Charlotte Fitness Bootcamps

A title for this post that applies to training could be “Don’t Let Life Get in the Way of Your Passion”.  Today, we launched a new online billing and scheduling system for our clients with Volo Innovations.  This has taken a few months to get going, but I am very excited about how this will streamline our business so that Bobby and I can focus on what we do best…leading  cutting-edge fitness bootcamps and private training sessions.

I can now share with you the burdens from the last several months and why this is so cool for our clients.  I have been stuck in a battle that is depicted in the classic business book called “The E Myth” by Michael Gerber.  He makes an argument that every independent business owner is part entrepreneur, manager, and technician.  Basically, we need to be have the dreams, be able to organize it, but also get the work done.  I am a strong entrepreneur, and a very good technician (in my case, the work is the daily training sessions with my clients).  I am a lousy manager.  But all three are important for a business to thrive.

Implementing Volo instantly makes me a better manager and frees up a ton of time to do what I really love…taking care of my clients and coming up with creative fitness programs.  I can also do more speaking engagements and article writing and just offer better services to our awesome clients who deserve the best.

In fact, honestly to me the fitness part is secondary to the relationship.  I don’t know how many trainers pray for their clients and think about them on vacation, but I often feel like fitness has been my way to just have some great people in my life.  When I can’t nurture that relationship, I get very frustrated.  I have been stuck in manager mode.  My life had got in the way of my passion.  But now I am ready to make 2010 our best year in terms of over-delivering to our clients for all of their fitness, nutritional, pain-relief, and weight loss goals.

Big things are coming up like a free knee health workshop on Dec. 13 and a HUGE bootcamp on Jan.9 with other locations around the world that might land us in the Guiness Book of World Records!  More info to come, but for now, thank you to all of our clients and friends for supporting this change in our business.

Live with Strength!

Jason