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How to Find Your Fitness Niche
As a lot of you probably know, I’m pretty much known as a “baseball training guy” – and rightfully so, as about 80-85% of our athletes at Cressey Performance are baseball players.
Most people are surprised to find that I really never played baseball at a high level. While I was super active in it growing [...]
Expanding Clients’ Social Networks: An Overlooked Role of the Fitness Professional
Back in the early 2000s, during my early years of personal training, I also worked at a tennis club during the summer. It had been my job throughout high school during the summers, and I’d really enjoyed it and made a lot of friends – so it was a nice adjunct to me learning the [...]
Want to be a Personal Trainer or Strength Coach? Start Here.
It’s an email I get at least twice a week from a random reader, and it goes something like this:
“My current job just isn’t fulfilling, but I really love fitness and want to turn it into a career. What certification do you recommend?”
I get these type of inquiries so often that I decided that this [...]
Cueing: Just One Piece of Semi-Private Training Success – Part 1
With the boom of semi-private training in recent years, there has also been a boom of questions from fitness professionals on how on Earth it is logistically possible to train several people when they may all come from different backgrounds and have different needs. Back in 2006, I was one of those people – so [...]
CP Internship Blog by Sam Leahey – It’s the Person that Matters, not the Program
Today’s guest blog comes from current Cressey Performance intern, Sam Leahey.
Many of the valuable lessons an up and coming Strength & Conditioning Coach learns do not fall under the guides of content knowledge (coaching, program design, etc.). On the contrary, many educational moments manifest in a social sense (interpersonal skills). During my Cressey Performance internship, [...]
