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Less Admin HQ

30-day course for personal trainers

More Clients, Same Hours

Add client spots without adding admin hours: programming, content, client ops and retention, all inside your scope of practice.

  • 92-page playbook
  • All 30 days at once
  • About 30 minutes a day
Cover of More Clients, Same Hours, the 30-day AI challenge for personal trainers

Who it’s for

Built for personal trainers

Personal trainers and coaches: independent, studio or online.

Skip it if…

  • You’re expecting clients to appear on their own. The course takes admin off your week so you have room for more people. Filling those spots is still your marketing.
  • You won’t do 30 minutes a day. The playbook only works if you run it.

What changes

Your week, before and after

  • Every new client starts from a blank page.

    A personalized program in minutes, not evenings.

  • Sunday nights disappear into client check-ins.

    A check-in form and a summarizer: a 20-client roster takes the review time of 5.

  • You find out someone is slipping after they have already gone quiet.

    A retention radar flags quiet clients before they cancel.

  • Content eats your weekend.

    A week of posts from one session’s notes.

  • Scheduling, onboarding and pricing get worked out from scratch each time.

    Scripts that protect your calendar and your rates.

  • Consult no-shows slip away.

    A follow-up system that nurtures them for you.

If this challenge doesn’t free up at least 5 hours a week from admin in your first month, you can claim a refund within 45 days of buying. The freed hours are room for new clients. Filling those spots is still your marketing. Read the guarantee.

What’s inside

By day 30, you have

  • Program templates by goal, plus a 4-week program builder
  • A weekly check-in form and a summarizer, so a 20-client roster takes the review time of 5
  • A retention radar that flags quiet clients before they cancel
  • A content batching workflow that turns one session’s notes into a week of posts
  • Onboarding, scheduling and pricing scripts that protect your calendar and your rates
  • A lead follow-up system for consult no-shows
  • Four workflows that run whole jobs in several steps while you coach
  • A one-page operations manual, the piece you keep
  • The full prompt library, with all 30 days in one playbook
  1. Week 1

    Foundations and quick wins

    Set up your AI assistant, teach it your coaching business once, tame your inbox and build your baseline audit.

  2. Week 2

    The programming and content engine

    Program templates, the 4-week program builder, in-scope nutrition guidance, a content batch day, honest testimonials and a free-assessment funnel.

  3. Week 3

    Client operations and retention

    Onboarding sequences, check-in systems, the retention radar, pricing and scheduling scripts, and difficult conversations.

  4. Week 4

    Multi-step workflows

    Hand whole jobs to AI and get finished work back. A paid AI plan is required this week only, and each workflow gets a scope-of-practice check before it goes live.

Scope of practice runs through it. Every client-facing day says where the line is: no diagnosing, no medical nutrition therapy, no guaranteed results, and when to refer out.

A typical day

What a day looks like

  • Each day takes about 30 minutes.
  • Each day stands alone, so you can skip to the part that hurts most.
  • Day 1 is your baseline audit: your “before,” so you can see what changed by the end.
  • Days 7, 14 and 21 include a short weekly log, so you can see what’s changed.
  • Week 4 hands bigger, multi-step jobs to AI. That week needs a paid AI plan.

From the playbook: Day 17

The retention radar

Clients rarely quit loudly, they fade: sessions get rescheduled, check-ins get thin, energy drops. By the time you notice, they’re gone. Today you build the monthly review that catches the fade early, when a single message can save the relationship.

Paste this into your AI
I'm a personal trainer. Write me 3 re-engagement messages for clients
going quiet, each for a different situation:
1. The rescheduler: sessions keep moving, momentum dying. Warm nudge back
   to routine.
2. The checked-out: check-ins thin, energy low. Genuine check-in, no guilt.
3. The almost-gone: hasn't booked in 2+ weeks. Honest, kind, door open.
Each under 80 words, in my voice. No discounts offered, no desperation,
just a coach who noticed.

Inside the playbook

Real pages, as you’ll get them

Playbook page 10: the baseline admin audit prompt in a labelled paste-into-your-AI-assistant box, with the guarantee note below it(opens full size in a new tab)
Day 1: the baseline audit your guarantee is measured against.
Playbook page 14: a scope-of-practice check and a redaction prompt that keeps client details out of your AI assistant(opens full size in a new tab)
Day 3: the scope-of-practice check, and a redaction prompt that keeps client details out of your AI assistant.
Playbook page 42: Day 17, the retention radar, with a prompt that flags clients green, yellow or red and a prompt that writes three re-engagement messages(opens full size in a new tab)
Day 17: flag each client green, yellow or red, then write the right message for each kind of quiet client.

Pages 10, 14, 42 of the 92-page PDF. Tap a page to read it full size.

The guarantee

If it doesn’t free up at least 5 hours a week from admin in your first month, you get your money back.

It’s measured against your own numbers, in three steps.

  1. Step 1 · Day 1

    Do the Day 1 baseline audit. That’s your “before.”

  2. Step 2 · Days 7, 14 and 21

    Fill in the short weekly time log.

  3. Step 3 · Within 45 days of buying

    Not there? On Gumroad, reply to your receipt email. On Etsy, message the shop. You get a refund.

The fine print: without a measured “before,” there’s no way to check the “after,” so no baseline means no refund. The freed hours are room for new clients. Filling those spots is still your marketing. If your file won’t open or something is wrong with it, email [email protected] and we’ll fix it.

Price

More Clients, Same Hours

$29

One payment, or 4 monthly payments of $7.25 on Gumroad. A 92-page playbook with all 30 days, yours as soon as you buy, plus any updated edition published in the next 12 months.

Covered by the results guarantee: free up at least 5 hours a week from admin in your first month, or your money back.

Common questions

What do I get with More Clients, Same Hours?

A 92-page playbook with all 30 days, yours as soon as you buy. Each day takes about 30 minutes.

See what’s inside

Do I have to do one day at a time?

No. You get all 30 days at once, and each day stands alone, so you can skip straight to the part that hurts.

See what a day looks like

Do I need tech skills or a paid AI plan?

You don’t need tech skills or coding. The free tier of any major AI assistant covers Weeks 1 to 3. Week 4’s multi-step workflows need a paid AI plan.

Not sure which AI to use? Take the 60-second quiz

Will the course have AI give my clients medical or nutrition advice?

No. Every client-facing day says where the line is: no diagnosing, no medical nutrition therapy, no guaranteed results, and when to refer out.

See how health flags are handled in the free check-in guide

I train clients online. Does it still work?

Yes. It’s built for independent, studio and online trainers. The jobs are the same either way: programs, check-ins, content and follow-ups.

Do I get updates?

Yes. If we publish an updated edition within 12 months of your purchase, you get it free.

Is there a guarantee?

Yes. If this challenge doesn’t free up at least 5 hours a week from admin in your first month, claim a refund within 45 days of buying. It needs your Day 1 baseline audit and the weekly logs on Days 7, 14 and 21, so there’s a measured “before” to check against.

Read the full guarantee

Where can I buy it?

On Gumroad or Etsy. It’s the same course at the same price, $29, so buy wherever you already have an account.

Go to the buy buttons

Can I try something free first?

Yes. The free guides for personal trainers each teach one routine, start to finish, with the exact words to paste in. The course builds the whole set, one piece a day.

Read the free guides for personal trainers

Free first

Try a piece of it for free

Each free guide is one routine from start to finish. The course builds the whole set, one day at a time.

All free guides for personal trainers

Looking for a different job? See all the 30-day courses.

Free download

Free: the Quiet Client Win-Back Pack

Six signs a client is drifting, three short messages for day 3, day 7 and day 14, and a way to draft each one from your own notes. Ten pages, sent by email after you confirm. You’ll also get the Less Admin letter: plain-English AI guides for personal trainers, no tech skills needed.

Tom Houpt in firefighter turnout gear at a fire scene

Why I built this

Admin kept me off the gym floor. It doesn’t have to keep you there.

I’ve loved fitness my whole life. I’ve managed gyms, run my own personal training business and spent the better part of my life in the gym.

What I hated was the admin. Every hour at a screen was an hour I wasn’t out on the floor, talking to people.

Life took a different turn. I’ve spent the last ten years in cybersecurity and technology, and the last three learning AI almost full time.

Here’s what I found. Most people use AI like a search engine, or to write an email they then copy and paste by hand. That helps. But AI can take whole jobs off your plate right now: sorting the week’s check-ins, drafting a program, writing the message to the client who went quiet. You review it and hit send.

That’s what these guides and the course are for. Less time typing, more time in front of clients, and more time with your family.

Tom Houpt, founder of Less Admin HQ. Former gym manager and personal trainer. More about me