The Show Up Fitness Podcast

Chris Hitchko

chris@showupfitness.com

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Booking Overview

This podcast is built for fitness professionals—especially personal trainers—who want to improve both their coaching skill and their business outcomes. Chris Hitchko focuses on practical tradecraft, client programming, and revenue/retention strategy, with occasional guest perspectives from working trainers and gym leaders.

Metrics

Episodes: 366

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 96.3k subscribers

Instagram: 22.0k followers

Contact Information

chris@showupfitness.com

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Host

Chris Hitchko - Author of “How to Become A Successful Personal Trainer” (Vol. 2) and CEO of Show Up Fitness. He leads a mentorship- and assessment-first approach to personal trainer development and runs the Show U...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Working personal trainers, PT managers/leaders, or coaches tied to recognizable commercial gym brands; ideally with first-hand insights on training culture, retention, and practical business/leadership outcomes.
Required Achievements:  
Progressed from frontline PT to leadership (e.g., PT manager/team lead), Demonstrated client retention improvements or development-focused coaching culture, Experience delivering coaching within scope and using hands-on/continuing-ed assessment tools, Multi-certification experience across training systems (as a practical hiring/green-flag example)

Recent Guest Discussions

Caleb Kinney Woods - Leadership From Frontline Trainer To Managing 30+ Coaches; Hiring Signals; Trainer Turnover And Client Trust; Development-focused Culture; Value Prop Selling And Program Prescription; Continuing Education And Referring Out

Lili - Real Early-career Experience At A Commercial Gym; Trainer Pay/commission Structure; Burnout And Session-volume Pressure; Continuing Education Focused On Coaching/assessments; Tools To Stay Within Scope And Help Clients Feel Better

Recent Topics

Personal Training, Fitness Business, Coaching, Certification, Client Retention

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
The Show Up Fitness Podcast
:

How to get personal training clients CHIROPRACTORS

May 30, 2026

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why!How to become a successful personal trainer vol 2 has an entire chapter on getting clients - 10 R's of getting clients. If you want to become a successful personal trainer, start by reading the book, not an 800 page textbook.You can be an amazing trainer and still struggle to get clients if your marketing is built on hope instead of systems. I’m sharing a simple referral strategy that consistently brings in high-quality le...

Why FAT LOSS is so confusing PART 2 MACROS | How to Become A Nutrition Coach

May 30, 2026

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why!If you want to become a nutrition coach and make over 30k EXTRA dollars as a personal trainer, SUF-NC teaches you the fundamentals of nutritional science, teaches you how to scale a new stream of revenue and you get to work alongside of a registered dietitian. showupfitness.comTwo tacos should be an easy entry in a food tracker, right? We start with a simple photo test that exposes a brutal truth about weight loss: most of us a...

Life of a Personal Trainer at Life Time w/ PTL1 Manager Caleb in Colorado

May 25, 2026

Send us a text if you want to be on the Podcast & explain why!You can spot the difference between a trainer who memorized a manual and a coach who can change someone’s life, and it usually shows up in the messy middle: the first gym job, the first hard “no,” the first client who trusts you with a real goal. We’re joined by Caleb Kinney Woods (PTL1 at Lifetime Westminster) to talk about what it takes to grow from frontline trainer to leading a team of 30+ coaches, without losing the craft ...

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