Personal Trainers React!

By Jon Messner

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Jon and Drew have more than 50,000 hours in personal training. Jon owns Messner Strength Training in Brielle (NJ) and Drew is the fitness director at Roberts Wood Johnson in Scotch Plains (NJ).

Episode Date
#260 Personal Trainers React! // Class v. Private Training, Airplane Stretching and Breathing Exercises
Jul 14, 2025
#259 Personal Trainers React! // 40 Hours a Week, Client to Member Ratio and Psychological Thinking
Jun 11, 2025
#258 Personal Trainers React! // Safe Exercise, Small Group Programs and Expectations (... are the mind killer)
May 09, 2025
#257 Personal Trainers React! // Clients Quitting, The Front Squat and Full Time Personal Training
Mar 22, 2025
#256 Personal Trainers React! // Positive Self Talk, Strength Vs. Endurance and Group Exercise Class
Feb 20, 2025
#255 Training Tips - Low Rep Strength vs. High Rep Endurance
Feb 19, 2025
#254 Dr. Mike Bruno, Sports Chiropractor
Feb 16, 2025
#253 Training Tips - Grip Strength & Longevity
Jan 23, 2025
#252 Personal Trainers React! // Endurance or Strength, Exercise Talk and Commitments
Jan 22, 2025
#251 Personal Trainers React! // RFK, Having Several Trainers on the Floor and Only Doing 1 Exercise
Dec 24, 2024
#250 Training Tips - Base Strength
Dec 23, 2024
#249 Training Tips - Muscle Loss
Dec 11, 2024
#248 Personal Trainers React! // Happy New Year and Thank You
Dec 01, 2024
#247 Personal Trainers React! // Talking to Strangers, Supine Twisted and Big Feelers
Nov 13, 2024
#246 Personal Trainers React! // New Trainer Getting New Clients (in a Health Club) and Higher Rep Ranges
Sep 30, 2024
#245 Personal Trainers React! // Hiring Passion, Back Pain Stretching and No Muscle at 50
Aug 24, 2024
#244 Personal Trainers React! // Selling Expectations, Semi-Private Training and Growing Muscle
Jul 26, 2024
#243 Personal Trainers React! // Sucking in Abs, Carnivore Diet and Weight Lifting Risk
Jun 29, 2024
#242 Personal Trainers React! // Networking, Skin in the Game, Challenging the Routine
Jun 04, 2024
#241 Personal Trainers React! // Rotary Press vs. Chop and Lift, Guessing Athletic Potential and Creating Instability
May 08, 2024
#240 Personal Trainers React! // Chin Up vs. Chin Tucked, Receptive Clients and Exercise Addiction
Apr 13, 2024
#239 Personal Trainers React! // Attrition in Professional Running, Discount Training and New Trainer Clients
Mar 23, 2024
#238 Personal Trainers React! // Plank Row, Body Awareness, Proper Cueing, Sleazy Politics, Equinox Business Model
Feb 26, 2024
#237 Personal Trainers React! // Hip Thrusts, Optimal Training Times, Only Eating Breakfast, Vegan Diets, Flattening the Back
Feb 14, 2024
#236 Personal Trainers React! // Bubble Gut, Professional Athletes and Health, Isometric Grip Squeeze
Jan 22, 2024
#235 Personal Trainers React! // Scheduling Type-A Personalities, Vertical Split Squat, Posture and Health
Jan 02, 2024
#234 Personal Trainers React! // Client Goals, Submitting to Your Trainer, History of The Gym and Aerobics, Muscle and Posture
Dec 11, 2023
#233 Personal Trainers React! // Safe Exercise, Exercise and Alcoholism, Injured Friends, 1L Squat, Locking Elbows
Nov 26, 2023
#232 Personal Trainers React! // Cook Bands, Speaking Truthfully, Investing in People, Pull-up Variations, Core Training Terminology
Nov 13, 2023
#231 Personal Trainers React! // Level-1 Leg Exercise, Half Kneeling, Client Types, Weight Loss Baby-Steps
Oct 30, 2023
#230 Personal Trainers React! // Landmine Press, Training Golfers, 1/2 Kneeling Row
Oct 15, 2023
#229 Personal Trainers React! // Split Squats Back Knee, Supine Reach, Landmine Press, Cueing Clients
Oct 02, 2023
#228 Personal Trainers React! // New Hires, Pain Tolerance
Sep 03, 2023
#227 Personal Trainers React! // Are personal trainers who lose weight good salespeople?
Aug 26, 2023
#226 Personal Trainers React! // Should a gym sell health food?
Aug 19, 2023
#225 Personal Trainers React! // Why does paying for expertise create buy-in?
Aug 12, 2023
#224 Personal Trainers React! // Are sunglasses bad?
Aug 06, 2023
#223 Personal Trainers React! // How much mileage is good enough for a competitive distance runner?
Jul 30, 2023
#222 Personal Trainers React! // Why is having a training plan is important?
Jul 23, 2023
#221 Personal Trainers React! // Is testosterone replacement safe?
Jul 17, 2023
#220 Personal Trainers React! // Jon and George Talk About Testosterone Replacement
Jul 09, 2023
#219 Personal Trainers React! // Goal Weight, Counting Reps and The Long View
Jul 03, 2023
#218 Personal Trainers React! // Exciting Exercise, Classes vs. Private Training and Standing Rotary Press
Jun 26, 2023
#217 Personal Trainers React! // Balance Training, Postural Muscles and Client Focus
Jun 19, 2023
#216 Personal Trainers React! // Baby Steps, Treating Clients Differently and Obesity Exercise
Jun 10, 2023
#215 Personal Trainers React! // Training Capitalism, The Dead Bug, Stupid Politics
Jun 05, 2023
#214 Personal Trainers React! // Health Club Members, Footwear Addiction and One Leg Longer
May 21, 2023
#213 Personal Trainers React! // Pulling ROM, Training Simplicity and Umbrella Health
May 14, 2023
#212 Personal Trainers React! // Group Rate, Emotional Decisions and Skull Crushers
May 09, 2023
#211 Personal Trainers React! // Car Salesman, Joint Degradation and Talking Less
Apr 30, 2023
#210 Personal Trainers React! // Straight Feet, Health Food Cafe and Critiquing Fasting
Apr 23, 2023
#209 Personal Trainers React! // Athletes or GP, Exercise Confusion and KISS
Apr 15, 2023
#208 Personal Trainers React! // Saving $, Playing Odds and Genetics
Apr 11, 2023
#207 Personal Trainers React! // Managing People, Fixing Problems and Slowing Down
Apr 04, 2023
#206 Personal Trainers React! // Arguing Posture, Single Leg Exercise and Broken Record
Mar 24, 2023
#205 Personal Trainers React! // Being Honest, Helping Grandparents and Trying Everything
Mar 10, 2023
#204 Personal Trainers React! // Foot Placement, Sprinting Health and Sitting Hurts
Mar 05, 2023
#203 Personal Trainers React! // Functional Movement, Drug Dealing and Slow Eating
Feb 26, 2023
#202 Personal Trainers React! // Balance Challenge, Feeling Good and Soreness
Feb 19, 2023
#201 Personal Trainers React! // Standing Hip Extension, Hurting Back and Testing Standards
Feb 13, 2023
#200 Personal Trainers React! // Hiking Gear, Single Leg Squat and Hindsight
Feb 03, 2023
#199 Personal Trainers React! // Stressful Exercise, Pumping Iron and Private Training Rates
Jan 28, 2023
#198 Personal Trainers React! // Meditation, No Pain No Gain and Selling Surgery
Jan 22, 2023
#197 Personal Trainers React! // Lifetime Clients, Paved with Good Intentions and Program Design Logistics
Jan 14, 2023
#196 Personal Trainers React! // New Years Resolutions, Playa Bowls and Forever Pain
Jan 06, 2023
#195 Personal Trainers React! // No Talking in Sessions, Price Expectations and Coachability
Dec 30, 2022
#194 Personal Trainers React! // Squatting Toes-Out, Testing Pistol Squats and Youth Sprinting
Dec 24, 2022
#193 Personal Trainers React! // Location Specific Training, Mental Strength and Looking for Wisdom
Dec 18, 2022
#192 Personal Trainers React! // 1A1L Row, Training Injuries and Spinal Position
Dec 12, 2022
#191 Personal Trainers React! // Conversational Minefields, Getting It and Learning Balance
Dec 05, 2022
#190 Personal Trainers React! // New Years Sign-ups, Controlling the Core and Machine Training
Nov 25, 2022
#189 Personal Trainers React! // Quadruped Exercises, Scaling Strength Training and Bad Exercises
Nov 22, 2022
#188 Personal Trainers React! // Listeners Question; Chemotherapy and Strength Training
Nov 11, 2022
#187 Personal Trainers React! // Long Fasting, Functional Bench Press and Eating Meat
Nov 05, 2022
#186 Personal Trainers React! // Selling PT, Farmer's Carry and Explaining The Why
Oct 31, 2022
#185 Personal Trainers React! // Training Trainers, Reaching and Split Squats
Oct 21, 2022
#184 Personal Trainers React! // Screening Clients
Oct 16, 2022
#183 Personal Trainers React! // Fasting Children
Oct 10, 2022
#182 Personal Trainers React! // I Have L4/L5 Herniation!
Oct 01, 2022
#181 Personal Trainers React! // Substitute Personal Training
Sep 23, 2022
#180 Personal Trainers React! // 2020 Insanity
Sep 17, 2022
#179 Personal Trainers React! // Big Rocks
Sep 11, 2022
#178 Personal Trainers React! // Powerful Knees
Sep 03, 2022
#177 Personal Trainers React! // Fantastic Posture
Aug 27, 2022
#176 Personal Trainers React! // Getting Shredded
Aug 21, 2022
#175 Personal Trainers React! // Social Exercise
Aug 12, 2022
#174 Personal Trainers React! // Movie Stars and Running Injuries
Aug 05, 2022
#173 Personal Trainers React! // Marry A Massage Therapist
Jul 30, 2022
#172 Personal Trainers React! // Pushups Technique and Foot Placement
Jul 23, 2022
#171 Personal Trainers React! // Back Pain
Jul 15, 2022
#170 Personal Trainers React! // Referrals
Jul 09, 2022
#169 Personal Trainers React! // Life of a Personal Trainer
Jul 01, 2022
#168 Personal Trainers React! // Eating 1x Day
Jun 24, 2022
#167 Personal Trainers React! // Superman's Feet
Jun 17, 2022
#166 Personal Trainers React! // 3 Exercises
Jun 10, 2022
#165 Personal Trainers React! // Protein
Jun 03, 2022
#164 Personal Trainers React! // Getting New Clients
May 20, 2022
#163 Personal Trainers React! // Big Arms Running
May 13, 2022
#162 Personal Trainers React! // Cardio Conditioning
May 06, 2022
#161 Personal Trainers React! // Awesome Foam Rolling
Apr 29, 2022