CPT Success Tips From Clean Health Fitness

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You are listening to the nasm cpt podcast with rick richie the official podcast of the national academy of sports medicine hello and welcome to the nasm cpt podcast my name is rick richie and today joining us is a mate from down under enjoying some cool weather while we are in our summer phase please welcome our friend sharing some trainer success tips with us today mr dane mcdonald how you doing sir i'm really well rick great to be here mate i'm uh you you are right it is uh we are in our winter still but uh australian winters aren't like u.s winters so it's i'm pretty blessed in that respect yeah i'm going to tell you if looking at your background that is not where i would be at least not in new york city in the middle of heart [Laughter]. 

Australia;

Yeah yeah it's a different look a different feel for sure definitely definitely well look hey i'm i'm happy that you're  joining us today and it's nice to have somebody with a different perspective i'm going to tell you some of the things that i know about australia fitness and one of the major things that i know is that there's a really great research that comes out of australia in regard to performance and strength and conditioning so that's definitely something that that is solid about some of the things coming out of of australia um and i know that you've worked with some heavy hitters and you started as a personal trainer and you're one of those people and this is something i appreciate dan you're one of those people that kind of level up and level up and level up again and when you say what do you do and they say i'm a personal trainer and you're like i feel like you're too qualified to say that uh but with that said i want you to tell us a little bit about who you are your story and we're going to talk about some trainer success tips.

Poliquin ;

 You and your company clean health fitness yeah i mean look definitely the research side of things here in australia we're pretty blessed right i mean i think you know going back to the 80s you had people like um ian king who worked very closely with the late charles poliquin in snc and you know working with a lot of athletes and things like that so i think you know culturally for pts there's there's been a lot of opportunity here in australia to lear from people that are very well renowned and i think for me you know my journey you know i started as a pt back in 2002 now so just under 20 years ago and you know back then i mean it was the industry was very different you know as you would know right like you know pts were you know maybe earning 30 40 50 an hour it wasn't really an industry the way it is today you know like there was a lot of um group exercise boxers eyes outdoor boot camps um you know coming into the fitness industry back in that era you know it was not looked at as a place that you could you know build a long-term career path so you know for me one of the points ofdifference that i wanted to you know get into as soon as i started was to really just level myself up educate myself.