder, elbow, wrist and some breathing drills, after a little meet and greet, learning about everyone who will be there. This is for new trainers, aspiring trainers, people who are interested in becoming a personal trainer, but also trainers 5, 10, 15 plus years who are looking for that continued education. That's what we're providing on these two-day seminars. You're going to get a total of 10 hours of workshop-style hands-on learning education from a company that's been around for well over 10 years. Show up fitness, helping trainers level up their career.

Speaker 1: 3:05

We're going to talk about the biopsychosocial model of pain. Why do some of our clients have pain? Why do some exercises cause pain? How do you help your clients get out of pain? If you haven't listened to my podcast with Coach Q he's a strength coach and physical therapist for the University of North Carolina football team Great conversation about why sometimes things that we do will help and sometimes they won't.

Speaker 1: 3:25

You need to know your anatomy. So we're going to go over the 17 muscles of the shoulder, the actions of the shoulder, the humerus. We're going to talk about the interesting conclusions of MRI findings with labral tears and what we can do when it comes to soft tissue mobilizations. As a personal trainer, we'll show you some really cool tests that eliminate red flags like the empty beer can test hand behind the back, certain break tests where you need to refer out to your professional on your team, the physical therapist. We'll also go over strengthening exercises that have been taught to us by elite physical therapists like Dr Waterbury half kneeling, banded presses with trap desensitization really cool, kind of killing two birds with one stone.

Speaker 1: 4:08

And then we're going to get into the cca and how we program it. Show up fitness now, whether if you do train in a gym, like a lifetime or an equinox or a 30 minute session, or maybe you have your own garage gym, we're going to show you how you can implement these circuits. You have a cca one three rounds, a cca two three rounds, and a cca 1, three rounds, a CCA 2, three rounds and a CCA 3, three rounds. It's a perfect program template, plug and play, because with the warm-up and then the three circuits and then the cool down, it takes exactly an hour, but you can regress it to fit perfectly for a 30 minute session as well.

Speaker 1: 4:40

So the first one we're going to do is focusing more on a gentleman, a hunk. So we're going to do a press, a pull into an abdominal exercise. We'll do that for three rounds and that's what we're going to conclude day one with when we come back. Day two starts at 12 o'clock on Sunday. We're going to get into our SWIFT analysis and how we can help trainers build their streams of revenue. Getting into the 14 muscles around the knee.

Speaker 2: 5:02

Can you?

Speaker 1: 5:02

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Speaker 1: 5:29

We'll showcase a lot of their exercises and then introduce some regressions and progressions with trainer engagement. We'll then get into the second CCA, which would be a press, a squat pattern and an arm exercise. And then, when we come back from lunch, we'll do some more pain modifications, looking at some exercises that the trainer can implement on the client when it comes to shoulder pain. And then the last CCA will be a press, a pull into some type of accessory or game. We are big at show fitness, getting involved as the trainer. The whole session shouldn't be fun, but you need to show value as the trainer, showcasing a proper spot so you are there letting them know they're safe or, during the accessories, getting involved and having fun. That's going to get your clients showing back up. Would you prefer to have an iPhone 1 or an iPhone 10? Our clients thrive off of novelty because of social media and that whole whirlwind. So, by showcasing a couple new exercises per workout, but remembering that the main core movement pattern is once you focus on the overload, optimizing tension, which is going to get your clients results, that's how you can play the game, and the CCA is a great way to help your clients get the results that they need and want, so you can continue on with your profession as a qualified personal trainer.

Speaker 1: 6:49

Really excited to meet people in Red Bank, new Jersey. The lifetime there is brand new. It's phenomenal. Thank you so much, amanda, for connecting us. Looking forward to meeting you, and this podcast is really special, so thank you for that. We will be at Chicago River North July 27th and 28th, and then we're going to be in Dallas, mansfield, friday and Saturday, august 30th and 31st. That's going to be our first one done on a Friday and Saturday. We will be back on the East Coast as we set up Q3 and Q4 seminars and then we're going to have a monstrous 2025 getting into more gyms, helping trainers level up to become qualified personal trainers. Get into that Facebook group and remember, keep showing up. We are excited to have Ms Amanda. She's a trainer DPT at Lifetime in New Jersey and we're going to be meeting in person here in less than a week. Thank you for taking the time today.

Speaker 2: 7:48

Yeah, man, absolutely. I'm super psyched to be here. I've heard great things about show fitness, so I'm super amped that I could get you in here.

Speaker 1: 7:56

So we're going to learn about the life of a trainer and things that you're passionate about. Before we do that, with it being a new month, we like to take a look at our SWIFT analysis. So this is goal setting, and one of the great things about social media is the ability to do a little research.

Speaker 1: 8:11

So I'm going to tell you all about Amanda just from her social media. We've never talked before. This is the first time. Now I want her to have fun with this and let me know how well I did so. We have Miss Amanda. She is a track star. She is an expert at the 800 meter, she has a twin sister. She loves rabbits. One of her first tattoos was honesty and then strength. She is a CSCS and loves motorcycles, and she to Grand Canyon University how'd I do not bad for social media.

Speaker 1: 8:48

What do you think? Am I a creeper or what?

Speaker 2: 8:50

definitely not bad. So, uh, gcu I went to Georgian Court University, right, so not as cool as Grand Canyon, it's in Lakewood, new Jersey here, um, I am a CSCS. I do have a twin sister who's also a personal trainer, so we've been doing this a long time together. Um, I do love motorcycles. Uh, something crazy I did was get a motorcycle two years ago. Yeah, um, I do like little bunnies and guinea pigs and everything. Yeah, I do have a strength tattoo. I have an honesty one. I have a track foot. Um, I ran track and cross country, collegiate league, um, and obviously all high school I did more with the mile and then, uh, the 5k and in cross country. So, yeah, it was pretty good. Man, it's pretty good.

Speaker 1: 9:34

What was your pr in the the mile?

Speaker 2: 9:36

in the mile. It was just under 520, so 519 not bad at all I know, right, yeah, I tried man.

Speaker 1: 9:45

I saw I was trying to figure out GCU. I was looking at GCU, where is it? I was thinking Grand Canyon, and then I saw the CACC and then the first school that popped up was Grand Canyon. Were they in your guys' conference?

Speaker 2: 9:58

I don't think so. I do remember people getting us confused though all the time, like GCU, grand Canyon, like people getting us confused though, uh, all the time like with like gc grand canyon, like online and everything, I was like no guys, we're in lakewood, dude, like we are not them but how cool is that?

Speaker 1: 10:12

with social media today, you can highlight the toxicity and say it's terrible. But without social media I would have never been able to reach out to you and have a conversation on the 19th. I just did my morning reach out and I said, man, you conversation on the 19th. I just did my morning reach out and I said you're kicking ass over there at Lifetime. Love to see if there's an opportunity for us to link up. And you were very engaging and sweet and I appreciate you for reaching back out to me. I can be that annoying belt buckle trainer, but you look past that and now look at us.

Speaker 2: 10:42

Yeah, no. When I got a message from you, I was like no way, man, why show fitness? Uh, messaging me because I knew who you were. You know, um, I used to follow your stuff all the time. I knew exactly who this was. So I was like oh, hell, yeah, okay I love hearing this.

Speaker 1: 10:59

How'd you hear about?

Speaker 2: 11:01

show up. Just do just instagram, man. Like you know, you guys have been on instagram for a while and I've been in the fitness field since right out of high school, you know. So I was just following you guys for a while, um, and I would just see you on all the different you know pages. You know a for you page and stuff like it's and you're like a character you know like you're funny as hell.

Speaker 1: 11:22

So, like you know, I knew who you are man like you're, you're, uh, you know, like you're funny as hell.

Speaker 2: 11:24

So, like you know, I knew who you were. Man Like you're you're, you know different, like not like boring and all that. So I knew exactly what it was like. Oh my God, nice, all right.

Speaker 1: 11:32

I like hearing that. It's always about seeing where the market is at and got to be a little different, and I try to be a personality with my Gemini. You know multi personalities, but I'm so glad to hear that we were able to, you know, link up and really excited to learn about Red Bank. Us Californians, we have our stereotypes and when I've done my, my research, all that comes up is GTL, gtl, jim Tan Laundry right.

Speaker 2: 11:58

Yeah, that is us, man, that is us. I love New Jersey. I love the tri-state area. We're definitely easy to make fun of, but, man, I love Jersey.

Speaker 1: 12:07

That's so great. So what is going to be one of the staple foods I got to try when I get out there? I've never been. I'll be there on Thursday.

Speaker 2: 12:13

What do I got to do um, okay, for me I would definitely go to like a babacus burrito. I don't know, you guys probably don't have those there. No, I'm pretty simple. It's like kind of like mexican food, but babacus is more of like a shore one. Um, some people like chipotle more and like surf taco, but I don't know. I love babacus but it's hard because we're right in the middle, right of like pa in new york, and it's like you know they have the philly cheese snake and then New York has the pizza and it's like all right, well, what's Jersey? I'm like, well, we have everything right. We're just the best man.

Speaker 1: 12:47

Love it, love it. So take me through the journey because you were a star athlete in high school. Then you moved on to college. Did you get a degree in kinesiology or where did the college background and then take us into the life of a trainer at Lifetime?

Speaker 2: 13:06

Yeah. So right out of high school I went to college and I knew I wanted to do exercise science. I even started in high school. I went to vocational school in my junior and senior year for health and fitness, which got me, like you know, my baby certification. Um, you know, not nationally accredited or anything, but it was, you know, babysit for high schoolers. Cool, I got CPR certified. So I knew right away, like you know, fitness was something I wanted to do with my life and I just didn't know the exact Avenue, um, so I went off to, uh, ocean County college, our County college, over here. For two years I ran cross-country there. Then I went to Jordan Court University, got my degree in exercise science, uh, continued to run.

Speaker 2: 13:49

And you know, when you're in exercise science, everyone's kind of under the same umbrella. There's athletic training, there's, you know, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and then there's, um, the people who want to do straight up strength and conditioning. You know physical therapy, occupational therapy. And then there's, um, the people who want to do straight up strength and conditioning, you know, and just be out like on the field and like coaching and training. And that was me and I found that after a little bit I was like I don't want to do AC, pcot, I want to, I want to coach, I want to train. You know I want to be like where the excitement is to help people, like that. Um, cause, health and fitness gave me so much. I know what it could do for somebody more than just physical. You know it helped me do a lot, you know. So I knew I wanted to do that right away.

Speaker 2: 14:27

So out of college I worked at GNC the supplement store for a while. For like five years I was a manager there. It gave me a lot of really good experience, uh, just learning how to run a business you know, managing, hiring, firing, uh, the numbers game, sales. You know like GNC is very high when it comes to sales, like you're very looked at when it's, um, when you're sales-based, uh, so that taught me a lot. And then from there I was at another gym for a few years and that led me over to Lifetime here. So at that point I was like I have enough experience and not only sales, of course, it's like my actual trade of strength and conditioning to where I think I could do really well here and I definitely made the right choice. So I love Lifetime man. I definitely made the right choice, so I love Lifetime man.

Speaker 1: 15:20

This is great it is. It's a phenomenal company and I love following not only the business side, but you mentioned a few things there I thought I can chat about, because in my book I talk about the trade skills which you have, having a degree in kinesiology, and then the business skills you accumulated while you were at GNC and the people skills you obviously have. Just from talking with you Now, what were some of the challenges with the business aspect at GNC? Like you mentioned firing people. That's also the people side of it. Do you have any fun stories or horror stories on how you had to let someone go or what annoyed you as the boss one go?

Speaker 2: 15:58

or what annoyed you as the boss? Yeah, of course you know, when you're the one you know in charge, you want people to like you but at the same time, like you know, you know we have a job to do. So when you did have to fire people or worse, like caught people feeling and have to write them up and things like that I've been through that you know where you have to like get lost, lost prevention on them and, like you know, fire them, and they don't even know it's coming, but like that's that's your job

Speaker 2: 16:27

you know. So you have to just do kind of the right thing like that. But I had a pretty good experience at GNC. I always had people who were pretty good employees. But that that came down to kind of you how are you as a leader? What were your non-negotiables right from the jump of getting them hired? I'm not saying everybody was a star, but I was pretty good when I had a good team and I was allowed the time and the energy to give back to them when it came to coaching and training energy to give back to them when it came to coaching and training.

Speaker 1: 17:02

And so now you're you're kicking ass, you're doing 114 sessions at lifetime, which is well above full time, and you're you're having a great time there. What was that transition and what, maybe? What were your expectations? Going from a collegiate athlete, you get your CSCS one of the top certifications that's out there and then now, in the lifetime world, are you working a lot with athletes. What is your clientele like and what were your expectations?

Speaker 2: 17:28

Yeah. So that is something I did struggle with a little bit out of college because you know, when you think of the CSC, oh I want to work with athletes, you know I got to go back, I got to get into college or university or or you know, a big like strength and conditioning specific gym and as the years went on, as I got a little bit older, I realized that's that's actually not really what I want to do. I do have a have a kind of a niche where, like, I would like to work with a certain kind, I guess, of athlete, where, like, I'm not really interested in football, right, I'm not interested in golf and like all of the sports. So you know, when you're a strength and conditioning coach, you're doing that for all the sports, right? So you can't really pick and choose. I would love to be a cross country and track coach with my CSCS. I think that would be really good.

Speaker 2: 18:15

But I have realized that you do have a lot of freedom when it comes to, like the name personal trainer. That could mean so many things, right, like there's so many avenues that as a personal trainer, like what you specialize in, and and being a lifetime kind of just gives me the freedom Like I can work with athletes, I can work with general population, I can work with whatever Most of it is going to be general population. But that doesn't mean, you know, you can't help those the general population perform better and feel better and everything Right. So I do get some athletes there where it's always really fun, you know, when you get those like really athletic kind of people. But I really enjoy kind of working with everybody, to be honest with you, and that's something that I didn't always think I would, but it turns out that I do a lot.

Speaker 1: 19:03

So how was that transition going from selling supplements? So you have your creatine phosphate or monohydrate it's $19.99. It's a set price. You move into the training world and you start looking at some of these packages 12 sessions, $1,400, $1,500, what were some of the difficult things that you experienced as a new trainer going from the business into personal training business?

Speaker 2: 19:30

Yeah, it was similar to the drawbacks that you get with any sale. There's always going to be the money thing, but you can't really think with your pockets right like you. Just create the need and the value behind a product, that, whatever it is that you're selling and you truly believe in it. Um, and you even plant that seed. Maybe you didn't buy it right now. That's something I learned at uh tnc. You know the instant gratification thing sometimes, isn't it? You know it might take you a little bit of time to. You know, quote unquote, sell this product but plant those seeds. Just do what's right with that customer and it will come back to you with those. You know different the sales parts of it, but you're essentially just selling yourself when it comes to training, rather than a product. So if those people believe in you and um, you truly have the best intentions, I, I think just leading with genuine care has always been what's worked best for me.

Speaker 1: 20:31

I like that and before the podcast we were discussing some of your passion projects and things that you really like with your clients and you're. You were mentioning reaching clients emotionally and helping them feel happy about the fitness journey and not making it all about the physical Like you have to have a six pack. Even though I think you do have a dialed in six pack, you don't have to be jacked. It's a lot more to it than just the aesthetics, so talk to us more on that.

Speaker 2: 20:58

Yeah, I think fitness looks different on everybody, right? Like exactly what you said like we don't have to be absolutely ripped to the gills, you know. Like you don't have to do this, that and the other thing, you don't have to be on a bodybuilding split, you don't have to, as an athlete, olympic lift, you don't have to do any of these things. When it comes to clients, what I like about it is personal training and the word personal on there. You know you have to be able to reach those people and, like you know, see what they're kind of like. Why is this? You don't have to do anything because you think you have to squat. You have to do this.

Speaker 2: 21:33

It's like you know you really don't like we're going to find what's best for you and and we'll and we'll do that together. Right, and it might take like trial and error, but I'm just, you know, by nature, a little more emotionally charged, probably, than most, and that's definitely my strong point where, like, I can just be empathetic and like understand some things that maybe some others can't, just because of, like, my emotional capacity, and that's definitely been a strong point in this field for me, for sure. Or sometimes it's like it could be your biggest weakness, right, but in a field like this, I think the good outweighs the bad. I think for that.

Speaker 1: 22:08

What would you say? The bad so far that you've experienced within training is you feel bad about stuff.

Speaker 2: 22:15

You'll put a lot of blame on yourself, you know, as the, the coach or the trainer, um, when things go wrong, you're like, uh, you know, what did I miss? You know, let's say somebody gets hurt or they didn't hit their goal, you're like what did I miss? Like, where did I go wrong? What did I what? What could I have done? Right and I feel like a lot of coaches do that right, Like your athlete doesn't do well in a game. You're like, well, what did we miss? Right, it was. It's a way. You know. It's like what did we miss as a team? But, um, you know, even though it's most of the time, nobody's fall Right. But, um, you know, I take a lot of accountability with uh people I'm working with. You know it's like it's definitely a team thing.

Speaker 1: 22:56

I always say like we're going to and how about the the best parts of training?

Speaker 2: 23:07

oh man, the best parts of training. I feel like it's almost like it's a never-ending list. Man, uh, I love training so much. Uh, just seeing people like go from, like especially the women, where they're like they go into the gym and they're like I don't know what I'm doing, I'm scared to do this, and the other thing Like it's almost like they feel like they don't deserve to be up there and I'm like, yeah, you do, and we're going here, we go. So you know, it's a lot with the women like that and it's changing.

Speaker 2: 23:35

Right Like there's a lot of women in gyms now just absolutely murking it. But that's a huge thing. Where I'm like I want you to be self-sufficient, you deserve to be up here, just like everybody else does, um, and feel comfortable and strong. Right, like everybody deserves to feel like comfortable and strong and like in their body. We only get one. So that's definitely the best where, like, you can see somebody going from. You know they're insecure. They were kind of like beat up, maybe they had an injury. They like lost their identity if they were an athlete, and you know, now it's like a few weeks or a few months or something go by and they're happy again and they're feeling good and they're like I can do this myself and I'm like, yep, that I knew you could the whole time.

Speaker 1: 24:17

So I like that a lot. Now let's do. Where does Amanda want to be?

Speaker 2: 24:31

And this is off the record, but it's kind of on the record because it's a podcast. But where does Amanda want to be? You know, three years from now, five years from now, yeah, so I'm looking at Lifetime as like a big career. You know, that was my whole look when I got here. I'm definitely interested in a leadership role, moving forward. I'm learning a lot here.

Speaker 2: 24:46

There's been things I've been trying to learn the past few years that in a month I learned it here at Lifetime because of the tools that they've allowed me to use and that they just have here. Right Like, I learned how to do like we have dynamic stretch. I'm doing dynamic stretch with people. We're doing that. I'm learning more about different like nutrition stuff. We have a really good registered dietitian here I've made friends with. We have Pilates dude I've never been on a reformer before before I got here right Like, just just so many different things that they're here to learn. So I'm definitely looking into more of a leadership role and I just I see a bigger picture here than just you know, training that that that's a wouldn't be great to just train, but I, I, I would like to have like a big career here and hunger down here for a while.

Speaker 1: 25:37

Love it. That's all great. And so, with that being said, you guys are constantly growing and you, right now you're about 170 gyms. I believe you're hoping to get about 183. Do you see, and want to be more in management, or do you want to really fine tune the training? Get into, like trainer education?

Speaker 2: 25:56

That's a good question, right? Um, I always want to be like where the action is when it comes to training, right, like that. That was why I kind of left my previous jobs and everything. There was just no more room for me. I didn't want to just do sales, I didn't want to just do management, I want to be, you know, where the trainers are. I want to train dude. I'm a CFDS. I want to coach.

Speaker 2: 26:17

But that doesn't mean I don't want to show like different leadership qualities that I do possess and like help people. That's what I like to do. You know, I like to coach in every direction, right, I'm very inclusive. I like to, like you know, group up and like brainstorm with people. So I guess I don't know, yeah, I guess it would depend on what different kind of avenues they have and everything in here with that. But I do love educational stuff, like what we're doing right now, like show fitness coming through. I was like on that man, I was like love continuing education, like let's do it. So I definitely do enjoy that, that aspect.

Speaker 2: 26:58

Have you been to any hands on seminars or weekend workshops? Yeah, every two years I have to renew my CSCS. Right, I'm not trying to take that test again. So, um, yeah, you know I go to the uh NSCA clinics. Uh, usually once or twice a year, at least once just depending where they are, whenever they're in the tri-state area. So if it's in New Jersey or New York I'll be there and uh, that always has really good stuff going on.

Speaker 1: 27:21

Um, so those are like my live clinics I usually go to is the NSsda who are some people that you enjoy following that you would recommend for newer trainers, because with that the strength side I don't even know if it is strength side it may be or maybe not but who are some people online that you like to follow?

Speaker 2: 27:37

you know there's a few. Now you're saying in your life, who are they again? You guys right like, obviously, um, I do like I don't know. If you would know who he is, he used to do CrossFit. His name's Marcus Philly, yeah.

Speaker 1: 27:52

Marcus.

Speaker 2: 27:52

I like Marcus Philly stuff I know he's not like educational and stuff. Or like Ryan Fish he was CrossFit too, like you know they're not educational. I mean they can be, I guess, right, they like they talk about their programs and stuff.

Speaker 1: 28:08

I follow them a lot. What are you most excited about this weekend?

Speaker 2: 28:12

Oh, I definitely excited to meet you. I'm definitely excited to see like what kind of stuff you guys are doing like different from the NSCA. That's all I've known for like man. Like like a past decade I've been going to those right, so like this will be good.

Speaker 1: 28:27

I do want to see.

Speaker 2: 28:27

Like I know, you have a lot of hands-on stuff where, like you know, you're working a lot with the resistance bands and things of that nature. I want to look at that stuff maybe some corrective exercises, just different tools in my toolbox when it comes to the corrective exercise stuff. I'm definitely excited for that. You could always learn more about that stuff.

Speaker 1: 28:47

Absolutely. The trainer engagement is awesome and getting into tissue manipulations, finding out if right now do you have a lot of clients who are in pain.

Speaker 2: 28:56

Not so much. You know. Everybody has their aches and pains here and there. I do have like a lot of them are a little bit older. When I say older, not like super old, right, but like like I don't know, like 45, 50 plus, you know they're not like 20.

Speaker 1: 29:11

They're not like spring chickens. Amanda, I'm offended. You just said old and you said 40s. What the fuck.

Speaker 2: 29:17

Oh, I'm mad, right, we're not spring chickens right Everybody like everybody's a little banged up just depending right.

Speaker 2: 29:24

So like, typically I can figure out, you know, ways to help them or mitigate something or just avoid something. But at the end of the day, I'm really big on like being like, hey, I'm staying in my lane, you know you might want to see a rehab professional it's not me, you know. So just knowing some more corrective exercises to help with that is always good Cause that's something I think all trainers struggle with, right, if you're, somebody has a million injuries and, as a new trainer, like, oh God, what am I going to do now? It's kind of like, yeah, everybody does do like, like that.

Speaker 1: 29:59

So, most importantly, I was checking out your Instagram. I saw you drinking a beer with your sister, so you gotta let us know of some good happy hours that we could potentially meet on Friday. A little meet and greet. We will be around the Red Bank area I still don't even know where, we just got an Airbnb but excited to meet you in person Saturday. We'll be there at 12 o'clock and it's going to go to roughly five o'clock and then we'll hang out afterwards and then back at it on Sunday. Yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 2: 30:24

What time are you going to be here on Friday, I afterwards and then back at it on Sunday? Yeah, I'm excited.

Speaker 1: 30:26

What time are you going to be here on Friday? I will be there Thursday, but I'll come in. I was talking to your manager. He said we'll come in for a little workout on Friday. So I'll say hello to you If you have any downtime no-transcript. What time's that at?

Speaker 2: 31:00

I'm doing a table, uh, at 10 and 11. Um, cause I pretty light, cause I was preparing for this, you know. So I'll do a table with Eric he's a registered dietitian at 11 and then 10 o'clock one of our other trainers, kenny. So if you're around, feel free to stop by. We'll be outside by the pool, you know, sampling some electrolytes, you know, and yeah, just like hanging out. So if you want to come over, that would be fun.

Speaker 1: 31:24

What do you do for your table? Is it like an opportunity to get people involved? What have you done so far?

Speaker 2: 31:31

Yeah, so, straight up, the point of a table is just to literally, like you said, meet and greet right, just like make your presence known as like an assertive figure, but right one that's approachable. So you can do that in a few ways. Whenever I'm with Eric because he's our RD we're always sampling stuff. You know protein, electrolytes, amino acids. We're, we can speak to those and because of my background in GNC, you know I'm very comfortable sampling and talking about supplements. And then when I have Eric, it's like you know he's an RD, he knows exactly what's going on. So that's always fun. And then it's you do have an opportunity to talk to people and answer any questions they have. If they didn't have their intro to dynamic personal training yet, which is like part of their onboarding, where you can just assess their baselines and see like what's going on and helping them, we can get them offered or booked into either one of our schedules or another teammate, just depending on what they need.

Speaker 1: 32:30

And so lifetime. They call these just the tables. What is the technical term that you guys use?

Speaker 2: 32:36

yeah, we, we call it an educational table or educational booth. So you could do like the samples like I was talking about, or you could have like a little more fun with it, make it a little bit more engaging. You could whip out an assault bike and be like hey, whoever you know uh does the most calories in 30 seconds on this assault bike gets a free intro to dynamic personal training session. You know um, and just have fun with it. You know you get uh, get involved, get some games going. Um, it's just kind of nice and fun to talk to people um have you done some games?

Speaker 1: 33:06

have you done some games?

Speaker 2: 33:08

we did the assault bike and I thought that was fun, because people hate the assault bike, you know. You're like ready to croak on that thing, so like that was fun so we've done a lot.

Speaker 1: 33:16

We've helped a lot of people with these. Here's some suggestions. You can try it out. I can even bring you some stuff on saturday. But one of the great ones is people don't realize the correlation with hand strength and living to be 100. So you have a grip dynamometer. Have you used one of those before?

Speaker 2: 33:29

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 33:30

Yeah, and then you can have people squeeze that and you can put some numbers on there and you can say if they beat you, then they get a free personal training session. So it's like you're kind of luring them in that way.

Speaker 2: 33:39

Definitely.

Speaker 1: 33:40

That's always a fun one. And then I like doing the fishbowl, where you get a little fishbowl, throw in a bunch of Skittles or whatever candy you like and have people guess how many total there are. And you can have them guess like total calories and then people guess and then whoever gets the closest wins. But then actually anyone who guesses haven't put their email and just let everyone win. And so then you reach out to them and say hey, this is Amanda from MyTime. I just want to let you know that you won the calorie game that we were doing on Saturday at 10 o'clock. So you get a complimentary session, but what time will work for you to come into for that session?

Speaker 2: 34:14

Yeah Right, everybody wins there you go. Yep the best.

Speaker 1: 34:19

All righty Well, I'm looking forward to meet you in person again. Thank you for setting this up.

Speaker 2: 34:33

And we do you for setting this up and we.

Speaker 1: 34:33

Do you have any questions for me before we call it a day? Um, are you going to email us like it's the itinerary? I'm excited to see what it is. Yeah, yeah, I can. I'll send that to you and then you can email that to anyone else who is going to be attending for for saturday all right, awesome, and it's saturday and sunday.

Speaker 1: 34:44

They're going to be two separate things, right yeah, so they're going to be like, think of it, as the whole seminar goes together, it's day one and day two. So you have, you know, we're going to be going through our programming and soft tissue mobilization, so like there'll be the first half of the day and the second half of the day for day one, and then the first half of the day, the second half of the day for day. So it's all organized and laid out and we'll we'll have all that stuff that I can send to you.

Speaker 2: 35:09

Awesome. Yeah, if you could send that my way, I definitely want to see what we got. I'm excited, man.

Speaker 1: 35:15

Alrighty, well, thank you for your time today and, as I say, most important thing is what. Showing up there you go, keep showing up, dude yeah.