About Dave McGarry

I am a fitness and nutrition coach who has a passion for impacting and transforming lives both physically and mentally! From an early age I loved to work out and push myself to achieve better results physically and mentally. Over the past several decades I have helped hundreds of people get fit and change their lives. Now, I am on a mission to impact and change the lives of 5 million people across the globe. Your health is your wealth and I am here to serve others by sharing my knowledge and passion for health and wellness!

Are you in Control of your Destiny?

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Dave McGarry

From time to time I get some really good emails from a bunch of different sources and when I do I want to share them with you. Read this email from Steve Straus. It is insightful when thinking about risk.

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Steve Straus – Coach Subscribers: 1500+ Readers: 3000+ 16SEP09
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Today’s Topic – PRINCIPLE: Risk
(Principles are basic truths that, when applied,
cause success to come to you easier and quicker.)

New research on the topic of risk has surfaced some
intriguing insights, namely that we have risk and control
intertwined.

If you feel in control of a situation, you will take on a
greater amount of risk than if you feel you are not in
control.

For instance, consider a skydiver. He or she clearly
assumes a level of risk by jumping out of an airplane.
That risk to life-and-limb is much greater than they
have as a passenger in a modern commercial airliner
in regular service, but they may be terrified to fly!

The difference? In the skydiving activity they are (or
at least believe they are) in full control of their destiny.
As a passenger in the airliner they have given up all
control to a stranger in the cockpit.

Another example — an entrepreneur may have a higher
risk of financial security than a corporate employee,
but having greater personal control of their destiny
may trump the “safety” of the corporate job.

When you notice potential risk also notice possible
control. Having a greater sense of control may let
you take on much greater risk.

Coaching Point: Do you control your destiny? Does it
feel risky?

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It is Lonely at the Top

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Dave McGarry

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The first two weeks of the college football season is over and my team is still atop the national rankings. I know a lot of my friends will give me a hard time for the teams we played the last two weeks but regardless of who we played there are always going to be people who will be naysayers or will try to bring you down. You need to avoid these people like the plague. And if you have personal training clients that do nothing but bring your enthusiasm or passion down every time you meet with them it is a must to cut ties immediately. In all the years that I have been involved in managing personal trainers I have never seen a positive outcome occur when a personal trainer has a client that does not connect with them. I know it is difficult to turn down a paid personal training session but let me tell you that in the long run you will come out ahead if you sever the relationship before it gets out of control. So, the take away from this post is that there is going to be a time when you encounter someone who is going to try and take you down and if that occurs stand up and be a leader. Tell the personal training client that you can no longer work with them and move on. Trust me you will stay on top if you listen to me!

Coach D

Happy New Year!

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Dave McGarry

Happy New Year! No, I am not crazy. Let me explain. Ever since I started in the fitness industry some 14 years ago I always thought Sept 1st seemed a little different. What I mean is typically Labor Day weekend falls right about now and once the holiday is over you get a ton of people into the gym. I am not exactly sure why but I can bet you that most people took the summer off and now after several months of laying around they are ready to get moving. With all this new motivation it tends to be just like the New Year in terms of people setting goals and getting back into shape. The question I have for you is what have you done to prepare for this new wave of prospects back into the gym? Have you looked at your goals you set at the beginning of the year? ( You did set and write down your goals, right?) If you have not reached the financial goals you set back in January you have 4 months to reach them and don’t forget you have several holidays that will get in your way. The main point I want you to take away from this post today is that you can bet on the fact people are motivated to start personal training again and you need to also look at the goals you set for yourself back on one of those cold January days.

I love Back to School

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Dave McGarry

Today was the first day of school for us here in Texas! I always loved the first day of school. For me I always felt like I had another shot at doing better and making better grades. Unfortunately, I seemed to always care more about sports and friends. Well, I guess I do not feel that bad for me because I had some great times and would not change it for the world. I do however, wished I would have spent more time learning back then. The funny thing is I did not start really studying until after college. Okay, I am sure you are wondering what am I getting at so I will get to my quick point today.

Today is the first day of school and for the most part kids are starting over and have the opportunity to make things right for the year but for you and me we do not have to wait until the next school year to make things right. Each day we can approach our career and day as a brand new start. If there is something you want to get better at then set a goal to become better. if you want to change a bad habit that start practicing the discipline you need to break it. Don’t wait until next year to get better and start fresh. Start today and live the life you have always wanted to live.

Times are a Changing

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Dave McGarry

Have you noticed the changing of the sun in relationship to the sky? Every year there comes a day when I walk outside and say, “Oh, fall is coming, the shadows are different.” Okay, you are probably like my wife and say, “really?” Well, maybe she is right and it is not as obvious to everyone else but one thing I am certain of and that is times are a changing. Hurricane season, back to school, and football is here and that means you need to be done with the lazy days of summer and start planning for the rest of the year. Here is what you need to do to go along with these changing times.

1.) Revisit your goals that you set back for yourself in January and see which ones still seem relavant and important to accomplish this year.

2.) Go back to your client list and start making calls to get more people back into your personal training schedule. (You do have a list, right?)

3.) Decide whether or not you are going to raise your rates now or wait till January. Yes, even in a recession you can raise your rates.

4.) Get motivated again. Summer can be a really depressing time for personal trainers because clients are of town for a month and business is slow, so pick up a book that is motivational and start reading.

So the question now is will you go with these changing times or will you stand still and wait for things to happen. I hope you will go with the times and create the success you deserve. By the way I love the fall so you can expect more of these of the cuff posts. Until the next one, go get em!