The Show Up Fitness Podcast
Join Chris Hitchko, author of 'How to Become A Successful Personal Trainer' VOL 2 and CEO of Show Up Fitness as he guides personal trainers towards success.
90% of personal trainers quit within 12-months in the USA, 18-months in the UK, Show Up Fitness is helping change those statistics. The Show Up Fitness CPT is one of the fastest growing PT certifications in the world with partnerships with over 500-gyms including Life Time Fitness, Equinox, Genesis, EoS, and numerous other elite partnerships.
This podcast focuses on refining trade, business, and people skills to help trainers excel in the fitness industry. Discover effective client programming, revenue generation, medical professional networking, and elite assessment strategies.
Learn how to become a successful Show Up Fitness CPT at www.showupfitness.com. Send your questions to Chris on Instagram @showupfitness or via email at info@showupfitness.com."
Episodes
413 episodes
Pain Science - Biopsychosocial Model of Pain
Pain can make smart people do weird things: avoid a squat they used to own, chase random mobility drills, or assume an MRI finding is the whole story. We want to cut through that noise with a coaching-first, pain science grounded framework that...
Does CORTISOL make you fat? The Cortisol Myth: Stress, Fat Gain & What Actually Matters
Cortisol gets treated like the boogeyman of modern fitness: the stress hormone that supposedly wrecks your gut, destroys your sleep, and plants belly fat no matter what you do. We’re not buying the oversimplified story. We walk through real-wor...
Master LOWER BODY Anatomy: The 20 Muscles Every Personal Trainer Should Know
Programming gets easier the moment the lower body stops feeling like a blur of Latin words. We walk you through the exact muscle groups you need for the SUF CPT and make them stick with clear landmarks, real coaching cues, and a few memory tric...
Ep. 410 How to get hired at LIFE TIME 2026/27 PRACTICAL INTERVIEW w/ Show Up Fitness
More trainers have been hired and clear over $10,000/ month at life time with their SUF CPT than any other company. Most trainers walk into a practical interview thinking they’re being graded on exercise selection. What actually get...
Why We're Fat Part 5 - SLEEP | Become A Nutrition Coach SUF NC
Become a nutrition coach with SUF-NC. Weekly live calls with nutrition experts and RD's. If you’re trying to lose weight, get leaner, or just stop dragging through your afternoons, there’s a good chance the real bottleneck isn’t you...
Master Shoulder Anatomy: The 17 Muscles Every Personal Trainer Should Know
If you have ever hesitated when a client asks, “What muscle is that supposed to work?”, this shoulder anatomy breakdown is for you. We make the case that the most important skill for becoming a qualified personal trainer is mastering anatomy, b...
How to Pass the NASM CPT Exam 2026/27 | COMPLETE 7th Edition Study Guide & Prep
Pass NASM w/ SUF Study Guide $75 showupfitness.comGuarantee to pass NASM showupfitness.com which includes passing in 7-14 days, $500 worth of nasm material including tutoring AND either a SUF certification or hands on learning seminar.
How to Sell More Personal Training | Life Time Trainer Sean Hyson
Want to get hired at Life Time fitness and become a successful personal trainer? SUF CPT is the best personal training certification for trainers who want to create a career. Sean Hyson was hired with his SUF CPT in Austin at Life Time. He had ...
Anterior Shoulder Pain? Shoulder Screens & Soft Tissue Mobilizations
SUF-STM LIVE calls helping trainers level up their business and mentorship.Shoulder discomfort can turn a confident lifter into someone who dreads incline day, and the worst part is how often the “fix” starts with a guess and ends with a...
Chronic Tendon Pain: Why Load Beats Rest | Dr. Rob DPT New Jersey Spectrum Therapeutics
Read the article here on Showupfitness.com: https://www.showupfitness.com/blogs/blog/chronic-tendon-pain-why-load-beats-rest-and-what-shockwave-actually-doesThat nagging Achilles that “felt better with rest” and then flared the second yo...
How to Sell Personal Training | Equinox LIVE Sales Role Play
A sales sheet won’t save a shaky consult, but a confident coach can. We’re live at Equinox running a real-time role-play with West, right after a hard chest session, to show what personal training sales actually looks like when the client is ex...
Low Back Pain w QL Release LIVE hands on learning seminar NASHVILLE
Hands on learning workshop with SUF x Life Time Fitness partnership. How to train a client who has low back pain? The best hands on learning workshop / seminars for personal trainers. Show Up Fitness Low Body seminarLow back pain is ever...
Why Incline Barbell is harder than Bench
Incline bench press has a way of making strong lifters feel brand new under the bar. If you’ve ever wondered why your flat bench numbers don’t carry over, we walk through the real mechanics that make incline pressing so challenging and so valua...
Ep. 400 Navigating Low Back Pain In Training w/ Dr. Q & Dr. Katie
Location: Austin C4 / Nutrabolt. Time 8-4https://www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating-low-back-pain-in-training-with-katie-dabrowski-and-q-willey-tickets-1996909407794CODE: SHOWUPFITNESS $50 offDoc Q IG: Coach_Q_Physio & Doc...
Quadratus Lumborum (QL) Soft Tissue Release (SUF STM)
Show Up Fitness hands on learning seminar at Life Time in Franklin Tennessee. If you want to become a successful personal trainer, find personal training certifications and specializations like SUF STM to make you an elite personal trainer. Nex...
Why FAT LOSS is so confusing PART 4 HORMONES & STRESS | Become A Nutrition Coach
Blaming hormones is comforting because it gives us a villain and a shortcut. We go the other direction and build the real foundation: calories in versus calories out, plus the three forces that quietly drive the whole system, stress, sleep, and...
Are textbook personal training certifications worth it?
Passing a personal trainer certification feels like you’ve earned the keys to the gym, until a real client shows up with knee pain, shoulder history, and questions you can’t answer with a multiple-choice memory dump. We talk honestly about whet...
How to train a 68-yr old hiker
Your client doesn’t need to feel wrecked to get ready for the trail. We walk through a real program design for a 68-year-old retired client who trains three days per week and does Pilates, with a primary goal of lower body strength and enduranc...
Nutrition Coaching Assessment Form | Become A Nutrition Coach SUF NC
Become a successful nutrition coach making 30k+ annually: https://www.showupfitness.com/products/suf-nutrition-courseMost people think “nutrition coaching” means macros and a food list. We don’t. We talk through what it looks like when a...
How to Train A 98-Year-Old PT client
A 98-year-old walks into your gym. Do you panic and reach for a stability ball, or do you coach what actually keeps them independent?We take you inside a real coaching moment from our Show Up Fitness class and lay out how we think about...
Knee Pain? TKE (terminal knee extension) & Dorsiflexion screens
Knee pain that lingers at a low hum can be maddening, especially for runners who feel “mostly fine” until mileage adds up. We walk through a simple, trainer friendly screen for terminal knee extension (TKE) that takes minutes and often exposes ...
Shoulder Pain? Thoracic, Humeral Flexion screens & STM
Shoulder discomfort can be maddening because it often shows up during perfectly normal training. We take a different route: we start with quick safety screens to rule out red flags, then we hunt for the real limiter that keeps stealing motion f...
Is AI Making Personal Trainers Dumber?
AI is turning everyday work into a shortcut button, and that’s exactly why we’re asking a risky question: is AI making us dumb, or is it exposing who never built real skill in the first place? We break this down through the Dunning-Kruger effec...
Tight Calves with Running? Try This
Calf pain that hits one mile into a run feels like betrayal, but it’s often your body giving you useful data. We dig into what running really demands from your lower leg, why the soleus and gastrocnemius take such a beating, and how a sudden sp...