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585 - Are You Ready For The Strength Training Gold Rush? (with Luke Carlson)

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584 - It's Time For Strength Training Business Owners to Embrace AI (with EverStrongSF Founder Abe Williams)

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583 - A Guide To Starting Your Own HIT Strength Training Business On a Budget (with HITuni's Simon Shawcross)

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582 - 15 Years After Body By Science — How Does Dr. Doug McGuff Do His HIT Workouts in 2026?

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581 - One Set A Week (Yes, Really) (with John Little)

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580 - Personal Trainer Secrets: Attract New Clients and Keep Them Coming Back For More (with Aldon Tibbs)

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579 - Strength Forum 2026: The Most Important Fitness Business Event of the Year

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578 - The Fitless Podcast Interview with Dr. John D'Ambrosio, Blain Duesing, and Lawrence Neal

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577 - Deep Dive: Designing HIT Workouts & Making Adjustments For Different Types of People (with Dr. Bryce Lee)

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576 - How Blain Duesing Became a HIT Client Magnet — Do The Things That Make People Naturally Like You

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575 - Designed Wrong: What Many HIT Workout Programs Forget To Factor In And Why It Matters (with Tim Dettmann)

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574 - Monk-Mode HIT: How Steve McKinney Does 30 Sessions a Day (and How He Stays Happy and Organized)

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573 - This Works: Get More HIT Clients Without Being "Sales-y" Using This Simple Email Marketing Method (with Lawrence Neal)

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572 - Big Lessons From Over 40 Years of HIT Strength Coaching (with Matt Brzycki)

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571 - The Best MedX HIT Machines You Didn't Know Existed — How MedX Europe Made Something Already Great Even Better (with Luke Carlson)

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570 - Will AI Replace Personal Trainers? What The Future of HIT Look Like (with Simon Shawcross)

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569 - Doug Holland's HIT Workouts — How He Runs His 30-Minute Client Sessions from Start to Finish

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568 - A HIT Business Owner's Guide to Time Blocking: Grow Your Strength Training Business Faster and Get More Free Time Back In Your Life (with Lawrence Neal)

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567 - How I Earned Up To 3X More as a HIT Personal Trainer by Doing Virtual Training (with Daniele Schittone)

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566 - The Marketing Mindset That Attracted 20,000 Clients — with Tim Dettmann

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565 - How I Built A Highly Successful and Enduring HIT Business Brand — 20 Lessons From 20 Years of Discover Strength (with Luke Carlson)

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564 - The "Proven Process" That Grows Sessions + Revenue and Makes Your Strength Training Business Stand Out From The Competition (with Hannah Johnson)

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563 - Building a Successful HIT Fitness Business — The Simpler, Lower Stress Approach (with fit20 CEO Walter Vendel)

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562 - Debate Ended? New Study On Low-Volume HIT versus High-Volume HIT (with Dr. James Steele)

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561 - Masterclass: HIT Machine Buying Guide (with Mike Petrella)

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560 - HIT Business Coaching — This Is What Strength Training Business Owners Are Doing To Get More HIT Clients and Grow Faster

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559 - Fixing Back Pain Using HIT Strength Therapy and the MedX Medical Lumbar Machine (with Bernd Sigl)

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558 - How To Instruct The Perfect HIT Workout (with Simon Shawcross)

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557 — The Proven System That Grows HIT Studio Revenue by the Thousands (with Lawrence Neal)

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556 — How To Build a HIT Fitness Business While Raising a Family (with Ted Harrison)

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555 - Never Worry About Getting Clients Again: How To Market Your HIT Strength Training Business Like The Best Trainers Do (with Jeff Tomaszewski)

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554 - The Secrets To Attracting HIT Clients, Keeping Them Forever, And Building A Successful Strength Studio (with Super Slow LA's Ben Fisher)

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553 - How To Maximize The Last Reps in HIT Workouts, Polyvagal Theory, and Central Nervous System Effects on Strength Training (with Janaya Skye)

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552 - Strength Training, Improving Your Body Composition, and The Science Behind Measuring Body Fat Accurately (with Dr. James Steele)

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551 - Using HIT Workouts To Build Muscle, Get Shredded, and Thinking About Rep Ranges, TUL, Exercise Variety, and more (with Skyler Tanner)

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550 - How to Sell A HIT Fitness Business The Right Way — What You Need To Know (with Mike Zarrillo)

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549 - GLP-1 Use, Strength Training, and Longevity (with Dr. Ben Bocchicchio)

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548 - How To Use AI To Get More Clients For Your HIT Strength Studio — Fitness Business Website SEO Guide for 2026 (with Connie Holen)

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547 - No Ads Needed — How Owen Dockham Built a Million-Dollar HIT Strength Studio Anyway (And So Can You)

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An Apology to Doug Holland

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546 - MedX, But Better — an Interview With MedX Europe's Eggert Barwich

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545 - The 21 Habits, Behaviors, and Decisions That Kill Revenue Growth in Strength Training Businesses (featuring Luke Carlson)

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544 - How To Become A High-Earning HIT Personal Trainer Clients Love — Start Like This (Anthony "Tony" Sandbothe)

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543 - Mike Mentzer: American Odysseus — John Little on the New Book and Defending Mike's Life and Legacy

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542 - How To Become a Great HIT Personal Trainer Who Naturally Attracts Clients (with Sara Rufener)

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Your One Wish?

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541 - Build A $40K-A-Month HIT Fitness Business on Strength Training for Athletes, Seniors, and Special Needs Children (with Kevin Quinn)

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540 - How To Design Good HIT Workouts For Athletes and Older Trainees (with Matt Brzycki)

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539 - How To Design Great HIT Workouts Like A Legend (Featuring Ryan Hall)

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What's Happening At The Strength Forum in 2025? (Featuring Luke Carlson)

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538 - How To Build A HIT Strength Studio Empire With No Ads and No Burnout (with Andrei Yakovenko)

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537 - Deep Dive: Initial Consultations That Get You More HIT Personal Training Clients (With Pete Cerqua)

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536 - Guaranteed HIT Success: Doing These Things Will Make You A Great Personal Trainer (with Umangg Sain)

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535 - Proven To Grow Your HIT Business — Powerful PR: A DIY Strategy Guide (with Nubia Wilson)

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534 - How To Set Your Personal Training Rates and When To Raise Prices (HIT Garage Gym Series part 3 with Pete Cerqua)

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533 - How to Reverse Chronic Illnesses Like Heart Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, and Back Pain with HIT (with Tim Dettmann)

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532 - How to Choose The Best HIT Machines For Your New Garage-Based HIT Studio (a Deep Dive with Pete Cerqua)

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531 - How to Start Your Own HIT Fitness Business in Your Garage — What You Need To Know To Get Started the Right Way (with Pete Cerqua)

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530 - How To Be A Successful HIT Personal Trainer — No HIT Studio Required! (with Jeremy Amin)

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529 - How To Keep Your Personal Training Clients Coming Back For More — Million-Dollar HIT Client Retention Strategies and Tactics (with Pete Cerqua)

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528 - How To Get The Most Out of Your MedX Machines with Bill Crawford

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527 - Who is Lawrence Neal? The Story of the Mind Behind High Intensity Business

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526 - He Started a HIT Business and Now He's Making a Million in Revenue — Here's How Patrick Ziebell Is Doing It

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525 - How High-Intensity Training (HIT) Helps With Injuries Caused By CrossFit (with Salus Strength Founder Kyra Seiler)

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524 - This Is How You Become a Successful HIT Personal Trainer and Strength Studio Owner FAST - The Formula for Fitness Business Growth with TJ Milam

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523 - Masterclass for Personal Trainers: How To Give World-Class Exercise Instruction (with Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson)

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522 - The Keys To Building A Successful HIT Fitness Business that Attracts Clients Magnetically (with Scott Savor)

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521 - 1-on-1 VS 1-on-3 VS Group Training — Which HIT Business Model Is Right For Your Strength Studio? (with Luke Carlson)

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520 - How To Build A Highly Successful Fitness Business and Turn It Into A HIT Franchise (with Jeff Tomaszewski)

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519 - Is SuperSlow The Key to an Ultra-Successful HIT Business? What You Should Know (with Dagoberto Vila)

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518 - The HIT Studio of the Future — This is What The Best High-Intensity Training Businesses Will Look Like (with Slowfit and Resistance Institute Founder Lucas Leal)

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517 - How to Answer the Most Common Questions About HIT — Effective Client Communication (with Skyler Tanner)

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516 - Growth The Simple Way — How To Build a Thriving HIT Fitness Business with Almost Zero Advertising

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515 - X-Force Body: The Highly Successful, High-Ticket, Negative-Accentuated HIT Strength Training Studio (Interview with Co-Founder Illy Stoilova)

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514 - How to Start A Profitable Strength Training Business — The Million-Dollar Method (with Pete Cerqua)

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513 - The HIT Machines That Make You Money — A HIT Brand Deep Dive for New Strength Studios (with Pete Cerqua)

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512 - Life-Changing: How HIT Altered Janaya Skye's Life Forever — The Story of Paradox Strength

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511 - Unlock the Secret to Explosive Growth: Leverage Media Coverage Like The Strength Shoppe Founders Melinda Hughes and Arjen Van Eijmeren Did

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510 - The Best Machines and Training Protocols for Starting Your Own Highly Profitable Strength Studio Fast (with Pete Cerqua)

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509 - From 2 Strength Studios to 200 — Interview with Exerbiotics and The Exercise Coach CEO Brian Cygan

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508 - A POWERFUL Guide To Managing Money in Your Fitness Business: Earn More, Grow Faster, Retire Early (With Pete Cerqua)

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507 - Can Lengthened Partials Supercharge Your Clients' Muscle Gains (and How Can You Break Out of Training Plateaus)? Dr. James Steele's New Study

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506 - The Best Time Management System and Growth Strategy For Strength Trainers and Studio Owners

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505 - A Personal Trainer's Guide To World-Class Customer Service That Wins You New HIT Clients FAST (with Pete Cerqua)

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504 - A HIT Studio Owner's Guide on How to Train Great Trainers (with Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson)

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503 - The Power of Becoming an Award-Winning HIT Studio (and How To Do It (with Ed Collins and Katie DeRego)

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502 - How To Start A New HIT Studio With Just $100,000 — The Complete Blueprint from Start To Finish with Pete Cerqua

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501 - The Best HIT Machines and Equipment for Your Strength Studio Just Got Even Better (Imagine Strength)

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500 - What I've Learned After 11 Years of Interviewing World-Class HIT Experts and Fitness Entrepreneurs (Luke Carlson interviews Lawrence Neal)

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499 - The Best HIT Protocol for Strength, Muscle Mass, & Hypertrophy (SuperSlow VS High-Volume HIT Debate with Dagoberto Vila and Dr. James Fisher)

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498 - How to Fine-Tune Your HIT Workouts and Design A Great Client Experience (with Luke Carlson)

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497 - How to Design Great HIT Workouts That Blow Your Clients' Minds and Get You Automatic Referrals (with Lou Abato)

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496 - How to Build A Highly Successful, Isometrics-Only HIT Fitness Business (with Isophit Inventor Brad Thorpe)

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495 - How to Grow A HIT Business Fast and Operate It Like A Well-Oiled Machine (with Smart Fit Method's Connor Darnbrough)

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494 - How to Grow Your HIT Fitness Business and Give it a MASSIVE Boost — Your Marketing Master Plan for 2025 (with Sherri McMillan)

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493 - How to Start A HIT Fitness Business With Minimal Equipment and Get Personal Training Clients Fast

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492 - High Intensity Sales: How to Pitch, Handle Objections, and Close

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491 - How to Transform Your Garage into a Money-Making Fitness Machine

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490 - Enhanced Eccentrics and Lumbar Health: The Negator's Impact on Aging Spines

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489 - How Andy Omel built a 30+ Session/Week Personal Training Business with only Timed Static Contractions