08/21/2026
Two hours with a blank sheet outperforms two months of content.
Before a trainer builds a website, films a reel, or runs an ad, they write 50 names. Bethany and Landon Langston hand every new trainer at Optimal Performance the same three worksheets on day one, and nothing else moves until they are full.
List one is everyone you train now, expanded outward. For each current client, write their spouse, their adult family, their workplace, the activities they do, and the people they have mentioned to you. One good client is rarely one name. It is five.
List two is 25 people you know. Family, friends, old coworkers, teammates, neighbors. No screening. Do not sit there deciding who can afford it or who is not a gym person, because you are wrong about half of them. Every name gets a phone number and an email. A name you cannot reach is not on the list.
List three is ten local businesses. Physical therapy and chiropractic offices first, because post rehab referrals convert better than anything else you will try. Then doctors and professional offices, schools and local teams, athletic and running stores. Write your contact and the decision maker whenever you know both.
Two routing rules keep it clean. A client's family member or friend gets their own row on list two with the client's name in referred by. Anyone's workplace gets its own row on list three, because that is a partnership, not a person.
Launch target: 50 plus names across lists one and two, 10 plus businesses on list three.
Fill the lists today. Send tomorrow.
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