LTB Podcast

LTB Podcast

The Lift the Bar Podcast is a place where personal trainers can gain education, insight and knowledge from other personal trainers. It's aim is to provide personal trainers with the know-how and inspiration to build the kind of career they want to build. Every week the show will feature interviews with fantastic guests who are at the top of their game in different areas specific to helping personal trainers.

Episodes

November 27, 2025 46 mins

Claire and Maggie discussed the concept of self-sabotage, challenging its scientific validity as well as ways personal trainers can approach clients who may be exhibiting maladaptive / sabotage like behaviors. 

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Chris chats to Zac Fennell, owner of BA1 Hair about the importance of looking after your customers, creating a brilliant team and much more.

 

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Claire and Maggie chat about the role of goals and working with clients who don't have something that fits in a nice structure.

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Jake talks to Sally about the world of Online Coaching and what Personal Trainers should consider having ready in the early stages of building their Online Coaching service. 
 

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Claire chats to Maggie and Jake about how we can be confident in our knowledge and ways to verify our beliefs, or those stated by others, so that we know how to support our clients and aren't adding to the misinformation out in the world. 

 

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Katie first stepped into the gym as Maggie's PT client and now she's one of the trainers who works alongside her. In this episode, Katie shares how her relationship with fitness has evolved: from her first goals, to discovering a love for kettlebells, to unexpectedly finding herself on a whole new career path. It's an honest conversation about growth, confidence, and becoming an 'accidental PT'.

 

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    Charlie speaks about his experience starting out in the exercise industry before finding himself working with more corporate clients. He introduces some great ideas about how personal trainers could begin to look at other businesses to improve their own.

     

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    In this episode Maggie and Claire chat about confidence.  It's a topic that comes up a lot and something we have helped a lot of trainers with over the years.  Whilst it's incredibly common and normal to have doubts it's also something that we tend to hide, so when it strikes it can leave you feeling like you're the only pt who's feeling like this and that is definitely not the case. 

     

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    Claire chats to Kayleigh Young about her journey from casual gym goer to PT, enthusiastic runner and run coach.

     

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    Jake talks with Emma about her journey from leaving the corporate world, entering the fitness industry and how she went from running bootcamps in her back garden to running 2 gyms with over 400 members. 
     

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    Claire chats to Liv and Ellen, head instructors at Elite Ladies Dance about building a dance based business.

     

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    Chris chats to gym owner / personal trainer / Bath City football player Joe Raynes about his many roles both within and outside the fitness industry.

     

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    In this episode of the Lift The Bar Podcast, Maggie chats with Chris, a self-taught jump rope coach who's built a thriving, values-driven business from the ground up. From coaching in schools across the UK to launching his own app and designing eco-conscious ropes, Chris is on a mission to make 

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    Jake and Chris talk about what bringing fun to training really means and how personal trainers might think about the experience they deliver to clients, helping them to improve their client experience, retention rates and the enjoyment they have in being a trainer. 

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    In today's podcast Jake hosts Shannon Groves of Insync. They discuss what made her take 12 clients to North Africa in an attempt to climb Mount Toubkal. Covering went into the logistics of how to sort such a trip and how it has benefitted her clients and business.

     

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    This episode features Kat Schneider from the Centre for Appearance Research (UWE), sharing her journey from fitness professional to academic researcher. Together, we unpack body image, weight stigma, and weight bias—focusing on their impact in sport and exercise settings. We explore the persistent challenges in the health and fitness industry, the importance of challenging weight bias, and practical ways personal trainers can creat...

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    Jake talks to Maggie about all things Mental Health, from getting into further studies to understand it better and how movement can positively affect people.

     

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    Claire and Maggie chat about how appearance based language can cause issues whether it's in marketing or within a PT session or class setting.

     

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    Claire chats to LTB member and mentor Sally Eccles about her various roles within the fitness industry and how she has navigated a number of changes in the type of facility she works in and a move to a different part of the country.

     

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    Maggie and Claire chat about the use of shame in lead generation and motivating clients in this podcast.

     

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