

Best Hour of Their Day | Podcast
Jason Ackerman / Jason Fernandez
Hosted by Jason Ackerman and Jason Fernandez, Best Hour of Their Day is a podcast dedicated to helping the CrossFit community. We cover all aspects of fitness including coaching, training, competing, starting and growing a business, and everything in between. Regular guests include world-class athletes, some of the best Coaches in the world, fitness entrepreneurs, industry leaders, and more.
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Dec 5, 2019 • 28min
132. Hiring and Firing
In today's episode, Fern is going solo again. He's sharing his method of hiring and firing staff; with the mistakes and the lessons he's learnt along the way. The aim here is too easy those awkward conversations that you will eventually have to go through as an affiliate owner. Looking at admin staff as well as, bring on new coaches. It's all about creating an appropriate expectation for staff and then enforcing it.
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Dec 3, 2019 • 1h 4min
131. John Briggs | Incite Tax
Fern is talking all business with John Briggs today. John is the owner of the Incite and author of Profit first for Micro Gyms, along with the part Affiliate owner. Fern has had personally been using them for 3 years. This is not sponsored Fern wanted to share how John’s business has helped Crossfit Rife be more profitable and stable. On top of that John makes very simple and understandable for gym owners as he is one as well. There’s so much to learn from this if your Affiliate Owners but coaches can also understand more way of keeping your money as well.
Disclaimer: They are not always they are not giving you personal advice, these are just general concept and principle that could be used in the taxing world. If you want to explore these father we recommend contacting John and his team at Incite Tax or a trained accounted. Also, this is looking specify at the America Tax system.
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Nov 28, 2019 • 27min
130. Planning for Holiday Workouts
Happy Thanksgiving Listeners! We hope you’re having a great day. On today episode we’re talking about running holiday classes, whereby their tends to a reduced schedule and which means classes are massive. The most important points keep it simple and safe, put in some effort in any way, with music or partner workout and ensure everyone having fun because no one cares about the time on days like this.
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Nov 27, 2019 • 1h 4min
129. Josh Melendez | Crossfit Be Someone
On today’s episode Fern chats with Josh Melendez, owner of Crossfit Be Someone. Josh is on the podcast today to discuss how he recently went on the 3 Day Coaches Development Programme, that fern hosted. We get a lot of question about the course and the in’s and out’s so Josh will hopefully answer them for you, but if it doesn’t always feel free to pop the question either in the best hour of their day or the coaches development programme on Instagram and we’ll get you an answer. Also, Josh shares his experience of taking over his affiliate and the bumpy road getting his box to where he is today. And how spending hours studying Crossfit materials allowed to develop into a better coach which he is pursuing that every day.
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Nov 26, 2019 • 47min
128. Doug Chapman | HyperFIT USA
On today’s episode, Jason Ackerman chat with Doug Chapman, OG in the CrossFit world, Hyper Fit (CrossFit Ann Arbor) was one of the first affiliates. Doug was on level 1 and two staff till 2014, before stepping down, he uses to run 8,000 sqf Affiliate then downsized to doing it in his garage, they discuss why he made the shift. Doug makes a clear line of what it means to be a professional coach and personality coach tough out the episode and way to ensure that you are pushing for the high level of coaching. They also discuss out Crossfit has changed from those very early on days.
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Nov 25, 2019 • 1h 5min
127. Do Gym Aesthetics Matter?
In today’s episode your host, Ackerman and Fern talk about the aesthetics of an affiliate and how important. They’re covering the overlook, layout to the organization to how clean it is. To emphasise how important that is today. With wifi, how to make your members want to stay more and really why if you have showers you should also have a towels service. These may seem like the little things that don’t make a big difference but they do leave that last first impression.
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Nov 21, 2019 • 29min
126. Box Tour | Sneak Peak
Ackerman and Fern are on the road in Raleigh, North Carolina. They are doing a part tour. They’re giving you guys a little insight into what they are actually doing, why they are doing it and when you guys get to see the end project. Some exciting things are coming. It’s all about showcasing gyms, as many of us don’t have opportunity to drop-ins to this many boxes whereas Ackerman and Fren do as they do seminars pretty much every weekend. Whereas most of us don’t have that opportunity.
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Nov 20, 2019 • 1h 10min
125. Justin Zizumbo | From coach to owner
On today’s episode Fern chats with his good friends Justin Zizumbo, owner of Crossfit New Life. They talk about, the importance of scale and how Justin has constantly worked with non-profit, with athletes in recovery. Along with Justin being a listener, he’s part of the mentorship group he discusses how that helped him progressed as a coach. He’s recently moved from being a part-time coach to an affiliate owner, they discussed how he’s handled and the effect to taking over box instead of taking it from the very beginning. Along with how much of his life has changed since and the exciting things coming to his community soon. It’s great to see someone just getting started and doing amazing things.
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Nov 19, 2019 • 1h 17min
124. Joe DeGain | 810 CrossFit
On today’s episode Fern chats with Joe DeGain, a long-time member of the CrossFit Seminar Staff. Joes also the owner of 810 Crossfit, in Michigan. They go deep down that rabbit hole of Affiliate ownership. Joes has been on staff for 11 years and 8 years of those were as a Flowmaster, he works on the Level 1, 2 and Kids seminars. He’s been in the sport for a long time and has always stuck to the Crossfit methodology never watering down for fabs. There’s a lot to learn here team. Enjoy.
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Nov 18, 2019 • 42min
123. Karl Eagleman | Whiteboard Daily
On today’s episode Jason Ackerman chats with the Karl Eagleman, you may know him better by his Instagram @whiteboard_daily. He’s the man behind those amazing coaching diagrams and the new whiteboard daily glossary. The glossary is an encyclopedia for coaches from cues, to movement patterns and everything in-between. They discuss how and why Karl started this all and some of his future plans. But really it’s all about wanting to help coaches have better and in-depth resources on specific movements. It’s really easy to see that Karl just getting started and that his man will be providing a lot of value and resources for the community. So make sure you are following him. - @whiteboard_daily
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