HeyJaredTHIRST For More Podcast
The THIRST For More Podcast is designed to help provide insight and knowledge for the strength and conditioning, sports performance, personal training, online training, gym ownership, and health and fitness professionals.Host, Brandon Smitley, reaches out to various…
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E 87 | How to Build Long-Term Client Relationships (opens the original)
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Episode Summary Everyone teaches you how to GET clients. Almost no one teaches you how to KEEP them, and keeping them is where the whole business lives. In this solo episode, Brandon makes the case that most coaches don't have a lead problem, they have a retention problem, and that retention isn't a marketing tactic -- it's the coaching relationship itself. Drawing on the working alliance, the coach-athlete relationship model, and self-determination theory (and staying honest about what the rese
E 86 | The Psychology of Peak Athletic Performance (opens the original)
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Episode Summary "Mental toughness" gets treated like a trait you are born with. It is not - it is a set of trainable attention skills, and a lot of what coaches do to toughen athletes up is exactly what makes them choke. This episode breaks down the psychology of peak performance for coaches: why an external focus of attention beats an internal one on skills your athletes already own, the two mechanisms behind choking, and the four mental skills with real evidence behind them - self-talk, imager
E 85 | Mobility vs. Flexibility: What's the Difference and Which One Matters? (opens the original)
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Episode Summary The bendiest person in your gym is not automatically the most resilient or the most athletic. That should tell you something. In this episode we separate two words the fitness industry treats as the same: mobility and flexibility. Flexibility is passive range - the ability of tissue to lengthen. Mobility is usable range - what you can actively control under load and speed. One is an ingredient. The other is the outcome that actually matters for performance and staying healthy. We
E 84 | Burnout in Fitness: Recognition, Prevention, and Recovery for Coaches (opens the original)
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Episode Summary You are not lazy and you are not weak. You might be burned out - and in the fitness industry, burnout is far more predictable than anyone admits. In this episode of THIRST For More, we break down what burnout actually is (beyond just feeling tired), how to recognize it in yourself and in your athletes, how it differs from overtraining, and what the research really says about preventing it - including the parts the gurus oversell. This is an evidence-based, practitioner-first brea
E 83 | Which Personal Training and Strength & Conditioning Certification Should You Get? (opens the original)
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Episode Summary Certifications: Which Ones Actually Matter? There are dozens of certifications you can buy in this industry, and almost nobody explains which ones actually matter. In this episode we cut through the alphabet soup of personal training and strength and conditioning credentials and give you a framework for deciding where to spend your money and your time. We cover the one filter that matters more than any brand name (accreditation), the difference between being certified and being a
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