The Metronome Method by Al Coleman — HIT Personal Training

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Al Coleman

What’s the best way to give your personal training clients exercise instruction that makes them enjoy their workout sessions with you instead of dreading these and eventually driving them to quit?

Al Coleman returns to the podcast to talk about the power of his Metronome Method and how you can tap into the science of attention to give your clients workout sessions that essentially run themselves automatically!

Al is the founder of Automated Muscle and is an experienced strength trainer and highly esteemed expert in high-intensity training (HIT). He has worked as the Director of Education for RenEx, Overload Fitness, and PHX strength, working with strength training masters such as Ken Hutchins, Josh Trentine, and Gus Diamantopoulos.

In this episode, we discuss how you can be the most effective at exercise instruction, how to make your clients love their workouts, his unique Metronome Method, and more — including some thoughts about personal training approaches that might be quite controversial!

If you want to sharpen your exercise instruction skills and stand out from your competition, this episode has a lot to offer you!

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Show Notes

03:06 – On athletics, business, and approaching strength training like a craftsman
07:42 – What drives Al Coleman to approach his profession the way he does
15:40 – The Metronome Method by Al Coleman — what’s it about?
25:06 – Why Al thinks HIT trainers constantly talking a client through each rep is sub-optimal
28:41 – The science behind why certain ways of instructing clients are better
32:17 – Has Al discovered a way to remove the “discomfort” objection to High-Intensity Training? (Incorporating neuroscience to optimize strength training workouts)
43:10 – Learning to workout well is a skill and enjoying it is one of its side effects
45:36 – The Metronome Method in practice (and some surprising observations on execution, rep speed, timing, and range of motion)
53:43 – What are pre-programming assessments? How do these help your clients?
59:05 – Why a lot of personal trainers are largely ineffective at providing good exercise instruction

Note: these are the timestamps for the audio edition. For the video edition’s timestamps, please see the YouTube description box for this episode.