At Varsity House Gym, there have been three major contributing factors in continuing to stay above water and keep our team engaged in daily progress.

I recall heading into this year like a proverbial bull in a china shop. I was prepared for a fantastic and productive 2020. It was a sound plan until it was not. So, now what?

Did we create this madness?

Why do you really do it? Let’s try to define your true motivation.

If you're a new business owner, learn BUSINESS so you can keep your hard-earned money in your pocket.

Start with the big movement and work on it with maximum focus. Incorporate assistance work to bring up your weakest links. Do a lot of reps at the most important scenarios in your business.

There are a lot of different leadership qualities that lend themselves to different times and situations. Every leader is different, and there isn't one perfect personality or leadership type. At this time, however, I think there is one leadership quality that is needed most.

From everything we could tell, year two was going to be a great year of advancement, and what we had hoped to be a start to an end of our full-time jobs. But then, life happened: COVID-19, cancer, closure, and more.

It all comes down to three rules. These three pretty much cover everything, and they can be applied anywhere in life: Education, work, family, anything...

Follow this clear plan to reopen your business—whether you're able to do that in a week or six months.

Your kids, spouse, coworkers, and the crappy weather, are not the reasons you are 30 pounds overweight and hate your job. Go ahead and reread the title of this article.

I challenge you to think of this economic shutdown as a forced deload. Is it something that you want? No. Will it completely crush you? Probably not.

The next few months are going to be incredibly difficult for the vast majority of online trainers. Consider me Dr. Phil for a minute as I provide four things that you can do to not find your dumbass in an anxiety-riddled situation when or if something like this happens in the future.

For my wife Julia and me, strength for the general population is the area that we felt we could help and influence the most. The following is a list of helpful points that has aided us in providing successful seminars to our attendees.

In this part, you'll understand how you can start a private or home gym of your own — on a budget. It's not as expensive as you might think.

Believe it or not, it took less than $20,000 to get my gym, THIRST, up and running. It's a little over a year old now, and it's still going strong. Point is, you don't have to be a millionaire to start up your own gym. Here's how I did it with THIRST.

Mature owners understand that what they're really selling is results. Therefore, selling an exercising-only plan is 50 percent of the equation (an incomplete offering). Here's how to add the nutrition component you're missing.

Though the method of promotion or exposure has changed dramatically, there are still things that have remained constant to be successful as an online trainer.

Maybe instead of flipping off the haters, you should be thanking them instead. If anything, the haters are just bringing more people your way!

How can you bulk up your gym's profits during the holiday season? These 5 steps will help your gym get those financial gains.

I found that I was even able to take something away from the women's only seminar, and these takeaways helped me in my coaching abilities and some made me ponder more on the female experience and perspective in a male-dominated area. I also got to interview three NCAA female student-athletes.

You write programs for your athletes, but have you programmed anything for your business? Think about GPP for your clients and then create a GPP program for your gym.

I first met Bedros Keuilian when our mutual friend Jay Ferruggia introduced us. From there, I worked with him on his online coaching program, which eventually led me to working with him in his elite coaching program for the last three years... and now, he's a guest on my podcast.

I thought the problem was just economics: that coaches could only make an hourly wage, but owners make profits. But that wasn't the real problem. The real problem was that I could have made more, but I didn’t know how. And my boss didn’t know how, either.