The KIPS Podcast
The goal of the KIPS Podcast is to provide actionable takeaways for personal trainers, group exercise instructors, strength coaches or any fitness professional. Listen to the podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud and YouTube.
Best of October 2022 | The KIPS Podcast
An important character trait for a fitness professional to develop is empathy. It’s important that a fitness instructor understand that exercise is NOT an enjoyable act for the overwhelming majority of humans and often getting to the point to...
Contractor vs Employee: Which route is for me?
When you’re starting in the fitness industry, what are your options? Do you have to immediately become an employee at a gym? Are there other routes that might better suit your personality and current work experience? These are all items that are not...
Best of September 2022 | The KIPS Podcast
Growing within the fitness industry is a process. Things like education and experience can help improve the process, but ultimately there is a process that each fitness professional goes through. The way the fitness industry has evolved over the last...
Building a Social Media Strategy
Building a social media strategy is a business tool that can help you save time, stay consistent, and attract new clients as a health & fitness professional. Having a strategy means you’re creating content for a reason, and not spending time on a...
Should the Fitness Industry go Towards Licensure?
An interesting topic for a variety of fitness professionals is licensure. Will the fitness industry ever go towards a national license in the United States? This is a topic that can affect many different populations, and has positives and negatives...
Best of August 2022 | The KIPS Podcast
If you are searching for ideas on how to grow your fitness business or need a tutorial to help you, check out the KIPS Blog and YouTube channel. On there you will find 100% free reviews and tutorials made for fitness professionals. These range from...
Creating Better Working Conditions for All Fit Pros feat. Emily Stewart
How does the fitness industry move forward from its current state? How do employees start to get benefits and how do we learn more about the individuals that work inside the fitness industry? These are topics that seem like regular items for other...
Instructor Inequalities Within the Fitness Industry feat. Kate Finamore
As fitness professionals gain more experience within the industry, they start to see issues that either affect their ability to work at a high level or grow within their chosen career path. These issues might stem from current pay wage, access to...
Using YouTube to Build Your Online Workout Career feat. Courtney Andersen
Creative freedom and building your own brand are two of the biggest reasons fitness professionals create online workouts for YouTube. YouTube is the second largest search engine and a resource that allows fitness professionals to reach a global...
Best of July 2022 | The KIPS Podcast
In the month of July 2022, KIPS released two new episodes in the KIPS Podcast, and one YouTube review of Epidemic Sound. Our monthly “Best of” episode in the KIPS Podcast is a review of the previous month's free content that was released to provide...
Evolving Within the Fitness Industry feat. Aviana Garcia
Moving states and switching careers is a change that is often accompanied by long hours and learning a new skill set. That is exactly the process Aviana Garcia went through when she moved from New Mexico to Arizona in 2020 to enter a new part of the...
Best of June 2022 | The KIPS Podcast
Summer break for fit pros means time to work on self-development and try new formats to build your fitness business. This can include trying small group training or starting to teach group fitness. Every fit pro that already teaches group fitness...