The PFCA & Gym Owner Network Podcast
The Podcast from the PFCA & Gym Owner Network where we plan to educate & inspire fitness professionals around the world.
Our overarching mission is twofold: to elevate the status, respect and long-term career of the fitness coach and help gym owners increase profitability, build high-performing teams and perfect their coaching product through expert guidance and accountability.
Tune in for insightful discussions that will transform your career.
Episodes
57 episodes
Rachel Faulkner: From Engineer to Coaching Excellence
There's something for everyone in this episode; from the career change coach, to the coach pursuing coaching mastery, to those looking to understand and be inspired by what it takes to be a MARCHON Coach. Rach is not only a fantastic coaching m...
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58:39
Episode 3 - The Gaffa
In my conversation with Alex, we get to look at the world through his lens – where we dig into the difference in challenge between Coaching and Leading, how he upholds the MARCHON values of "The Team is Everything" and "White Belt Mentality" at...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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48:20
Becoming Charlie Marchon
Today I had the pleasure of sitting down with Chad. Many of you know him as the head of MARCHON Training – a top coach, and the producer of some quality content. But what sits behind everything you see on the surface? That was the aim of our co...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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50:37
Allow us to Re-Introduce ourselves
Formally this Podcast by The PFCA and Gym Owner Network hosted by Jenz Robinson and Craig Massey. Over the last 2 years we have had to focus our attention elsewhere, now, it is time for us to bring this back to life but in our style, better, fo...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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27:10
Who is Matt Connolly?
Join us for an intriguing conversation with Matt Connolly. An industry OG who has grown and scaled multiple Fitness Businesses and is an integral part of the MARCHON, PFCA and GON Team We uncover stories through his time in the pol...
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55:21
From Garage Gym to Market Leader - CMAC
This is a stroy of transformation like no other. From insecure imposter syndrome type characteristics to chasing his dreams and becoming one of the best owner operators in Scotland. Colin aka CMAC is testament to the entire ecosyst...
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32:20
The Courage to Build Something They are Proud of - Tom & Chloe Raw Gym
This episode left Jenzo a little emotional. Join on this inspiring story as Tom and Chloe share their story tuning their business around from cheap, large group indoor bootcamp to a high-end personal training facility. They share t...
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31:59
From bootcamp to multi-site premium facilities
Join Jenz as he interviews Tom Jarret, Owner of Brigade in Kent. Tom joined the Gym Owner Network with the view to maximise his facility, grow as a leader and open up site number 2. Find out how we navigated all those challenges and helped him ...
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49:06
S2, Ep 8: Principles of Nutrition with Liam Holmes
With 'Nutrition' being such a massive topic, this conversation will definitely be a 'Part 1'.On this call Liam and Mass chat through Liam's career, our scope of practice in nutrition in the fitness space, and the high level principles o...
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57:45
S2, Ep 7: The Coach's Apprenticeship
We circle back – This episode is a re-share from last season. On the back of many enquiries over the last little while relating to this subject, it makes sense to bring this one out of the archives.I talk about the full career of the co...
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31:30
S2: E6 - January Success Stories
Join Coach Jenz as he goes through several case studies from gyms within the Gym Owner Network. These aren't your usual 'sold x amount' of trials or 'hit x amount' of turnover, these are the more intangible success stories that make it all wort...
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22:20
S2, Ep 5: Turning Pro – 5 Core Principles of Coaching Mastery
With audio taken from our latest webinar, Mass & Jenz pick out and unpack 5 key coaching principles that will not only point you towards coaching mastery over time, but will stand you apart as a pro from the crowds of amateurs.
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51:29
S2, E4 - Sales Masterclass with Luke Robinson
Join us on a deep-dive on sales, this is one not to miss. We will share some of our most valuable tools for handling objections, how to improve your sales performance and even a few golden nuggets we only share within our mentorship.Luk...
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56:44
S2: E3 - Under The Hood of Mass
Find out just why Mass is such an incredible asset to The PFCA and why he is such an incredible coach and educator. He shares his story in Crossfit, Gym Ownership and everything in between. Enjoy
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59:06
S2, Ep 2: 5 Tips for the Ambitious Gym Owner
Coach Jenz on the mic. He discussed the success and future plans of their podcast, which aims to share values and lessons to help coaches make a greater impact in their communities. He emphasised the importance of providing valuabl...
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S2, Ep 1: Jenz Robinson – Under the Hood
On this episode Mass interviews Jenz.We dig into Jenz’s priorities, personal mission, vision, legacy; where they originate from, his influences and how his essence and personality feed into them.This isn’t yo...
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41:21
Nutrition: Beyond Weight Loss/Gain + Performance
The world of nutrition coaching is equally as hectic as the world of fitness coaching.With many nutrition guru’s tabling their way as gospel… evidence based, GMB, genetics, calories, macros, weight neutral, body neutral, intuitive, etc…...
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Program Design: Volume
What is the right volume?What should happen to the volume throughout a progression?How do I select the volume for my client at any given moment in time?All questions we're asked regularly.The answers, as you can imagine,...
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26:53
Strength Challenges for Life vs Strength Training for Sport
Today Mass talks about some of the various influences on fitness over the years, and the perception of it that lead folk today towards short blasts of poorly aligned strength training for their ultimate long term aims.Mass tables both e...
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46:42
Program Design: Establishing Adequate Challenge
Arguably the greatest influence on the outcome for the client is the ability to establish adequate challenge at each step along their progression, as a result of the collaboration in the coach-client relationship.In today's podcast Mass...
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49:35
Future Proof Your Business
Times are changing, quickly! With this in mind it’d be remiss of us to advise you to bury your head until it all blows over – it won’t.Whilst fundamental principles and elements of how we coached 10 years ago remain today, and ma...
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SGPT Program Design
Ahead of the Live SGPT seminar tomorrow in Brighton, Mass shares his thoughts around PD for small group – ideals, benchmarks and ideas for progression towards them for your gym and coaching team.
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27:20
"Forever Better"
Jenzo was back in the room for a chat with Mass on this one.Together they reflected on...the history of the PFCA, our definition of success, impact, the system of education we've created to date, and last weekend's FFC 2.
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