Tribefit Review | Interview with Successful Online Trainer Amanda R.

Chris Lynton: Hey guys, Chris Lynton here from Tribefit and today we are blessed to have Amanda Rose with this today all the way from Ontario, Canada. How are you doing Amanda?

Amanda Rose: Great, thank you.

Chris Lynton: Now today we've got her on board to have a bit of a chat about, I guess Amanda, your journey, your background, your successes with your online business in a relatively short time. And I guess kind of go through what the stages that kind of clicked for you that allowed you to kind of grow as fast as you have in such a short period of time. So I guess before we dive into it, Amanda, do you want to give everyone a bit of a background on yourself? Where you've come from and, I guess, just top level results today?

Amanda Rose: Yeah, for sure. So in 2010 I started personal training and I was a face to face trainer for seven years. I did a little bit of online training here and there, twelve week programmes, maybe four I sold. I didn't really advertise them, it was kind of learn as I go. And then I went into policing in 2017 and I was in policing for a little while before returning to my love of fitness coaching. I've been fortunate now to work with first responders and been with Chris and the team at Tribefit since December 3rd, is when I signed up. So about a month and a half ago. It's been going great.

Chris Lynton: Fantastic. And I guess I remember the ... Before we jump in that, so what really have you looked into in the online space prior to jumping on board with us?

Amanda Rose: I've read a couple of books. I watched a lot of Chris's Tribefit webinars, the free resources out there. I actually booked a call. It was the third call before I finally stuck with it. The first two I ended up cancelling because I thought, Oh gosh, maybe it's not the right time, maybe not. But then third time's a charm and the call and it's been fantastic. So mainly just online type reading up until this point here.

Chris Lynton: Cool. And what was your real desire to go online rather than just stay face to face?

Amanda Rose: I have a huge love for first responders now after being in the field and realise the fitness challenges, both while trying to get hired and then also while on the job, so I work with both areas there. And just being able to reach more people and being able to leverage my time better. I found I was having some days were nine, ten hours with clients and with three kids, we live on a farm. It was just too much. So this way I'm able to work the hours that I want to and be able to help more people is the greatest thing.

Chris Lynton: Awesome. Fantastic. Cool. And I guess at what stage did everything kind of click and start taking off? Was there any sort of light bulb moments? Was there any activity or anything that you did that kind of flipped the switch and started making everything grow?

Amanda Rose: Well before I even contacted Chris, my first light bulb moment was in finding my niche. Chris had said on a webinar, what makes you different than anyone else? And the niche I had been working in, I thought not really a lot. So right away I thought, Oh my gosh, I need to be doing first responder. That is my niche. And once I started jumping into the modules, I had to be careful. I would actually not go to bed because I just wanted to keep watching them.

Amanda Rose: But things like that I had never thought of before. And I thought this is absolutely brilliant and easy. Why did I never think of going into these Facebook groups to find people to pull them into a private group. And that private group has grown pretty quickly. I'm at over 400 people in there now since launching on December the 12th. So in about a month it's grown and it's been fantastic. Now I'm starting to really get a lot of the members on there asking questions and others answering. And so it's a real community. So just simple things like that, that have just ... I don't know why I didn't think of that, but it's working brilliantly.

Chris Lynton: Awesome. And I guess in terms of your packages, so what do you charge now and what do you deliver to the average client.

Amanda Rose: All right, so it's a twelve week programme and the price is $980, that includes their taxes. And what it includes is I do strength training programmes for them. I use PT distinction. I've used that for a few years and I really like that platform. So I have their strength training in there. I have a template that is basic to policing, basic to fire and then I tweak it individually like here and there.

Amanda Rose: I don't usually have to do that much to that template so it saves a lot of time there. Obviously based on what equipment they have, I need to change it somewhat. But they have their strength training programmes which get changed out every few weeks. They have two programmes on that there to do a few times each week. I'm putting in there their sets, their reps there on, and putting in what they did, the weight and everything.

Amanda Rose: And then I also have 24, I call them finisher videos and they're meant to be short, high intensity. So they're six to sixteen minutes long and they either go at the end of a strength session or they're on their own on a day when the plan may not have much time.

Amanda Rose: And I find those work really well. A lot of people tend to struggle with the beat test or also known as the shuttle.

Chris Lynton: Yep.

Amanda Rose: And different components of the testing require not just strength, not just cardio endurance, but a mix of the two. So that's what those 24 are really meant to help and then there's an additional 18 for the firefighters. I'm a Crossfit level two coach as well, so I really pull in some of that. I like their high intensity, short duration type of thinking, so that's in there.

Amanda Rose: And then I do different programming, running wise, based on their goal. So some police services require a 10 kilometre run in certain amount of time. So if their service requires that, then we're training them in the 10K, a 5K, or with the beat test. So those are kind of preset programmes that they plug into depending on where they're starting.

Amanda Rose: And then nutrition-wise, they're basically tracking their food in the food journal that I can see from my end. They either type it in or most of them just take a picture of a meal or snack and pop it in. And nutrition we go into, I don't do meal plans for them unless they really, really want them because I find for a lot of clients they don't work well because they just get frustrated if they're not sticking exactly to it. So instead I have a list of here's some great breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack ideas, here's the recipes to go with them. Some people want to kind of dive into the counting macros. So then I'll give a general guideline based on them and their activity of how many carbs, fats, proteins in a day. Some people could care less and they don't want to track it and so that's fine. So the nutrition is a kind of dependent on what they're looking for.

Amanda Rose: And then we do a coaching call every other week, which has worked fantastically. I had always in the past and every week and I thought, Oh, how am I going to get many people in? And then I was listening to one of the modules where you were saying don't do them too often and every other week, 15 minutes is usually what they are. It's been very, very well.

Chris Lynton: Yeah, it's crazy. It's almost like a mental shift that people think, Oh, if I'm taken away things, how can I charge this or will the client not like it? In actual fact, in my first visit, I tried weeklies, we moved to Fort [inaudible 00:08:10] and by far ... Like if you're tapping into someone every single week, you actually find they get less of a result because in a way becomes a bit of a redundant conversation. You kind of going through the same stuff again and everything that you're saying, it's like as soon as you do it you're like, ah, geez. Like better for me, better for them. It's just a massive win-win. Cool. All right. So question for you. What made you cancel your first two calls that you booked in with us?

Amanda Rose: The biggest thing, honestly, looking at it was fear. I like to succeed and succeed really well. And so for me, even after I had purchased it and like I said, yeah, I'm in. It was still a big fear thing. Geez, what if I launch this and I have nobody and my face to face clients knowing I'm doing this. What if they're asking me and I say I have no one. And I go weeks, months, whatever, and I have no one. And so that for me, I think that was the biggest thing.

Amanda Rose: That and then financially I thought, Oh geez, like can I afford, I didn't know what it would cost. I didn't even know. I didn't talk to anybody on the call. But then I thought, okay, I trust ... My clients paid me to coach them because I have an expertise in something they're looking for. I need to find a coach who has an expertise in what I'm looking for, so I need to be coached in this. And I mean I was saying to you earlier, it paid off in the first week. I had more than paid for the entire thing, so well, well worth it.

Chris Lynton: That's phenomenal. No, hats off. You've done the work, you've been focused and now it's interesting. So cancelled the two because of fear and financial, what was the reason why you booked in the third and you thought to yourself, look, I'm actually going to turn up and not cancel this one? What was the shift?

Amanda Rose: I was intrigued by just to learn what Tribefit had to offer and I was ready. I had a giant MasterCard bill and thought okay, I need to be doing something else here. And time wise, I needed to be cutting back on the face to face time I was spending with clients so that I could spend more time with my family. I knew I would be able to reach more people in the online training. So I think it was just a matter of the timing. I was ready then I got off the call, I said to my husband, "So I had this call, but I'm not going to do it. It might be too much." And he's like, "Well, will it be worth it?" And I said, "Yeah, I have no doubt it would be worth it." He said, "Well then, do it." And I'm glad he said that because yeah, it's been great ever since.

Chris Lynton: Yeah. Yeah. No it is that leap of faith I guess. And like you said before, I find it so powerful and even for myself in every business we've been in, if you aren't able to take the leap of faith and invest in yourself, it's almost unethical to ask other people to invest in you.

Amanda Rose: Absolutely.

Chris Lynton: And you know, one standpoint is the ethical component, but other standpoint is it's such a mental shift and I find it time and time again, that people are like, Oh well, people don't pay for things over the phone or people don't do that sort of thing. And it's like well really it's just you think you don't and then you're reflecting that on the other people.

Amanda Rose: Right. Yeah, absolutely.

Chris Lynton: If that makes sense. Cool. Okay, I think I've got one last question for you. So you've crushed it. You're going phenomenally well, which is fantastic and congratulations. Hats off to yourself, you deserve it. What's your goals for 2020?

Amanda Rose: My goals are to be almost exclusively online, by the end of the year I want to have just a small handful of face to face clients. I shouldn't say my favourites because I'm not supposed to have favourites, but probably do. So have a couple but other than that, be exclusively online and I'm looking to be by the end of the year, that I will have three to four new signups every week. So that's the goal by December of this year.

Chris Lynton: Beautiful. And financially at the end of December, if you were to look back at the business, the bank account, what would put a huge smile on your face? What's your goal and what's your dream goal?

Amanda Rose: Yeah, ideally I'm going for $200,000 a year. I mean more than that would be awesome, but that's the two year from now. I told the kids that once I'm making $100,000 a year, I'm going to bring them to Australia to visit.

Chris Lynton: Glad to have you.

Amanda Rose: So yeah, just to have that financial freedom would be great.

Chris Lynton: Fantastic. We'll look your well on your way.

Amanda Rose: Thank you.

Chris Lynton: And the next things you're about to go through, the next stages, extremely powerful and there is absolutely no reason why come December this year we'll be jumping on another call and celebrating together and getting ready to meet.

Amanda Rose: Awesome.

Chris Lynton: Booking your tickets to come over.

Amanda Rose: Fantastic. That'd be great.

Chris Lynton: Cool. As we wrap up, Amanda, I guess, if anyone's kind of in the situation you were, or maybe I'll reword it, say like, if where are you on now, if you could give yourself a word of advice five months ago, four months ago, six months ago, 12 months ago, what would you tell yourself and what would you tell someone that was probably in a similar situation right now?

Amanda Rose: Yeah, I would say just do it. Don't wait for everything to be perfect. I wanted to have everything lined up before I launched, but the module said no, just launch and things will fall into place after that. And that was so, so true. So don't wait until the right time because there may be no perfect time. Just jump into it and it will pay off huge. Just have faith in the process and you'll do great.

Chris Lynton: Beautiful. Amanda, appreciate your time. I know a lot of people listening to this are going to take some massive stuff from it and like you said, you cancelled the calls, you booked it in, you knew you want to do it. And it really is just that leap of faith to make it happen. And you've done it. Hey that happened, you got the dog in the background.

Amanda Rose: Sorry. Yes, and the kids just got home from school and he saw the bus come. I apologise.

Chris Lynton: No worries. We're about to wrap up anyway, so it's actually perfect timing.

Amanda Rose: All right.

Chris Lynton: I'll let you go. Thanks again for your time, Amanda, and we'll speak soon.

Amanda Rose: Fantastic. Thanks so much, Chris. Take care.

Chris Lynton: See you.

Amanda Rose: Thanks so much. Bye.