You're listening to fit processions were parallel coaching episode number 2 high onion Bergman and I'm Haley and in today's podcast. We're talking about the origin story of parallel coaching. Who are we and going right back to Our Roots? So stay tuned. Hi, I'm Neil Bergman and I'm Haley Bergman over the last 10 years. We've helped thousands of Fitness professionals to get qualified learned Simplicity and Coach clients with confidence. We were first to say that learning and being a fit probe doesn't have to be hard work and that with the right structure support and resources. You can become a confident and knowledgeable Fitness professional that is dedicated to more. So how do you learn qualify and Kickstart as a Pit Road? This is the fit processions podcast with parallel coaching. So we're recording this in late October 2019 and the other day Haley and I went to the cinema to see the new Joker movie and I'm a massive fan of DC Comics and Marvel Comics and what I particularly liked about the Joker movie with is it working Phoenix Haley. Is that the actor? Yeah. Okay is they did the origin story of the Joker? Okay, so I'm not sure if you're a big fan of the Batman films and Marvel Comics and whatnot. But over the last couple of years what DC Comics and Marvel Comics have been doing is producing films and giving the origin story away about the characters that you're seeing in the main film. So, you know, if I go back to my childhood out of watched Batman Batman Forever Batman Returns and whatnot and Joker would have appeared and I always thought you know, how did Joker To be the Joker. What was it that what was it in his life the environment the situation that caused him to become the villain and you know what they've done very well in the latest film is they've gone back to the origin story and told us the the the roots for deep dark secrets of who Joker was and how we got to be there and that's exactly what today's podcast is about for us is you know, we origin story of menial Bergman viola. Ian story of Haley Haley Bergman and the origin story of parallel coaching. Why did we start our own training provider to go and impact, you know today thousands of people and literally hundreds of thousands of people online over the last seven years. So the origin story anything to add on to that Haley not that was a fantastic intro to An Origin story and actually the best place for me to ask it to start. This is if you would explain Go origin story nail. So for Fitness, what is it that you made you start in Fitness? How did you start in Fitness? And what's that Journey been like to get to now? Okay, so I'm going to go back before Fitness. I'm going to go back to a point where I was just leaving school. And at this point I was completely addicted to kayaking and canoeing and I got into coaching within those two disciplines as well. And ended up coaching flat water and whitewater kayaking pretty much all over the UK, which was for driving factor for me to go to university of digital where me and Haley Mets early 2000s. Okay, and I studied adventure education. So rather than focus on a PE teachers degree, which was you know, bias towards teaching hockey football rugby tennis always traditional Sports. Which I wasn't very good at to be on this then, you know, I probably aren't any good now as well. My hand-eye coordination wasn't all that great. I focused on education and focused on kayaking canoeing surfing climbing for more adventurous Sports than the four years at Uni took me all over the world to explore what it was like to be an educator in different environments and that's really where my passion for training. She started and you know, I grew up we grew up. We both graduated 2006 2007 and the natural route out for me out of University was I suppose going into the services and at this point I didn't want to go into the services. I've been with Haley about a year and a half two years at this point and I although I was Paul towards that way. I was pulled to to not pursue that that route and so I signed up to become a personal trainer have a time. I was working in a local College as a lecturer as well and they kind of gave me that early wildcard to jump into fitness and that's kind of how I got into fitness. So I keep going Haley. Yeah, please do so awesome. It's lovely here in again. Even though I know it's crazy. It is crazy and I was already into the gym myself, but I never really thought about combining it never it never occurred to me, but I could combine my own passion with education and different environments and kind of encapsulate everything I've done today and and enter this path what we're in now little did I know back in, you know leaving school at the age of 18 and going through University little did I know but that was the early ripple effect, but would lead us to 2012 and and and bring it all together with in parallel. Who knew so between the mid-2000s? And yeah, I just got qualified a you know me and how do we get to travel up to London? We were living in Plymouth at the time. We still live in Plymouth now actually we had to travel up to London. We qualified as personal trainers and I got my first job. I left my lecture in job and I got my first job in a health club not too far from where we are now Private health club, and that was kind of my apprenticeship. My bread and butter skills. I suppose of practicing with clients doing countless numbers of Jim inductions with all different types of people different shapes different sizes different backgrounds different religions and really started to home in row skills. I suppose of how do I communicate a message to inspire to infuse somebody to empower somebody to make a change whether that be in their body physically and mentally Traditional in their mindset and hopefully impact them to some degree and then just trying to think timelines now, it would have been 2008 2009 ish. We move back up towards Milton Keynes, which was where our Milton Keynes Academy is based today, and we got closer to London. There was this feel that we needed to be closer to bigger cities in order to really Thrive as personal trainers. So I worked in A gym a private gym Energy Fitness of a time for just outside Leighton Buzzard on the main line into London and worked with literally dozens and dozens of clients each week one to one small group and eventually took that Outdoors into local parks and work with people mainly around kettlebells and utilize small portable bits of equipment and again, just home dim my one-to-one skills. Group circuit based skills to work with clients and then and it was just amazing rose rose couple of years would they just flew past? But again, I like I don't know how many hours I worked with clients. I certainly got my 10,000 hours. I'm going to say of being on immature trenches and practicing things getting things right and getting things wrong right engine programs and really experimenting with and becoming the fitness professional. I wanted to be and then I got a wild card from a Fitness training provider 2009 2010 time ish to go into the this training provider and be the head of student support. So I was starting to bring together my love for training my knowledge for training but also now bringing in my education side of things that I'd done. Uni and I know lecture in as well. So I'm working for a training provider now in a student support role working with hundreds of Learners each week each month on their level 2 level 3 PT courses specialist courses CPD courses from a student support perspective and within time I got promoted through to program manager ended up being lead tutor lead assessor got more qualifications myself within Fitness and specifically being able to teach and assess within Fitness and ended up being the general manager for this training provider. Now one thing that really got me at this time. Although I loved what I was doing. I knew that I couldn't be me. I couldn't do it. I couldn't help more people how I wanted to help people. I was I suppose somewhat held back by the nature of the company. I was working for and to a degree. The industry. So the biggest decision I made in 2011 early 2012. I suppose no 2011 was to jump ship. And you know, I'm working in central London. I can remember or fitrat feeling of I've got a secure paycheck every month. We were just applying for a mortgage ourselves and there comes near walking back home and saying to Haley. I think I'm going to resign it was a yeah, it's scary. You know, I let you know you can add on to that in a minute. It was a scary time, but I knew deep down I was I was I needed to do something different. I wanted to do the same thing but better and so I resigned very quickly. I'm one of those types of people that one I have a vision. I just go straight after it. I kind of I don't think about the house in in the moment. I have a I have a calling have a vision. I just crack on and deal with the house and deal with the aftermath in the moment. And I have this deep down belief that it will always work out something my my nana always used to say to me says he's used to say Neil. It doesn't matter. It will always work out and so from a young age. I knew that it would always work out even though at the time I didn't know how and so I jumped ship. I'm now self-employed and I ended up working for Nine providers of which if you're listening to this number of them are still going they were you know the top providers in my day. Maybe they are now. I'm not sure enough said on that one, but there I would end up all over the country. I'm based in Milton Keynes. I would end up in Manchester Birmingham Cardiff Southampton York London Norwich you name it? I was I was being sent all over the place in a But made least in and out of Dubai and I got known as the the guy and then Haley at this point. We got known as for tag-team bergman's but would come in and save courses for a whole host of reasons. And you know, I suppose it was that first for wanting to make it the best that first and dedication to more that led us to having that that name in the industry within Fitness tutoring and assessing that that That came in to save courses not there is necessarily anything wrong with them. But there may have been just the odd disgruntled person on the course or something went wrong. We would get known as that the couple that would come in and save the day which was wicked. Am I okay to keep going? It's really nice to be able to recall it and then you know what else we're making a big impact in kind of a standards of Fitness education and what not. I Got another wild card. Okay, I think you know, I'm also a big believer of being in the right place at the right time. And and I've had a couple of those to be honest and the next one. We're gonna add some. Yeah go for it. Those World cards. I really do believe and not just because you were in the right place the right time, but because you've been doing the right actions you'd been connecting with people you'd been already doing the work. So yeah. It's not all Fluke call. It was a nice house a nice refrain. Thank you. And so this Reef Riverside not refined. This wild card I got was to work with in reps register of exercise professionals fav currently since you know me working with them, they've changed radically in to simps bar and the the nature of what I do now, I believe is slightly different, but when I was with them, I was the endorsement of the sir which basically meant any piece of CPD training. Go through the endorsement team to make sure it was fit for purpose make sure that it did exactly what it was said to and they improve the standards of Fitness education. And so that would be industry experts for we'd get to liaise with day in day out but I've been in the industry for many many years but had tutored on a variety of different courses that were experts in their fields in all at all all areas of fitness. And and that was a great time. I was with them it was a A short-lived time because I learned very quickly that it was like trying to steer the Titanic whilst I had this vision and first for improving standards. I knew nothing would deep down. I knew nothing was going to happen at the speed in which I like to move at. And so I wasn't there very long. I was only there for just shy of a year and in the process of that again, you know, I've gone back to paid employment now this was for I'm in central London. I've gone back to full-time London wage and I turned back to Alias that I'm resigning again and say Here's kind of not necessarily as another career change, but it was another career shift and this is why I genuinely believe that for me personally. I mean, I'm a great I'm a great. I have a great story that aligns with so many of the Learners we work with because I understand what it's like to be in a secure position in a job role and then go through the internal dialogue for questions that inner chatter of oval watts. What-ifs. Can I do this? Am I good enough? Why me that that allows me that's allowed me to jump ship twice. Maybe I you know, I learned a lot from the first one. It was a lot easier the second time around because I knew deep down what my vision was and so I used the time at skills active and Reps to start to build out parallel. And I started parallel coaching Haley join me soon after and we we launched we launched relatively slow. I'm going to be honest a lot slower than enough for our than I wanted to but today, you know since 2012 to 2019. We have worked with thousands of Learners face to face and online and through the, you know, our free content our blog now the podcast our YouTube channel we have had although they're not a paying learner. We've had Learners use our material our resources from all over the world. Literally we get comments on our YouTube from people in Australia America the Middle East in throughout Europe throughout Africa South Africa saying, thank you and that's I suppose what helped me settle that thing inside me in my heart of hearts in my gut said but said, I'm not happy until I've done EX Now we are doing X and I'm a lot happier amazing. So there we are. My name is where is my origin story? You know your origin story and I still found it fascinating. Can I add your business? I've missed out a massive thing. What did you miss that? So the other thing is, you know, that's the origin story of why I'm here today and I want to add in that whilst there was a lot of one-to-one and small groups. Semi private training in the early stages of my career. I'm still in the trenches every Tuesday morning. I still have clients one-to-one here in Plymouth. And if I rewind to I'm going to say 2014 time was extremely stressful for for parallel coaching for Hayley and I in terms of you know my vision and my ferocious pedal to the metal attitude. Caused a serious amount of stress and we grew very very quickly at this point and consequently. I'm going to be on really open and honest and really vulnerable. I experienced a lot of anxiety and a lot of stress under that kind of category. I suppose of mental health and that allowed me to have a massive deep dive into my own psychology my own mind set my own understanding of what's between my left ear and right ear and and start. Dive into conversations and coaches with the likes of Tony Robbins and go and do some seminars with him and and various other coaches to really understand who is Neil Bergman and that's had a massive impact on how we've moved forward the last 18 months to two years. But but I missed out was following this kind of self-discovery. I suppose a liberation of me out of this stress. I set up a boot camp called. The 5:00 a.m. And 6:00 a.m. Club down here in Plymouth. And I only set out to work with a few guys, but were just like me that were a little bit at the time. I was a little bit over way. I was definitely stressed. I was definitely anxious. I was business owner. I was in my thirties and I thought I want people just like me and I want to train them. Anyway, lo and behold over the next three and a bit years. I worked with literally hundreds of people to come through the five a.m. Club. Of all different shapes and sizes and backgrounds business owners people that were employed locally those with kids without kids and literally had dozens of people turn up every morning Monday to Friday at 5 a.m. In the morning on a local car park of all weathers all months January to December and it was just the most amazing journey and I gave it up last year last. First was the last the first day for free as why didn't get up at 5 a.m. So I did it for just over three years. And in the last year all of my focus and attention has come back to parallel coaching. So I kind of had a I'm not going to say mini Hiatus. I didn't go anywhere. We just focused our attention Elsewhere for a couple of years between 2016 and 2018 specifically me and that's where we started to really develop in that time a lot of our online presence and our online. On boot camps. So there we go. There we are. There's me. It's amazing. I can't believe that you almost forgot about your five a m-- club. And they really do highlight a massive part of you and your origin and the part of your reasons for going back in the trenches being that mindset being that wanted to help somebody that was like yourself things an amazing Point. You're probably come up in a lot of podcasting interviews over the next few months weeks years. Well, we're doing all these see what it's allowed me to do is to really understand how I create a helped create change in my clients. So, you know the battles, but that You've listened to face with your clients of how do you get somebody to follow a nutritional strategy? How do you help somebody create change in my day? How do you actually get somebody to a deer to exercise? How do you make exercise fun? How do you work with small groups large groups and over the course of that time with with my with the boot camp 5m Club, you know, I worked out it to be, you know, close to almost 8,000 sessions or something like that, which is just ridiculous. Isn't it? You know one to Small group large groups, you know, the largest group of had was ranked some close to my 70 people turned up and you know, one of the things I learned during that time, you know, I want to pass on to you guys as best I can so if it processions is a perfect place that to to start that so how do you learn qualify and Kickstart as a Pit Road? This is the bit processions podcast with parallel coaching. But you know moving on Haley. What I want to do is, you know, let's talk about you. Let's talk like your origin story. Where who are you also miss the overlaps quite a lot but there's a little chunk of time before it starts overlapping and as I was growing up, I basically around education all the time my mom's a teacher. I was a teacher and and as a result even playing was all about educating and I didn't really realize this until Very recently and how much were impact that has had on my life and my role in education now to this day but yeah, my life was really about education. It was about study hard always Rising always learning a star student one of those and I still loved moving and I was right into Athletics and dance time. I went on to UNI and done dance and that's where I met the lovely meal and absolutely changed my world in that moment and As a result. He also introduced me to Fitness is like see this thing. This is a gyp. I remember that I remember going to a university gym. Actually, you know, that would have been in like 2005 and yeah, I remember that it was comedy was like oh so you can run on a machine. Just why would you dig that? So and then the more that we were training together new was basically my trainer whether you knew it or not, but he was like teaching me through things. Tell him to go to Circuit classes. And I found that what I thought I loved about dance. I actually loved about Fitness more and that was about that exploration of the body that understanding of the human anatomy that feeling that you get when you challenge yourself and you achieve something new. That's actually what I started to find in Fitness rather than in dance and it fulfill be in a much greater way because I had no need to do say that performances or rehearsals of be told what to do that didn't have to happen in Fitness and and I ended up really loving it. And anyway, we graduated and we move down to the mess and actually ice went on a small little Community Based course that taught me chair based dance and I already had a massive like crush on of these basically like a love working with older populations. I know already my grandma. I've been a massive part of my life in terms of going to see her in real time for Village and understand about Alzheimer's dementia, and this allowed me to do that. So I took what I know about dance for my degree. I took the chair based don't qualification that I gained in this little course, and I basically traipsed around the entirety of Devil with a little CD player. And then I do like handjob dance flamingos flamingos and in specific retirement villages and I was a freelance whilst Neal was working in the adventure role in a city college. So it was it was a really exciting and busy time where I was doing all this freelance work and that's when Neil went on his left Egypt was and he was talking right my button how many how many retirement villages are old people's homes? I swear you in and an average week and how many people do you reckon? You saw nice. I probably had 15 to 20 on my books. Some will weekly somewhat couple times a week. Someone months be and each one had probably about 10 in there. Also. I love them to pieces like they're everything from a really active group to then those that all had outside MERS and you think you've got like 12 times in your class all have our So I missed half the time I just end up dancing with them and I had an amazing time but yeah things rusting and they kept me busy and then where I wasn't in the story was that Neil basically done his level to Jim course with a very inspirational guy Bob Bob who's gonna be on one of the episodes. I'm still in contact with with my original tutor and Mentor who I've had the pleasure. So, it's Haley. I'm hijacking. Me and Haley are both had the pleasure of working with and he's actually done some bits in parallel and it's gonna be the best episode it gives me goosebumps thinking that Bob Hope who's also an offer of a of a circuit trait be the exercise guide to circuit training is going to be on the podcast. So watch out for that one. I'm not sure what episode but it is coming. We are talking we are communicating we will get it going. Yeah, absolutely. And both is the reason we are both in the fitness industry. He absolutely inspired us both. He taught fantastically and it really made me feel like I could actually do this and hopefully we embody a lot of like Bob's principles and how we teach as well and but when food, I'm a level to dye my level 3 and then got a job as a maternity cover in a ladies only gym to start off with just the fitness instructor. I enjoyed it. I kind of found that I I quite quickly progressed and outgrew that role and I ended up jumping across the lots of different management roles. To be honest. I got picked up for management in Fitness very quickly and quite good at like technically stuff. So I got caught into all of the pool plan and understanding during pools and all that type thing. And so I went up food and lots of operational management work in Jim's still instructing still working with clients as well. But then I had like My calling and such was that I found a position open a retirement village. They were looking for someone to come in and run their gym. And I took that role I was there for three years. I built an exercise referral scheme in the gym. I transformed the gym in terms of having a parallel bars in place to help people to learn to walk where this amazing machine that would move their arms and legs for them if they were disabled and I worked a lot with stroke. Disability those that had amputations from Abby's from diabetes. So really heavily in the excise referral world and really liaising with GP surgeries as well. You even know that I am you even had a resident nurse join you in the gym and have an office actually as part of a gym and have GPS actually come to the gym at times didn't you too because it was easy for them to come to you and your clients and the clients. To them. Absolutely. It shows how important that that function that join between health and fitness was really really important. And yeah, and then I basic became a specialist is frozen excess referral and whilst it was working with the other training provider as the manager who was looking someone to come and do some exercise referral assessments and working low back pain and oh I had my first taste of teaching on my God. That was scary and I remember the moments Standing in front of a class thinking everybody else knew so much more than I did. I definitely had some elements of failing on that first of my courses and it gave me the taste to be able to teach and actually realize that it's something that I do love and I am good at teaching and educating actually that I always go by the phrase of like, I'm a PT by trade. I'm an educator by nature, but I'm like a business owner by name. I Like CEO by name so I really am an educator by nature and we found we built parallel coaching. And as Neil said we went through all those different phases and structures within parallel coaching. And actually it wasn't until 2014. Correct me if I'm wrong and rubbish with dates Neil Peart with 2014, whereby one of our Learners are wanted some extra help. They can really understand the manual anymore and there are why can't you just take Your sessions that we do face-to-face. Why can't you just give them to me? Can't you just do it again? Can't you just do the Heart video again? And actually this Heart video is still on YouTube now and it makes me cringe so much but it's great. So and that was the moment when we realized that so many more people will benefit from our content and our way of teaching that actually not everyone teaches like we do and that ability to break down those complex topics. Make things really simple became what we did and I suddenly found oh, oh, I'm good at something. I found something that I can really help lots of people with and it fitted with where we going parallel coaching it made that us as a training provider very different from anything else that's out there because we weren't just ego. You start the beginning. You've come a PT. Let's go it was about the Journey of how we teach you. It's about journey of how you learn it. Can you really absorb that information? - and you go out there to be truly outstanding and that really to me was the next step in the origin story and maybe in story. I know and what I love about that. Is that where I first started in terms of tutoring and assessing that student support role as my first wild card to that side of the industry was actually about helping people and recognizing that training providers in general aren't necessarily help. In Learners achieve and truly be confident and understand where they're resides where exams. So we Anatomy physiology where principles when nutrition Mass what I love that was at those at defining moment for both of us in 2014. When we when we started to record the rivairy first revision master in its had you know, I think we're on like revision Mastery like 7.0 now, but it but it's allowed us to work with Learners that are with other training providers and fill that Gap in the industry but says, you know just because you're you don't get it doesn't mean you have to stay stuck. That's the key. So with that all said and there's up. That's that's who we are. That's who's who in the zoo what this fitness mean for you Haley. So that might be personally or what does it from an industry perspective. What does fitness mean for you Fitness? Okay. So scopic word that isn't it? That's not a little work, but in terms of the Phrase Fitness First of all this kind of two points do it. First of all the word like to be fit for purpose to have a to be bit. I think is kind of about meeting a certain standard. It's about being fit for purpose is about being able to do something a good capability. That's what I was kind of see with having Fitness and then in the fitness industry and that business as a concept what I love about Fitness, is that it serves More than for just the session you're in and hopefully this podcast is a reflection of that. It's not just about the single session. It's about the impact after that. So for example, it's not just about that training session on a treadmill where your heart rate is through the roof and and then it's lower again. You're really pushing around aerobic threshold. It's the impact after that on your body on your mindset and what that accomplishment allows you to do. So for me is really a Max it metaphorical what the achievement allows you to do in your body and in the rest of your life. Exactly. I did, you know hundred percent agree, you know for me personally Fitness is what can I achieve personally in terms of my fitness? We will have a potential can my fitness be pushed to that that full potential and reach whatever it is, but I'm going after as a fitness goal. So, you know a number of our listeners know that both myself and Haley we've done a number of ultra runs over the last number of couple of years and been heavily into the running. Seen and pushed our bodies physically and mentally and emotionally through some crazy distances and that it doesn't necessarily have to be Fitness for you've got to run a certain distance. Your that Fitness could be to to you know, reduce your low back pain that could be to reduce a particular medication. What's your Fitness goal your health and fitness goal from a parallel coaching or Fitness industry perspective. What does fitness mean for me? I think you know, we've got these Ruiz we learn at level 2 GM we talked about, you know, physical fitness nutritional Fitness emotional Fitness spiritual Fitness, I would I want to add one in I want to call it learning Fitness and you know what I mean by that is we all have this capacity to push our brain and learn and for me, you know, what does fitness mean within the fitness industry is we've got to constantly be learning and push our learning Fitness. There we go. Cheeky wine. That was no. No. She didn't have that one was coming. I like that. I like the learning City's gonna ask you one back. What was it? I forget that first. I'm going to get them first. What was what's been your most memorable moment today in in your origin story or more. So with in parallel coaching most memorable moment. So how do you learn qualify and Kickstart as a Pit Road? This is the fit processions podcast with parallel coaching and not just because I have a lush road to his memory. But it's not I agree like honesty you would not believe the daily battle we have with Haley's memory. There we go. Not upset. That's why there's so many memory hacks in the region. I do. I need an anchor point for everything and but not just because I have an attraction own. We've got honesty. I can't pick one memorable moment and that's because every single day or week we get messages we get Comments from Learners are saying that we are having an impact and to be honest. That's what is all about for me. I know it is for you as well when they say thank you so much. The penny just dropped then I'm like what we're doing matters. What we're doing has an impact and that memorable moment cool for me the memorable moment. Honestly, I won't forget it. I couldn't forget it and and you as soon as I say, you know, you will remember Member even though you've got a really bad memory, but we were living just outside Milton Keynes in Newport pagnell. It was 2012 13 would spend several months setting up parallel coaching taking it to her, you know making it limited setting underpinning it with everything we needed and we wrote our very first course which was our level one kettlebell course and rather than doing what every other training provider does is just by the manual. From an awarding body like active IQ or YMCA and that's the easy route good old Neal over here decided he would write his own manual and scheme of work and and do it the hard way amazing. It was phenomenal anyway, so we put a huge amount of work and effort and time energy focus our money in and we hadn't sold anything and even though you know my vision I knew where we wanted to go and I remember coming back. Back from a walk around one of the lakes in Milton Keynes, maybe a little bit down hard little bit disgruntled, you know with working hard and not really seeing anything materialized. And anyway, we walked in and I walked upstairs and Haley, press play on the answer machine and it was a lady called Karen and it said hi. My name is Karen. I just found your website and I'd like to book on the Swindon course. I can remember the day August 13th. And it gives me Goose Bumps thinking about it because literally I just stood on the top of it of our Stairs And for those of you who are watching on YouTube. I was just like, oh my God, like dancing around and you know, we danced all night and we sent her the link and she paid a hundred and thirty nine pound and enrolled and we sent the man you out and for me that was the most memorable time because it just provided evidence that this was going to To work, even though it was just one tiny little sale, but what this really represented was impacting one learner and I knew that if I could impact one learner, I would impact the household if I impacted the household I'd impact their clients if I impacted their clients, it would impact the next household and it is that ripple effect yet again using now. She says I'm memories here, so Riley was been the hardest decision you've had to make. Tough questions, but there's still a lot of decisions and technically I think sometimes obviously new to make some of the the bigger decisions. You're the big mission area parallel really, but in terms of the hardest decision is really personal to me actually and it was it still is around this base to camera and base to like doing a live videos. I always worry. I'm going to get my words. Job for that I'm gonna look horrendous or who will judge me for my teeth and my bad hair or whatever. It might be and I'm sure other people probably feel the same about things and it was a big decision to finally just go I'm going to do it and we've got hundreds of videos on YouTube now as a result of that I'm just going to do it doesn't matter and for me that was big and and you know adding on to that like you literally we talk about, you know, I think there's over 300 videos now just on Our YouTube alone, you know and I look the other day and it's literally milk cumulative. It's millions of views and we have literally thousands of comments saying thank you and in Bashir minority versus lightly, you know, probably like less than 1% where somebody says. Oh, you've got a big gap between your teeth or your glasses or one key or you could have at least done your hair and you know, I'm gonna swear permission to swear, you know, who gives a fuck. You know what I love about it is you just did it regardless. It would have been so easy to have listened to the minority. But the hardest decision was just doing it. Yeah, totally absolutely and yeah, it was it was hard because it was a personal choice I make as well I could have just left it but I chose to do it. So that was that came hard, but I would like to know about yours. Can I turn that question back to you? What hardest decision? I think he's going to be leaving the my first full-time job. When I was with the training provider, so we're talking 2010 11 time. I'm not a hundred percent on dates. Maybe that's my memory going but for all intents and purposes, you know, I was working in central London good wage good good overall career prospects general manager. There was routes to more way more than I ever thought. I was capable of so making that decision even though it was quick for me. It was still an anti uncertainty and as you know, I don't deal well with uncertainty some days, you know, although I may be appear quite confident on here and in the classroom, I still experience uncertainty and anxiety can cripple me. So whilst I do come across as me at this is another side to me which can literally just be crippled with with with uncertainty and that's what that did that time was huge levels of fear. Has levels of uncertainty it was scary. But but deep down. I knew I wanted to do and it wasn't that so that was probably the hardest decision handing in my resignation. Yeah. I think a lot of our Learners listeners right now will be able to relate to that whether they've done that or whether they're at the moment of just about handing that that resignation and move on that big leap. So, yeah, thank you for sharing that that's absolutely spot-on. So I'm going to ask you a question back and this relates to to you personally and your skill set. So I want to know like you mentioned that you quite like Marvel. You quite like DC these kind of comics, but I want to know where your superhero power and be a few or is like what is your Superior power? The only thing but I think if I was a superhero, I'd be Iron Man. Yep, maybe we could turn start a better Tony Stark. Maybe we could leave it there. I don't know. I don't know. I'll let you guys decide. What's my superhero power. We talked about this on our PT course, then we about having a superhero power one thing but we are incredibly good at and being humble over that for me. I'm going to go with vision and belief, you know, when the world Stacks up against you you've got this vision and Leaf that what you're doing is going to work out and I hold a very clear vision for for me for 14 Bergman for team parallel and I deep down believe it even though at times as many hurdles barriers or obstacles things in our way that that could change that I'd say the other superhero. I mean, you've got to superhero Powers. I think you know a superhero can have more than one. And that's making learning fun and entertaining. I think you know those of you that have been in the classroom with me I get liken to Jim Carrey. I don't see it myself but I get very passionate very animated and I love making learning fun and entertaining and I genuinely believe that that creates a memorable experience and you know, if I think back to all of the teachers I had growing up the ones that I kind of remember their names. I kind of remember our topics is probably because it wasn't funny. An enjoyable and it wasn't entertaining and then when I look back all of the teachers or people that taught me something along the way right from a young kid is because it was fun enjoyable and entertaining and there's got to be something in that because I can I can I can hold a memory of it I can I can remember Mr. Swan Alat my primary school his sessions were fun enjoyable and entertaining I can remember a guy called guy Malpass when I first started going into kayaking and climbing. Fun memorable and enjoyable Bob Hope my first introduction to Fitness as a level 2 gym instructor. I turned up day one. I was like this guy is so fun. So memorable and so enjoyable. I remember it now and I think that's something I've been around and recognize and I love that being a bit of a superhero power. There we go. So over to you. So other than being maybe Wonder Woman, what do you reckon? Your superhero power is I'm glad you said about Wonder Woman Come on, any other female female superhero stuff for Wonder Woman be good? Yeah, absolutely and she is like my female crush. Absolutely. I think she's fantastic. So really my skill set. I suppose that I would say is a superhero element would be that to a fault. I'm very good with process. So it reads this can get in the way sometimes but it means I can see Trends really well, and I'm really good at taking Something that's complex and finding a path through that to create a step-by-step process. It means I'm really good at coming up with acronyms wordplay and metaphors and this can get really irritating for Neil when we're driving along and I make words and number plates and all sorts of geeky things. If you if you're not on YouTube. You just don't know shit himself in the head at the thought of me making up words that number plate but essentially what it is is it's a skill set in terms of being able to break down something that's very complex and turn it something step by step and that's what you found in an incredible way Envy online learning for revision boot camps or the specialist courses, excuse me, is you've taken a very complex topics within you know, Anatomy physiology and just crush them and and learn as walk away. Just going. Oh my God how I get it straight away. So cool. So we've that where do you see the fitness industry? In going into 2020 and onwards in 20 seconds going to go 30 seconds. Let's give you some time quick. But where do you sit? Where do you see the fitness industry moving? I think it's going to move into being much more holistic much more personalized and that Learners to get a PT's are going to need to have a deeper knowledge in specific areas that they can guarantee results for clients. I don't think clients are gonna accept A PT that doesn't get them results are going to become more and more aware that results a key. That's what I recommend about you. Yes, your as a fitness professional doesn't matter PT yoga Pilates your you're being bought upon a result. So you're selling an end and end result and I think if you can't deliver on that result, then you're going to make yourself redundant too kind of reframe that you know, I'd add on to that, you know about being being a specialist really, you know is a How did I'm going to say? It's quite a crowd it's saturated Market, you know some basic research. I've done is almost 60 plus thousand active personal trainers Fitness professionals health coaches mindset coaches therapists active in the UK and you know, you have to separate yourself from it every one of those. So there's only one Neil Bergman. There's only one parallel coach and there's only one Haley Bergman. But what is it that you do and do exceptionally well to Niche down on I think going forwards they'll always Be a space for one-to-one training small group semi-private large group without dialing in and understanding. What is it? You you specialize in uniquely. You're going to be left behind. I think that's the key is keeping up and being being as unique as you can for you. That's an awesome tip for success as well. Isn't it in terms of being able to just be uniquely you and specially so not only Understand where the industry is going to go. But also what that means R suppose as well. So yes, it means in terms of success. So thank you know, I let me let's stay on the word success then is what would what what thing? Can you attribute to your success or your origin story? It's really slushy. Do you still want me to say it you can go for it you so Neil is a hundred percent. My my reason that I would actually to success. Is he supports his Drive its Vision. It's being my wingman hundred percent there. And I know undoubtedly that I would have stumbled many more times based on my lack of self belief if I didn't have somebody Smooth it was truly my Raven found my way grunts. So now I feel like I've got a save that your V attribute to my success. However, I didn't put that in my answer my my answer serious one and we went we got all our questions sent in and we put them down and then we kind of went away in which food for your rosy listening. We answered them individually to come back to so now I feel a little bit like maybe I should have said Haley but my answers I have a mantra called doing the work daily in spite of how I feel. So even you know, I mentioned this on my intro on the intro episode number one podcast was even my number plate is DTW do the work do the work Daily doesn't matter how I feel. It doesn't matter how I got a headache doesn't matter. I got back pain. It doesn't matter if I feel angry annoyed tired pissed off frustrated or on likewise the other side of those emotions of happy. Joyful excited ecstatic. I just got to do for work, and I know that if I just Do for what daily and keep pushing forwards keep blocking only forward as another saying I say a lot then I will get to where I want to get to inside my vision. So Vision success Stacks up nicely to the next question. We got about three or four more questions Haley is what's unique about parallel coaching. I'm a glance of this one. No, I'm happy with this. So they're parallel coaching. To me in the obviously a lot of training finds out there and fitness education as a lot of other companies that and what I love about parallel coaching is that we don't see ourselves in competition with those but we Encompass them into our whole business. We're kind of like an island amongst many islands Island. I like it. Okay. Yes. So rather than feeling like we're all lots of different islands and we've got barriers up between them. Just use your mentor. Problems are like that is that the were all individual Islands a skilled training provided seemed and the other learners but our success is when we work as a whole team and the fact that we we offer a lot of our resources to Learners that are already working with other training providers. I think makes this very different about you know, I agree a hundred percent. I think you know, there's always going to be we've always it we are in competition, but it's about working together. Gether and driving towards one big message as a whole even though at times, you know, there is an element of competition and that's okay. There we go. I love it. I think you hit the nail on the head. I don't jump down to the next couple of questions for you. I'm not sure who sent this question and I we should have put people's names. We will do that on future questions. But what do you do to chill and relax and unwind Haley? For me is anything around the sea is partly why we moved back down to Devon. I just love being around CL. I've been acting for sharing with us walking running whether it's bodyboarding is our new thing surfing was before that like paddleboarding anything on Water by the Sea relaxing mean. What about you? Yeah under percent usually be found surfing bodyboarding historically a lot of running. Haven't done that. At too much for last few months personally few due to a few health issues, but I imagine we get back to running at some point. But one thing I'm I like geeking out over is making videos and content. So a lot of the videos you see on our YouTube are parallel Instagram Facebook. I just I just enjoy making content and even though there's an element of work behind that. I like all adding all of the graphics but the effects and and making them as kind of funky as possible so that proper tools Now I'm with chill out the next question before we start to wrap up is if you could take one two, three books with you on a holiday. What would you choose? Nice. Okay. So although I'm a massive geek. I'm not a big reader, but I've got one that I would definitely say. You're a podcast listener. Listen. Yeah, I nobody really I'm more of a listener and but with with that Stephen Covey seven Habits of Highly Successful People again remember you from yeah, okay. So yeah, that one is the one that I would probably say that I found really interesting to understand like the mechanisms of how different people operate and how to be more effective. That's that's one that I would find. So how about, you know, even Kobe I'm going to take three books with me. I am a book person. First off. I'm gonna go with.com secrets from Russell Brunson, then I'm going to take his second book expert secrets from Russell Brunson. Those two books have been the catalyst. Just too many significant changes inside parallel coaching and 5m club without those books. I genuinely believe we wouldn't be where we are today. I would love to meet Russell Brunson at some point in the future. I pretty much sure that will happen and I would just like to shake his hand and say thank you. I've sent him messages on social media platforms and he's personally responded as well. So those two books top dollar. and then the final book is the one thing by Gary Keller again this concept of if I just focused on one thing and I saw that one thing kind of like a domino and I pushed that Domino over that one thing what one thing must I do today in order to get to the one thing tomorrow what one thing today pushes tomorrow and the next day over so it's this concept of working on one thing and I think you know, we live in an environment where we're constantly multitasking and You know Paralyzed by loads of things and we don't get anything done. And that book from Gary Keller made. It made it very very clear of what I should be doing on a day-to-day basis. So hated a basis. We're in the now. We're coming up to the back end of 2019. What's next handy for parallel coaching going into 2020? I'm gonna say more more and more more and more. That's a lovely lovely way. We're just going to keep doing more and more. We're going to increase our reach. We're going to help more people more and more. Okay, we've got more courses More PT courses are parallel Academy up in Milton Keynes. I love it with out there again this we've gone way up there last weekend were up there this weekend. We've got new PT course in with 12, 13 14 people in 14 people. We're back up the following weekend. We got another 14 people on a circuit course and I love seeing I want to see the parallel coaching Academy face-to-face thriving next year. And then the other side what I really want is just more online presence. I want to reach more people and I think that's where this podcast comes in. So, you know, if you know somebody that you think is going to benefit from this whether they're kick starting out in Fitness or whether they just you know addicted to the gym and you know that actually they would appreciate and get value from this then. Share it with them. And the other way to really boost that is to leave us a review in iTunes or Stitcher or Google play whatever you're listening on because those reviews helped the algorithm of that social platform to boost our rankings and you know, the higher up we are in in those rankings and algorithm, but more findable is is that a word were more? Yeah findable. We are two more and more people so that's what's next for parallel. Coaching. There we go. Anything you want to add Hailey any any questions we could have asked or should have asked before we wrap up episode to the origin story. No, I think we've done an amazing job on that origin story Pat ourselves on the head, but I'm honestly with the questions from the Learners that we had on there as well. I think it's a fantastic insight into who we are which now gives all of that context to then go forward and you can see our real intention behind what we're doing in the processions. So I immediately so, you know, I think you know, I just want to thank you on behalf of Haley and I you know, we really look. Forward to you joining us on the fit processions, as you know is going to be to a week for the first week. There's going to be one a day for seven days. And you know, I invite you to join us inside our Facebook in a circle Community as well. Go to Facebook go to parallel coaching and you'll be able to join the group. They're quite easily. We're let you in. There's you know over a thousand feet Pros just like you in Bear constantly engage in asking questions pushing, but that's the place you can ask us questions. About the guest speakers coming on. So we really look forward to seeing you on the future Sessions episode 3 drops tomorrow where I've done an interview with Phil Quirk from PQ performance, and we Deep dive into NLP and mindset. So stay tuned and we're see you soon. Hi, I'm Neil Bergman and I'm Haley Bergman over the last 10 years. 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FitPro Sessions Podcast Episode 002 – The Origin Story Who is Parallel Coaching Here’s what we talked about on today’s FitPro Sessions Podcast Today’s podcast episode is the second from our NEW FitPro Sessions Podcast where we explain Who Parallel Coaching are with our Origin Story. This will give the context of what you can expect over the next few episodes as well as understand why we do what we do. Grab the FitPro Sessions Podcast show notes: Timestamps: 1:00 What is an Origin Story 2:50 Neale’s Origin Story – How did you start in Fitness and whats the journey to date? 21:50 Hayley’s Origin Story – How did you start in Fitness and whats the journey to date? 32:30 What Does Fitness Mean To You? 35:30 Most Memorable Moment 39:20 Hardest Decision To Date 43:00 What is Your Superhero Power 47:00 Where Do You See The Fitness Industry Going 49:00 What Do you Attribute To Your Success? 51:30 What is Unique about Parallel Coaching? 53:00 What do you do to relax? 54:15 What 1-3 books would you take away on holiday with you? 56:45 What is next for Parallel Coaching Learn more from Parallel Coaching : Join the Parallel Coaching Inner Circle HERE Access all of the other FitPro Sessions Podcast Episodes HERE Get help with your revision with our revision mastery bootcamps: https://revision.parallelcoaching.co.uk/fitness-exam-revision-courses Download Free Mock questions here: https://revision.parallelcoaching.co.uk/fitness-exam-mock-questions   Check out what learners are saying: HERE  Like us on Facebook: HERE   Follow us on Instagram: HERE   Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: HERE   ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fitpro-sessions/message 