Salesmanship is a critical skill necessary for all fitness professionals to master. Whether you like it or not, much of your livelihood will depend on whether or not you can "close the deal." And just like any other skill, you can always improve on your ability to sell others on you and your services.
Here are 6 unique sales tips that will improve your salesmanship:
1) Know the difference between a prospect and a client. A prospect is someone who is interested in learning more about you and ...
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July 30th, 2010 in
Marketing
When you want to add fitness equipment in the office, you need a way to fit it into your space. Many offices seem smaller due to more employees, while other companies just don't own a large enough space. If you want to continue to add fitness to your life, you need to be creative about what kinds of fitness equipment you can bring, but you also need to learn about ways to forgo fitness equipment in the office altogether. Sometimes, all you need is your own body weight and fitness goal.
If you ...
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July 29th, 2010 in
Sports and Fitness
Finding that perfect fitness machine that "does it all" may be more real than expected due to the fact that the latest
research supported, cardiovascular fitness machines are now available on the market. Elliptical cross trainers offer a truly beneficial yet low impact workout. They really are the fitness machine that gives that sought after total body workout.
La Crosse, a research team at the University of Wisconsin, conducted a comparison of a treadmill to an elliptical cross trainer, the ...
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July 28th, 2010 in
Sports and Fitness
Belly fat seems to be a common problem for majority of population, especially men. Naturally, men tend to hold more fat around their waist line, which we call love handles. Besides the physical nature of men, modern lifestyle has contributed in this sphere. Work, stress, entertaining clients and lack of exercise put in to the accumulation of belly fat.
Ellipticals are one of the modern machines to attain fitness in true meaning. These machines are originally designed by exercise scientists to ...
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July 27th, 2010 in
Sports and Fitness
The effects of mood and attitude is the KEY to developing a longer lifetime and increasing health and fitness. A motivating factor in choosing to live a healthy life is how our emotions rule our decision making abilities. Consider an Olympian gymnast who has trained everyday since a child. They have more emotional patterns and experience to prepare them to sacrifice immediate wants for a long term goal. Their brain is also used to training a number of hours per day so they don't need motivation ...
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July 26th, 2010 in
Sports and Fitness
About Exercise and Fitness
Carbohydrates are one of the nutrients required in the diet, not to mention proteins and fat. Minimizing the nutrients is the key, simultaneously MAXING the plan you choose as your diet. The goal is to match the diet with your body.
Having too much of one nutrient in the body, obviously requires a decrease in the consumption of your plan chosen as your diet solution. Excessive CARB intakes in never healthy, and should be minimized for the better results. The ...
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July 25th, 2010 in
Sports and Fitness
Have you ever thought about increasing your fitness through martial arts? More and more people are becoming health conscious and trying to get fit by going to the gym, joining walking or jogging groups and joining other groups offering a health and fitness regime, but it does not take long before the boredom sets in and going to classes become a chore.
Martial arts have much to offer. Physically, the training involved has the benefits of strengthening and toning muscles, improving suppleness ...
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July 24th, 2010 in
Sports and Fitness
Rowing has been thought to be one of the most fruitful exercises among fitness exercises. It has been considered as an excellent kind of exercise to improve the cardiovascular fitness. Mostly, the aerobic exercising equipments work for the lower half of the body. But the rowing machine lets you use the whole of your body; the benefit of the exercise is felt in less time as compared to exercising on other equipments. As the exercise is done of the full body so 30 minutes workout rowing machines ...
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July 23rd, 2010 in
Sports and Fitness
Trampolines are designed exclusively for the home backyard market. Being rebounding devices, they propel the performer to unaccustomed heights and into a variety of body movements. Trampoline Exercise is considered both - good fun and healthy for kids of all ages and your family.
Trampolines, apart from being loved by the kids are also pretty happening amongst the most fitness freaks to maintain perfect health and a healthy mind. It gives workout to not only the body muscles but also gives ...
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July 22nd, 2010 in
Sports and Fitness
Pelvic floor fitness is an essential to lifelong physical, sexual and emotional health. Yet this area of the body is often neglected by fitness experts.
Why are the pelvic floor muscles so important, and why should all women do regular exercises to maximise their fitness?
1. Pelvic floor fitness is the best way of beating stress incontinence.
One in three women who have ever had a baby experience stress incontinence at some point in their lives, when ordinary activities such as laughing, ...
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July 21st, 2010 in
Health