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Old 01-15-2009, 01:22 PM   #11 (permalink)
John Izzo
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I don't favor online training when it is exclusively online. I DO provide online consulation to my home clients. For instance, I set up all my home clients with Fit-Day profiles using their last name as passwords. Then every night, I will check their nutrition input and send them an email to encourage, remind, or suggest them on different menu's. This has been a blast for my clients, becuase once a week they have me in their house training them (and you can't beat having Izzo in your house) and then they have constant encouragement and support from me through email.

I have one managment consulting international client that we deal exclusively through email, but they are not pertaining to fitness training. We deal more with managing a fitness staff and I shoot him advice. Its works out very well.

Again, I am not a big fan of "training" people online without ever meeting them. I know there is a big business out there for it, but I don't feel I can't be as effective when I am trying to change someone's life by typing. I need interaction.
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