Ep.45 - Chris Long, Longevity is all about overcoming challenges

Sep 19, 2018

Chris Long doesn’t work in his own gym – it belongs to his members. He may own the business, but this episode is all about what his work does for his clients.

Chris’ business focuses on the importance of impacting people and benefitting others. While his training takes an incredibly practical approach, he’s also able to pivot in order to roll with the punches and deal with any challenges that may arise.

Watch the full episode on YouTube – https://youtu.be/lDPv0mgYUVc

From a young age, Chris was always active, even having held a baseball bat from the age of two and a half years old. He’d played basketball and took to the track throughout school, but it was football that he fell in love with for its high energy and impact.

Success followed his passion, although an injury called an end to his sporting career in arena football and Chris became a PT, working for a few companies before going it alone. One of these roles was a job with industry giant 24 Hour Fitness, where he was fast-tracked into management and grew his skills from there.

Chris is a perfectionist with a competitive streak. He’s confident and driven, but he’s humble enough to know it’s all about the members. Through mentoring, he developed an appreciation of periodisation, strength and conditioning, all of which contributed to his work preventing overtraining and benefiting everyone he trains through his own life lessons.

Chris has a career and a business built on helping people. Creative in his training, Chris ensures that every client is motivated by meeting their needs, whether simple or complex.

Introductory or advanced, Chris keeps his movements simple in approach: push, pull, squat, hinge, rotate. At the same time as these fundamental movement patterns, his methodologies are based around an acronym of core principles: SPACE (speed, power, agility, strength and endurance).

This is all about avoiding injuries through workouts based in scientific research. His training is about getting clients to believe in themselves more when they leave the session than when they arrive.

 

Episode Highlights - 

• The importance of being creative with programming and why you always have to be at the top of your game when training any client.
• How to achieve a mindset that enables you to overcome anything through fitness.
• Why any trainer needs to inspire confidence and self-belief in a client, and how they can use science to promote the right kind of movement with any workout.
• Learn what mentorship can do for your future, bouncing ideas off someone instead of concentrating on the past.

 

 

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