My name is Michael Boyle and I am one of the owners andfounders of Mike Boyle's Strength and Conditioning in Woburn, NorthAndover and Haverhill, Massachusetts. Basically, I have been doingthis for 33 years. I started out with the idea that I was going tobe an athletic trainer, went to Boston University for about 6months as an athletic trainer and then realized that that wasn'twhat I wanted to do and that I was going to do strength andconditioning so I resigned my full-time paid position and startedvolunteering and I was basically a volunteer strength coach and abartender for the better part of 6 or 7 years and then graduallystarted shifting, a little more strength and conditioning, a littleless bartending and then eventually a point where I didn't need tobar tend anymore. But the big thing is, I'm not going to say itbecause now I got you here, getting on the scale every week andrealizing that, okay, I've got to get that proper tool. So weprobably have three relatively distinct customers, let's say. We'vegot an adult customer who's training in a small group. We've got anadult customer who's training one on one and then we've got a youngathlete customer. That's really the vast majority. Yourprofessional athlete sort of morph between the two over timebecause they start out as that young filet mignon guy or girl whenthey're 18, 19, 20, 21 but suddenly we've had some that now are intheir late 30s and some even into their early 40s and now they'remuch more like our older adult client. I always say with some ofour older professional athletes we just want to get you back andmake money again, go back, get paid another year. I tell ourcoaches all the time that we're in the life changing business,we're not in the strength and conditioning business. We're not inthe personal training business. We have the capacity. We probablyhave greater capacity than your doctor does to change your life. Idon't hire the narcissist. I always say your clothes should fit.They shouldn't look like you bought them from your little brotheror your little sister and you really should care about the peoplethat you're training. If you don't care that they're getting betterthan you're in the wrong field.
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>> Five each side, step forward, step to the side, openup those hips. I think that's one of the biggest thing as personaltrainer is that you really need to have that connection and youcreate a friendship. It's more than just like, you know, a piece ofpaper. All right, write down your three goals, let's go. We get tothat point after a while when they feel comfortable with you andthey trust you and then we go from there. It's like all right, whatare you working for, because everyone has a why. My name is AnaTocco, I'm a strength coach and personal trainer here at MikeBoyle's Strength and Conditioning and I am the nutrition andwellness coordinator as well. Where do I struggle? I think probablysometimes my own discipline. Like, I think that's why sometimes Ihold account other people so much because sometimes I need thataccountability on me.
>> Drive! Pop! Okay, 10 off the wall. I'd like todescribe my style as a chameleon because I have to change in orderto adhere to many different walks of life. I train high schoolstudents as well as moms, dads, seniors. So I like to adapt basedon the client that I'm working with. For the most part I like to behigh energy. I like to, you know, I'm a results driven trainer,coach, so I like to make sure I give people, I kind of meet theirmood where they are. I kind of want to see what kind of mood peopleare in that day and then I'm going to kind of adapt and give them aworkout that kind of will either help make their day better or calmthem down if they're having a rough day or whatever it may be. Myname is Marco Sanchez, I'm a strength and conditioning coach andmassage therapist at Mike Boyle's Strength and Conditioning.
Mike Boyle needs to hire trainers to work with clients at hisgym. He has conducted a job analysis and determined which taskspeople in the job need to perform. He is aware that people withcertain underlying personality factors will be a natural fit forthe job, while other people may need more development and coachingto perform well. He asks you to analyze which personality factorrelates to each job task.
1. Trainers need to stay in excellent physical conditionthemselves and always show up on time for the classes and personaltraining sessions they are scheduled to lead. Which personalityfactor is most important to perform this task successfully?
Openness to experience
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Emotional stability
Mike tells you he’s heard that different problem-solvingstyles, based on the work of Carl Jung, predispose people to feelmore satisfaction doing certain kinds of work. He is alsointerested in using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to helphis employees leverage their strengths and develop theirweaknesses, as well as to better understand each other’s preferredways of working. He asks you what problem-solving style tends toalign with
