What's Your Programming Recipe? #115

Episode 115 of the The Obvious Choice podcast, hosted by Jonathan Goodman, titled "What's Your Programming Recipe? #115" was published on July 1, 2021 and runs 43 minutes.

July 1, 2021 ·43m · The Obvious Choice

0:00 / 0:00

Summary

Today we have a discussion about the unique nature of programming and how to find the best way to do it for your online coaching business. The Episode: What's Your Programming Recipe? It is quite common for newer trainers to struggle with confidence around their programming. In fact, most of us feel like we can always learn more, and want to constantly improve our programs no matter how far along we are. The reality is that all trainers do this part of their work slightly differently, and that is not a bad thing! Think of your program as containing your own unique flavor, a recipe using common ingredients that all trainers have, that is tailored to your skills and your clients' needs. So lean into your strengths and style and deliver something worthwhile and helpful to the world! In This Episode The unique recipe that each trainer uses to create a program [0:17:39] Common hurdles on the way to confident programming [0:21:35] What our trainers do in their own workouts [0:25:24] No two programs will be the same [0:35:29] “Understand that people are going to come to you for your flavor of programming. Thrive on that. ” — Jonathan Goodman Different and Unique Programs It may be useful to think of trainers as chefs, creating different recipes and flavors with the same ingredients. Clients and trainers alike, need different things, and there is also a huge variation in terminology, combinations, and approach within the world of coaching. If you can continue to learn and adjust your unique 'flavor', adding ingredients and strategies as you go, you can both become more specialized, while also broadening your reach and impact! Doubts About Programming We often witness trainers dealing with feelings of inadequacy around their programming and that they are doing it wrong. This imposter syndrome shows more about the insecurities that creating programs elicits than anything else. The chances are that if you are available and helping your clients to move and exercise, the program is working to a certain extent. Another way to combat these fears is to have conversations and share information with other trainers. This way you can contextualize what you are doing while adding appropriately to your programs. Adaptation and Formulation In-person coaches generally have approaches that include more on-the-fly adaptation, whereas the online route leads to more strictly planned programs. There are so many unique recipes out there, with so much valuable variation, how you adapt and formulate your schedules is solely up to you. But the message here is to have some confidence in your own style, the dish that you are cooking, and bring that to the table so that people can enjoy it! Already at $1,000/month online and want to scale? Apply for OTA 2 here: www.thePTDC.com/OTA2 SPONSORS Get started TODAY with the world leading certification and business development program for personal trainers, nutrition coaches, and gym owners – The Online Trainer Academy:http://onlinetrainer.com/ota Apple Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/feed/id1468193055 Stitcher - https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/jon-goodman/its-possible-conversations-with-successful-online-trainers Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/20veRnzFOvUn6fTy9ud8jm?si=zMWTLmtISMm1XrU-4Q8oxA YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/JonGoodmanPTDC

Episode Description

Today we have a discussion about the unique nature of programming and how to find the best way to do it for your online coaching business.

The Episode: What's Your Programming Recipe?

It is quite common for newer trainers to struggle with confidence around their programming. In fact, most of us feel like we can always learn more, and want to constantly improve our programs no matter how far along we are. The reality is that all trainers do this part of their work slightly differently, and that is not a bad thing! Think of your program as containing your own unique flavor, a recipe using common ingredients that all trainers have, that is tailored to your skills and your clients' needs. So lean into your strengths and style and deliver something worthwhile and helpful to the world!

In This Episode

The unique recipe that each trainer uses to create a program [0:17:39]
Common hurdles on the way to confident programming [0:21:35]
What our trainers do in their own workouts [0:25:24]
No two programs will be the same [0:35:29]

“Understand that people are going to come to you for your flavor of programming. Thrive on that. ” — Jonathan Goodman

Different and Unique Programs

It may be useful to think of trainers as chefs, creating different recipes and flavors with the same ingredients. Clients and trainers alike, need different things, and there is also a huge variation in terminology, combinations, and approach within the world of coaching. If you can continue to learn and adjust your unique 'flavor', adding ingredients and strategies as you go, you can both become more specialized, while also broadening your reach and impact!

Doubts About Programming

We often witness trainers dealing with feelings of inadequacy around their programming and that they are doing it wrong. This imposter syndrome shows more about the insecurities that creating programs elicits than anything else. The chances are that if you are available and helping your clients to move and exercise, the program is working to a certain extent. Another way to combat these fears is to have conversations and share information with other trainers. This way you can contextualize what you are doing while adding appropriately to your programs.

Adaptation and Formulation

In-person coaches generally have approaches that include more on-the-fly adaptation, whereas the online route leads to more strictly planned programs. There are so many unique recipes out there, with so much valuable variation, how you adapt and formulate your schedules is solely up to you. But the message here is to have some confidence in your own style, the dish that you are cooking, and bring that to the table so that people can enjoy it!

Already at $1,000/month online and want to scale?

Apply for OTA 2 here: www.thePTDC.com/OTA2

Share this episode

Similar Episodes

No similar episodes found.

Similar Podcasts

Just One Tip from Your Podcast Performance Coach Tim Wohlberg Your podcast is an extension of your brand. It helps potential customers get to know you and trust you. It positions you as an authority and thought leader so you become the obvious choice. At least that's what it's supposed to do. Too bad yours isn't. Let's fix that, in 5-minutes chunks. Just One Tip is a podcast for podcasters looking to grow their authority and convert with greater ease. Host Tim Wohlberg is a 30-year radio veteran who straight up hears things you can't hear in your show. As a podcast coach he helps entrepreneurs build better podcasts for their business or brand from scratch or can re-rebuild or pivot an underperforming show. In each 5-minute episode, Coach Tim offers up one quick tip that you can implement right away. From tech to content and performance to marketing – if you're a business owner expecting your podcast to deliver some ROI (not to mention, ROE) then this is the podcast for you.Not to mention grow your audience, generate leads and sales. Make your Explicit Masters of the Obvious Masters of the Obvious Masters of the Obvious is a weekly podcast about pop culture and nerdy things with special guests. We discuss TV, movies, comics, celebrities and more. Explicit Obvious Plant Podcast Obvious Plant The Obvious Plant podcast is a learning podcast that brings you the same trustworthy, fact-checked news and information you've come to know and love from the Obvious Plant brand.Learn about such topics as the moon, forests, technology, dogs, and why our cohosts are so perpetually sad and lonely.Season One is six episodes long, released weekly. Explicit State of the Theory The Theory Doctors Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. Explicit