Clients not doing workouts
Looking for some advice or maybe even just a place to vent. But I'm having a hard time getting my clients to do their solo stuff. I offer a package where we train once per week in person and then give them 1-2 days of workouts to do on their own.
Lately I've been having trouble getting them to do anything outside our in-person session.
It's difficult to actually make progress when we keep resetting to one workout a week. When I check in with them it's either radio silence, a simple "my bad" or "I'm tired boss" kind of reply.
And I want to add to this I'm a father of 2 very VERY busy kids, so I totally understand not having the time, but these people are retired or semi retired, work from home, and live less than 5 mins away (it's a small town, everyone does 😂)
In person we do our workout and it's great, at the end they say they want 3 per week again and this is the week it's back to it! I program according, aaaaand repeat. Yes there's the odd week, maybe once a month where they get in 2 or 3 perk week, but it's the exception not the norm.
I've got a new client that just signed up, and as we come up on our first week, about to meet up in person again, they've done none of the other workouts 😭
So I guess my question is, how are you guys keeping them on track? I don't really want to pester them with more check in emails and follow up texts, but is that the best option? What else can I try? Is it totally normal and I should just take their money and try to get used to it?