
Luke Carlson
Luke Carlson (luke @ discoverstrength.com) is a Certified Exercise Physiologist & Kinesiologist, and CEO of Discover Strength, a personal training business based in Minneapolis and four other personal training facilities in Minnesota.
Luke is a sought after speaker on leadership and business management. Once a year, Luke and the Discover Strength team host the Resistance Exercise Conference.
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If you’ve been thinking about starting your own HIT studio business, you need to consider the whole picture, and tune in as Luke enumerates the 10 reasons why you should NOT start a HIT business.
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Show Notes
- 2:14 – You don’t enjoy human interaction
- 3:59 – You’re not comfortable selling
- 7:55 – You’re not willing to commit to learning more about business
- 12:30 – You’re not comfortable signing the front of a cheque but not the back of the cheque
- 15:21 – You’re not comfortable with public failure
- 24:34 – You don’t love it, live it, breathe it
- 30:01 – You don’t like developing and writing systems & processes
- 33:15 – You’re not passionate about growing other personal trainers
- 38:17 – You lack focus
- 45:20 – You have low ‘C’ (Capacity)
- 50:59 – You’re not interested in working early mornings, and evenings, and weekends
Selected Links from the Episode
- Discover Strength
- Minnesota Vikings
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It
- University of Minnesota
- How to Win Customers and Keep Them for Life by Michael LeBoeuf
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman
- Eisenhower Matrix
- 170 – Luke Carlson – How To Delegate In Your High Intensity Strength Training Business (includes delegation matrix)
- High Intensity Business
- 215 – Luke Carlson – How to Attract and Keep Great Personal Trainers in your HIT Business Part 1
- 220 – Luke Carlson – How to Attract and Keep Great Personal Trainers in your HIT Business Part 2
- Resistance Exercise Conference (REC)
- Level 5 Leadership
- Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
- Nautilus Inc.
- 276 – Luke Carlson – 10 Reasons to Start a HIT Business
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