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Russell Barnes, from Philadelphia, moved from owning gyms to coaching online. He tracks workouts and meals for each client. Filmed at the Cloudy Donut Co. and 7 Streams pop-up at American Grammar, Saturday 7 November 2026.

He says brick and mortar was taking too much of his time. He wanted more of it for his family. So he built a system online that tracks workouts, meals and calories, and now trains people all over the world. On scaling, he says it came from giving value away: “the more value you give, the more impact you can make.”

If you could ask people around the world one question, what would you ask them? Russell’s is “Why you lazy?” What is yours? Tell us in the comments.

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0:00All right, all right, all right, brother. Can the people get your name for the ones that don’t know you? Yes, sir. My name is Russell Barnes, AKA Russ B1. Yeah, from Philly. All right, so being from Philly, the City of Brotherly Love, how do you push love in the city?

0:17How do I hope how do you push love in the city? Through my working out, through exercise, you know what I mean? I feel like that’s something that everybody need, everybody can do, and it’s fun to do it as long as you got the right energy around you.

0:30me. So I push it through my energy throughout my fitness. All right, so you, so you’re a businessman. I, I recall correctly, you own gyms? Well, no, I don’t have my gyms no more. Yeah, so now everything, I transferred it from gym to online.

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0:47Okay okay. All right, so, so seeing that you transferred it to online what, what does that look like for some, like because Because I’m unaware, I’m new to you, trying to tap in. What does that look like? So basically everything is mapped out way better online. So at a gym, you might come in once a week.

1:08I mean, you might come in 2, 3 times a week, but we’re not tracking what you’re eating. We’re not doing none of that. When we do it online, everything is tracked down to how many calories you’re burning per day what you’re intaking. All of your workouts is there already scheduled out for you. And your meals is already then scheduled out for you.

1:27So we take all of the guesswork out, and all you got to do is show up for yourself, 30-40 minutes of workout, and eat the meals you’re supposed to eat. So what made you want to transition from the brick and mortar to online?

1:39So first and foremost, brick and mortar was taking up way too much of my time, you know what I’m saying? And if I wanted the family that I got I knew I wouldn’t have been able to have that and still do that all at the same time and receive the same type of love.

1:51So basically I had to step away from brick and mortar and say, damn, let me learn this skill so I can be able to spend more time with my family, not miss the moments that’s important for my little baby, and then being able to actually scale the business even more because there’s only but so much you can do in person, you know what I’m saying?

2:11But now I’m training people all over the world. It’s not just Philly no more. You just, you just said some real s*** because as a man, we try to balance time, money and family, and you found a way to do that. Through, through transitioning your business from, from one parallel to another, how did you, how did you go about scaling that business for the people that that want to be like you and do that?

2:32So basically, you know, I just got a big platform. I built my platform by just giving value. You know, the more value you give, the more impact you can make. The more impact you make, the more money you make. So basically, it was just all about building impact. It was about creating, creating value Building an impact behind it.

2:51So now people is like, all the stuff I give away for free, now people like, damn, like I want to lock in with boy. I wonder what type of stuff he got going on inside of his programs if he’s just giving us this. So basically I was able to scale by creating a system.

3:06Now my system entails 4 different aspects, or really 3. The first aspect is getting leads, knowing how to go about getting leads. Once you get the lead, you qualify the lead mentally and physically, basically, and financially. Basically, if they ready, you know what I mean?

3:22If they mentally ready, if they financially ready, and if they got any injuries. If they not, then we ready to roll. And then, you know, we get them on a call, figure out everything that we need to move forward with them, and that’s that.

3:35This man is giving you a million dollars worth of game for free 99. Make sure you tap in with this good brother. He’s talking about business, he’s talking about being a good man. Most importantly Forget the money. He is a good man. And once you’re a man of morals and principles you’re gonna go up and you’re gonna connect with those like men as well.

3:54Thank you for your time, brother. I appreciate it. Thank you for your time. Listen man, you can find me Russ_B1 on Instagram Russ_B1 on YouTube, Russ__B1 on TikTok. Let’s get it. Go follow that. If you could ask people around the world one question, what would it be?

4:17Why you lazy? Why you lazy?

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