Growing up, Molly Buster always dreamed of becoming a professional dancer. She even went to college, got a BFA in dance, and worked as an athletic dancer for a major company in Los Angeles. However, just when her dancing career started to pick, she found a new love in fitness training. While it took her a while to choose fitness training as a career path, Buster is now thriving as a fitness trainer and a health & wellness coach.
Who Is Molly Buster
Buster is a 30-year-old fitness and health & wellness coach from Kansas who has made a name for herself in the industry because of her approach to clients’ needs. She has been in the industry for seven years now and has worked with hundreds of clients under different companies. Now, she owns a personal business called Molly Buster Coaching, where she offers one-on-one coaching for her clients. Buster takes pride in customizing each client’s journey.
Qualifications and Achievements
Over the years, Buster has earned herself different qualifications that cement her portfolio in the industry. some of the academic qualifications she has include:
- BFA in Dance
- Tier 3+ Personal Trainer (Equinox)
- Fitness Manager (Equinox)
- Personal Training Manager (Equinox)
With these qualifications and a lot of experience, Buster works to make each client happy with their journey. She says that her goal as a trainer is to give her clients doable, manageable, and sustainable plans for their fitness journey. She also admits that most trainers fail to distinguish between what the client would have to do in a perfect world and what the client can do in reality. With these pointers in her head, Buster boasts of the following achievements:
- Coaching over 10,000 one on one clients
- Mentoring and teaching within her club
- Training a team of trainers as a fitness manager
- Running the training department as a personal training manager
The coach, however, says that starting Molly Buster Coaching is her most significant win so far. In her business, she can incorporate the values she learned from her parents to make her clients’ journeys more realistic and personalized. Buster says that this is something she was unable to do while working for companies, and it gives her immense fulfillment to see her clients run their individual races and achieve their milestones.
Buster’s Creative Process
Buster has a specific approach towards every client she gates. She calls it specific programming where she takes the client on a personal fitness journey. Before working with a client, Buster likes to ask the following questions:
- How can we efficiently tackle this client’s goal while simultaneously helping them feel and move better?
- And importantly, how can I make all of this feel manageable and doable for them so they can continue it?
After finding answers to the two questions, she embarks on a journey of discovery with her client. Here’s how she describes the journey:
“I look at this as a big math problem. Taking all of their wants, goals, pre-conceived beliefs, health history, and injuries, plus the needs that I’ve identified & my professional expertise. From all of this information, I identify the most important, urgent, and biggest dial movers, and we start there. This becomes the foundation where we can build it off of it for months or years to avoid plateaus or expand as goals change.”
Is It All Work?
Buster says that she spares time for her hobbies and to spend time with her family. She says that she spends most of her time with her husband, family, and friends. Buster can be found making music, relaxing on her back porch with her pets, working out for fun, playing games, drinking too much coffee, or having bourbon water on the rocks. She says that if you want to see her in her favorite element, she will be on the dance floor. She comments that she values simplicity, quality, and honest relationships.
What Inspires Molly Buster?
Buster says that her inspiration comes from the influence her parents have on her. She was taught honesty, integrity, hard work, empathy, and perseverance from a young age. She has learned many great things from mentors, but nothing has shaped her more than these values. She says that they are the standard she holds herself to both as a human being and professional.
Biggest Challenge?
The biggest challenge in Buster’s career right now is making a breakthrough in the online business space. She says that the fitness industry is flocked with experienced professionals and the not so experienced ones. These professionals have taken the online space by storm, making it hard for consumers to pick the best. She, however, says that her approach to clients’ needs is unique, and she relies on that to stand out from the crowd.
Any Last Words?
Here’s what Molly Buster has to tell the young professionals in the fitness industry:
“No one expects you to have all the answers, not even your clients. Many new trainers feel like they need to know everything and be quipped to train anyone, an impossible task. It is perfectly acceptable to say, “I don’t know, but I will find out,” refer a client to a more equipped trainer or use these experiences to take on a mentor to help you grow to be the trainer your client needs. We all started as green trainers. Acknowledging we don’t have all the answers helps us seek the education when need to become great ones.”
