The Playbook of Life: Coaching, Strength, and Finding Your Field with Phil Dominguez

You're listening to the PT Proffitt podcast, episode number 331. Today we are talking about the playbook of life coaching, strength, and finding your field with Phil Dominguez. Are you ready? Let's get started.

Hi, I'm Beverly Simpson, former fitness manager turned online personal training business owner. And this podcast is where smart fitness professionals, including trainers and clinicians, discover how to increase increase client performance and movement, package and position their products and services and get out of their own way so that they can increase their revenue to live a life that they love without sleazy sales. Welcome to the PT Profit Podcast.

Welcome back to the PT Profit Podcast. My name is Chris and sometimes I do the intros here to help out Beverly with the podcast. And today I have the distinct privilege and honor to introduce to you the one and only Phil Dominguez. The reason why I can add in such enthusiasm to this introduction is because I have had the opportunity to get to know him one on one. He has attended the big fitness conference that we have up here in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was there last year. I think he'll probably be back again this year. And I got to hang out with him when I went to the Real Coaches Summit in Vegas. And what I can tell you about Phil is that he truly wears his heart on his sleeve. He's truly a wonderful human being. Very caring, very passionate, great person for this industry. Someone who loves to connect, someone who loves genuine connection. So I have some homework for you. First piece of homework is I invite you to check out the revamped 10K blueprint. We have that now in a secret podcast form. So if you want access to that, we'll have some links in the show, notes how you can access some of our cool resources. But also you can send Beverly, a DM to Simpson Fitness and she'll be able to connect you with the links or join our Facebook group where you can talk about content, talk about your wins, and we can celebrate together. Second piece of homework for you is if you follow Phil, you should find him now. I'm gonna. I'm actually in real time. I'm gonna find his Instagram handle so you can track him down. So if we look for Phil, his Instagram handle is philly2434. If you enjoy this episode, I highly encourage you to send him a voice memo or a video because it'll absolutely make his day. Those gestures mean the world to him. He's someone that's definitely worth connection. I hope you enjoy this episode. We dive into some of Phil's background as a coach and his journey as a trainer, some of the things that make him stand out and some of the things that he enjoys about the.

Work that he does.

But without taking up too much more of your time, let's go ahead and roll that inter you.

What's up, Phil? Thank you so much for joining me on the show today. How are you?

I am phenomenal. Thank you so much for having me. I know everyone says that, but, like, for us that are new to the podcasting world, this is so fun. So thank you very much for chitchat with you.

I love it. I'm super pumped that you're here. I can't wait to get started. So let's just go ahead and dive in. You were starting to share a little bit about who you are and who you serve, so I'd love for you to share with all of us a little bit about who you are, who you serve, and how you got there.

All right, well, for those that don't know, Phil Dominguez, I'm from Los Angeles, California. Small little town, Bell Gardens. I started my football coaching career there in 2005. I was a high school football coach for about 10 years as a staff. We all left in 2012, took a small break, and that staff actually went over to a rival school that they're there this year. They've been there since 2015, and I'm actually joining them on staff. Kind of funny, the wide receiver coach this year, something that I've done in the past. It started because I just loved football. I loved the program that I came from and the tools that it gave me. The foundation of just being able to work in any aspect. A go getter attitude mentality, just those things that any athletic sport can teach you. But with football, it's just. It's a little different just because. Because you're, you know, it's all dudes and this and that. So you get the camaraderie of all that. You know, I was able to find some really good mentors off of that, too. I'm still in contact with this day as we're all looking for mentors and. And skill sets. As a coach, we. We like mentors because they lead us into the directions where we want to be at. So that's kind of how it started. It just started because I loved football. Personal training started in 2021 during. Well, at the end of the pandemic, I started buying just a bunch of equipment here at the home gym, and it just took off. My friends Started asking to train me and what I learned through football in the weight room and strength and conditioning, I kind of just led into that. I hooked up with this group called Show Up Fitness. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Mr. Chris Hitchco. Chris Hitchco. And on our group show we teach an online internship of marketing. We do. Not necessarily marketing, I'm sorry, more business aspect but anatomy programming, how to program for different populations, everything and anything you can think of. He has a very broad network. We work with the Prehab guys and just a bunch of different people. I was able to meet Tony Gentlecourt through them and spent a lot of time with Tony G. I learned a lot of the shoulder assessment stuff, the hip assessment stuff from him. All in a nutshell. It's, it's. That's about a good 18 year kind of small little window career for me.

That's amazing. I mean that's amazing.

I love it.

Okay, so did you ever play football?

I did. I only in high school. I only I played the four years and I just loved it so much. I'm a little itty bitty dude and I just kind of. You kind of play above your. Above what you're given talent wise. I was not given very much talent but I gave everything that I had with what I had and that kind of propelled me to where I was at now. I started looking at film a lot early when I was a senior in high school. Going into my senior year that led me to the coaching thing because I took the initiative to kind of learn the playbook which kept it the same and I was able to teach it to the next incoming classes and so on and so forth.

Interesting. I'm going to ask a question that might be interesting or you might might be surprised, but I'm just curious. Did you ever get into any type of like imposter syndrome feeling like, you know, I never played football professionally, who am I to be teaching it? Like did you ever than that?

I suffer that from right now specifically going back into it. I haven't coached since 2015 and I feel like I'm a lot behind right now. So you have to just do a little work on that point. You have to do a little research on, on the position that you're going to be coaching on whatever demographic you're going to be, you're going to be coaching or skill set you're going to be teaching. So I had to do a lot of, a lot of film work in the past two months to kind of catch me up to where football's at right now and the different little techniques that I haven't been a part of for the last 10 years. So that was. The imposter syndrome is like, I know I can do it. I just need to go back and do the work to catch me up to work. What I've been missing.

It's interesting. I asked and I asked specifically in that way because I know a lot of coaches, especially online, like, especially when now with the. With the age of. Of social media, it's very easy to compare their skill set or their levels or whatever based on other people, what other people are doing or feeling. Like I'm not a dancer. Who am I to be training dancers? That type of thinking usually gets exacerbated with social media. So I'm always very happy when I get to speak to an expert who identifies as an expert, who might not be the. Necessarily the avatar because it's like Steven Spielberg isn't the leading actor, but he's one of the greatest directors of all time. So it's like, you know, it's some. So I like coaches to remember that as they're starting to begin or, you know, grow their skill set. That's why I asked. That's not.

No, it's great. I love just reading about coaches, so that's kind of really helped me along the way because I'm an avid reader. But the books that I've chosen to read are the ones that are going to help me not just in football, but the leadership aspect, because football is a lot of leadership teaching a lot of leadership skills on getting guys to do what you want them to do. So you have a functional program. Right. You can teach them to be leaders at a young age, everything kind of trickles down. And you don't have to be setting like these. These. These rules, like, hey, we got to start practice at 7:50. Like, they kind of understand, hey, we're 10 minutes early on. Practice is going already. You know, that's what set me up for the foundation that I have now. I'm constantly early for my sessions. I'm constantly work whatever it is. Those things set you up for a nice foundation later on in life.

So true. And wouldn't you say those skills transcend as a coach when it comes to learning, leading, and facilitating behavior change for the general population?

Yes, I. You have to put yourself in that person's shoes. You have to. Like, if you're not thinking, like, if I'm trying to train myself, yay, that's good. And Danny. But I'M trying to train you. Like, I have to think of, all right, what's your day like? What do you do? What's your job like? How many days do you have to work out? What days do you have to work out? What equipment do you have access to? So I have to think about all these things. You're completely different than my. Than my lifestyle. So I have to adapt to that as a coach. I have to put myself and think like, Okay, I have 40 minutes here. I could be able to get a workout here, but that's going to be stressful, a little bit too much. Let me just save it to the next day where I can get the full hour in and I'm good to go. You know, just thinking and altering those types of changes and habit skills are essential as a coach. You have to have patience.

So true. So true. Okay, so there's something you were talking about right before we hit record, and I'd love for you to dive a little deeper into it when you were talking about mobility and assessment. These two you feel like are like your wheelhouse. You love it. And so I actually kind of want to dive into mobility only because it's something. I mean, listen, it's been on my mind recently where I've started to think to myself, like, maybe I'm not training my mobility enough. I can't tell. So out of selfish reasons, I want to know. Can tell us about, you know, can you just tell me a little bit about how you define mobility training? Where do you program it and why is it important?

You can go down a bunch of different rabbit holes with this on what people think mobility is and what mobility truly is. And this looks mobility. This is a cool mobility drill. Is it really? Mobility is strength training plus stretching. That's what mobility is. You are able to do in mobility. Can you take this joint through the range of motion that it can go through? Can you control it through that range of motion, and do you have access to that range of motion? A lot of people think they need a lot of mobility drills to get more access to certain things. But if you're going back to your assessment and your breathing, sometimes you just need a little breathing Change your diaphragm, whether you're parasympathetic or if you're turned on a little much. Turned on, meaning, like, you, anxiety, doubt, stress, you're just a little up here. We want to get you to relax a little bit and come down here. Let's just turn it down a little bit. Once you can do that. You'll see that your joints, specifically your hip joints and your shoulder joints, they'll have more mobility. You'll be able to reach a little bit further, you'll be able to control it just a little bit better. That is what I define as mobility. Strength training plus mobility. Now, you can do a bunch of different drills. I like to do drills where you're holding it and maintaining it through the position. So I think of like hip cars and shoulder cars controlled particular rotations. So if you're taking, so if you're doing your hip joint, you're taking it through flexion, you're taking it to a reduction, taking it back down, back up, all, all the motions it can go through, but you're not rushing through it, you're controlling through that motion. So if you're able to pick your leg up really quickly, it should be like a nice three to four second lift while you swing your leg open. It should be nice three to four, three to four seconds. And then, you know, playing when it's that way, that's mobility. That's really controlling it through that range of motion. Decent answer for you.

No, no, no. You did, you answered my question. You said there were three things that. I didn't write it down. You said control, so you said access through the, the range of motion, control through the range of motion. What was the third one?

So access and strength.

Strength, that's right.

Got it.

Okay, so now you, you also used a buzzword that, you know, we hear in the industry all the time. It's a. You, you talked about stretching. You said strength and stretching. You see, everyone's talking about how, you know, static stretching is no go. So what do you mean specifically when you're talking about stretching?

What I mean by that is by loading your stretching somehow, some way you can. I, I'll use this example. It's not the very best one, but for most people that understand who he is, Mr. Knees Over Toes guy, he'll do some type of knee very far over his toe. That, to me it looks insane, right? He can control his, his range, his range of motion very well. A lot of people can't do that. Most people want to get to that level. To me, that's not, it's not really like a true exercise. He's just taking his, his joint through range. He calls it like an ATG squat or something like that. Essentially it's just a split squat and he's just overtaking it through the range of motion that can truly, truly go to the, that is what is Kind of the idea of it where you can control that joint through whatever you're going, whatever plane you're moving it through. With some type of blue. Sorry. With some type of blue.

So now when we're having this discussion about mobility and strength and stretching, we also have, I'm also curious about, you know, we're also dealing with flexibility because now you got some hyper. Flexible people who might be really hypermobile, but they don't have strength or control through movement patterns in their joints. Correct?

Yes.

Yes.

Okay. Super. Yes. You can really see, like when someone's hypermobile where they can't control. Looks a little like you might hurt yourself, you know, but if you see someone that's controlling, it's like, oh, you have that. I don't need to do nothing to you. You're a. Okay. But when it's like a little like, hey, calm down, you're going to hurt yourself, that's when you know, lights should be going off, siren should be blinking type of thing.

Yeah. So then, you know, how, how are you, how do you program mobility into your clients? Programming? Why do you do it? How do you navigate between like, you know, making sure they feel like they get a really good workout while they're also increasing these skills.

Depending on who it is, who I have, sometimes I'll start with mobility. Like if they come for me, like I need to get stronger through these ranges of motion, then we're going to work on that first. I will my. I'm known as like the 9090 king of warming up people here in the 9090 position when you're on the floor, so we'll have hands out, we're on our hips and we're kind of just either lifting our legs up or we're swinging our legs, we're doing heel clicks, all types of fun stuff like that. So we could do that as a warmup or we could do it as a filler exercise. Sometimes, like if I'm say, like if I'm deadlifting, I'll have them do their, their deadlift set. They'll do their complimentary exercise that's paired with it. And then after that they'll come do some mobility stuff, some shoulder mobility, some hip mobility, if they need ankle mobility. Because we're going to squat next. Depending on what, what's in the program is how I will program it for them. So, you know, some people need ankle mobility for squatting. So right before we squat, we're going to do some ankle mobility stuff. We're going to make sure we can take it through because that's the, that's the main joint that gets you through a nice deep squat is your. Is having good ankle dorsiflexion. If you don't have that, you're not going to get into a good squat for the most part anyway. You're not. You can struggle through it, but it's not going to be very smooth.

How do you know if it's mobility issue or just a positioning issue of like the rib cage or the. And the pelvis?

If they can control it with strength, that's how I, I would check it. You load them now. Usually I make sure when they're breathing they're coming nice and tight. So it's not going to be any type of like total tilt or anything like that. They're already stacked. So at that point we're just going to cue them through their regular. Their. Their regular. So we're tiny squats. We'll do this, we'll do squat. We'll make sure that they're nice stacked ribs here. We're going to just nice and slowly make sure we're going to. To touch our butt to the ground if we're able to. I. My queuing is always going to be different. Sometimes I'll give them the lamest cute. Just like that. Touch your butt to the ground or I'll say sit back in the chair. Or I'll say drop it like it's hot. It just. Whoever I'm with, it just depends on, on what lingo that I can, I can use with that person and where they can put.

You're a millennial. Just kidding.

These kids, I have to understand what they're saying. So, you know, I have to. So like that. That's part of me being a coach is putting myself in that person's situation. Like, what would you say to make it understand? I'll say this. Yeah, that gets it. You know, when they get a little giggle like yourself out of it and we're having a good session. But, but for, for the most part, I do a lot of breathing exercises to start the session off. So at that point I'm knowing it's not going to be any type of diaphragm moving around or ribcage flare because I'm going to stack them up right off the jump already to make sure they're in a good position to start with before we even go squat. So that's ankle mobility. That's some type of breathing to set our, set our rib cage, set our, set our ankle stuff. And then Go squat.

Now. I know you, you talked a lot about like, you know, football performance. Do you work with, do you work with general population?

Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, so what would you. How do you usually start when you are, you know. Can you take me from the assessment up when you are dealing with a super deconditioned client who doesn't have great understanding of their body in space.

Okay, cool. This is where we learn how to control your center of mass. That's the big key. Whether it's the hinge, whether it's the squat, whether it's. Whatever it is, we need to control our main portion. There's a very nice saying that we all in the fitness world like to say that's proximal stability equals distal mobility.

Hey, what is that?

If you're proximal here, if everything close to your body, if you're, if your proximal stability, if you're stable here, everything further out, you're going to have mobility of it. Because these joints are nice and tight, you'll have the control that you want for the further joints, meaning your wrist joints, your elbow joints of that nature. So we want to make sure, of course, our core is good. Okay, continue on. What was the question?

I just want to make sure. How do you build like, assessment. Assessment to like a super deconditioned person who like, is either hasn't done it in a long time or they, they don't really have an understanding of their body in space. Like I notice when my clients first come and they've never worked out before, or they tell me it's been like a long time or they've been like, it's been, been a, you know, a month. But I can see how, based on how they move, that they don't really have a good understanding of how their body is in space. And I think it comes down to a little bit of what you were saying is that they can't even really identify what, where their center of gravity or center of mass is.

Yeah, yeah. I for in the assessment portion is when I'm really kind of almost information overloading them a little bit. I talk about the movement patterns and I'm able to see what they're able to go through. While in their assessment, I have a kind of like a massage table here and I do the hip scour. Oh, sorry. I do the hip scour. I'll do the shoulder assessment and that's when I know what you need. After I see you move, I'll give you a small taste of a quick workout, like so My workout would be like a core pattern, core pattern, some type of accessory. So core pattern meaning one of our movement patterns, squat into a horizontal push or horizontal pull, whatever, I don't know. Should I go over the moving patterns just in case? Okay, so move our moving patterns, squat, hinge, push, pull. And those are vertical and horizontal push and pull. And then we have a lunge pattern which is a step up, reverse, reverse lunge, forward lunge, side lunge. And then for some people, they classify it as locomotion or transitional. I like saying transitional, it just sounds a little bit more professional. But transitional is throwing, hopping, skipping, jumping, anything that you're transitioning from, carrying from different places. So I will educate them on that and we'll pick a couple of those movement patterns and we'll go over one, maybe two sections of it and I'll teach them how to go through it. And that's when I'm looking at them and I'm really paying attention, breathing, I'm looking at their face, I'm seeing if I can have a conversation with them that is giving me information from their, what kind of like physical level they're at most of the time when they're coming, hey, I want to get better. Okay, fine, let's get better. But I won't know where you're at until I see you actually truly moving. The assessment might tell me one thing, like I don't have the ability to get to here, but then when I load you somewhere over here, you have the ability all in the world to do all those things. So it's a little bit of both. I need to see here and I need to see there. Once I'm able to see both of those together, let's talk about your lifestyle so we can fit this plan to your lifestyle. So if you're only able to work out two days, why am I going to give you a four day plan with all these macros and all these other things? I'm just not going to do that. I'm going to make it specific to you, give you that two day split where you're working on those movement patterns to get you stronger. And within those, sorry, within those movement patterns, we're going to break them down to your level to where you're at. We're going to meet you where you're at. We're always going to assess that and meet you where you're at. So if you can't do a goblet squat, fine, we'll do a, we'll do a box squat. If you can't do a barbell back squat. Fine, we'll do a goblet squat. There's a variation for everyone at every level to find for your start, that's the point of the assessment is find your starting point so we can get you to point B.

What's interesting, that is something you said, I'm curious, like how often does that happen, happen and what causes that? Where someone will have, they won't have access to mobility when they're not loaded, but then all of a sudden they find it when they're loaded. Why is that happening?

And when A lot of, a lot of it is because they turn on specific muscles over here. So if I give you like a goblet squat. So for instance, if you tell someone just to give me a body weight squat, they may not be able to drop it like it's hot all the way down. Mine is give them, give them a kettlebell or something, give them a 10 pound plate and watch them get a little bit lower because now they're able to control that. There's something that's telling them, hey, I need to offset this natural force here. Whatever gravity is pulling me somewhere, I need to offset that and control this. So I'm not leaning forward or falling over, whatever, right. So I need to control that. And now I should feel a little bit better coming down into that position.

I mean this kind of reminds me of me, right? So I have like the Hindi squat, I'm sorry, super wide and I have like a little tiny pelvis so like I can't squat like it's funny.

How long do you have? Long femurs.

Do I have long femurs? No, no, I don't think long. No, you upper torso, I mean long compared to what? Right, well, well because like we could.

Be sitting next to each other like, like this and you could be the same height as me, but the moment we stand up it's going to look different because my legs might be longer, your torso might be longer. Those things are going to affect the way you squat. If you're going to have that four leaning squat, if you're going to have the, you know, a regular drop it like a hot squat, those things are going to, are going to change based on, on your femur and how long your limbs are.

Well, I've never measured it, I just know I'm super wide up here. Like my rib cage is like supes wide and I'm not a narrow. And the second you get my heels up I can squat no problem. Heels up.

Let's see we might need to play with your big toe a little bit, see if that might help you out. You might need to move your big toe. Just get some mobility in your big toe a little bit. That might help you where you're able to really focus on pushing your big toe into the ground where you have that ability to come down a little more. I've seen that help, so that could be a good thing. But if you already with your heels elevated, there's not much more to change on that. You're already getting the great stimulus off of that anyway, so.

Right. But I, I share it only because for years I was like, oh, I can't squat because I have my ankle mobility. But it was never about my ankle mobility. It was maybe because of positioning of my pelvis and rib cage.

Yes, you have, you, you, have you ever had a hip scar done? Like, do you know if you have like a, a deep asses acetabellum or a shallow acetabellum? I do not know that that will tell you a lot on how you're gonna squat. That'll give you. By just doing that, you'll know, okay, you're gonna be a deep squatter or you'll not have a deep squatter. And that's the assessment that I give when people come, I'll know right off the jump if they can squat or if they're going to be a good deadlifter just by doing that hip scour assessment.

Oh, I'll rip up 220 off the ground if without being warm, like, no problem.

Yes. Love that. You need more 220s around here.

I'm like, dude, don't make me squat.

Either one. We're good, let's go. That just excites me.

Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I love it. Okay, so now when people come to you, what are, what specifically are they working on? What do you love to usually like, dive into?

Well, right now, you know, it's summertime here, or it's basically summer. It's springtime, but it's, it's. We have summertime weather at this point, so everyone's getting ready for the beach. So I'm getting hired a lot right now for beach bodies, some pounds for summer. So, you know, I'm lucky enough that I do have the outdoor gym. So that's where working on, we're working on those movement patterns. I, I love to teach people how to deadlift. So that's kind of my main thing right now is teaching people how to deadlift. I Love seeing women deadlift. So last night I had my female teachers here and they were deadlifting their sessions yesterday and they were crushing. So I. Teaching people how to deadlift is my thing.

I love that. Now you had mentioned you've been in this industry for a long time. How specifically do you stay, you know, in the trenches day in, day out? How do you keep the actual like business and science of training interesting for yourself?

I attribute that a lot to show up fitness there. Chris is a lot on top of a lot of things within the fitness industry on not necessarily new trends, but information that's being put out, like different upcoming new doctors. You know, he's not new, but like Dr. Andy Galpin where I talk a lot about. He's phenomenal. We just learned a lot about him and he's been on our class talks and when you meet guys like that and when you go to conferences, seminars, you meet the like minded individuals and when you in a room with like minded individuals, there's no way you cannot be invigorated. You know, I, I was lucky enough to get hooked up with you here with, by, by Mr. Chris, Chris Little. And I call him Lytle, by the way, because I say, I like to say Lytle, Lytle when I see him. And you know, we actually met up at the Real Coaches summit that Aram Gregorian put on. What, what a phenomenal event that was. And I really spent a lot of time with Chris on Chris and Alex. And we, Tyler, the four of us had a really amazing night bonding and I couldn't be more grateful to meet the three of them. I mean, again, Chris hooked me up with here and I was able to hook up Alex on another podcast. And that's just how those things work. You're able to help out your friends and it's part of why we're, we're entrepreneurs. There's no other like feel that you get from any other professional unless you see your friends. True. Their small business is really escalating. You know, like it's just a different feel. And when you're around those like minded individuals and it's invigorating as all hell. And I encourage people to go be in your field, whatever it is, go to your field and be around those same individuals. You will get life changing advice from them, life changing experiences from them. I mean you can get drunk with them and have a great conversation over in the commons in Las Vegas. It'll just change your life. Right? So those are the reasons why and I think it's been very fresh for me and it's not changing. It's just I'm able to help new people out. That's kind of like the role that I've taken with the show up fitness is I'm kind of an instructor for them. But I've also just helped out a lot of the younger trainers just up and coming and advice on just stuff that I've seen in the fitness industry. What has changed since 2005, where it's been since 2005. Things of that nature.

Yeah, you know, I always, I always look at the people who are successful and one of the things that I tend to see often is their relationship to having a beginner's mindset. And it's really, you know, I always think about masters and true masters, whether, you know, religion aside. But if you look at ancient wisdom and you look at Jesus and Buddha, like they truly became masters, I'm putting that in quote, when they recognized and realized they knew nothing. It's always like the, the razor's edge of both. Experience is a double edged sword. And I have seen people go, you know, super, you know, one way where it's like I don't have anything left to learn. And others who continue to stay in the momentum of there's always more. And I, I, I love that personally.

You'll see who's growing when they're doing that. Like, you'll see the coaches that are stagnant in their ways. They're kind of miserable with what they're doing. But then you see the other coaches who are going to the events that are kind of keeping things up to date and they're just having so much fun. Their life is just invigorated with everything. You know, they're traveling, they're wonderful families and their businesses is, you know, it's on, on, on the ups and you know, it's, it's truly awesome to see.

Yeah, it is. And it's, it's also interesting too because like I remember too when I was younger I would get very dogmatic because it was like once I found something that worked, I was like, this is it.

Yeah.

And then I would hold onto it like white knuckling it so hard that I realized, oh no, it can be fluid. There can be flexibility and you can.

Change your mind time over numerous things. It could be one thing today and another thing tomorrow. That's one thing. I had to talk with the wrong after the real coach or something. That's, that's exactly what he said is like, who's to know if that one strategy doesn't work for this person. But you never know. It might be the one thing that other person needs. It may be the dumbest thing, but it might be the one thing that person that no one else has thought of and that's what's going to get them the results. That's what we're here for.

Yes, yes, yes. I love that. It's the best. It's the best. And I also. Yeah, Aram was on my show and he's so great. He's just.

That dude is amazing. We're lucky to have a ramen industry. Let's just say that like, guys like him and Andrew Coates, those two guys, like, solid, they're, they're, they're solid individuals, but they make you want to do even more. Like again, just being around those guys and mom, right? Say again?

Molly. She was there?

Yeah. Yes, yes, I think so. Yeah. Yes.

There were so many people.

Were you there?

I was not.

No, you were there. I was about to say if you.

Weren'T there and I didn't know who.

You were beforehand, man, I messed up.

No, no, no, no. I was not there. But I talked to AAM about being there, but I was like, next time. And. And Andrew as well. I was like, next time. But I just have so many things go. I had so. Me personally had so many things going on this year with my family, so I was like, whatever next.

Oh, well, we're going to keep across for next year. We're going to see you there next year in Vegas.

Yeah. And my family's good, don't get me wrong. I just. My kids are little anyway. My kids are little and my husband can't get time. Couldn't get time off. And my mom can only become once when usually she comes multiple times throughout the year for me, but she couldn't, so.

Gotcha. Like, that makes it a little tough. That makes it just.

I paused because I was like, oh, my gosh. I sound like excuses, but those are circumstances.

Those are like legit, legit reasons. Not excuses. Those are reasons why.

Oh, my God. But I was watching all y'. All. Don't get me wrong. I was super fomo, like what I was hoping.

So I was trying to get people jealous for not being there like this. It was. I mean, how can you not, like, have fun in Vegas? That type of atmosphere, you know, like, it was just perfect.

Sure.

We have to go anywhere. Everything was there at the same spot. We didn't have to go anywhere. Like go up to your Room, come back down, there's dinner like yay. You know, it was great.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that took a lot of work. So amazing. I love it. I love it, I love it. Okay, so what's the vision for you? What do you want to, what do you foresee is going to happen with Show Up Fitness with your company? Like, with. How do you, what do you, what's the impact impact that you're working towards?

So Show Fitness is on the ups right now. They just partnered up with Lifetime Fitness that's accepting their, their CPT now. So they partnered with, with Equinox and Lifetime Fitness and their Lifetime partnership. They're going to be giving seminars probably like once a month at different lifetimes throughout the states. So their first one coming up is in May up in Sacramento. You know, if you want to go to that seminar, if you're in the Sacramento area, whoever's listening, let me know. Oh, we'll get you in a little discount. I'll help you out, you know, for that. It's, that's kind of geared towards helping the newer trainers treat people that have no idea how to train. We're going to help you. We're going to teach you how to program for, for your clients. We're going to teach you a little anatomy, how to grow your book of business, what to do to grow your book of business. It's kind of like the shortcut to learning how to be a trainer without it being a shortcut. Like these are the paths you're going to go down. These are the hardships you're going to have to struggle with with. And we're just giving you upfront. So that's what Show Up Fitness. I do help out a lot with them. You know, I get questions from their, from the interns all the time. So I will probably make a, make my weekend up there for that, for that event. My personal training business. We're hoping to get group classes going. I do have enough equipment now for group classes, so I'm hoping three to four people in group classes within the next month, month and a half. That's for me. And then football, we're as practiced today. So we're back into our spring OTCs right now, which is gearing us for spring practice actually. And then we're into season pretty soon after that. Well, we get summer break, summer camp and then season. So it's, it's pretty much here. I mean it's crazy how fast it comes you. That's. If I'm gonna talk about football, that's the one thing football taught me was delayed gratification. You train all year long, and that's why it relates so well to fitness. You train all year long to play 10 games like you. You. You. A guaranteed 10 games. I should say a guaranteed 10 games.

Unless you're Aaron Rodgers and you're out in four minutes.

That was insane. I'm a Green Bay Packer guy. That was my guy forever and a half, but that was insane. Yeah, except for that. And that just teaches you how to love stuff even more. Like, wow, I'm gonna miss it for an even longer year. But delayed gratification, though. Patience. That's what it teaches you. If you can't have patience on getting your results, be around some football guys. They'll teach you some delayed gratification.

Listen, I watch those words. Jets family, okay? So all of you New Yorkers listening in, listen, my husband loves the Jets.

J E T.

And I watch that. I watched that game with him. And I don't. I don't think I've ever seen a spirit be crushed. And so.

So that the air of that stadium deflated like nothing else I've ever seen before. And. And the thing was, I didn't even see the. The. The live footage. I ended up seeing the clip after and how quiet it got. I was like, oh, my God, it was wild.

But did you see. But they won that game.

Yeah. Yeah, they did it for Aaron.

That season was shar. Next season. This is our season. This is our season.

This is the year right here coming up.

If as long as Aaron can handle his 40 game or 10 games.

He should be surgically repaired. He'll be fine. He wanted to come back at the end of last year. He'll be fine.

He did. I was like, oh, my gosh. Anyway, Anyway. Okay, side note, I do want to ask you this, because you did bring it up, and I'm gonna ask you this, and then I'll. I. I want to be respectful of your time, but one of the things that you mentioned, and especially when you're working with new coaches, because it's something I see a lot, too, which is this concept of, like, you know, not being able to understand or really be able to be discerning with the data that you're receiving specifically around, like, is it the program or is it client adherence? And is client adherence because of the. The quality of the. The program? So how do you. Or not. And quality of the program is too. Is kind of an intense way to say, like, just the intensity of the program. Did you actually meet them where they're at versus, like, okay, you know, like, you get a mom who's like, brand new and, you know, working out for the first time, and you program six days a week with macro counting. Like, forget it. Like, it's not going to happen. So how do you navigate the nuances between, like, what is client responsibility and what is coach's responsibility?

I just kind of quite learned this at the Real Coach summit is by adding this one. This one word will kind of change everything for you. And I've used it in the past, but I'm using it more because the real coaches summit. It just hit a note in my head. If you just add the word specifically to what you're asking, it'll change the information you're getting back. That way you can understand what that person is going through, what they're, what they're comprehending towards you, to you, how you said it, whatever the case is. How specifically did that make you feel? Are you out of breath? Are you not out of breath? How did that make you feel when you lifted it up? Was it too heavy for you? Did you feel you're gonna drop it right away? The one specifically question that I won't add is why? Why? Tends to be a little defensive. Just a little defensive. So I remove why just a little bit from that. So I. I try not to start a question with the word why, but all the other ones are fine. How? Where? What? Where did it hurt at? Where did you feel it at specifically? I felt it in my quads. Perfect. Responding correctly, you know, what are the other ones? So that's the.

The main one.

I also tend to look at their face. Their face will tell you a whole lot by reading body language. If you can't read body language. This is just my experience. I was around a lot of high schoolers for about 10 years, and high schoolers give you the most body language you'll ever see in life. Because they're at that age. If you can read their body language, you can read anybody because they just, they, they. It just oozes off of them. If you ask them to do something, they're just gonna roll their eyes and you can just tell like that. Use that. When you're watching someone, when they're working out, if it's a little grunty, if their face is changing, if they're screaming, if they're yelling, if they're breathing heavy, if their eyes are rolling to the back of their head, those are all cues that you can take and grab information from and adjust on the floor.

So for the record, when I want to ask a why question, I ask, why. What's causing you to say that? And then I. That's, that's the why.

That's. That's the why? Yeah.

That's how you get to why without, without getting defensive.

I like that. I, I've just removed it because I'm not slick with my words that way and how to move it back in that way. I would just how specifically? I'll just kind of stick to that, and that kind of gives me what I want or what I need. But I, I, I do like the way you word of that because that is not defensive at all. It doesn't alarm me to be like, hey, what are you, what are you getting on my case for? Like, stop.

You know, I love that sometimes I ask, how do you know that?

Or where does that information come from? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's automatic. Like, oh, hey, you're getting to the.

Why without being like why.

You say that you always have a why without asking why. Love it.

Yes, yes. Oh, my gosh. So good. Okay, so without that, you know, with that being said, I want to make sure I'm very mindful of your time. Mindful and respectful of your time. So for those of you who want to connect with you, work with you, talk to you, what are some of the best places I should send them?

You should just send them to Instagram or my email, philly_2434 and philly, just like Philly Philadelphia. That's my Instagram. It's a picture of me in a blue shirt. And then my, my email would be dominguez.philgmail.com. that's my last name, Phil Gmail. I answer both of them all the time. Instagram. I'm pretty again. I spent some time getting to know Andrew Coates really well, and I've picked up the voice messages from him about three years ago. So I do a lot of voice messages. I do a lot of video messages. If you're asking me a question, I'll more than likely either send you a little small one, or I'll send you a video of what you're asking me. The answer is I feel it's a little more intimate. It's a little more personal to you. I could connect with you a lot more. And that's usually how I connect with a lot of fitness professionals. By doing that, I'll ask them something. And now we're shooting video back. I use that as an amazing networking tool.

I love that. I love it. I love it. Okay, so thank you. We'll make sure that we link all of that up in the show notes.

Awesome. This was so much fun. I love watching you through the camera here. Your facial expressions. I love that you're all in tune with the conversation. You're not drifting off anywhere. And those are things that I pick up on. I don't know if anybody notices those or what. I see that. And I always want to make sure I'm attentive to you. So, like, I noticed the flowers in the background. It's just perfect on what you did. Like how this is set up. I love this. This is great.

So cool. Thank you. I appreciate it.

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