Fuel Your Strength: The Fitness Industry Needs Quality Coaches: How to Improve Your Skills w/ Jasmine Braxton

Key Takeaways

If You Want to Improve Your Skills as a Fitness Coach, You Should:

Focus on improving your understanding of how people operate and communication skills to create strong bonds with your clients
Set boundaries and do not engage with a topic you are not educated in or comfortable with
Make an investment in yourself by seeking out help to start your career with your best foot forward

Get Your Career Toolbox with Jasmine Braxton

Jasmine Braxton helps personal trainers implement their knowledge and overcome their imposter syndrome as a coach. She is on a mission to not only help other people become coaches but to bring high-quality coaching and personal training to the world. She knows the pitfalls that brand new coaches or personal trainers often unknowingly fall into and is here today to provide you with the most important steps that you can take to become the most impactful coach you can be.

You Deserve to Know What You Are Doing

Getting your certification to be a personal trainer is the first step on a long journey to becoming the best coach you can be. Applying exercise-related science to a personal field can be difficult, especially when you do not have the skills necessary to program in a way that will be impactful for your clients.

Understanding how people function and communication are two of the biggest struggles Jasmine sees in coaches and trainers. She has dedicated herself to helping others navigate these spaces and improving the quality of training available.

The Importance of a Good Foundation

If you have watched any home renovation show, you know that you can’t build a house on a bad foundation. Despite this, many trainers are entering the field without the foundational knowledge necessary to take the ‘stumbling stage’ out of the equation. There are a lot of lessons in failing, asking for help, and admitting when you do not know something. It is only by observing what you are doing and learning how to improve that you can remove as many barriers as possible in order to gain the success, results, and career that you want.

Are you ready to improve the quality, knowledge, and relationships in your personal training or coaching journey? Share your thoughts with me in the comments on the episode page.

In This Episode

What sets Jasmine’s approach apart from what is regularly seen in the fitness industry (11:44)
The biggest challenges when it comes to relationship building in the coach to client sphere (17:13)
How the pandemic impacted the in-person and online fitness spaces and why it has created a problem (24:18)
Why you need to give yourself grace when navigating the coaching landscape and progression of information (30:36)
What skills you need to cultivate in order to have the most successful clients and career (33:14)

Quotes

“For trainers, whether we are in Year 1 or Year 12, we still struggle with a lot of the same things. A lot of them is confidence in ourselves, and our ability to program, our ability to help our clients change behaviors, and just overall feeling prepared to do our jobs well.” (9:23)

“Getting a certification to be a personal trainer is just like stage 1. It is not everything y'all, it is just your start.” (12:31)

“Coaching is not just about prescribing sets and reps and progressing someone. It's about helping them achieve a version of themselves that they cannot see yet, but it is there if they have someone supporting them.” (22:18)

“There are lots of lessons in not getting things perfectly, and I think that is an opportunity for growth. When you are just okay with putting yourself out there and doing it and knowing it is not perfect, but learning what you can do to improve it.” (31:26)

“I'm doing this because I can so empathize with what it feels like to want to do this so bad… wanting to be in this industry, but feeling like you have all these little stumbling stones in your way that make it so difficult.” (38:19)