Blake Parado

Powerlifter, Gym Owner, Nice guy, lover of dogs, bacon, and DBZ!

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

@HawaiiBaseball Some hard luck plays and calls… good season boys! 🤙🤙

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

You deserve the results you get from working your hardest.

You don’t deserve the results someone else got from the efforts they gave, just because you think you’re trying your hardest.

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

“Being a professional means you serve and you do everything in your power to be the best on earth at what you do… AND THEN they give you money.

That’s a professional.”

- Coach Martin Rooney

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

Are you looking to learn?

Or are you just looking for validation?

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

Fellow trainers, give your clients, friends, family a little grace for falling for/believing in “silly” fitness fads..

We once thought we had to consume protein every 2-3 hours (including waking up in the middle of the night to drink a protein shake 😆) or we’d lose our gains..

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

How to make a decent living as a personal trainer forever:

- Be on time
- Don’t hurt your clients
- Don’t oof your clients
- Make workouts somewhat enjoyable
- Don’t rip your clients off

That’s really all it takes to keep 10-15 consistent clients.. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

Hoppy Monday after Easter! 🐰🥚

Remember that all that Easter candy is POISON and EMPTY CALORIES, which you have to do thousands of burpees to burn off… 🥵

You should give the good ones (especially chocolate 🍫) to your trainer and his Wife instead! 😁

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As a fitness professional, it’s sometimes “ok” if you tell clients that they build muscle by breaking them down through exercise and building them back up…

As a fitness professional, it’s NOT ok if you actually think that’s how muscle hypertrophy works…

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Things you can’t control in fitness:
❌ Your genetics
❌ How fast you lose fat or gain muscle
❌ Not starting sooner

Things you CAN control:
✅ Your effort
✅ Your habits and consistency
✅ Starting today!

Focus on those! 🤙🤙🤙

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Things you can’t control:
👉 Your genetics
👉 How much fat you lose
👉 Not starting sooner…

Things you CAN control:
👍 Your effort
👍 Your habits
👍 Starting NOW!

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Exercising only for weight loss is a foolish idea because you:

1) Can’t lose weight forever (or you would die.. ☹️)

2) Would miss enjoying the countless other health benefits exercise provides!

Have other meaningful goals besides “get a summer bod”! 🤙🤙

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You didn’t go to school to be an expert on diet and exercise, don’t be so hard on yourself for not knowing what to do!

People pay you for your expertise to save them time, stress, and even money… do the same for your health and fitness!

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[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

If you just needed to know what to eat or what workouts to do to “get in shape”, Chat GBT can do that for FREE, and BETTER than most trainers you would/have hired!

That’s not the real problem why you aren’t getting healthy, and you probably know that too.

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[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

“I’ll start again on Monday..”

What’s something you’ve said (repeated) that you’ll start on Monday, yet many Mondays have come and gone?

How many more need to pass you by to take that action?

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“I’ll start again on Monday..”

What’s something you’ve said (repeated) that you’ll start on Monday, yet many Mondays have come and gone?

How many more need to pass you by to take that action?

Start today! 👊👊

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

7️⃣ Prepare to go ALL-IN!

Prepare to turn your 9am-5pm into a 5am-9pm.. even if you’re able to condense your training hours you’ll be “working” all the time, at least if you want to thrive!

You can create the life you want, but it won’t be quick/easy in the gym ownership realm!

[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

6️⃣ Hire a cleaner first.

Pay someone to clean the gym however often you do, and use that time to bring in more business.. one extra client pays you back what you spend on a cleaner.

If you can’t teach/trust a cleaner to do the job, good luck hiring other positions..

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[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

5️⃣ Document the steps to everything you do (and I mean EVERYTHING).

If you’ve ever had to write out SOPs, you know it can be a tedious task!

If you’ve ever start documenting the steps to everything you do early, it’ll save you a lot of headache later… 👌

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[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

4️⃣ Learn to track your metrics

Most gym owners know about how many clients they have, gross revenue, and rent..

What’s your attrition (what is attrition?), LEG, LTV, ARM, % of revenue going to where... Like we tell our clients, we can’t manage what we don’t measure.

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[Blake Parado @Blake_Parado]

3️⃣ Build a gym for your clients, not yourself.

If I built out Parado Power for myself, I’d have ER racks, calibrated plates,platforms, it’d be dark, and Disturbed would be blasting on the stereo.

I would also have no clients, and probably kicked out of the building… 😂

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