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 23 - Programming Mistakes 5

Season #1

In this episode, I talk about the misapplication, misuse and misunderstandings of corrective exercises. This will hopefully clear a lot of things up for a lot of people. 
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Episode 22: Programming Mistakes 4

Season #1

In this episode, I talk about the extremely common mistake of letting our own biases into the program design progress. Quite often we let what we think the client needs take over what they actually want. In this...
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Episode 21: Programming Mistakes Part 3

Season #1

Following arbitrary strength standards has made a comeback in the fitness industry. This is a mistake I see a lot of trainers make, where they forget about the client in front of them at the expense of the so called...
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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   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. 
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