2963: Online Coach Red Flags | Most Online Coaches Are Using AI to Reply to You and Not Telling You

Sal Di Stefano (0:00)

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Doug Egge (0:13)

You just found the most downloaded health, fitness, and entertainment podcasts in history. Approaching over half a billion downloads, this is Mind Pump. In today's episode, we answered some questions that people wrote in to our Instagram page, Mind Pump Media. Go give that a follow.

But this was after the intro. Today's intro is 56 minutes long. Now, in the intro, we talk about how to find a good online fitness coach. We talk about muscle building, fat loss, nutrition, supplements. We also talk about current events and family life. It's always a fun time. Now, this episode is brought to you by some sponsors. The first one is Paleo Valley. Today, we talked about the Oregon Complex Supplements. So these are capsules of freeze-dried Oregon meats from grass-fed beef. It's like a natural multivitamin, but it's a food. So if you want to get more nutritious with your supplements, you want to get those nutrients that you can only get from Oregon meats and you want them to be super bioavailable, go to paleovalley.com/mindpump.

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Justin Andrews (2:34)

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Doug Egge (2:49)

Online fitness and nutrition coaching has exploded over the last seven to 10 years. In fact, today, it makes up 22% of all personal training revenue globally. This is huge, you used to make up less than 5%, but here's a deal, although a good online coach can have profound positive impacts on your health and fitness, a bad one can have equally profound negative impacts. So here's what we're gonna do right now. We're gonna talk about red flags.

How do you know your online coach is someone you should work with and how do you know you should avoid them? Check it out.

Adam Schafer (3:26)

I like this. Yes. I recently saw a video that Corinne had posted on her personal page and called Kyle right afterwards and said, did you know about this already? And he goes, yeah, no, this is how this is happening right now. And up to this point, I couldn't wrap my brain around how some of these other companies were doing this. So obviously, as we've continued to build a coaching business here at Mind Pump, part of that is doing research and seeing some of the leaders that are doing things in our space and what are they doing, and what are we providing, and how can we provide more value?

And so we've always been doing some of that. And one of the things that was coming back to me was like some of these companies have trainers that are servicing 100 people. Some actually were up to 200

Doug Egge (4:19)

I'm like, yeah. Per coach. Per coach.

Justin Andrews (4:21)

Crazy.

Adam Schafer (4:21)

And I thought that's not even possible. Like, I mean, I coached online first before Mind Pump had started. And I got to about 25 and I noticed after 25, I could coach more, but then my service started to sharply decline. That was kind of the max where I could stay in contact.