Today was my first day back from vacation and it was busy catching up with everything. We had our regular staff meeting, in which we discussed our on-going process of creating a Unique Selling Proposition for Vertex. Dwayne came up with one that we all thought would give us a good start, but we decided we wanted to investigate further into why it is our clients choose us over other fitness facilities before we launched a USP.

There is a good amount of networking events this week, including the Best of the Main Line Party on Thursday night in which Dwayne said there would probably be about 3000 people! It sounds like a great event and I'm excited to see how it goes. I'm also going to attend a networking event at Saks Fifth Avenue Tonight called Champagne and Cupcakes After-Work Soiree and Fashion Event. It should be interesting, I've never gone to anything like it.

Stefanie Lerario

Marketing Intern from Pennsylvania State University

Vertex Fitness Personal Training Studio

24 N Merion Ave

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610 525 6604

www.vertexfit.com

The event at Susanna Foo yesterday went great.  I meet a couple of new leads and made a few new friends with several people from the Main Line Area.  I feel like I’m starting to establish myself more and more in the area with each networking event that I attend which is something I want to continue doing. 

Later in the afternoon Dwayne sat down with Samantha and I and discussed how he used goal setting to help him reach his accomplishments.  He mentioned that it is essential for us to start setting goals for ourselves in order for us to succeed in what were reaching out to accomplish.  It was a very productive day in regards to gaining applicable knowledge.

Samantha our other intern brought two of her friends in today to train.  I learned that I have to work on gauging the seat settings better but I’m sure that will improve with time.

Eric Chursch

Intern from Penn State University

Vertex Fitness Personal Training Studio

24 N. Merion Ave

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610 525 6604

www.vertexfit.com

 

"The Best of The Main Line" 

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5 Years Running

The networking event I attended at Redstone American Grille on Tuesday went rather well.  I meet several people from the Philadelphia Multi Sport Professionals organization and made a few contacts and the experience I gained from this event was priceless.

Today I trained to two people and I am starting to feel very comfortable with new clients.  The more people I work with the better prepared I feel to take on more clients. This evening I will be attend a networking event at Susanna Foo in Radnor, which I am looking forward to being a part of. 

Eric Chursch

Intern from Penn State University

Vertex Fitness Personal Training Studio

24 N. Merion Ave

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610 525 6604

www.vertexfit.com

 

"The Best of The Main Line" 

2010 Voted Best Personal Trainers

by Main Line Today Magazine

5 Years Running

This morning I made some retention calls for Shala so I could get more practice in to help me fine tune my communication skills over the telephone.  I also put Mike through his work out today and I will say that his feedback has helped me out greatly.  

Early Afternoon Dan Gomez our business consulting came in for our weekly meeting and he had us practice role playing again, with the more practice we get, the better prepared we are when going to a networking event.  Dwayne also discussed what he expects from us as trainers here.

I have a networking event to attend at Redstone American Grille with the Philadelphia Area multisport professionals.  I’ll keep you posted on how that went tomorrow. 

 

 

Eric Chursch

Intern from Penn State University

Vertex Fitness Personal Training Studio

24 N. Merion Ave

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610 525 6604

Yesterday I went to Bryn Mawr Running Company with trainer Mike and message therapist Danielle to set a table up in which customers at the store and members from their running club can sign up and enter to win 3 complementary personal training sessions or a free half hour message.

 

This morning I took their contact information and put it into a contacts check list and sent letters and emails out to the individuals that won the 3 complementary personal training sessions.  Then I spent some time with the other intern practicing putting each other through exercise progression number one, so we would become more familiar with the equipment and the exercise routine. 

Eric Chursch

Intern from Penn State University

Vertex Fitness Personal Training Studio

24 N. Merion Ave

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610 525 6604

www.vertexfit.com

Yesterday during the protocol meeting we began to act on the machine break-down project that we've decided to refine. We delegated who was responsible for which machines and set due dates for each machine's write-up. I'm writing about the Hip Extension and the Low Back machines, which I've been working on all day. We had made a template for us to just fill the information in, but the information is harder to obtain then I thought! Luckily Shala had done a handful of the machines already and shared website with us where she found valuable knowledge.

I also trained two clients, Karen and Sarah, in the morning into afternoon, and then worked out myself. Sam trained me, and did very well! I trained her afterwards, so we both got good workouts in today. 

At last nights networking event, Sam and I met alot of nice people. I even recognized and talked with some people that I had met last time. I am truly learning first-hand how to build relationships with people in order to gain leads, clients, and referrals. I still have some work to do on my networking skills, but I would say that I'm coming along at a good pace.

I'm very tired today because I've been running myself ragged the past couple of days. The day has been going pretty fast though, and the clients I've worked with have been enjoyable people. I was busy early this morning with back-to-back clients, and then had a big break from about 10-1 and am now waiting for a 1:30 appointment. I find that with each client that I train, I learn something new. It's interesting to see how differently every person's body reacts to exercise, who catches on to form cues easier, who understands the motions of the exercises easier, etc. I also feel like I'm really starting to form relationships with the people I've been training too, which is awesome.

We have two networking events going on tonight, which is good since last week wasn't that busy. Mike and Eric are going to the Bryn Mawr Running Company event and Sam and I are going to the Main Line Young Professionals event in Malvern. It's both Sam and Eric's first event, so it's good that Mike and I can be there to help ease their nerves. We did some good networking practice yesterday at the staff meeting, so we all have new skills to try out at the events tonight.

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I started the morning off by doing some research looking into different types of training and read an article on the importance of target heart rate and max heart rate.  Then I went around and lubricated the exercise equipment which we do at least once a week.  Then I made 5 retention calls to reach out to past clients to see how there are doing and if they would like to schedule another appointment.  

In the afternoon we had several teens come in from the inner city and we showed them around our facility and had them perform resistance exercise on the equipment followed by a lesson in pilates.  At the end of their training session we answered any questions that they had about exercise and fitness and talked about the importance of resistance training and why we were here working at Vertex.

Eric Chrusch

Intern from Penn State University

Vertex Fitness Personal Training Studio

24 N. Merion Ave

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610 525 6604

www.vertexfit.com

 

I only had two clients today, but was busy with other responsibilities. Our staff meeting today was extremely beneficial because Dan continuously made us participate in networking and referral-asking practice. I gained a lot of good knowledge, such as when is the best time to ask for a referral versus which is not the ideal situation. I think every one of us benefitted from the practice, including Samantha who is new and was thrown into the role-playing quickly. I remember being in the exact situation that she was yesterday and I was so nervous - She did good for her first time!

Vertex also hosted a informational/trial workout session in the gym for teenage girls today around 3:15 after our staff meeting was done. It's called Teen Shop, and  it basically consisted of about ten teenage girls who were juniors or seniors in high school coming to learn more about the health and fitness field as well as Vertex. We discussed with them the how and why Vertex is different from other fitness facilities, the importance of fitness in one's life, and how strength training, pilates, and massage therapy are all interconnected and beneficial to one another. Then, we took them through some of the exercises on the strength training machines as well as the pilates machines with Lauren. I actually worked with Lauren, and it was enjoyable for me to understand further how the pilates machines work.  It was a really great opportunity for the teenagers as well as each one of us. We all learned something new today!

Most of the day this afternoon was spent doing our summer cleaning.  All the staff here at Vertex worked as a team to get the job done.  I also spent sometime this morning going over the equipment with one of the new trainers and we practiced giving cues to each other as we worked on the machines.  I ended my day with researching local networking events which we can attend in the future.

Eric Chursch

Intern from Penn State University

Vertex Fitness Personal Training Studio

24 N. Merion Ave

Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

610 525 6604

www.vertexfit.com