How does CCP Coach Sam Smith manage 100+ clients while maintaining a healthy lifestyle? Learn Sam's tips for a fulfilling (and sustainable) coaching career

Gym owner Justin Yoon ran a group class CrossFit gym for years. Here’s why he decided to transition his fitness business to individual design coaching.

But the truth is that walking 10,000 steps each day gives you so much more than just a number on your pedometer. The real value of 10,000 steps comes down to creating the habit of regular daily movement, ideally outdoors.

As coaches, we know the importance of exercise in achieving our clients' fitness goals. But it's equally, if not more, important to understand the role of lifestyle habits in achieving sustainable success. That's why at OPEX, we want our coaches to put the same care and attention into creating lifestyle programs as we do exercise programs.

Getting enough sleep is crucial for maintaining overall health and wellbeing, and it’s especially important for those who are focused on fitness and exercise. In this blog, we’ll explore the role of sleep in fitness, why it’s important, and how to improve it.

built over time through consistent actions. In my years of experience, I have seen the power of consistency in achieving long-term sustainable success. It is essential to focus on sustainability as short-term success is not enough to create lasting change.

In today's world, fitness coaching is no longer just about hitting the gym and working out. It's also about nutrition. Proper nutrition is essential for optimal health and function, both in and out of the gym. 

Horizontal pulling is an important exercise for balanced strength and healthy shoulders. Horizontal pulling helps build strength in the lats, middle and lower trapezius, and rhomboids—key muscles that help you maintain good posture and stability.

I spent the first 3 years of my coaching career as a group fitness instructor. While my work gave me fulfillment, I felt a disconnect in the purpose of delivering deeper value to the people I worked with and towards my personal vision. 

Before I dig into these, I think it is important to give a bit of context as I am a believer that our perceptions around money come from our personal experiences. I come from a family that would be considered low income by an American standard. I did not grow up in a household where finances were discussed. Rather, I learned through observation that you have to work your butt off and your efforts are a direct reflection of your earnings.

Switching to Storefront Pages means you can put all the products and services you offer—from t-shirts, to an intro consult, to six-months of individual design, nutrition coaching, templated programs, or supplements—right into your store in CoachRx for your existing and potential clients to see. So not only will they now be more aware of your offerings, but they can purchase everything on the app.

We would all agree that drinking 0 ounces of water per day is not good for someone’s health and that drinking 1,000 ounces per day is also not good. The answer is somewhere in the middle. 

There is something powerful about the calendar flipping to a new year and the feeling of a “fresh start”. But before we set our goals and New Year’s resolutions, we should first reflect on the year that has passed.

Your client visits your polished coaching storefront and sales page, is impressed with what they see, and signs up right there and then with our in-platform payment processing. Plus, no more chasing monthly payments with our subscription feature!

Before she knew it, she was helping relieve coaches at OPEX Morgantown and decided she wanted to take her coaching to the next level. And when Smith told her that the OPEX Coaching Certificate Program (CCP) was “more informative, educational and beneficial” than her exercise science college degree, Lewis had no doubt the CCP was the course for her. 

I don’t want to quit, but I can’t keep coaching how I'm coaching. What can we do to make it more sustainable?

The hardest thing for most coaches is to identify their purpose. However, it’s an essential one. The first step in having long-term success is to understand why you do what you do. 

If you can work to understand this with your prospects, selling yourself as a coach becomes easier and much more genuine. When you’re selling your service to potential clients, always think about the value you bring and how you can connect that to what they value.

I can speak for individual design confidently that it produces autonomous clients, connected and aligned clients, results the individual is looking for, a coach/client relationship, and a program that prioritizes the biggest priorities with prescriptions that the individual is capable of.

It’s something that most coaches can get on board with from an ideological standpoint, but is undeniably a scary concept when speaking to coaches that have been told “retain retain retain” their entire professional coaching careers.