{"id":6646,"date":"2016-09-29T04:01:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T09:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.personaltrainersindallas.com\/?p=6646"},"modified":"2016-11-10T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T11:34:56","slug":"hut-craig-new-fitness-equipment-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/hut-craig-new-fitness-equipment-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Hut &#038; Craig&#8217;s *New* Fitness Equipment 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-mce-mark=\"1\"><strong>Before buying<\/strong> something like a treadmill, home gym, or even a set of dumbbells, do you head to the Internet and <strong>search for reviews\u00a0<\/strong>on that particular item?\u00a0<\/span><span data-mce-mark=\"1\">In our new segment, I will ask Craig some probing questions like this: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>How do we know which online reviews we can trust?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span data-mce-mark=\"1\">Watch this video to learn Craig&#8217;s answer:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/03gBL9Hnj2k?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> This is Hut Allred from New Wave Fitness here with the beef master himself, Craig Lewin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Hey, these are 30-pound dumbbells, man\u2014that\u2019s pretty good a for a skinny guy, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> He ran to grab these dumbbells and said that his arms had to be pumped up for this video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> It\u2019s just important that everybody out there looks at us and doesn\u2019t just say, \u201cOh, look! It\u2019s the really good looking, tan, beefy dude with the skinny guy!\u201d I don\u2019t want that to be the case. So I got my shoulders, my arms&#8230; All right, I\u2019m done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> You\u2019d be surprised, some of the YouTube comments that come through\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> I know. Listen, the point is, I\u2019m trying. I need everybody to know that I am trying but it\u2019s a process and we all don\u2019t have the genetics of Hut Allred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Well, you know, we do our best. It\u2019s all about your best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Look, I feel good though. My arms, they\u2019re pretty good, right? They\u2019re definitely bigger.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6651\" src=\"http:\/\/www.personaltrainersindallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hut-Craig_Online-Reviews-509x405.jpg\" alt=\"hut-craig_online-reviews\" width=\"509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hut-Craig_Online-Reviews-509x405.jpg 509w, https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hut-Craig_Online-Reviews-768x611.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Hut-Craig_Online-Reviews.jpg 981w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> All right, let\u2019s start off by just kind of digging in\u2014just something that really helped everybody out here make the best decision for themselves. And I think the first things is, when people go to look for equipment, the first thing they do is go look at reviews and try to base their decision on the reviews that are out there. So I want you to share some light on kind of how they should go about that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Well, you guys know that we\u2019ve been doing this a long time and I know we\u2019ve been doing it a long time together. We\u2019ve been in this industry now for 23 years and one of the things that you start to see out there is how the business has change with, obviously, the Internet becoming such a big thing.<\/p>\n<p>People used to just come in the stores and shop locally. Now you have a lot of people who are getting online and they\u2019re looking at reviews. They are doing it even before they walk in a store, sitting out in a parking lot. And the biggest thing I want to tell everybody that\u2019s out there is that there are so many fake reviews.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> We call them affiliate reviews. Any time that you see a review that you read and then there\u2019s a link to click to take you somewhere to buy something, nine times out of ten, that whole review has been made by that company&#8230;or they have gotten people to write those reviews for them. They\u2019re not real reviews, so be careful with those types of things because a lot of those mass companies out there will write fake reviews to drive you to their site.<\/p>\n<p>Listen, from a business standpoint, it\u2019s very smart; it\u2019s all about business. But when it comes to you guys getting the quality that you deserve, and getting equipment that\u2019s not going to break down, that you\u2019re not going to say, \u201cYou know what, forget it! I\u2019m just not going to use this anymore,\u201d because it\u2019s breaking down on you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Or have the customer service in place to follow up and solve a problem if there is a problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Absolutely, yeah. You know, our customers deserve that, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> And so all we ask is, pick up the phone, call us. We\u2019ll tell you about it. We\u2019re not here just to sell you the equipment that we have sitting on the floor. If you have a question about something that we don\u2019t even carry, our guys are experts in this field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> So what you\u2019re saying is, if they\u2019re out there looking at reviews, they find something that they like, they read the review, they can call one of the store managers or store reps here at Busy Body or Fitness Headquarters, and they will actually give them their opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Absolutely right, yes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> If that means they\u2019re buying equipment somewhere else, they\u2019re buying equipment from somewhere else.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Fine, that\u2019s fine. Because at the end of the day, you might be watching this videos from somewhere in Ohio. I don\u2019t have stores in Ohio. But if you want to pick up the phone, and you want to call us and let us be the experts to help you guys&#8230;. Look, at the end of the day, this is what we do.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve chosen a career path of being in the fitness industry. We love the fitness industry. The part of us enjoying it, why we\u2019re not out there selling cars or computer equipment or something different, is because we enjoy helping people, and we are helping people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> And as a result of that, you\u2019re building relationships, and when you build relationships, that\u2019s what people want. They want somebody that they can come to, you know, feel like they are being taken care of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> Absolutely. Listen, it\u2019s good juju. It\u2019s good karma for us. We want to help you guys out there. That\u2019s the whole idea behind it. And we\u2019ve done this a long time, so pick up the phone and call us. Let\u2019s talk about the reviews that you\u2019re looking at. Let\u2019s talk about any questions that you might have.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Perfect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig:<\/strong> We\u2019re here to help you guys.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before buying something like a treadmill, home gym, or even a set of dumbbells, do you head to the Internet and search for reviews\u00a0on that particular item?\u00a0In our new segment, I will ask Craig some probing questions like this: How do we know which online reviews we can trust? 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