<p>Gareth Sapstead is a strength and performance coach, author, and the founder of EPT Lab.</p><p><br></p><p>For 20 years, Gareth has worked with Olympians, world champions, and high-performing professionals who all had the same problem: plenty of drive, but no margin for guesswork.</p><p><br></p><p>His work focuses on building strength, health, and physiques that don&#39;t fall apart when life gets busy, because results that can&#39;t be sustained don&#39;t count.</p><p><br></p><p> He is an author, writer, and international speaker whose work has been featured in <em>The New York Times, Muscle &amp; Fitness, Men&#39;s Fitness, </em>and <em>Men&#39;s Health.</em><br></p><p><u><strong>IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN:</strong></u></p><p>=&gt; How Gareth built up his personal training career over the last 20-years and 3 big things you can learn from it.</p><p>=&gt; Why Gareth got bored with a very successful online coaching business and opened up his own gym. </p><p>=&gt; What can you learn from “the educational era” that Gareth and I went through in the early 2000’s</p><p>=&gt; What is the #1 priority when training athletes, that many coaches miss.</p><p>=&gt; What the assessment process looks like with a client offline and online (since online is significantly harder). </p><p>=&gt; Why the first 30-days is a training and nutrition “shot in the dark” even though most coaches won’t admit it.</p><p>=&gt; How Gareth uses the conjugate model for different clients from pro athletes, physique athletes, executives, or other general population clients. </p><p>=&gt; The weekly program design breakdown and template Gareth uses with different types of clients.</p><p>=&gt; Why contrast training makes sense for general population for saving time. </p><p>=&gt; The high low model, power, strength and muscle building training, and also conditioning; how to put it all together in a training day and training week. </p><p>=&gt; The structure of how Gareth runs EPT Lab, from leads to assessment, sales, to giving clients to their coaches, and the onboarding of each client.</p><p>=&gt; Why did Gareth choose to lose $10k/month from online coaching to do what he is currently doing.</p><p>=&gt; Being a person of value and getting your foot in the door with opportunities requires getting around people you want to be like.</p><p>=&gt; Finding your Yoda and finding your peers that make you better is still one of the most underrated things you can do to get ahead. </p><p>=&gt; How to get eyeballs on your brand, and how to create content as a coach to get the most effect for your business. </p><p>=&gt; How Gareth published his first book and the BIG lessons you can take from it.</p><p><br></p><p><u><strong>LINKS &amp; RESOURCES:</strong></u></p><p>Gareth Sapstead Website: <a href="https://thefitnessmaverick.com/" target="_blank">https://thefitnessmaverick.com/</a></p><p>Gareth Sapstead Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thefitnessmaverick/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thefitnessmaverick/</a></p><p>Book: 100 Of The Best Physique Workouts <a href="https://us.humankinetics.com/products/100-best-physique-workouts" target="_blank">https://us.humankinetics.com/products/100-best-physique-workouts</a></p><p>Super Coach Mentorship <a href="https://lukahocevar.com/super-coach-mentorship/" target="_blank"><strong>https://lukahocevar.com/super-coach-mentorship/</strong></a></p><p>Luka Hocevar YouTube Channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@Luka-Hocevar/videos" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@Luka-Hocevar/videos</a></p>