1715: Ten Mistakes Fitness Trainers Make 

Still can't believe this podcast is for free😂 helped me a lot and I'm still far away from catching up with the episodes...great work

Me and my partner have gone from being morbidly obese to running our own local personal training business in the UK over the last six years. I still have arguments within the fitness industry about Resistance training being better than cardio for weight loss. I've only found this podcast fairly recently and nice to listen to you guys who have been in the business for a while backing up pretty much everything I've been saying.

As a brand new trainer, I can’t help but click on every podcast you guys put out! You inspire me to follow my passion and become a trainer. I just got my parents to commit to some light resistance training to start improving their health!

I started listening 11 months ago and am caught up on the episodes! You guys are amazing, just wish I'd found you about 40 years ago! I just turned 60 and an probably in the best shape of my life all thanks to MP, thanks for all that you do! Happy New year!!

Im off of social media at the moment (everything besides RU-vid) so this information is so invaluable as a new trainer! Thank you so much for the info!!

You guys were the first ever podcast I listened to that’s helped keep me motivated these past two years during my walks and workouts. You’ve helped me a lot specially during the pandemic!

This episode was created at the perfect time for me and I cannot express just how grateful I am for it. I am currently working on becoming a certified personal trainer while going to school to become a physical therapist (going to start my 2nd semester of my undergraduate in January) and I am excited to apply all the knowledge I have gained from Mind Pump these past two years to my clients and become the best trainer I can be

Found your podcast when I was a newbie about two years ago and I’ve been hooked ever since, no BS and solid advice 👍

Yay this is the episode I really needed! I’ve only just qualified as a personal trainer and hands down I’ve learned way more listening to this podcast - absolutely love how much time you spend providing free learning and education. Education is key for empowerment… love the show!

AIGHT The Mind Pump Show is crazyyyy coolll! You guys have totally changed my life and I wanna be a personal trainer and physical therapist because of you guys. Definitely the most listened to podcast in my wheelhouse

Thank you guys for another great podcast. I’m a CPT in school to become a PT and Sal’s wellness facility sounds exactly like what I am aspiring to develop in the future. Movement is the ultimate holistic medicine. 💛

I love the realness of this podcast!! The guys give us the best knowledge and it is free I can not believe the knowledge and information I have gained from listening to this podcast every day!! Thank you guys so much!!!! ❤️❤️

This has been one of the best conversations I’ve heard in a long time. It’s given me a huge awareness from both client and coach perspective.

You guys have have given me so much knowledge this last year from finding the channel beginning of 2021, I've made the best gains going through programs likes aesthetics and hitting powerlifting currently. Always thought about being a trainer since I graduated high school because I have a strong passion for fitness and health, and as a young 22 year old still lost on what to do to make a living you guys gave me the game and motivation to get my certification and now I'm training a few family members and friends while also looking for a big box gym to get more experience. I use the info from your podcast on myself and others and have seen nothing but great results, a lot of the mistakes you guys bring up help us young trainers not repeat them and it helps evolve the fitness game. Thank you for all this info you guys give out for free its bettering lives every day! I would use maps resistance and everything else you giving away to further my knowledge and fitness and become a smart but bad ass trainer lol! Hope the MindPump fam had a great and healthy Christmas, and once again thank you guys!!!!

Love the show and all that you guys do. I can’t recommend the info you guys give enough. Helped me on a personal level to better my workouts and where to put my focus. Love that I learn something new every episode

I’m so so glad I found this channel. It has helped me a lot with my journey and changing behavioral issues.

Working on getting certified and hoping to be training people by April so I am luvvvinnn these episodes. Thnx dudes!

Found you Thru Mike Mutzel and you are a true gem of information! Got your book in audio form and my husband and I listened to it on a 13 hour drive to Colorado !

You guys are awesome. Glad I found your podcast/channel. Definitely hooked.

I started listening to this podcast to get in shape because I was lost with my health, and now I would like to become a coach someday myself. :) Will definitely be using your wisdom and learning from your experience at that time to help people change their lives FOREVER

Eye opening! Thanks for sharing!

most helpful and real advice ive heard, thanks a lot guys

Couldn’t ask for a better podcast crew for learning . Please never stop!

I listen to you everyday and is just starting my personal training career. This is very helpfull so thank you

The best general and fitness podcast there is these guys tell it like it is

Thank you guys for sharing your experiences and mistakes. They are super helpful and educating.

Exactly what I needed! I just started my nutrition certification with NCI and this is gem! Thank you fellas!

You guys are out with another banger! I appreciate all the help you all have provided us viewers!!

Why doesn’t this have millions of views!? Such a great topic.

It's a year now since I discovered mind pump and it's been a hell of ride with u guys! I'm gym rat and I'm doing this for 10years and finally I decided to go to college and get fitness degree and my passion give back to the ppl ☺️ I met my partner in my classroom and finally I'm sharing this path with somebody who has the same mindset as I do 🙂 big part of my successful 2021 was yours MP ! Thanks for that! Love u guys

I think form and attention to detail is total value. Injury prevention, mastery, and fun.

One piece of advice I love from you guys is to do the least work needed for the most benefit. It allows for recovery between workouts.

I have been working diligently on my career to became a CPA (almost there😅) and yet listening to you guys this year has had me strongly considering somewhat ditching that career right after obtaining my qualification and becoming a personal trainer instead. I've enjoyed advocating your message to the mostly women around me who are slaves to restrictive dieting and excessive cardio training. I once thought of personal training as a vain and heavily aesthetically driven career option but my view on that has drastically evolved in the current year while listening to this channel. Resistance training, moving frequently, eating healthier, mobility training - these elements are my lifeline! Aesthetics are for the most part an afterthought now...

I'm studying to be a trainer and thankful for this channel ❤️

As a personal trainer, this channel helps a ton

Love that phrase “this is chess not checkers” … this mindset definitely struck a chord with me.

Best podcast yet boys because I found it so relatable. You’re all amazing

Very good advice as always.

This is awsome u guys are awsome ty for all this awsome info

Great episode 💪🏻

All the things y’all talked about are the same things I learned as a teacher (of high schoolers). So basically what I learned from this video is that a good trainer is a good teacher. Cool.

Merry Christmas and Happy New to you guys and families I listen to u guys every night before going to bed. 💪❤️ Fitness is a journey with ups and downs but we should always remember beauty comes with in. God bless you guys for your time and work to help people Good night 😇

Another year to get better 💪🏼

mind pump is the best podcast hands down! You make me feel so much better about being a coach ad provide so much free value!! I absolutely love how smart yall are while still making it make sense and not getting too technical! i feel like you guys are my coach aha. Much love to you all of you guys and thank you for doing what you do!! I hope one day i either marry a guy as knowledgeable as mindpump or I am

Listening to Mind pump is the single greatest thing I have done in my adult life. It has got my own life on track with health and fitness (I lost 70 ibs) and nurtured my love for nutrition and turned it into a career (only 1 client so far but it’s so rewarding). Keep up the great work.

Loved this episode! What does a 1 day a week full body workout look like?

The part about the motivation wsa spot on. As a trainer with over 10 years in the field i've dealt with that excuse.

Hi guys absolutely love your content. Watching you for some time now and this incredible how much knowledge I’m getting for free 🙏 I would love to hear some more stuff about reverse dieting . I’ve been trying different diets but always keeping my calories to low and with my last cut which took way too long I’ve crashed my metabolism. Now I’m struggling with building it up. Every time I’m bumping my calories up I’m ending up with putting weight in the wrong places. Really appreciate some more information about this thank you

13:50 As far as individualization in programming goes, I get individualizing based on your clients factor such as age, medical history, mobility limitations, but pass those, if a client doesn’t have a specific goal adaptation, for example, strength, stability, mobility, do you just choose one based on what you think they need the most? That’s what I’ve been doing with my clients and that seems the most obvious answer, but giving us some examples of aspects to individualize programming with for a variety of different types of clients may be useful! Thanks

Great content as always!

I'm paused on point number 2-training too hard. I"m on my third trainer. The first was at Bally's in 2003, so she was a typical big box gym trainer. She was included in my membership, just hopped from machine to machine, didn't give me a plan or seem to have an overarching approach, 30 sec to one minute rest, taught me that I should always do 8 reps, 3 sets of everything, used isolation machines, some were repeats, others were new. She was just walking around going here do this here do this. There was no, "work on this all week and let's see your progress on it next week" or I'm going to teach you the machines and eventually cover all of them. Then in June of this year 2021, I had been working out and wanted to tweak things and have my form checked. It took me a while to find a trainer because I wanted bands and calisthenics, not machines or even weights and I wanted single sessions not a package or schedule. I found two women at the same time and worked with one of them. $100. I knew when I finished by first session that I was going to keep looking and probably try that other woman I had found. She worked me too hard and I didn't like her personality. I booked the other girl, but something came up. In the meanwhile the other girl posted herself working with a trainer who is a calisthenics specialist. I bought one of his programs. I worked with him once and I'm scheduled to work with him again. I am considering him my trainer. His channel is BarNaturals, btw. I recently found out he has been watching Mind Pump for years. I found them from Miss FitAndNerdy a few months ago. I may still work with the other woman if I want to work on cardio or mobility (I don't want to be stretching that much with a guy trainer, seems like that could get awkward, especially since I know I need to work on hip and glute flexibility and mobility.....) Anyway, knowing my trainer is also a fan of Mind Pump, now I know I'm in good hands.

Love the honesty

This podcast gives so much value! I’m a volleyball player trying to get back on the court. My knee has been bothering me so I’m taking a break. My new goal is to build muscle so I’m currently on MAP ANABOLIC. Which programs should I do after MAPS Anabolic? I was thinking strong, then performance. My 2nd question is… can I go through MAPS anabolic again after my bulk to cut or do you recommend another program?

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I feel like I’m doing everything wrong with being a trainer after listening this episode and I love training now I feel lost what do I need to do to become so knowledgeable and as great as you guys

watching this while eating breakfast!

Hey guys! ☺️ I’m a trainer as well and I’ve not even hit my head year mark. Crazy thing is, I’m relating to all your points and I’m only half way through the podcast 😅 Some fault is from my supervisors and bosses from my big box gym and though this podcast is hard to hear, I’m really looking forward to changes I can make. MINDPUMP through & through 🙏🏽 Let’s go! 🔥 P.S - 🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄

Best videos on RU-vid hands down

Love transitioning from boot camp style HIIT training with beast mode attitude to lifting with quality movements at home with Anabolic. Would love to be a part of the forum too!

super helpful

Trainers *and people helping friends and family get started.*

The beauty of walking and similar very easy activity (like LISS cycling) is that you won't have urge to compensate calories like in more sport oriented activity. Also it will function as recovery.

Best podcast ever!

Great stuff

Been listening for a year now, RU-vid spied on me last year when I started my cert and started recommending your videos. Learned more here from my -1500$ NASM course lol…. Not even interested in finding another fitness pod

Not first this time cause I was watching the new Spider-Man movie . 9/10. Toby is still the 🐐. Boom !!!

Yea, I luckily don't make any of these mistakes. Most expect me to train them like I workout. I explain to them is I build people up to train like me but that take 6-12 months of training. My clients tend to double or triple their strength with in the first 2-3 months with proper programming and progression. Such as going from 8 pullups to 35lbs by 5 weighted pullups in 10 weeks and rowing 75x9 max to doing 210lbs by 12 reps. I start at 3 sets of 15 and increase weekly until they can't go up and than I'll do 12 reps and the following week 15 and eventually that will stop and I'll take a 15,12,8(rest)8,12,15 reps for most exercises and than the next step from that is drop sets and than eventually supersets and I always keep in core exercises and slowly add in new exercises as they progress such as 21s.

I had some great trainers at my local gymn, but they all had their strength and weaknesses. One taught me TUT, the other training intensity and the first guy got me to the gymn at all, lol. Back when i was a twigman and not super motivated😂👍.

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Fantastic

Sal,Justin Adam, Doug every time my eyes 👀 bump onto 156k Subscriptions I get so embarrassed,cause I recall all those influencers who have 1million+ and give no value whatsoever. I’m a PT myself brought up by your philosophy and the success that I had and having is so much sophisticating, cause when I look around my gym I see the PT Mentioned during the podcast! Respect ✊🏻 love ❤️ Regards

I would like to keep track of my calories intake however since i work in a buffet style kitchen it's complicated to do so.

Guys can you make a podcast on the most important foods that should be apart of most people’s diet

Awesome topic today. Allighns with my question guys. First of all I'm a Certified Recovery Mentor in the state of Oregon. What that means is I help mentor addicts in recovery with resources to help them succeed. I am also a recovering addict over 2 years sober now. I believe that getting our strength back through exercise has played an important role in my personal recovery. I love helping people that struggle with sobriety. I would also like to become a personal trainer. I'm 45 years old. Do you think that is to old to get started? My wife is 10 years younger and has the same goal. Thanks for your time and great content.

I think it's ok when you train a client and they enjoyed it, pitched it just right not beat them to death and the next time you see them they say actually I felt that the next day and I wasn't expecting to

Oh man, as someone who works as a coach of sorts (not fitness), I struggled with the story about the lady who basically didn't want to do anything except come in once a week. Honestly, I expect the people I work with to be realistic about their results and the time it will require, so I think I would have refused to work with her. No changes to diet and working out just once a week, what can you expect from that? I understand the idea of introducing changes gradually but, wow, I struggle tolerating people who aren't committed to change and aren't ready to work hard from the start.

ok wow I feel like this episode was directed at me. I'm a personal trainer and am so guilty of a lot of these things. Although I feel embarrassed and super behind, I'm also glad I'm not alone in this considering this is my second year being a personal trainer.

I used to pride myself on training so hard and brutally that I'd literally have to crawl down the gym stairs to the exit, vomit and have to get a taxi home as I would be physically unable to drive. I would literally be bedridden the next day, and have to get taxi to work and back. I was a tom platz devotee which probably didn't help.

Mind Pump teaches us to be a good trainer to ourselves and spread the truth😁

5 years! My trainer is 3 years :/ As a tutor how students perform is the only good result. I can push, make it grueling, I can be condescending, I can say it's them not me but in the end my job is to them have success. If they don't succeed I don't. Hopefully it doesn't take 5 years to figure that out.

Might be a weird question but... What I hear you talk about a lot is the metabolic adaptation part. I wonder, where did you found that out? Would love to read more up on nutrition but have you done the NASM certifications or read certain books on nutrition?

You guys are being a little bit to strict on yourself! I think everyone who is long enough in the fitnes industry went true this periods and hopefully they learned something from it like you guys! Sadly a lot of people just ignore they mistakes and they never improve. That why I love to see this kind of podcast with so many great life changing information! Keep up the great work guys!

Mind Pump > Body Pump

Doesn't `Failing to individualize workouts.` contradict with having concrete fixed programs like MAP Anabolics. Isn't it that every one that buys it will be pretty much doing the same thing?

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I listen most of your podcast for healthy lifestyle ,I am 5'5" what would be my ideal weight

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Come on guys the turkesterone and creatine ain’t cutting the mustard up here in Alaska! Hook it up!!!

When you realize Sal is saying “Chess not checkers”, and not “Chestnut checkers”…

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