The Complete Personal Trainer Podcast

The Complete Personal Trainer Podcast

Hosted by: Paul Meldrum

Do you want to become the ultimate fitness professional? In this podcast, former Australian Personal Trainer of the Year Paul Meldrum helps you understand how to succeed as a personal trainer. With weekly series,...

Episodes

Episode 20: Programming Mistakes Part 2

Season #1

In this episode I discuss the next most common programming mistake that many coaches aren't aware of - matching the strategy of progressive overload to the clients nutritional status and current lifestyle.
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Episode 19: Programming Mistakes Part 1

Season #1

I've been writing programs for 17 years now. In that time, I have made nearly every mistake you can think of. In this series, I go over the most common mistakes I see and how you can avoid them in your own personal...
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Episode 18: Don't Nocebo Your Clients

Season #1

The placebo effect is powerful. The nocebo effect - maybe more so. In this episode I talk about how our communication can negatively impact our clients into thinking they have things wrong with them that they...
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Episode 17: How to communicate that you don't know

Season #1

One of the hardest things as a coach is admitting we don't know something and communication that to our clients. In this episode, I go over exactly how to do that!
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Episode 16: Improve your Communication By Recognising Cognitive Biases

Season #1

We all have our own cognitive biases and these can often be a direct detriment to our ability to successfully communicate with our clients. In this episode I discuss the Confirmation Bias and the Selection Bias.
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Episode 15: Stop Trying To Impress Your Clients

Season #1

I see a lot of trainers trying to impress their clients with how smart they are. In this episode, I discuss the downsides of this approach and a better way to go about it.
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Episode 14: The Fixer Narrative

Season #1

In this episode, I discuss the "Fixer" narrative. I see this all over social media, where people claim they can fix others problems. In the podcast, I discuss why this is a disempowering approach and a better way to...
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Episode 13: Communicating With Your Clients

Season #1

Communicating to Our Clients Ā  How we speak to our clients is incredibly important. I see a lot of trainers who do great work setting themselves backwards with how they communicate with their clients. Here...
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Episode 12: The Multiple Applications of our Tools Part 3

Season #1

Mixed modality tools are the ones we dont know where to put in a program. In this episode I go over what goals best suit kettlebells, Swiss and medicine balls, theTRX and the lauded gymnastics rings.Ā 
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Episode 11: The Multiple Applications of our Tools Part 2

Season #1

In this episode, I discuss how strength training can be used to achieve the following:Ā Health, joint capacity, power, hypertrophy, nervous system stimulation, sports performance and more.Ā 
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Episode 10: The Multiple Applications of our Tools Part 1

Season #1

In this series, I discuss how each tool can be used to achieve multiple goals - cardio for heart health, energy expenditure, metabolic flexibility, parasympathetic recovery and more - You will learn how too apply this...
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Episode 9: My Journey in Understanding and Disseminating Information Part 3

Season #1

In this episode, I talk about how I now look at information and give practical takeaways on how you can improve your ability to learn and integrate new information into your personal training business.
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