Corporate Warrior: High Intensity Training And Hit Business

How can you tell if your customer service is great (and if it’s not, how can you make it great)?    The best way to know that is if you can get up to 20 client sessions a week in 30 days, and million-dollar trainer Pete Cerqua walks you through exactly how to do that in this must-watch episode.    Pete is a legendary strength trainer, bestselling author of books like The 90-Second Fitness Solution, and a business coach who has helped many strength studio owners get up and running fast, and his tried-and-true methods can help you do the same.   If you’re serious about becoming a successful fitness business owner as quickly as possible, you need to tune in to this one (seriously, you should). ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get 20+ sessions per week in 30 days with our free, proven HIT business system ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What does it take to develop your HIT studio’s trainers into great ones?   Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson walks you through the exact steps you need to take with each of your trainers to make sure that they are putting your HIT clients through the best possible strength training experience.   If you want to develop the best possible strength trainers for your HIT studio, tune in to this one! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get a FREE HIT Business Blueprint (and more) when you join the free HIB HIT Community here ━━━━━━━━━━━━

If your HIT studio hasn’t gotten an award yet, what’s stopping you?   Simply Strong’s Ed Collins and Katie DeRego explain just how powerful getting awards for your HIT business can be and how you can get them.   If you want to tap into the power of aiming for and becoming an award-winning strength studio, this episode is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get 20+ sessions per week in 30 days with our free, proven HIT business system ━━━━━━━━━━━━

If you had the money to start your HIT studio right now, do you know the exact steps to make sure it becomes sustainable and successful fast?    Million-dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua returns to talk about the exact steps you can take to build out your new HIT studio and get sessions as quickly as possible.    We talk about where to get capital, managing your budget, high-impact marketing at zero cost, and making sure your business grows with the least amount of stress possible.   If you want a tried-and-true blueprint for starting a new HIT studio in a smart and sustainable way, this episode is for you.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get More Clients for Your HIT Business (FREE)  ━━━━━━━━━━━━

How big of an impact can the equipment you choose have on your HIT Business?   Imagine Strength’s Jeff Turner returns to talk about why your HIT studio equipment should help you to become as profitable as possible while helping you give your clients great results.    We also go into new additions and improvements that help you serve more customers, we talk about your feedback, and we go into some design details that explain how you can get the most out of training clients with different physical needs and limitations.   If you’ve wanted to know more about Imagine Strength, the new machines that are coming, and how to get them outside of the United States, make sure you check out this episode.    (Disclosure: Imagine Strength sponsors the High Intensity Business podcast). ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get More Clients for Your HIT Business (FREE)  ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What can you learn after 11 years and 500 episodes of listening to world-class strength trainers, exercise scientists, and HIT Business experts?   In this milestone episode, Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson turns the tables on Lawrence Neal (me!) and we talk about the most high-impact things you can do as a fitness business owner, as a strength trainer, and as a family man trying to find a healthy work-life harmony (that word, specifically — you’ll find out why soon!), among many other things I’ve learned in over a decade of hosting a podcast like this one.   I’m grateful to Luke, to all of the guests who have graciously come on the podcast, and to all of you for listening — none of this would be possible without you deciding to make HIB a small part of your day every week, so thank you very much.    Please enjoy this episode, and don’t forget to check out some of the things we highlight in the Show Notes sections below. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Get More Clients For Your HIT Business — FREE ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What really is the ultimate HIT protocol for optimal hypertrophy and maximizing your genetic potential for building strength and muscle mass?    In this episode, SuperSlow Master Dagoberto Vila and Exercise Scientist Dr. James Fisher debate on whether SuperSlow or higher-volume HIT can help you get the ultimate gains — and what you can take away from either approach.  ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Start & Grow your HIT Business for FREE ━━━━━━━━━━━━

How can you design HIT workouts into client experiences so great that you’ll never lose a client, even when they get injured?    Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson returns to take you step-by-step on the high-level process of building a bulletproof HIT workout that not only stops you from losing clients (which is easier than you think!) and give them an experience that primes them to give you high-quality referrals!   Luke goes into what many HIT professionals get wrong when it comes to marketing, training instruction, and the experience your trainers provide and he highlights the highest-impact keys that you need to pay attention to.   If you want to get clients who will never leave you, start by tuning in to this episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Start & Grow your HIT Business for FREE  ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What if you could design a HIT workout and client experience so good that they’ll want to refer endless clients to you?   Master Strength Trainer and former competitive natural bodybuilder Lou Abato joins the podcast to talk about what it’s like to stand out and outcompete other big city gyms with zero advertising.   Lou is the CEO of the Ultimate Training Center in Madison Avenue, New York City. He has over 200,000 training sessions, averages 120-140 a week, and counts numerous high-powered executives from the biggest companies nationally and beyond.   If you want to know how to build your own powerful, well-designed HIT workout experience that makes getting endless referrals almost automatic, check out this episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Start & Grow your HIT Business for FREE here  ━━━━━━━━━━━━

Can you really build your own highly successful HIT Fitness Business using only Isometric Protocols and Equipment?    Isophit Inventor Brad Thorpe returns to the podcast to talk about just how powerful – and incredibly safe – isometric training is to the point that it can be used by both world-class athletes (including one very popular NBA rookie) and your 63-year-old grandmother.   Most importantly, Brad goes into how he would start and grow an Isometrics-only HIT studio, along with protocols, programming, and client coaching and retention approaches, among other things.   If you want a powerful, minimalist approach to building a HIT Business that draws in clients from all walks of life, you should check out this episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ To Start & Grow your HIT Business for FREE, click here  ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What resources and systems do you need to start and scale a successful HIT Business fast?   Connor Darnbrough is the co-founder of the Smart Fit Method, and there are so many things fitness business owners and HIT entrepreneurs can learn from his story — Connor is highly successful at such a young age, and that’s no accident!   In this episode, we talk about how Smart Fit got started, their surprising approach to training clients, and most importantly, Connor’s approach to learning, managing, and executing effectively in business (among other things).   If you want to fine-tune your HIT business and turn it into a well-oiled machine, this episode is packed with plenty of gems for you — tune in now. ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Start & Grow your HIT Business for FREE ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What are the big things your HIT Fitness Business should focus on marketing-wise for 2025?   If you want to seriously grow your strength studio, get and retain more clients, and find highly profitable business speaking opportunities, then this is for you.   Sherri McMillan is the owner of Northwest Personal Training and is an award-winning fitness professional and business builder with more than 30 years of experience.    In this timeless throwback, she talks about why timing matters in marketing, what you should focus on, how to be organized and efficient when executing, and so much more.   If you want to start 2025 with a bang, grab your pencils, get ready to take notes and tune in to this one! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Start & Grow your HIT Business for FREE - https://www.skool.com/hib ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What’s it like to start a HIT Fitness Business using minimal equipment and grow it successfully to the tune of 50 sessions a week?   TimeSaver Strength founder Steve Berthiaume joins the podcast to talk about how he started his HIT studio with a barebones setup, using a simple, minimalist approach to High-Intensity Training, and the key moves he made that finally unlocked growth and success.   If you want to learn how to build a HIT studio with minimal equipment while maximizing your potential for success, tune in to Steve’s story! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Want to GROW your HIT business? Go here ━━━━━━━━━━━━

How can you design sales pitches for your high-ticket HIT programs that really work?   Dave Bess returns to talk about the exact approach – and even the specific words – that you should use to close up to 90% of your prospects.    Dave co-founded Underground Fitness and launched PT Legends and Greenlight Personal Training. He is a highly successful business builder and coach.    If you want more people to say “yes” to your HIT offerings, tune in to this episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Want to GROW your HIT business? Go here ━━━━━━━━━━━━

Do you have a garage? Then what’s stopping you from having your own low-cost, highly successful HIT studio?   Million-Dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua returns to the podcast to show you how to turn your garage into a high-profit fitness business from start to finish. We talk about some examples of garage-based studios Pete has helped design and how successful these home-based HIT entrepreneurs have now become — and how you can do the same.   If you want to start a great business that can have you set for life from the comfort of your own home and want to know how to design an efficient, profitable HIT studio, then don’t miss this episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Want to GROW your HIT business? Go here ━━━━━━━━━━━━

Why should strength trainers and fitness studio owners seriously look into eccentric-focused training? (Spoiler alert: the results you can get are amazing — if you do it right).    Dr. Michael MacMillan – former powerlifter, retired orthopedic surgeon, and former associate professor at the University of Florida – returns to share more of his expertise and wealth of knowledge in biomechanics. He is the co-creator of the NeGator Strength System, which is now on its new and improved 5th Generation.   In this episode, we talk about how eccentrics affect bones and ligaments, how most muscle injuries happen and how to avoid them, the types of machines that can use the NeGator, the many applications and benefits of proper eccentric training, and more!   This episode is great for both strength studio owners looking to get a huge competitive advantage and anyone who wants to get more from their strength training regimen — make sure you tune in! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Want to GROW your HIT business? Go here ━━━━━━━━━━━━

Ever thought about starting your own HIT business but you have no budget or background in fitness?   Static Strong founder Andy Omel joins us to talk about how he pivoted from a different industry into starting a HIT Business on a shoestring budget. Now, Andy is a successful strength trainer who helps clients get into great shape — all without moving an inch!   Andy is a great guest, and if you’ve ever thought about starting your own HIT Business but you’re unsure about the seemingly high barrier to entry, you should tune in to this one! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Want to GROW your HIT business? Go here ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What’s it like to be an in-demand strength trainer that fitness business owners love having in their strength studios?  Veteran HIT trainer and strength training expert Chuck Bixby joins to talk about his journey, what it’s like to train with high-intensity training legend Roger Schwab, and how he can help your strength studio operate with less pressure and give you more time to build and grow. Chuck holds master's degrees in physical education and clinical exercise physiology, with certifications from the American College of Exercise and Exercise as Medicine, and he has consulted with professional sports teams like the Philadelphia Eagles and the Flyers. We had a great conversation on this one! It's just a good peek at Roger Schwab’s approach to training instruction, Mainline Health & Fitness as it grew, and we also talk about how Chuck can help your strength studio — give it a listen now! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Want to GROW your HIT business? Go here ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What can you do to become a highly successful, ultra-efficient solo operator of a HIT strength training studio?    You’ve heard of Doug Holland, now see how Dagoberto Vila earns up to $366,000 a year all by himself.   Bert returns to the podcast to talk about how he turned his knowledge and personal training skills into a one-man studio that has loyal clients, and we talk about how you can follow his blueprint so you can do the same.   If you want to start – or grow – a HIT fitness business and make it really successful, you’ll want to tune in to this conversation! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Want to GROW your HIT business? Go here ━━━━━━━━━━━━

What does selling a high-ticket HIT program look like from start to finish and how can you create your own?   Dave Bess returns to the podcast to walk you through his proven high-ticket process and we’ll give you a high-level step-by-step on how you can implement this in a way that makes sense for your HIT fitness business.   As well as being the co-founder of Underground Fitness and later launching PT Legends and Greenlight Personal Training, Dave is a highly successful business builder and coach.   If you’ve ever wanted to create your own high-ticket program and wanted a clear plan on how to do just that, you need to check out this episode! ━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ Want to GROW your HIT business? Go here ━━━━━━━━━━━━