ARTICLES · M2 PRODESIGN · LONG BEACH, CA
That's Not a Group Class. That's Capacity.
See two pictures.
First picture: you and one person. One-on-one coaching. You can watch every rep. You can adjust the cue. That client has your full attention.
Most trainers know that picture. A lot of us started there.
Second picture: seven or eight people in the same space, and every one of them is doing something completely different. Not an aerobics class. Not everybody on the same exercise, on the same count. Full on, full speed, moving seven or eight people all at one time.
That second picture is capacity.
People learn faster when they can see it. Talking makes them process and translate. A picture plus a short explanation lands sooner. So I'm going to show you this one idea, then stop. I'm not going to dump 40 years into one post.
A class can look busy. Everybody moves together. Everybody sweats together. That's one skill, and it has its place. This is a different skill.
Each person has their own plan, their own pace, and their own reason for being there. You're not leading a routine. You're coaching several training flows in the same hour.
I've been coaching since 1988. That's nearly 40 years on the floor. The trainers who get stuck here usually aren't short on effort. They can coach one person well. Then they try to grow by adding a class, and the coaching gets thinner. Or they stay one-on-one until the clock becomes the lid on what they can do.
Capacity is the piece in between. Individual coaching, at a larger scale, without watering it down.
One picture. One idea. If you want the next piece after this, we go step by step. There's no shortcut through 40 years of coaching. The only way to get 40 years of experience is to live 40 years of coaching. What I can do is show you the next piece, then the next one.
Mastery is the next level for trainers who already have something going. If you've been coaching about one to five years, NextGen already has a path for that. This is for experienced trainers who already have a training flow in motion and want a clear look at which pieces they have in place.
There's no free lunch. If this picture is the next piece you need, apply first. A few straight questions about how you generate income from coaching now, and which pieces you already have in place. I'll review it myself. Then we have a real talk about what to work on next.
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Emile Jarreau, "Mr. Fat Loss." Expert, not influencer. Founder, M2 ProDesign and M2 NextGen Fitness Pro. Creator of NESTA's Physique and Figure Training Specialist course.
M2 ProDesign coaches in person at Trinity Training Facility, 501 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802, and online.