April 14, 2025 • 15 mins
Gary Ross and David Loman are revolutionizing fitness training in South Charlotte through their private studio, Fit Method CLT. As Regina League discovers during this revealing conversation, their approach transcends traditional personal training by addressing the whole person rather than isolated symptoms.
What makes Fit Method CLT unique is their detective-like process of finding the true causes of pain and movement limitations. "The lower back is the victim," Gary explains when discussing clients with back pain. "What is the actual criminal in this situation?" This philosophy leads them to examine how weak hips or limited upper back mobility might be causing issues elsewhere in the body. As former military and lifelong Charlotte residents, they bring both discipline and community connection to their training approach.
The duo dismisses common fitness myths, particularly the fear many women have about getting "bulky" from strength training. They emphasize how body composition changes often happen without significant weight changes, citing clients who look dramatically different while maintaining similar scale weights. Their accountability system has produced remarkable results, including a client who shed over 80 pounds after pandemic weight gain. "Accountability is one of the biggest limiting factors in people getting results long-term," David notes, explaining how their business model allows coaches to maintain smaller client rosters for more personalized attention.
Ready to experience fitness training that treats you as a whole person rather than a collection of isolated issues? Visit www.fitmethodclt.com, follow @FitMethodCLT on social media, or check out their podcast "The Fit Method Podcast" on all platforms to learn more about their revolutionary approach.
Fit Method CLT
Gary Ross & David Loman
(704) 268-9772
8918 Blakeney Professional Drive Suite 110 Charlotte, NC 28277
navigationfit@gmail.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Regina League.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of
the Good Neighbor Podcast.
I'm here in South Charlotte andmy favorite thing to do is talk
with local business owners, andtoday I have with me two
gentlemen.
This will be my first timetalking with two people at one
time, so keeping my fingerscrossed, Gary Ross have and
(00:31):
David Loman and they are theowners of Fit Method CLT,
located in Blakeney.
Welcome guys.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Good afternoon, thanks for having us Say
everything right.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Perfect, perfect.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, I've seen you guys for years because I live in
the Ballantyne area, so let'sstart out by telling us what you
do and maybe a little bit abouteach of you.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I guess I can go first.
So we have a private trainingstudio.
We train everybody from youngathletes to professional
athletes, to a lot of peoplecoming back from injury.
So a lot of our referralsources are sort of in the
physical therapy and orthopedicsurgery world.
I am a former sergeant in theArmy Infantry, I'm a combat
(01:19):
veteran, and David and I used towork together at a former
facility and decided to startour own company, which is Fit
Method Charlotte.
So I'll let him talk abouthimself a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, Regina was saying before we got on here
that she's lived in Charlottesince the 70s.
I'm a native of Charlotte, so Ilive and breathe this community
.
I'm very passionate aboutcreating a platform for people
to succeed in health andwellness and giving our coaches
a platform to work with clientsat the highest level.
(01:48):
So that was our vision when westarted this company was to give
the best coaches in Charlotte aplatform to succeed on their
own as entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's a very unique approach and I love what I'm
learning so far.
I saw on your website you usethe words cutting edge fitness
application.
What does that mean to you guys?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So in the world of fitness it's always evolving,
and I'll give you an exampleright.
So the brain is reallyimportant to how we move.
We're like, well, how do westay cutting edge?
We brought in the top what wecall the neuro performance coach
in the country.
He knows how to use the brainto access range of motion and
strength and speed.
From Rochester, new York, webrought him down here to do a
(02:33):
seminar with our guys and girlslast summer.
So we try to stay very cuttingedge with our knowledge base,
knowing that it changes overtime.
I mean, workouts in the 70s and80s look quite different than
they do now.
There's still some basics thatwe try to follow, but we try to
stay ahead of the game when itcomes to cutting edge
applications for all of ourdifferent clientele.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So what is the philosophy you guys have?
You definitely had a visionwhen you started this business,
and what is your philosophy?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, I would say, you know, we get asked a lot how
do we differentiate ourselvesbetween what physical therapists
do and what personal trainersdo?
And we take a very holisticapproach to from the very
beginning.
When a client comes in the doorfor that consultation, If
they're coming in with some typeof orthopedic issue, if they go
to a physical therapist, theykind of take a very microscopic
(03:22):
view of that specific joint, andwe take a more holistic view.
We're going to look at everyjoint in the body.
We're going to take a verycomprehensive assessment by a
biomechanical assessment andjust look at the person from
every angle, because we knowthat the body works all together
, kind of like this perfectsymphony or orchestra, and so if
(03:43):
we can find the root cause ofsomething, they're going to feel
more pain.
Gary likes to call it thereverse spiral.
People come in, they startmoving better, they feel better,
versus the people that are inpain they tend to not move more,
so then they get in more painas a downward spiral.
So we're trying to reverse that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So give me an example of what that means when you're
trying to find the root of thecause.
Is this a questionnaire?
Is it equipment that you'reusing?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Great question.
We do it mostly via a movementassessment.
So if someone comes in, forexample, and they have a lot of
knee pain, which is very common,or lower back pain, let's say
they're a golfer.
They're a 55-year-old golferthey have lower back pain.
A lot of times they focus onthe lower back, but a lot of
times it's because their hipsare too weak or too immobile, or
(04:34):
their upper back because we sitall day, we're hunched over and
they don't have good thoracicrotation.
So we want to find okay, it'snot your lower back, the lower
back is the victim.
Regina, what is the actualcriminal in this situation and
how do we solve that?
Through a combination ofstrength, mobility, neural
performance, active stretching.
We try to take a very holisticapproach, like David said, to be
(04:58):
able to address those quoteunquote root causes.
That's so important because ifthey feel good for a couple days
but they don't get the properfeedback and get to feel better
all the time, we haven't doneour job.
So we want to really have lifechanging effects with what we do
here.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So how do you customize a program then?
Let's say, someone comes in andthere's one person that just
really wants to lose weight andanother person is looking for
muscle gain.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, no, a lot of that is identified in that first
consultation.
One of my favorite questions Ilove to ask people when they
first come in is give me a dayin the life.
What does that look like fromthe time you wake up to the time
you go to bed, walking througheverything you eat, everything
that you do, what your workschedule is like?
And then I get to really knowthe person, because the more
(05:47):
information we have, the betterwe can customize that plan for
that individual, versus if theyjust kind of fill out a general
questionnaire.
I don't really know that personvery well, but it also creates
a lot of rapport in thebeginning.
So that creates buy-in andtrust and you can only I feel
(06:08):
like you can only help somebodyas much as their spute of trust
is in the beginning and we canidentify that pretty quickly.
But that's kind of my approach.
Gary and I can take verysimilar approaches with our
assessment, although we kind ofcustomize it to our personality
and temperaments.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So if you're just a person wanting to get fit and
kind of next level fit, are youguys the right place?
There's, let's say, noparticular injury, and I'm not a
professional athlete but I wantto get trained properly.
Is that you guys?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Absolutely, we can do it.
I mean in terms of gettingpeople to their highest level.
We have people who have noorthopedic issues, who are not
professional athletes, who wantto develop more strength, more
speed, more power.
Our coaches, in my opinion, arethe best in town at delivering
on that.
I would ask you, if you said Iwant to get more fit, I would
ask you what you mean by that.
What do you mean by next levelfit?
(07:01):
Regina, and we try to dig indeeper to really get to the root
of what they're looking toaccomplish.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That's fantastic.
Yes, because it means differentthings to different people.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
What is one fitness myth you wish people could let
go of?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh, this is a good one.
I think the one that I tend tosee the most is a it's like a
mental barrier with women isthat they think inherently that
they're going to come in andstart lifting weights and
they're going to get too bulky,and I've never seen it happen.
I will say that there's adifference between gaining
(07:37):
weight on the scale versuschanging their body composition,
and we tend to see that thoseboth happen at the same time.
Because somebody that's neverstrength trained properly and
has never really dialed in theirnutrition on a high level, with
consistent protein throughoutthe day, monitoring their sleep
and their stress management,when you get all those working
(07:57):
together, they're going to see ahuge body compositional change,
but their weight is not goingto fluctuate as much, which is
frustrating because they look atthe scale.
But what we tend to see the mostis their clothes fit
differently.
They start looking different.
They look slimmer, even thoughthey, you know, muscle and fat,
the density is a littledifferent.
(08:17):
So it shows up.
If I've got somebody that's 150pounds, that's, you know, 20,
30% body fat, versus somebodythat's 10%, they look completely
different but they weigh thesame.
So that's kind of that's kindof the thing that I I tend to
see is that that myth is stillfloating around and we can't get
rid of it.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Ultimately, so, without naming names, tell us
one of your favorite bodytransformations of your clients.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'd like to take that one as well.
Okay, sure, I know you have oneup in mind.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well, I've got two, but one in particular is an
individual.
I've worked with him since 2018, and he had this mental barrier
all through COVID and I thinkthis relates to a lot of people
that went through that.
The average during thattwo-year period of additional
(09:08):
weight gain was national averageI think it was about 48, 49
pounds over those two years.
Average American gained thatmuch, and I had a client that
gained more than that.
He got up close to 290, and nowhe just sent me a picture that
he's 212 pounds.
So he's lost well over 80pounds in the last two, two and
(09:29):
a half years, and a lot of thatwas just accountability.
I think I was holding himaccountable weekly and monthly
and we were checking in and hewas so determined.
He's an entrepreneur.
He's worth, you know, well overyou know, we'll just say over a
hundred million dollars.
So he's very successful, verydriven, but for whatever reason,
(09:52):
for those two to three years hejust could not get past that
mental barrier and I that'sthat's all I can put it as is.
You know, he had high level ofaccountability and his family
was supporting him.
Um, his brother, you know, waskind of holding accountable as
well, so I'm not gonna mentionhis name, but that's you know.
Those types of things happenwhen, like, accountability is
(10:15):
one of the biggest things thatwe see is the is the limiting
factor and people gettingresults long-term, because this
is an infinite game of workingout and sustaining health and
fitness.
It's like if you had a car andit's the only one you have your
whole life.
That's the same thing of whatyour body is.
If you have that one car,maintain it and take very good
care of it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
How do you keep people motivated, especially
over a time period like that?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, I mean, it's a combination of touch points.
You got to make sure you'retalking to them often.
We try to create a culture herewhere all of our coaches and
all of our clients know eachother.
It's not group training, wespecialize in one-on-one but
they know each other intimatelyso that they can hold each other
accountable as well.
And then, by building healthyhabits in their lifestyle, even
their families start to holdthem accountable.
(10:59):
Now they can't escape it.
No matter where they go they'rehere, they're traveling,
they're going to the restaurantthey're accountable by somebody.
Someone's holding themaccountable.
So it's a cultural thing thatwe're proud to have created here
, I think.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's pretty cool.
How do you do that?
How do you engage with themwhen they're not right there
with you?
And I guess it's nutrition, asyou said, sleep.
How do you manage that withthem?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
because it's one thing to send someone like a
Microsoft Word or Excelspreadsheet workout like, hey,
regina, go do this.
But if I can see if you'redoing it, which all our coaches
(11:43):
can see now we know, hey, didyou do your workout yesterday?
I didn't see you mark it ascompleted.
Text me what you're having fordinner tonight.
Oh, that doesn't look veryhealthy.
I mean, it looks delicious.
So we try to.
I will say the way our businessmodel is.
Our coaches don't have to takeon as many clients as other
coaches and the benefit of thatis to make a good living.
So the clients they do haveRegina get incredibly good
(12:05):
feedback and they have a lot ofservice because they have less
clients to service.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
basically, and you're treating it sounds like mind,
body, nutrition, everything.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Very much so we think of ourselves as preventative
health care specialists.
Right, If I can get you tosleep better, eat better, move
better.
Now I've gone far beyond, justquote unquote personal training
at that point.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
OK, check, check, check.
I could use all.
All right, I got one question Iwant both of you to answer.
If you could train anyone, deador alive, who would it be?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'm going to go first , then, yeah, you go first.
I had three in mind.
It might be cliche, but I thinkyou know people talk about
Michael Jordan all the time.
I think I would want to trainKobe Bryant.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Tremendous athlete, tremendous competitor.
You know what I mean Justeverything you could ask for.
So I would have had to becreative because he's already
such a high level athlete.
But just all of that to keep aguy like him focused, because
he's so driven.
I think Kobe Bryant, that's theone that gets.
That's as soon as you ask thequestion popped into my head
(13:21):
immediately no hesitation.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Excellent, how about you?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
yeah, the first one that came to mind was tom brady,
just because, uh, he was anobody coming out of college,
yes, and from where he startedto where he ended up in his
career and I've heard multipleinterviews from him I mean he's
just first class and everythingthat he does, um, I would just
like to hear his mindset andlearn more about it, because,
(13:43):
ultimately, what we've learnedcoaching other individuals, uh,
especially high level C suiteexecutives, the one that the
biggest separation in everybodyis their mindset.
And if I could tap into hismindset, I feel like we could
learn more as a company and growmore holistically here in
Charlotte.
Just that winning mindset.
(14:03):
I mean, he's got a legacy ofchampionships.
So that was the first one thatcame to mind.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Wow, love it guys.
All right, well, how can ourlisteners find you guys?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
All right.
Well, how can our listenersfind you guys?
Yeah, so we're on.
We have a podcast as well.
So the Fit Method podcast,which is on all the platforms.
We're also on social media, soFit Method CLT, that's our
Instagram and Facebook, and thenwww.
fitmethodclt.
com.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Excellent.
Well, gary and David, what apleasure You're right here in
the South Charlotte BallantyneBlakeney area.
It's really nice to have metyou both.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's been a pleasure.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for having uson.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Absolutely.
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This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Regina League.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of
the Good Neighbor Podcast.
I'm here in South Charlotte andmy favorite thing to do is talk
with local business owners, andtoday I have with me two
gentlemen.
This will be my first timetalking with two people at one
time, so keeping my fingerscrossed, Gary Ross have and
(00:31):
David Loman and they are theowners of Fit Method CLT,
located in Blakeney.
Welcome guys.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Good afternoon, thanks for having us Say
everything right.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Perfect, perfect.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Well, I've seen you guys for years because I live in
the Ballantyne area, so let'sstart out by telling us what you
do and maybe a little bit abouteach of you.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
I guess I can go first.
So we have a private trainingstudio.
We train everybody from youngathletes to professional
athletes, to a lot of peoplecoming back from injury.
So a lot of our referralsources are sort of in the
physical therapy and orthopedicsurgery world.
I am a former sergeant in theArmy Infantry, I'm a combat
(01:19):
veteran, and David and I used towork together at a former
facility and decided to startour own company, which is Fit
Method Charlotte.
So I'll let him talk abouthimself a little bit.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Well, Regina was saying before we got on here
that she's lived in Charlottesince the 70s.
I'm a native of Charlotte, so Ilive and breathe this community
.
I'm very passionate aboutcreating a platform for people
to succeed in health andwellness and giving our coaches
a platform to work with clientsat the highest level.
(01:48):
So that was our vision when westarted this company was to give
the best coaches in Charlotte aplatform to succeed on their
own as entrepreneurs.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's a very unique approach and I love what I'm
learning so far.
I saw on your website you usethe words cutting edge fitness
application.
What does that mean to you guys?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
So in the world of fitness it's always evolving,
and I'll give you an exampleright.
So the brain is reallyimportant to how we move.
We're like, well, how do westay cutting edge?
We brought in the top what wecall the neuro performance coach
in the country.
He knows how to use the brainto access range of motion and
strength and speed.
From Rochester, new York, webrought him down here to do a
(02:33):
seminar with our guys and girlslast summer.
So we try to stay very cuttingedge with our knowledge base,
knowing that it changes overtime.
I mean, workouts in the 70s and80s look quite different than
they do now.
There's still some basics thatwe try to follow, but we try to
stay ahead of the game when itcomes to cutting edge
applications for all of ourdifferent clientele.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So what is the philosophy you guys have?
You definitely had a visionwhen you started this business,
and what is your philosophy?
Speaker 4 (02:59):
Well, I would say, you know, we get asked a lot how
do we differentiate ourselvesbetween what physical therapists
do and what personal trainersdo?
And we take a very holisticapproach to from the very
beginning.
When a client comes in the doorfor that consultation, If
they're coming in with some typeof orthopedic issue, if they go
to a physical therapist, theykind of take a very microscopic
(03:22):
view of that specific joint, andwe take a more holistic view.
We're going to look at everyjoint in the body.
We're going to take a verycomprehensive assessment by a
biomechanical assessment andjust look at the person from
every angle, because we knowthat the body works all together
, kind of like this perfectsymphony or orchestra, and so if
(03:43):
we can find the root cause ofsomething, they're going to feel
more pain.
Gary likes to call it thereverse spiral.
People come in, they startmoving better, they feel better,
versus the people that are inpain they tend to not move more,
so then they get in more painas a downward spiral.
So we're trying to reverse that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
So give me an example of what that means when you're
trying to find the root of thecause.
Is this a questionnaire?
Is it equipment that you'reusing?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
Great question.
We do it mostly via a movementassessment.
So if someone comes in, forexample, and they have a lot of
knee pain, which is very common,or lower back pain, let's say
they're a golfer.
They're a 55-year-old golferthey have lower back pain.
A lot of times they focus onthe lower back, but a lot of
times it's because their hipsare too weak or too immobile, or
(04:34):
their upper back because we sitall day, we're hunched over and
they don't have good thoracicrotation.
So we want to find okay, it'snot your lower back, the lower
back is the victim.
Regina, what is the actualcriminal in this situation and
how do we solve that?
Through a combination ofstrength, mobility, neural
performance, active stretching.
We try to take a very holisticapproach, like David said, to be
(04:58):
able to address those quoteunquote root causes.
That's so important because ifthey feel good for a couple days
but they don't get the properfeedback and get to feel better
all the time, we haven't doneour job.
So we want to really have lifechanging effects with what we do
here.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
So how do you customize a program then?
Let's say, someone comes in andthere's one person that just
really wants to lose weight andanother person is looking for
muscle gain.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, no, a lot of that is identified in that first
consultation.
One of my favorite questions Ilove to ask people when they
first come in is give me a dayin the life.
What does that look like fromthe time you wake up to the time
you go to bed, walking througheverything you eat, everything
that you do, what your workschedule is like?
And then I get to really knowthe person, because the more
(05:47):
information we have, the betterwe can customize that plan for
that individual, versus if theyjust kind of fill out a general
questionnaire.
I don't really know that personvery well, but it also creates
a lot of rapport in thebeginning.
So that creates buy-in andtrust and you can only I feel
(06:08):
like you can only help somebodyas much as their spute of trust
is in the beginning and we canidentify that pretty quickly.
But that's kind of my approach.
Gary and I can take verysimilar approaches with our
assessment, although we kind ofcustomize it to our personality
and temperaments.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
So if you're just a person wanting to get fit and
kind of next level fit, are youguys the right place?
There's, let's say, noparticular injury, and I'm not a
professional athlete but I wantto get trained properly.
Is that you guys?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Absolutely, we can do it.
I mean in terms of gettingpeople to their highest level.
We have people who have noorthopedic issues, who are not
professional athletes, who wantto develop more strength, more
speed, more power.
Our coaches, in my opinion, arethe best in town at delivering
on that.
I would ask you, if you said Iwant to get more fit, I would
ask you what you mean by that.
What do you mean by next levelfit?
(07:01):
Regina, and we try to dig indeeper to really get to the root
of what they're looking toaccomplish.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
That's fantastic.
Yes, because it means differentthings to different people.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
What is one fitness myth you wish people could let
go of?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Oh, this is a good one.
I think the one that I tend tosee the most is a it's like a
mental barrier with women isthat they think inherently that
they're going to come in andstart lifting weights and
they're going to get too bulky,and I've never seen it happen.
I will say that there's adifference between gaining
(07:37):
weight on the scale versuschanging their body composition,
and we tend to see that thoseboth happen at the same time.
Because somebody that's neverstrength trained properly and
has never really dialed in theirnutrition on a high level, with
consistent protein throughoutthe day, monitoring their sleep
and their stress management,when you get all those working
(07:57):
together, they're going to see ahuge body compositional change,
but their weight is not goingto fluctuate as much, which is
frustrating because they look atthe scale.
But what we tend to see the mostis their clothes fit
differently.
They start looking different.
They look slimmer, even thoughthey, you know, muscle and fat,
the density is a littledifferent.
(08:17):
So it shows up.
If I've got somebody that's 150pounds, that's, you know, 20,
30% body fat, versus somebodythat's 10%, they look completely
different but they weigh thesame.
So that's kind of that's kindof the thing that I I tend to
see is that that myth is stillfloating around and we can't get
rid of it.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Ultimately, so, without naming names, tell us
one of your favorite bodytransformations of your clients.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
I'd like to take that one as well.
Okay, sure, I know you have oneup in mind.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Well, I've got two, but one in particular is an
individual.
I've worked with him since 2018, and he had this mental barrier
all through COVID and I thinkthis relates to a lot of people
that went through that.
The average during thattwo-year period of additional
(09:08):
weight gain was national averageI think it was about 48, 49
pounds over those two years.
Average American gained thatmuch, and I had a client that
gained more than that.
He got up close to 290, and nowhe just sent me a picture that
he's 212 pounds.
So he's lost well over 80pounds in the last two, two and
(09:29):
a half years, and a lot of thatwas just accountability.
I think I was holding himaccountable weekly and monthly
and we were checking in and hewas so determined.
He's an entrepreneur.
He's worth, you know, well overyou know, we'll just say over a
hundred million dollars.
So he's very successful, verydriven, but for whatever reason,
(09:52):
for those two to three years hejust could not get past that
mental barrier and I that'sthat's all I can put it as is.
You know, he had high level ofaccountability and his family
was supporting him.
Um, his brother, you know, waskind of holding accountable as
well, so I'm not gonna mentionhis name, but that's you know.
Those types of things happenwhen, like, accountability is
(10:15):
one of the biggest things thatwe see is the is the limiting
factor and people gettingresults long-term, because this
is an infinite game of workingout and sustaining health and
fitness.
It's like if you had a car andit's the only one you have your
whole life.
That's the same thing of whatyour body is.
If you have that one car,maintain it and take very good
care of it.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
How do you keep people motivated, especially
over a time period like that?
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, I mean, it's a combination of touch points.
You got to make sure you'retalking to them often.
We try to create a culture herewhere all of our coaches and
all of our clients know eachother.
It's not group training, wespecialize in one-on-one but
they know each other intimatelyso that they can hold each other
accountable as well.
And then, by building healthyhabits in their lifestyle, even
their families start to holdthem accountable.
(10:59):
Now they can't escape it.
No matter where they go they'rehere, they're traveling,
they're going to the restaurantthey're accountable by somebody.
Someone's holding themaccountable.
So it's a cultural thing thatwe're proud to have created here
, I think.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's pretty cool.
How do you do that?
How do you engage with themwhen they're not right there
with you?
And I guess it's nutrition, asyou said, sleep.
How do you manage that withthem?
Speaker 3 (11:22):
because it's one thing to send someone like a
Microsoft Word or Excelspreadsheet workout like, hey,
regina, go do this.
But if I can see if you'redoing it, which all our coaches
(11:43):
can see now we know, hey, didyou do your workout yesterday?
I didn't see you mark it ascompleted.
Text me what you're having fordinner tonight.
Oh, that doesn't look veryhealthy.
I mean, it looks delicious.
So we try to.
I will say the way our businessmodel is.
Our coaches don't have to takeon as many clients as other
coaches and the benefit of thatis to make a good living.
So the clients they do haveRegina get incredibly good
(12:05):
feedback and they have a lot ofservice because they have less
clients to service.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
basically, and you're treating it sounds like mind,
body, nutrition, everything.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Very much so we think of ourselves as preventative
health care specialists.
Right, If I can get you tosleep better, eat better, move
better.
Now I've gone far beyond, justquote unquote personal training
at that point.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
OK, check, check, check.
I could use all.
All right, I got one question Iwant both of you to answer.
If you could train anyone, deador alive, who would it be?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'm going to go first , then, yeah, you go first.
I had three in mind.
It might be cliche, but I thinkyou know people talk about
Michael Jordan all the time.
I think I would want to trainKobe Bryant.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Oh, wow.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Tremendous athlete, tremendous competitor.
You know what I mean Justeverything you could ask for.
So I would have had to becreative because he's already
such a high level athlete.
But just all of that to keep aguy like him focused, because
he's so driven.
I think Kobe Bryant, that's theone that gets.
That's as soon as you ask thequestion popped into my head
(13:21):
immediately no hesitation.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Excellent, how about you?
Speaker 4 (13:22):
yeah, the first one that came to mind was tom brady,
just because, uh, he was anobody coming out of college,
yes, and from where he startedto where he ended up in his
career and I've heard multipleinterviews from him I mean he's
just first class and everythingthat he does, um, I would just
like to hear his mindset andlearn more about it, because,
(13:43):
ultimately, what we've learnedcoaching other individuals, uh,
especially high level C suiteexecutives, the one that the
biggest separation in everybodyis their mindset.
And if I could tap into hismindset, I feel like we could
learn more as a company and growmore holistically here in
Charlotte.
Just that winning mindset.
(14:03):
I mean, he's got a legacy ofchampionships.
So that was the first one thatcame to mind.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Wow, love it guys.
All right, well, how can ourlisteners find you guys?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
All right.
Well, how can our listenersfind you guys?
Yeah, so we're on.
We have a podcast as well.
So the Fit Method podcast,which is on all the platforms.
We're also on social media, soFit Method CLT, that's our
Instagram and Facebook, and thenwww.
fitmethodclt.
com.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Excellent.
Well, gary and David, what apleasure You're right here in
the South Charlotte BallantyneBlakeney area.
It's really nice to have metyou both.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
It's been a pleasure.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for having uson.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Thank you for listening to the Good Neighbor
Podcast.
To nominate your favorite localbusinesses to be featured on
the show, go toGNPSouthCharlotte.
com.
That's GNPSouthCharlotte.
com, or call 980-351-5719.
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