High Intensity Business

High Intensity Business

High Intensity Business is a high intensity strength training and strength training business podcast offering content to help you realise your health goals, become a great personal trainer, and build a successful HIT business. Content includes training protocols, workouts, exercise science, nutrition, and biohacking. From a HIT business perspective, we cover personal training, coaching, startup, sales, marketing, operations, systems, hiring, scaling, etc. Guests include Dr Doug McGuff, Drew Baye, Skyler Tanner, Patty Durell, Walter Vendel, Fred Hahn, James Fisher PhD, James Steele PhD, Luke Carlson, Adam Zickerman, Kyle Recchia, Adrian Antigua, Bill Crawford, Joe Cirulli, Dorian Yates, Simon Melov PhD, Roger Schwab, Simon Shawcross, and many more.

Episodes

May 21, 2025 49 mins
What do you need to do to make your strength training business stand out and attract clients effectively without spending a fortune on advertising?
 
Fitness and More owner Steve McKinney joins the podcast to talk about his incredibly efficient strength training AND client closing methods, how his business is thriving with almost zero advertising, and why he wrote his new book The Gospel of Fitness (and w...
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Can you create a strength training studio so successful that clients call you the “Ritz-Carlton” of high-intensity training?
 
X-Force Body co-founder Illy Stoilova joins the podcast to talk about the advantages of X-Force machines, how she creates incredible client experiences, why she’s so rigorous when it comes to hiring trainers, and how she’s doing on her ultimate goal of becoming a referral-only HIT...
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Want the honest-to-goodness A-Z of starting a successful, profitable strength training business?
 
Learn the 4 biggest keys to starting, operating, and growing your own strength training business fast — Million-Dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua tells you everything you need to know to get started and be legitimately profitable within 30 days.
 
This episode goes over the high-level th...
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Want to start a new studio but aren’t sure which HIT equipment brands to go with? Million-dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua takes you on a deep dive into which HIT machine brands to consider, how to modify them (and why), and how to get the best deals.
 
Pete goes into the specifics of how your HIT brand and machine choices can affect your client consultations and workouts, and we nerd out on the details and the...
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What does it take to completely turn your life around and become a super successful strength studio owner?
 
I’m excited to have Paradox Strength founder Janaya Skye on the podcast, and you’ll soon find out why: we talk about her amazing story, how she fell in love with high-intensity training, and how it not only helped her get her health back but put her on a path to incredible personal and professional...
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Want to know how to get that one big news article about your strength training business that can bring in tens of thousands of dollars worth of clients and sessions? 
 
The Strength Shoppe’s owners Melinda Hughes and Arjen Van Eijmeren sit down to talk about how you can cultivate that one big break into tens of thousands of dollars and even more news coverage that can help you grow your fitness business l...
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Have you ever wondered which are the four best strength training machines for starting your first strength studio? And not just any 4 machines — but the most bang-for-your-buckmake-your-clients-love-you-and-make-you-profitable-fast machines?
 
Million-Dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua returns to walk you through everything you’ll need to start a new strength studio successfully: your first set of machines, you...
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What’s it like to go from just owning 2 strength studios to growing a worldwide business with over 200 outlets and counting?
 
In this episode, I finally get to sit down and talk with The Exercise Coach and Exerbiotics CEO/Founder Brian Cygan, and we go over his fitness business journey and the lessons he’s learned when it comes to highly successful strength studios and another company that supplies...
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Personal Trainers and Strength Studio owners: are you making the most out of the money you’re earning in your fitness business so you can earn in your sleep and not worry about going bankrupt if you’re unexpectedly forced to miss a few weeks of work?
 
Million-dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua explains the right way to manage your financials so you can earn more money faster, minimize risks and avoid busin...
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Have you been looking into boosting your strength training client’s results using advanced training techniques and come across lengthened partials as a possible approach to bust out of plateaus? 
 
Dr. James Steele returns to the podc...
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How can you run and grow a successful strength training business without burning out and losing your personal freedom? 
 
Strength Trainer and Business Coach Dave Bess returns to the podcast to teach you how to structure your time so you can get the most important things done and have more time for yourself and your family so you can grow your fitness business in a way that doesn’t overwhelm everything el...
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How can you tell if your customer service is great (and if it’s not, how can you make it great)? 
 
The best way to know that is if you can get up to 20 client sessions a week in 30 days, and million-dollar trainer Pete Cerqua walks you through exactly how to do that in this must-watch episode. 
 
Pete is a legendary strength trainer, bestselling author of books like The 90-Sec...
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What does it take to develop your HIT studio’s trainers into great ones?
 
Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson walks you through the exact steps you need to take with each of your trainers to make sure that they are putting your HIT clients through the best possible strength training experience.
 
If you want to develop the best possible strength trainers for your HIT studio, tune in ...
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If your HIT studio hasn’t gotten an award yet, what’s stopping you?
 
Simply Strong’s Ed Collins and Katie DeRego explain just how powerful getting awards for your HIT business can be and how you can get them.
 
If you want to tap into the power of aiming for and becoming an award-winning strength studio, this episode is for you.
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If you had the money to start your HIT studio right now, do you know the exact steps to make sure it becomes sustainable and successful fast
 
Million-dollar Trainer Pete Cerqua returns to talk about the exact steps you can take to build out your new HIT studio and get sessions as quickly as possible. 
 
We talk about where to get capital, managing your budget, high-impact marketin...
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How big of an impact can the equipment you choose have on your HIT Business?
 
Imagine Strength’s Jeff Turner returns to talk about why your HIT studio equipment should help you to become as profitable as possible while helping you gi...
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What can you learn after 11 years and 500 episodes of listening to world-class strength trainers, exercise scientists, and HIT Business experts?
 
In this milestone episode, Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson turns the tables on Lawrence Neal (me!) and we talk about the most high-impact things you can do as a fitness business owner, as a strength trainer, and as a family man trying to find a healthy work-...
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What really is the ultimate HIT protocol for optimal hypertrophy and maximizing your genetic potential for building strength and muscle mass? 
 
In this episode, SuperSlow Master Dagoberto Vila and Exercise Scientist Dr. James Fisher debate on whether SuperSlow or higher-volume HIT can help you get the ultimate gains — and what you can take away from either approach. 
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How can you design HIT workouts into client experiences so great that you’ll never lose a client, even when they get injured? 
 
Discover Strength CEO Luke Carlson returns to take you step-by-step on the high-level process of building a bulletproof HIT workout that not only stops you from losing clients (which is easier than you think!) and give them an experience that primes them to give you high-quality...
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What if you could design a HIT workout and client experience so good that they’ll want to refer endless clients to you?
 
Master Strength Trainer and former competitive natural bodybuilder Lou Abato joins the podcast to talk about what it’s like to stand out and outcompete other big city gyms with zero advertising.
 
Lou is the CEO of the Ultimate Training Center in Madison Avenue, N...
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