The biggest challenge in health coaching, or any other type of coaching, is helping your clients achieve results. Beyond losing weight and improving health, most clients want to target their “problem areas.” For men it’s their gut and for woman it’s their hips. Why is it so hard to lose weight in those places? Two Myths That Prevent People From Achieving Their Goals 1 Myth #1: Exercising will help flatten your stomach. Possibly in extreme cases by improving posture, but in general spot … [Read more...]
How to Become a Health Coach Who Gets Clients Off the Diet Roller Coaster
If you want know how to become a health coach who makes a difference, then you need to help your clients achieve long term results. Let’s face it: weight loss goals don’t work long term. Once people achieve their health goals, they start losing interest. Summer is here, and people are motivated to become a little thinner so they look good in a swimsuit. When it gets colder people can hide a few extra pounds in layers. How is a coach supposed to do to keep people on track all year? How to … [Read more...]
Health Coaching Champions: What is Possible?
What can health coaching accomplish? If Frank from the movie, “May I Be Frank” is any type of example, the sky is the limit. What he did is outlined in his blog http://mayibefrankferrante.com , but from a coaching perspective what did he do to change in health in 42 days? 5 Keys to Health Coaching Success 1. He had a strong reason why he wanted to change. He wanted to fall in love one more time before he died, but didn’t believe anyone would fall in love with him the way he was. In order … [Read more...]
Health Coaching to Combat the Battle of the Bulge: How to Become a Health Coach Who Gets Their Clients Cooking Toward their Goals
How to become a health coach is a common question, since health coaching is considered to be a super-niche. If you are eager to learn how to become a health coach in the sub-niche of weight loss, you must learn how to address motivation. People who are overweight are most commonly driven by the need for certainty. Certainty is also known as comfort or security, and we’re all slaves to comfort food when we get stressed or uncertain about something. Once your health coaching clients are aware … [Read more...]
How to Be a Personal Weight Loss Coach or a Fitness Coach that Transforms their Client
As a personal weight loss coach, it is your goal to help your clients lose weight and keep it off. One of the things you learn as a fitness coach or a personal weight loss coach is how important your clients' thoughts are. How important are they to you as a fitness coach? For you, it's all about cause and effect. Their old way of thinking is the cause, and their starting weight is the effect. Knowing these two things can be coaching gold for any personal weight loss coach. To Find Out What Is … [Read more...]
Become A Weight Loss Coach (Fitness Coach) That Keeps Your Client’s Weight Off
When you become a weight loss coach or fitness coach, your long-term goal is to help your client’s keep the weight off. Your client’s comfort zones drive their behavior on a subconscious level. Become a weight loss coach who is aware of your clients’ comfort zones. Your clients may recognize that if they start making healthier choices they will get the weight loss results they want, but they might be out of their comfort zone. How would a successful fitness coach handle this … [Read more...]
Health Coaching: How to Help People Understand Why They Need a Personal Nutrition Coach
Health coaching is really a super-niche. And while there is a lot of attention in the media about health coaching, most people don’t understand the value of a personal nutrition coach. When you think about it, our approach to our physical health is very similar to how we approach any other goal. Our beliefs and our philosophies determine our action, which determines what types of results we’ll get. The biggest reason why people need a personal nutrition coach is to help them determine what’s … [Read more...]
The Fitness Coach Calorie Controversy: Why Won’t Your Personal Weight Loss Coach Let You Eat that Cookie?
Why do people need a personal weight loss coach? Every fitness coach knows that if you want to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you take in. But according to Dr. Katan and Dr. Ludwig who recently published an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA, January 6, 2010—Vol 3030, No. 1), weight change is self-limiting. They calculated that if you eat an extra cookie every day, your weight gain will level off at about 6 pounds, even if you continue to eat the … [Read more...]
Why New Years Goals in Health Coaching Inevitably Fail: How to Become a Health Coaching Who Helps Their Clients Succeed
At the gym yesterday, it was obvious that everyone had made some type of New Years health coaching goal. The place was packed, as I knew they would be. At least for the next month, when things taper off. I was thinking about what it takes to become a health coach who keeps their clients on track, because by summer, only the dedicated and committed will still be at the gym. If you are to become a health coach who really makes a difference, you need to know what separates those who stick with … [Read more...]
To Be A Fitness Coach Or Personal Weight Loss Coach, You Must Teach Your Clients How To Set Goals
To be a fitness coach or personal weight loss coach, you must help your clients set goals. As a fitness coach, you are always helping your clients improve their health. One way to help your clients with their health is to become their personal weight loss coach. A common reason people get a personal weight loss coach is to look or feel better. They came to you as a fitness coach because they want to improve their health, and weight loss is one way to achieve that goal. When your clients look to … [Read more...]
