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May 2, 2022October 19, 2023

SS Times- April, 16th edition

SS 2 Updates

“We have a foundation in Exercise Science. We deliver expert solutions.”

You’re invited! Be the first to see our new facility!

Smart Strength “Soft” Open house- Saturday, May 7^th. 5 pm- 7 pm

127 N. Superior St. Albion MI 49224

An informal gathering of friends, family, and special supporters of Smart Strength

Come hang out and help christen the new facility. It’s a party, not a workout.

I’m sick of everyone asking how it’s going, so see for yourself… LOL

If you have any questions, shoot me an email.

Next steps for SS2- Progress updated.

The drywall has arrived, and they will hang the board and close the walls ASAP. (DONE)

At the same time, the tile has arrived and will be laid down ASAP. The bathrooms are coming along. (DONE)

Lockers have arrived and are safely stored off-site, ready to be installed. (DONE)

Rogue strength training equipment has arrived and is safely in storage off-site. (DONE)

Cardio equipment is shipping soon; we are just awaiting flooring installation. The last piece of the puzzle (Peloton will arrive and be installed on May 4^th)

Rubber and turf flooring has been ordered and is set to arrive in the next few weeks. (DONE)

Crews are ready and waiting to tape, paint, and patch ceilings. (Done)

Floor – Turf and rubber mats will need to be installed. (Done)

Move-in equipment and assemble in place (ongoing)

Installation of new doors/ front & back/ wiring to comtronics (next week)

New front of building/ replacing glass and columns (next week)

Finish work/ bathroom fixtures, sinks, mirrors, towel bars, finish doors (ongoing)

Then we will be cooking. 😊

Until then, we intend to keep training and providing service to our amazing clients at the SS1 location.

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April has been a very productive month at both SS1 & SS2. We are nearing completion of the build-out and will be transitioning. This will be a delicate process; think, “How do we change pilots mid-flight without crashing the plane?”.

As the weather hopefully improves, we look back at the month in our 16^th edition of the SS Times.

Schedule update

We will be closed on Friday the 13^th, Saturday the 14^th, Monday the 16^th. Half day on Thursday the 12^th. I will be travelling to Georgia for a wedding.

I plan on transitioning to the new facility for training starting the week of 5/23 as a soft opening. Grand opening to the public/ June 1!

I may have to take time off to work on the new facility (install equipment and software and staff training), so I will try to provide as much advance notice as possible to take time off. However, some of this is fluid, and I won’t know any sooner than anyone else.

As we move facilities and transition into summer, my availability will change. More information on that is below in the transition plan.

**We are still at max capacity and will waitlist leads until we move facilities. We are working hard to make the transition as quickly and smoothly as possible.

**Erin is filling her book of business and will accept new assessments and clients when we open SS2!

Thank you for trusting Smart Strength with your health and wellness.

We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you in the future.

If we can do anything to make your training just a little bit better, please do not hesitate to let us know.

To recap the month

We completed 129 total sessions for April.

Averaged 32 sessions per week.

We are averaging 161 sessions per month YTD.

–2,327 total training sessions have been completed at SS since opening in November 2020.

–643 Sessions have been completed 2022 YTD. *Compared to 540 sessions in 2021 YTD.

2022 1^st Quarter Assessment Results

Bike (KJ) AMRAP (rounds)

-Joe 76 -Joe 10

-Dick 65 -Doug 9 2/3

-Caroline 64 -Jewell 8 2/3

-Doug 59 -Alexa 8 1/3

-Alexa 51 -Jess 8 1/3

-Jamie 47 -Jamie 8

-Jess 41 -Caroline 7 2/3

-Tom 41 -Naomi 6

-Dawn 36 -Lauren 5 1/3

-Lauren 34 -Nick 5 1/3

-Jewell 30 -Dawn 5

-Shelly 26 -Shelly 5

-Naomi 24

-Nick 22

Moving Forward

* Run Albion Series- https://runalbion.com/registration/

If you missed us last Friday, that’s OK, and please consider us for the next race on Friday, June 24^th!

Register NOW! It is a great Friday night vibe. You get to see all the amazing things happening in our town and get a great workout! Winning!

Smart Strength is proud to partner with Run Albion and will create a “Talk with the Trainer” video series. The first edition of the Talk with the Trainer series is now finished.

Check out the link below for some helpful running/ success tips!

https://www.facebook.com/albion5krace/videos/1006974166578569

1st-anniversary list! – You are amazing, and a special thank you for making a real commitment to Smart Strength!

-Jess B.

-Owen D.

2022 SS2 transition plan

“The only one who likes change is a wet baby.” Mark Twain

Here is a rough outline of how things will play out in the coming months as we transition facilities and slightly change our business model. Transparency is key, and rest assured, I WILL TAKE CARE OF MY EXISTING CLIENTS!!! Our bread & butter/ training will not go away.

Transitioning facilities

Physical- change of location 302 S Superior à 127 N Superior, new equipment, balancing more clients in the facility at once

Mental- Going from 1 on 1 to 3 on 1… Coaching differently. Creating a new culture/ managing atmosphere with new members

Software- Update in ZP… member scan in and 24/ 7 access capability. Larger amount of clients/ management of scheduling

Transition business model

Ring inefficiencies out of business model.

Higher overhead, no longer economically viable for me to train 1 on 1 at this price pt.…

More managerial duties can no longer coach 40+ individual training sessions.

Transition day-to-day role/ operations

Only coaching 5 or less hours per day (up to 15 clients per day)

Allow time to manage the facility, especially in the beginning/ troubleshooting

Give time to fitness instructors and mentor new hires

Allow time to sell to companies/ corporate wellness contracts

Allow time to do community outreach/ engagement/ health & wellness presentations

Timeline for transition- We are expected to begin moving/ training existing clients at SS 2.0 on May 23^rd.

Online review

***One of the best ways you can help support Smart Strength is with an online review. If you have not done so yet, please take a few minutes to leave one here.

As always, if anyone has any suggestions or feedback, please email me or let me know during our next session.

Your Trainer,

March 14, 2022October 20, 2023

The Alternative Narrative- 2 years later

It has been approx. 2 years since the novel virus first started being covered in our country’s news media.

It has been approx. For 2 years now, we have tried to manage, control, and ultimately eradicate a virus through varying measures.

How have we done?

Let’s run with a little thought experiment. Let’s consider the other options that were always available to us but never given any consideration.

A Glimpse at a Fact-Based Pandemic Response

Now, let me try and expand the narrative and consider this alternative point of view. In those two years, what would our country look like? Now, if we had focused on the following measures instead of the course of action we have seen play out… what would have been the outcome if facts instead of fear drove public policy? What would have resulted if scientists led the pandemic response efforts instead of bureaucrats?

Transforming Risk

In 2 years, how many people could have moved out of the “high-risk” category? Just by using exercise and diet instead of pharmaceutical intervention?

The Potential Lifesaving Impact of Two Years of Exercise and Nutrition

How many people could we have saved if we had started exercising and eating the right foods at the outset of the pandemic? 2 years of exercise can take a long way.

The Untapped Potential of Combating Obesity

In two years, how many millions of obese Americans could we help if we just allocated the time, money, and resources to get them moving instead of using all those resources to get them inoculated.? This option still applies, yet how much effort do you see publicly to combat the obesity epidemic in America? How many commercials and how much funding? How many social media posts and celebrity endorsements?

A Call for Natural Immune Support and Accountability

Moving forward, why do we not turn to what we can do to help people’s immune systems naturally fight off infection and disease and make being unhealthy socially unacceptable and taboo/ as we have seen with this pandemic to those who do not mask and jab/, instead of turning a blind eye to the morbidly obese and saying it’s unkind to try and get them to change. Why the double standard?

Prioritizing Health Over Pharmaceutical Intervention

Instead, over the last 2 years, we have demonized healthy persons because they wish to live freely from pharmaceutical intervention, which we know is mostly ineffective…How much change could we effect if we turned our media machine towards proven healthy measures, including diet, exercise, sleep, mental health help, and strength training, instead of intimidation ads, coercion, and borderline extortion (lottery and free college education??) advertisements schemes?

Healthy Living vs. Pandemic Spending

What would the cost to the country have been if we had focused on preventative measures of a healthy lifestyle, diet, exercise, and proper sleep hygiene instead of R&D, vaccine manufacturing, government-mandated shutdowns, testing and tracing, stimulus payments, and ultimately explosive inflation?

The Missed Opportunity for Health Promotion

How many exercise professionals could we have employed, facilities created, awareness and marketing campaigns could we have produced to get people healthy instead of the scare tactics and bullying and intimidation campaigns we see today?

Empowering Personal Health

Why don’t we continue to entice people to control what they can control? Themselves and their health, instead of trying to create a zero-risk/ sterile society at the expense of our health and our freedoms?

Reevaluating Restrictions

Why do we target healthy populations who can fight a viral infection with their immune system by barring them from certain facilities, jobs, and entertainment venues?

Discrimination Against Health-Conscious Individuals

Why are we not talking about the modern-day discrimination this is creating against the people who have prioritized and maintained a lifestyle of health? Examples include abusing them politically, barring them from important functions, including governmental buildings and schools, discriminating against them in the workplace, travel, and entertainment venues, and publicly shaming them in person and via social media.

Balancing Act

How can we make sense of destroying our economy, education system, and society for 2 years for something we have known to be 99.9% survivable?

Questioning Narratives

Think critically… who would craft this message that your life, as you once knew it, depends on a jab…?

Exploring Narratives

Who would create the narrative that health, exercise, and diet are not as important, but a man-made/ created immune response is the all-mighty?

Uncovering Motives

Who benefits from this narrative, and what does the alternative narrative threaten? Follow the money?

Why is any opposition to this narrative oppressed so harshly?

How deadly is the trend we are creating of silencing dissenting scientific opinion, dismissing any opposing evidence, discouraging debate, and ultimately creating pseudo-science, forever destroying our trust in the scientific process and its results?

The Impact of Health and Wellness Choices on Society

Think, where would our economy, education, and society be today if we had chosen health and wellness over pharmaceutical indoctrination… compare other countries and how their responses differed from ours. What were the outcomes?

If you value your health and wellness and are committed to a lifestyle of preventative care, we are here and ready for you.

The best time to start investing in yourself was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. This is the smartest investment you’ll ever make.

At Smart Strength, we are exercise professionals.

March 3, 2022October 18, 2023

SS Times- February recap/ 14th edition

SS 2 Updates

We believe in a revolution in fitness and community health; Albion is the right place to start.

Our new facility will be world class, and that is not a figure of speech; I mean it! I have taken elements from all the best facilities I have worked in and have combined them into this facility. User experience/ customization and functionality are the objective. This is the place to train and get results! Put –> World-class expertise and home-town connection.

Next steps for SS2-

The drywall has arrived, and they will hang the board and close the walls ASAP.

At the same time, the tile has arrived and will be laid down ASAP. The bathrooms are coming along.

Lockers have arrived and are safely stored off-site, ready to be installed.

Rogue strength training equipment has arrived and is safely in storage off-site.

Cardio equipment is shipping soon; we are just awaiting flooring installation.

Rubber and turf flooring has been ordered and is set to arrive in the next few weeks. The installation crew is ready and on standby.

Crews are ready and waiting to tape, paint, and patch ceilings.

Then we will be cooking. 😊

Until then, we intend to keep training and providing service to our amazing clients at the SS1 location.

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“If working out wasn’t part of my routine, I don’t know what would be.

This is the one thing that I do only for me. Yet keeping healthy is good for my whole family.”

-Jewell Heath, Smart Strength client since November 2020.

We have been at it for 14 months, and word is slowly starting to get out..

February was busy, like record-setting busy. As you will see in the metrics, we set almost every record we measure here at Smart Strength, and we did it in the shortest month of the year and braved a few snowstorms to do it!

Our SMART Clients are committed to getting better every week! The habit is starting to stick! I am so proud of you all.

Thank you for your continued support of Smart Strength! You are the BEST!

Schedule update

There is no major time off this month, so schedule accordingly.

We are at maximum capacity and no longer accepting members at this time. Anyone looking to join will be wait-listed until further notice. Thank you, and I am sorry for the inconvenience.

With that being said, pairing up for workouts may be your best option if your schedule does not allow flexibility.

There has been an increase in paired sessions, and the results have been great! The workouts go by even faster, and do not lose any of their bite! I highly suggest giving it a try.

Thank you for trusting Smart Strength with your health and wellness.

We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you in the future.

If we can do anything to make your training just a little bit better, please do not hesitate to let us know.

To recap the month

-We completed 177 total sessions for February. *Record

-We averaged 44.25 sessions per week. * Record

-We are averaging 165 sessions per month YTD. * Record

–2014 total training sessions have been completed at SS since opening in November 2020. *Passed the 2K mark!

–330 Sessions have been completed 2022 YTD. *Compared to 216 sessions in 2021 YTD.

Moving Forward

Leprechaun Lap March 17^th. We will be starting and finishing at the new location! Donations will be going to Hughes Elementary!

Additional running news- ***April marks the return of the Run Albion Series- https://runalbion.com/registration/

Register NOW! It is a great Friday night vibe. You get to see all the amazing things happening in our town and get a great workout! Winning!

Smart Strength is proud to partner with Run Albion and will create a “Talk with the Trainer” video series. Watch for our best tips and training as we get closer to the race date!

Smart Strength will hire a new trainer as we transition into our new facility…. Stay tuned for an introduction to Erin Markovich, our new trainer!!

1st-anniversary list! – You are amazing, and a special thank you for making a real commitment to Smart Strength!

-Nick H

-Dawn H

2022 SS2 transition plan

“The only one who likes change is a wet baby.” Mark Twain

Transitioning facilities

Physical- change of location 302 S Superior à 127 N Superior, new equipment, balancing more clients in the facility at once

Mental- Going from 1 on 1 to 3 on 1… Coaching differently. Creating a new culture/ managing atmosphere with the Best trainer in Albion.

Software- Update in ZP… member scan in and 24/ 7 access capability. Larger amount of clients/ management of scheduling.

Transition business model

Ring inefficiencies out of business model.

Higher overhead, no longer economically viable for me to train 1 on 1 at this price.