Great work @Sara Rufener. Excited to see your channel grow and see how it impacts your business.

Since we know how beneficial strength training is for all types of physiological effects like glucose uptake, blood pressure improvements, cardiovascular improvements, mental wellness, etc; what would be the optimal dose and frequency to maximize all the health benefits of strength training? Obviously, for muscle hypertrophy and strength gains we need rest in-between workouts, but are we missing out on all the other, maybe even more important, benefits of strength training by limiting our sessions to once or twice a week? I’m curious if maybe training more frequently, but using a split routine might get you the health benefits from strength training without overtraining problems. How best to balance out all the benefits of strength training through increasing frequency with the need for rest and recovery and super-adaptation. Thoughts?

I want to invite a few people to this group. What’s the best way to do that?

What kind of tracking software is everyone using? Are you using paper sheets, Google sheets or forms, or some other kind of software? I remember Lawrence did a podcast with a company that designed tracking software for gyms at one point, but I can’t remember their name or if they are even still around.

I’m curious what the general consensus is on how you pay trainers. Do you pay them as employees or contractors? Are they hourly employees and then if they don’t have clients how do you deal with that? Are they responsible for filling their own schedules? The way my gym currently does it is we are scheduled by the owner and we are paid per client. We can take two in an hour so every 30 minutes. If we happen to not have anyone scheduled for a half hour session or maybe multiple half hour sessions each day we don’t receive any compensation. Is that how most gems run?