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The Storm Fitness Academy Podcast — 120 episodes

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1

How Do You Get Clients When Nobody Knows Who You Are?

2

Why Sleep Might Be More Important Than Your Training Programme

3

Why Walking Might Be the Most Underrated Exercise

4

What’s the Minimum Effective Dose of Exercise?

5

Thinking About Becoming a Personal Trainer? Your Questions Answered Before You Enrol

6

How to Build a Personal Training Business That Fits Your Life: Esther’s Story

7

What Should a Newly Qualified Personal Trainer Do in Their First 90 Days?

8

You Can’t Out-Exercise a Bad Diet: How PTs Can Explain It Kindly

9

How Positive Coaching Creates Better Results

10

How to Stay Motivated as a Coach When Your Client Isn't

11

Can You Build Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time?

12

How Do Personal Trainers Get Their First Clients WITHOUT Social Media?

13

Why is Progressive Overload Important?

14

When Does Personal Training Stop Feeling Like a Side Hustle?

15

How Fitness Changed My Life, From ADHD to MSc

16

Do Personal Trainers Need Counselling Skills? What Qualifications Actually Help?

17

What If I Try to Be a Personal Trainer and Fail?

18

Is It Ever OK to Refer a Personal Training Client to Another Coach?

19

Weight-Loss Injections, Magic Solution or Dangerous Shortcut?

20

What Most New Personal Trainers Overthink (And What Actually Matters)

21

The Questions Every New Personal Trainer Gets Asked, And How to Answer Them With Confidence

22

Why You’re Overthinking Becoming a Personal Trainer

23

How to Know Whether Personal Training Is the Right Career for You

24

Why Does Social Media Make New Personal Trainers Feel Behind?

25

How do you motivate a client who clearly doesn’t want to be there

26

Why Charging for Personal Training Feels So Awkward (And How to Reframe It)

27

What Do You Do After Qualifying as a Personal Trainer?

28

How Do Personal Trainers Get Their First Clients Without Feeling Salesy?

29

When Do You Start Acting Like a Professional Personal Trainer?

30

Am I Just Moving the Goalposts in My Fitness Career?

31

Do I Need to Be Fit Before Starting a Personal Training Course?

32

How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome as a Personal Trainer

33

7 Principles for a Meaningful and Sustainable Fitness Career in 2026

34

Find Your Why and Transform Your Fitness Career

35

The Iron Age Principles of Old-school Strength

36

Am I Good Enough to Become a Personal Trainer?

37

Hypercholesterolaemia and Exercise: A Practical Guide for Personal Trainers

38

Hyrox: What Fitness Professionals Need to Know

39

Hypertension and Exercise: A Practical Guide for PTs

40

Face-to-Face vs Online Personal Training: Which Is Best for You and Your Clients?

41

How to Build Strong Relationships with Clients and Inspire Long-Term Success

42

How to Help Clients Overcome Barriers to Exercise and Stay Motivated

43

Carbs, Fats, and Protein: How Your Body Uses Fuel for Aerobic and Anaerobic Energy

44

How Autumn Fitness Outdoors Boosts Your Health

45

NHS Guidelines vs. Blue Zones: Lessons for Health and Longevity

46

The Science Behind Speed: How Strength and Conditioning Shapes F1 Drivers

47

The Rule That Makes or Breaks Client Progress

48

Most Popular Episode Ever: The Secret to Boosting Happy Hormones

49

Heart Rate Training Zones: What Every PT Needs to Know

50

Why Storm Fitness Academy Has Been Named One of the Best Personal Trainer Courses in the UK

51

How Does Cardio Training Actually Help Your Clients?

52

The Side Hustle That Pays: How PT training can boost your income — and your career

53

Run It Off: ADHD, Dopamine & Doing the Miles

54

Run for Your Life: Why Running Is the Best Drug

55

Breathwork for PTs: Tools, Focus, and Recovery in Practice (with Kerry Waters)

56

Breathwork – The Superpower of Top Athletes (with Kerry Waters)

57

Supercharge Your Cardio

58

Part Two: From Martial Arts to Muscle, the training approach of Dan Mack

59

Part One: How Dan Mack Turned His Life Around With Fitness

60

Longevity, Breathwork & The Blueprint for Staying Strong at 70

61

From Crisis to Comeback — The Story of Ray Conway

62

Never Do This as an Outdoor PT: Client-Killing Mistakes to Avoid

63

How to Set Up and Run a Successful Outdoor PT Business

64

How to Coach Outdoors with Minimal Kit (And Still Get Amazing Results)

65

Never Do This If You Want More PT Clients (The #1 Sales Mistake)

66

The 3 Biggest Training Mistakes That Are Holding You (and Your Clients) Back

67

How To Make £50k+ (Even In Your First Year)

68

Five Biggest Fears Holding You Back (And How To Overcome Them)

69

How to Train Your Client Like an Athlete (Even if They're Not One)

70

How to Become a Personal Trainer in 2025: Step-by-Step Guide

71

The Best Way to Lose Fat Without Losing Muscle

72

The First Step to a Successful Fitness Business (Most People Get This Wrong!)

73

How to Move Better, Feel Stronger, and Crush Pain with Yanushka Bagiolo

74

The Power of Walking: Unlocking Physical and Mental Wellbeing

75

How to Build Lasting Motivation and Achieve Your Fitness Goals for Life

76

Unlocking Success by Breaking Barriers and Building Healthy Habits

77

Do better people make better trainers, coaches and teachers? With Dave Hall

78

Can exercise really make us happier? With Jon Bond

79

What does a 'Gold Standard Personal Training Service' look like? With Kriss Hendy

80

How Quitting Alcohol Led to a 17kg Transformation in Just 6 Months

81

Embracing the Journey of the Ageing Athlete with Sifu Sim

82

Train Less and Build More Muscle: Natural Bodybuilding with Paul Comer

83

Developing mental fitness in men, the Viking way, with Dan Gainsford

84

Play to your Strengths, Work Hard, Be Authentic and TRUST THE PROCESS with Dave Hall!

85

Chase your dreams and smash every obstacle in your path with Adam Hayes "DJ Wheels"

86

Training, Nutrition, Mindset and Business Q&A with George Horlock and Jon Bond

87

Managing grief, moving forward and finding peace in nature with Jo Meaney

88

Ownership equals empowerment with Ryan French.

89

How to drop body fat and build muscle with coach and bodybuilder Luis Souza

90

Using exercise and positivity to overcome loneliness and improve well-being, with Enzo Manco.

91

If you can't sit still and love human connection, teach group exercise! Jo Meaney

92

Managing your mental health with walking, talking and appreciating nature, with Cathy Servante.

93

Simplifying the fitness industry and wading through the Bulls**t with George Horlock

94

The power of acceptance and authenticity with retired premiership footballer Dean Hammond

95

Overcoming injury and turning set backs into opportunities with Pro footballer Aarran Racine

96

Overcoming anxiety and channeling fear with George Horlock

97

Living an awesome life with Ben Coomber - Part 2

98

Living an awesome life with Ben Coomber - Part 1

99

How to avoid weight gain over Christmas and still have fun!

100

Listening to your gut and going with the flow with George Horlock

101

How to build a successful fitness business with Jon Bond

102

Personal Trainer Q&A with Jon Bond BSc (Hons), MSc, PGCE, QTS

103

How to make the most out of running and live a longer, healthier and happier life, with Jon Bond

104

Improve balance and stability, prevent falls and reduce injuries with Barefoot Training

105

Walking the talk, plant-based muscle building and being your authentic self with George Horlock (George Horlock Coaching)

106

Finding the clients you enjoy talking to and love helping with Kriss Hendy (Strength for Endurance)

107

Follow your passion, turn regrets into lessons, keep learning and find your niche with Alex Butt.

108

How to live a longer, healthier life whilst building Elite level endurance

109

Turn your client into a Hybrid Athlete with 'Hybrid Training'

110

How to make your client hit harder, jump higher and sprint faster with 'Power Training'

111

Get your client super strong and improve their life with 'Absolute strength training'

112

Help your client feel like an Athlete with 'Relative Strength Training'

113

How to build your clients muscle and functional strength with 'Functional Hypertrophy Training'

114

Build lean muscle with 'Hypertrophy Training'

115

Get your client buzzing with 'Muscular endurance training'

116

Build a strong core and total body stability with 'Stabilisation Training'

117

How to use exercise and physical activity to live a longer happier life

118

How to boost client motivation to exercise and achieve their goals

119

The secret to boosting your Happy Hormones

120

Introduction