Question is from Colin self as a trainer. What should you consider before leaving a big box gym to become an independent trainer? Oh good. What a what a I love this question. I know I love this question managing gyms It was like I would get trainers who it was always trainers I nobody else really did this in the gym, but they would get to a certain point with clients So they get a certain level of comfort and then they'd be like they start doing the math Yeah, I could make so much more money. Let's see the gym. It's charges $80 a session I'm getting paid $30 a session and then they do the math. I do 30 sessions a week Oh my gosh, I could be making this much money Doesn't work that way Here's what I always tell them if you're not crushing it in your gym If you're not like the best person in there bringing in the most sales with the most clients The odds that you'll success on your own or like yeah, I was like less than 5% You're not gonna succeed if you can't make it in a big box gym. That's the proving ground Oh, I mean you have everything every resource Accessible there at the big box gym. I mean you have all the forms you have all the potential clients like literally walking through the front door I mean like how much more do you need? To have a successful business if you're really motivated enough to produce and so again like it to sales point You do really have to prove yourself. You have to be You know one of the top ones in there that everybody knows it like you're very comfortable knowing and I mean even when I was like in that environment I remember like consulting with Adam quite a bit like it, you know What should I look out for like who's really killing it out there in the independent training world? Like all these things like where am I actually gonna market myself like what are the the venues for that? Like what kind of things like there's so many things to really consider You know even a presence online these days is humongous like a social media presence needs to be established like people need to be able to find you So I mean it's it seems daunting. It's not impossible Like it especially if you are, you know, very good at if you're very organized if you can really like, you know Manage yourself like that's something that I always, you know, probably manage myself better than anybody else So it was a good fit for me But it's definitely on that level where you know really consider where you are and your status right now in your gym Well, you were one of the top trainers at One of the biggest big box companies in the world You were one of the top trainers at 24 our fitness you left and you did well I would say successful independent trainers make up the top 1% of successful trainers That's it.  Well, this is kind of business 101 When you work for a big box gym They are providing the leads and opportunities for you Which is the single most challenging part about scaling any business No matter what we're talking about if you are trying to scale and build a business you need leads and opportunities and A company like 24 24 our fitness pays millions of dollars monthly To drive leads through the through the door Which you get the opportunity as a trainer in a big box gym to see if you can close and present and sell them on the idea that you're a good trainer and That if you can't prove to be the best at that when somebody is taking care of the most difficult part about building and scaling a business Then you you are really setting yourself up for failure to go out and try and figure that piece out Without the assistance of millions of dollars being advertised and funded to give you those leads and opportunities I remember when I was really upset that the company put a ceiling on my my overrides This is about like the eighth year that I was in the company and when I really became checked out that I was no longer gonna work for them and For me I had got used to a you know six-figure lifestyle And they were basically put a ceiling on how much money I could make and that really pissed me off and back then You you are not allowed to moonlight right as a trainer You couldn't go train somewhere else or run a boot camp While also working there and I chose to do it and when I did it though Because I was thinking okay. This could be my transition to moving out from 24-hour fitness I made a point to build my boot camp business without using a single client Yeah, that came from the gym you had to prove to yourself and it was exactly it wasn't about making money for me It was about proving to myself. Can I generate? Enough traffic to come to this boot camp class that I'm and where I'm not relying on this Lead generating machine that I'm currently working in and if I can't do that I better just fucking shut up and and take take the nonsense that I don't like that this company's laying out here for a New comp plan because I'm not good enough to go out there and do that So it was very important to me that I could do that I used to give the same advice to any trainers that are looking to transition from a big box To private is just because you build up your clientele at a big box Doesn't mean you're necessarily ready to go private like I would make a point To start to try and build a private business that is not sucking From the current one that you've been handed to from this this big box That's providing all the leads and see how difficult that is and learn to overcome that ie what Justin was saying Through marketing yourself through online social media find ways to build your business Not relying on those on any clients that you've recede from that big box take the training wheels off Absolutely, and if you can prove to yourself that you can do that then you'll probably be a trainer that will be have success when you go independent The biggest challenge I used to have with the trainers that work for me in the big boxes was how to get clients off the floor How to get new clients off the floor now? We're talking about a 35,000 square foot gym with Hundreds of workouts every single day the vast majority of these people didn't have a trainer They're already in the gym, and they're already the warmest leads you oh my god It doesn't get you more of that right they're already interested in what you have to fish in a barrel They're already interested in what you have to sell. They're working out. They're already working out They're in your house. You just go okay.  I don't know to ask them. What am I gonna do? They're gonna say no now imagine trying to do that at the grocery store. Yeah, or at Starbucks That's what happens when you're independent by the way do all that when you're independent You don't got a big old gym with lots of people working out that you can go talk to you you go outside in the real world These are people golf courses.  So if you're not crushing it like in it This is what I tell you what I got to the point working in big box gyms Managing these gyms before I went off and open my own studio. I knew this was my thing I would go into a gym, and I would bet trainers and I'd tell them I need you to go talk to people on the floor. Oh, I can't do it I'd say I bet you in the next 30 minutes. I can get someone to purchase 10 sessions off the floor I would do this to trainers all the time just to show them that was possible And I was so confident that I could go do it It was easy in a gym when I went on my own those skills came very much in handy, but it was way more difficult I would have to go inside grocery stores set up outside the whole foods go to the coffee shop talk to business owners That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing.  It's your fun. You're totally totally screwed Now if you're in a big box and you're murdering it You're crushing and the in the part that you're crushing the most at is that getting new clients That's what you're really really good at your odds are higher, but they're still not super great I'm just being very honest being an independent trainer is very difficult now There's no easy way into it now if you do it and you do it well Of course is extremely rewarding if you love fitness and you love helping people and you can make your own You know at some point you make your own schedule once you start to build a reputation Which take years by the way as an independent trainer takes years For referrals to start coming in and for you to be to have this reputation But if you do that then it is very rewarding, but it's definitely Nowhere near easy. I would say it's one of the more difficult things to do


Hi, this is the second video in my series of Latin videos and this one is about the history of Latin Latin like Greek has a very very long history and Latin like Greek is still spoken today Though we call it by different names and it's broken apart into What we now today consider to be different languages, but originally were just local dialects of Latin Latin like Greek and English and Russian and oh German are all Indo-European languages Latin is on the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family and it was a small language up until the Roman Republic got up and going strong in Italy and even then it wasn't The dominant language was the most important language, but it hadn't just smothered out All of the other languages being spoken in the Italian in the Italian Peninsula at the time Other languages related to Latin spoken in the Italian Peninsula would be Oskine and Umbrian those would be two other languages on the italic branch of the Indo-European Family Greek believe it or not was spoken rather widely in Sicily and southern Italy That was called mania craichia by the Latin by the Latin-speaking population in modern Tuscany and in fact Tuscany that's where Etruscan was spoken and that was a Language we don't know a whole lot about it doesn't seem to be related to any language so far as we can tell Maybe some people think it's related to Basque or maybe it's related to some ancient languages in Turkey who knows But Etruscan lent Latin many many words Latin got the word for ant for Mika from Etruscan and I can't remember the word off the top of my head who in turn had borrowed it from the Greeks, so there was a lot of cross-cultural play going on And in the early history of Latin we don't have a whole lot of written record. There's some Some of the earliest maybe their forgeries as we get later. It's more and more certain what it is but Latin literature doesn't really start until about the 200s BC with Plotus and Terence and they were both playwrights who Took Greek plays and adapted them for Roman audiences. I hesitate to use the word stall, but That's effectively what they did And they were among the earliest Latin writers The first big phase that we're interested in of Latin literature and again That's what we have left is the literature because there were no recordings of Latin speaking people And the literature didn't really though in some spots sort of it didn't really Convey how people actually spoke day-to-day in the street. That's something we're not real sure of We've got an idea But we're not dead certain what people on the street actually spoke like the first chunk of literature is Generally split into a couple of periods. There's early Latin literature. There's the golden age and there's a silver age But I would all lump that into a Heading I I tend to call classical Latin. These are the writers who Looking back From the medieval era and from the Renaissance era and from now we look back and say these are the guys who set Latin as it is If if you want to write in Latin, you've kind of got to write like these guys or else who're writing something else Among them were Virgil who wrote the Aeneid and the eclogs Cicero who Wrote everything. He was a speaker. He was a politician. He was a bit of a philosopher. He Wrote many letters to his friends that we still have Other authors in this period be Horace Julius Caesar Catullus a mix of historians Livy Salist poets Juvenile and just all sorts of things really but the the big ones that come to mind to my mind anywhere our poetry and history Maybe you can tell what I like to read and After that is silver Latin and it's considered not to be as good as gold in the age Latin, but It's still perfectly good Latin Among them plenty the younger who is an eyewitness to the Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD and later writing to a friend of his Explaining what he saw at the eruption Petronius who wrote the satiricon and Petronius is interesting because he gives us an idea of what Latin was actually spoken like I don't want to say that it's a perfect idea Because after all written language isn't spoken language, but Petronius gives us an insight So after this big classical Latin phase, I say the next important block of Latin is medieval Latin and Medieval Latin in many ways is a slightly different language But still within the bounds of classical Latin if you learn classical Latin you can then go on to read medieval Latin and in fact If you speak a Western European language Particularly one of the modern romance languages you may find Much medieval Latin to be much much easier to read the word order is simpler the sentence structure is simpler and Simpler isn't the right word It's more like what you use in your day-to-day life Examples of that would be the Gesta Romanorum collection of moral tales that priests would use in their homilies to Make a moral point without beating everyone over the head with scripture or so that they can make a moral point and then relate it over to Scripture, but that's the Gesta Romanorum many philosophers Christian philosophers are Tertullian St. Augustine many many others wrote in Latin and Falls into the category and medieval Latin is a very wide category There are people who write more like the classical standard and people who write less like the classical standard It's it's a wide mishmash and part of it part of what you're seeing in medieval Latin is the breakup of Latin is a unified language into the modern romance languages And that's what you're starting to see Then as we move on towards the Renaissance You have several authors saying well. Hey, wait a second. We're not really writing very good Latin. It sounds kind of like Whatever it is. We're speaking at home But with all the case endings and verb endings and the like Let's go back and read Cicero and the other classical authors and model our Latin on them So that we can write a purer standard of Latin. I I don't want to say that's a bad tack. It's very useful to us as Latin learners So that we can then go on and have one Latin language or nearly one It's unlike the situation in Greek in Greek There are several dialects and they can be quite different from each other whereas in Latin. There's more or less One standard all the way through you have the classical Latin It gets a little fuzzy over here in medieval Latin and then it Kind of snaps back to the standard with Renaissance Latin and there are many fine authors in Renaissance Latin the two that come to my mind are Thomas Moore and Erasmus both of whom are superb Latin writers Thomas Moore wrote his utopia in Latin So don't think that even though he was English and you've read it in English that he wrote it in English Utopia was written in Latin and again a Lot of the work a day communication among educated people was done in Latin up to about the Renaissance At that point Latin died its second death and there I don't want to say there's been nothing written in Latin since but Latin literature has not been a vital Tradition since then and again, I'm sure I'll get a lot of people saying oh no no no no it's for real it's for real but a Lot of what we have nowadays are translations of the first two Harry Potter books both very fun to read Winnie the Pooh translated into Latin green eggs and ham Ferdinand the bull and they're fun But they're modern Latin and they're very definitely modeled on classical Latin And this is all the literary Bit of Latin and I I need to emphasize it this that Latin has Two levels to it and the one that we study is the literary level And it's probably not the same as just the regular spoken Latin, which was called vulgar not because it was dirty or unpleasant or gross but because Wolgus is the word for crowd and vulgar is the Adjective that we use in English to describe something just common and vulgar Latin was spoken very widely for a very long time and Is still spoken today? However, we just know it under different names. We know it under and excuse me if you are a row romance speaking Native and I don't name your language. I'll name the big ones Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian and Romanian oh and Portuguese Portuguese is also very large Those are the modern spoken languages the modern spoken versions of vulgar Latin that survive to this day And you can still go to these people and speak Latin with them, but we just call it by different name They're Latin in the same way that the English we speak is the same English that the writer of Beowulf wrote So Latin is indeed a living language It just goes by different names these days because well, it's rather a bit Different and it fractured in different directions. So that's kind of the history of Latin. So there's two levels There's the literary level, which is what most people study and it stays relatively the same throughout history and there's the Spoken level of Latin and it changed over history from a small language spoken in central Italy to across the entire Italian Peninsula and then all of Western Europe and much of the Roman world and then it fractured after the fall of the Roman Empire became all of the modern romance languages Next up materials


Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Thursday Theorist. Today we are talking about Stephen King's first published short story collection night shift. I'm gonna be going through these and connecting the stories that that I can connect anyways But also I'm gonna leave some stuff out. I'm gonna let you guys down there in the comments below Tell me stuff that you guys found on your own You can sheet if you want to and go running around to the Stephen King wiki or to the actual Connections page on his website. You can if you want to I think it'd be more fun If you guys use your actual knowledge and let me know what you caught that I did not mention in this episode down below If you want to get my full review and read through All of my catches from this you can go to Goodreads.com. There's a I'll leave a link down there in the doobly-doo to my review And it'll give you all the connections that I made so first and foremost we were gonna go to Jerusalem's lot or as it's more popularly popularly known as Salem's lot This the short story Jerusalem's lot is far more Lovecraftian than it is vampires or anything like that is a very dark Insidious story. It's all right. I am not a huge fan of the way it's written. I'm just I mean King doesn't write like King in that story King writes like Lovecraft. I mean that's exactly what it felt like and I'm not a big fan of Lovecraft So I'm not a fan of the story The funny part about it is that this is one of two Salem's lot themed stories in this book and of course Salem's lot comes into play with the dark tower because of father Callahan He's in the Wolves of the Kala song of Susanna and I think he spoilers and all that remember these are spoiler videos He dies in the dark tower now next one is Let's see here a night surf. I think it is I'm pretty sure night surf is the one from the stand if I remember correctly. Hang on. Let me go through here I am the doorway It's the plague Yeah This is where the people are on the beach and they're talking about the smell of the smell of the burning flesh from the bodies That they're getting rid of I found that extremely interesting that he would write a short story Considering how big and vast the stand is that he would go and write a short story based on that let's see here next up is Gray matter gray matter is important and same with the boogeyman which are both in here Gray matter is important because I believe that Pennywise is a gray and the thing that leads me to believe that the most is the way Pennywise introduces himself at the beginning of it as I'm either mr. Bob gray or Pennywise the dancing clown And gray matter is all about some kind of alien shapeshifting thing And it also ties into spoilers for the outsiders It ties into the end of the outsider as well because of the the mass That you see in the story gray matter fits the changing of the outsider in the outsider So all these things tie together. I find that really cool Let's see here. There was one more on one to bring up. Let's see here One for the road is the last Salem's lot story Other than if you go wolves of the Kala they go back and they talk a little more about what happened to Salem's lot but in one for the road It's probably one of Stephen King's more frightening stories because if you haven't read is or if you have read It's more frightening knowing what the thing is a car breaks down They end up going out and checking on it They end up breaking down the outskirts of Salem's lot and you realize that all these vampires are still Running around the area And causing havoc and they're still dangerous and I think there's a there's a part Is this gonna be word for word? but he talks about the glowing red eyes in the dark and I had a blast wondering maybe who from Salem's lot that Was that happened to traits out, you know into the Surrounding area to come see about the broke-down car. Anyways, so what connections what stories connect for you? What connections did you find? I want to know make this a community thing Let me know down there in the comments below, but until next time I have any you've in you This has been another Thursday theorist review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye


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