David Barta

BECOMING SELF MADE Being self made means more than just wanting more for yourself, but trailblazing your own path in life. When I was growing up, I was told I’d never even own an IPhone, to keep my head down, and not expect much out of my life. My path to disrupt these underwhelming expectations was once carved in a path through playing baseball professionally, but injury brought that dream to an end in 2018. When baseball ended, I became angry because the poor expectations I had for my life began to sneak their way back into my thoughts and knew I had to become SOMETHING. Six years ago I slept on a wood floor because I couldn’t afford a place to live on my own as I pursued a career in personal training. I CHOSE this path because I wanted better for others, as well as myself. The path I was GIVEN was not where I wanted to go. 6 months after sleeping on a floor I was able to afford to rent a room in an apartment in Playa Del Rey and dedicated every day to investing in myself and a future I couldn’t imagine to understand the value of. WHERE YOU ARE DOESNT HAVE TO BE YOUR DESTINY. We only have the opportunity of one lifetime to create the life we want to live. Get up, and start taking steps forward TODAY

HOW TO MAKE $100K/ YEAR AS A PERSONAL TRAINER AS YOUR OWN BOSS 😎💸🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 Six years ago when I just started personal training at 24 Hour Fitness Santa Monica, I felt overwhelmed by the statistics of being an intro level personal trainer. 90% of personal trainer quit within their first year of starting, and typically only make around $27,000 a year. But I knew they had to be a way to overcome this and create a career out of my passion. When I first started as a trainer in a corporate gym, I was making $24 an hour, even though I was selling sessions for over double that amount and that always felt unfair to me. After three months of working at this corporate gym, I quit because I knew there had to be more. As an accounting major at Lawyer University, I went straight to the numbers to figure out how I could achieve the elusive income of $100,000 a year as a personal trainer working for myself. I broke down what my weekly averages needed to be, and establish how my weekly statistics of sessions and income compared to that, and made a plan to achieve my dream income. I began to accurately track how much I was making every week as well as the amount of time I spent marketing myself and doing reach out on social media and found the formula to help me achieve my first six figure year as an independent contractor. Years later, I am a gym owner at @smtfhollywood helping both New as well as experience trainers scale their businesses and achieve the income of their dreams. IF YOU ARE TIRED OF HAVING YOUR TIME AND EXPERTISE UNDERVALUED AS A PERSONAL TRAINER ACT ON THAT. DM me “100k” to get more information about how to scale your business and achieve financial freedom here at Self Made Traininfg Facility now!!

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How to get more business as a Personal Trainer 🫡 As someone who’s been running their own personal training business for the past 6+ years, I have learned ALOT through trial and error. I have had several great mentors who have helped me get where I am today, but across the board these three themes have been a common denominator amongst any successful trainer. As one providing a service in the fitness industry WE are our own brands, everything about us is. I have always done well enough as a trainer, but I started seeing the most success when I started implementing these three points. If you are a personal trainer in the Los Angeles area and want to learn how to grow your business, DM me and come meet with me at my gym in Hollywood @smtfhollywood

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Is cardio a waste of time?? 🤔 Whether your goal is fat loss, endurance, or just feeling your best, cardio (or NEAT) has a place in any balanced fitness routine. Here’s why: Heart Health: Cardio strengthens your most important muscle—your heart. A stronger heart means better circulation, lower blood pressure, and improved overall health. Fat Loss Support: While strength training builds muscle (and yes, that’s key for your metabolism), cardio can be a powerful tool to create a calorie deficit when paired with proper nutrition. Mental Clarity: A good cardio session can boost endorphins and give you that post-workout glow to tackle your day. Longevity & Recovery: Incorporating even light cardio, like walking, enhances recovery between intense strength days and promotes longevity. But here’s the thing—it doesn’t have to mean hours on a treadmill. Find a type of cardio you enjoy. It’s not about choosing cardio over weights; it’s about creating a balance that works for you. 💪🏽

Shout out @bicepprincess for the Segway to talk about long length partials 💪🏽🫱🏼‍🫲🏽👸🏽 Studies show that we most likely reap a majority of the strength and hypertrophy benefits during the eccentric portion of a movement (European Journal of Sports Science, 2022) This being said (especially for such high-stimulus accesory movements like the tricep extension) we should be heavily focused on the lengthening portion of some movement to maximise our efficiency and benefits during workouts. Although it may look like “ego lifting” from the outside, this technique/ concept may result in several key benefits including: 1. Achieving true failure/ maximising stimulus during a set 2. Achieving high-quality sets at a weight that we may not be able to perform concentrically unassisted (also referred to as negative reps) 3. Potentially increasing mobility/ ROM If you feel like you are getting “stuck” in the gym or hitting a plateau, try adding this concept to your next workout in the gym. And as always, if you feel uncomfortable or not safe trying something new, ask a friend or a trainer for help For personal training in LA, DM me today! And be on the lookout for my Training app @bodybybarta launching in a few weeks 🚀 🚀💪🏽

YOU WONT MAKE $100k+ IN A YEAR AS A TRAINER (unless you do these 3 things) 👀👉🏼👂🏼 1. Market yourself - Marketing is the most important aspect of business that you can either fail of or succeed at. Last year was my best year in training revenue-wise due to my marketing, as I did this by posting over 10 client before/ afters as well as regularly posting resourceful content on social media to display my value and expertise as a personal trainer. 2. Working around other successful trainers As independent contractors, I believe that personal trainers as a whole greatly undervalue and underestimate the power of being in an environment of like-minded individuals. Whether one has 16 months or 16 years of experience, we all have at least one thing to learn from each other. 3. Training at a high- class training facility The era of “mobile trainers” is OVER. Your facility/environment is a HUGE part of your brand and says a lot about how seriously you take your service that you’re providing to clients. Being able to offer a high class service at a top-notch facility, you can differentiate you in a very saturated field, and allow you access to equipment to achieve greater results than in an apartment or a garage gym. If you are a personal trainer in LA looking to grow your business, DM me “SELF MADE” to join my team of elite trainers at @smtfhollywood today 👇🏼👇🏼

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Preview of my Body by Barta training app coming February 20th to the App Store !!

VIEWER 👉🏼 ENGAGED LEAD 👉🏼 CLIENT IN 60 sec🤑 THE BIGGEST mistake that new trainers make is that they can’t turn a view into a paying client 💸 (read this caption to find out how to fix that) As a personal trainer provided a high-end experience, any time someone new views or interacts with my content or an ad, they have qualified themselves as a lead and want me to DM them to sell them training. The past two years I’ve had record years in my own business because I’ve approached every engaged lead the EXACT same way. I immediately text or DM them (within 5-60 mins of seeing their engagement) using this format: 1 Greeting with THEIR NAME (so they know I don’t copy/paste) 2. Introduce myself and how they might know me 3. Reason why I’m reaching out 4. Call to Action (90% of trainers forget THIS) If you are a personal trainer in the LA/ So cal area and want to grow your business in 2025, DM me today to find out how to join our team of Elite Trainers here at @smtfhollywood

MAKE MORE MONEY AS A PERSONAL TRAINER IN 2025 One of the biggest takeaways I’ve gotten from listening to @hormozi videos and books is that lack of volume is usually the greatest barrier between where you’re at and where you want your business to be. Especially in the field of personal training, volume of hours of sessions (consultations & paid) heeds experience, and experience heeds a higher quality of service. In short, the more you put in the more you get out. One of the greatest tools any personal trainer or independent contractor has in our day and age is social media, alongside having a phone full of text and email contacts (LEADS). Ignoring the unlimited access we have two people just on our phones is like going fishing and ignoring an abundance of fish in a shallow stream. If you are not running as big a business as you want or are not making as much money as you’d like to, DO MORE. As business owners in the service industry our primary goal shouldn’t be to take other people’s money, but to build such a high quality service that no one can say no. IF YOU WANT TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS AS A PERSONAL TRAINER, DM me today! @smtfhollywood

THE BEST WAY TO WARM UP FOR YOUR WORKOUTS especially as a personal trainer where we have only 45 to 60 minutes to administer a workout for our clients, it has ALWAYS grinded my gears to see other trainers force their clients to use 10-15 minutes of that for a “warm up” 🤡 Your body is always warm. The human body’s internal temperature typically only rises or lowers ~ 1.8-3.6 degrees F during a workout (Oxford Academic, 2004) so spending up to 25% of the workout duration to warm up concludes to be a suboptimal use of time. If our goal for our workouts is hypertrophy , it seems that the most appropriate “warm up” would be a lighter set (ideally of the same resistance source and movement pattern) of our heaviest exercise that day. Seeing that this is typically a compound movement, we are free to jump into those movements right away. At the another day, there are very few “ black and whites” when it comes to working out because there is a lot of subjectivity depending on someone’s goals/ pre-existing injuries, experience level, etc. And we are always trying to reach that subjective best case scenario. But this has been my approach throughout running a successful training business the past six years yielding many significant results for clients. If YOU want to make 2025 the year that you get into the best shape of your life, DM me for personal training in LA today! If you were from out of town, make sure to pre-register for my personal training app launching January 29th at the link in my bio. Source cited: https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/4/6/185/314696?utm_source=chatgpt.com

LAST CLIENT TRANSFORMATION OF 2024 🤩💪🏽 when I first started training Brett he had already been working out on his own consistently and developing a comfortable and sustainable approach to a calorie deficit, but wanted to take things up a notch from his home gym workouts. Like I’ve mentioned in just about every other client transformation post this year Brett did the SAME 3 things consistently well leading to this impressive transformation 1. 10k+ steps a day, by finding convenient ways to get his steps (walking to the store for errands, cardio machines at home, local hiking) 2. Found a sustainable and manageable daily approach to eating / calorie intake while still maintaining a busy social and professional life as a high- level executive (shoutout to Brett’s HUGE professional accomplishments this year btw) using meal preps and healthy snacks 3. Strength training three times a week with me This post goes to serve as a message that achieving the body of your dreams doesn’t have to be contingent on your age, how busy your professional life is, or what others around you think you should do. If you want to make 2025 YOUR year, DM me for personal training in LA today! And be on the lookout for the launch of my training app @bodybybarta on January 29th! 😎💪🏽