Diet Quality Overview
The goal of this diet quality overview is to help you cut through the noise around diet quality and provide you with an overview of the key points related to diet quality that have been discussed in the previous few articles in this series. We have discussed a...
How to Handle a Client Who Wants a Meal Plan
How do you handle a client who wants a meal plan? As a health and fitness coach, one of the most common requests you’ll hear from clients is, “Can you just give me a meal plan?” At first, this might seem like a simple and reasonable request. After all, if they eat...
Why Meal Plans Don’t Help Your Clients
As a coach, you’re in a powerful position to help people improve their lives through exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle habits. But one common mistake that many new coaches make, often with the best intentions, is providing meal plans to their clients. Meal plans...
Insufficient Carb Intake for Performance: Case Study
When working with clients who are trying to lose fat while maintaining or even improving performance in the gym, a common issue I encounter is they are eating insufficient carbohydrate intake for performance. Many people, influenced by diet trends and misinformation,...
Shift Work and Consistent Exercise: A Case Study
As a coach, I’ve worked with countless individuals struggling to balance shift work and consistent exercise. From nurses and doctors to factory workers and security personnel, I’ve seen firsthand how non-traditional schedules can wreak havoc on energy levels,...
What Can Spinoza Teach Us About Nutrition?
What can Spinoza teach us about nutrition? Now, you may be wondering, what could a 17th-century philosopher like Baruch Spinoza possibly teach us about something as modern as nutrition? After all, Spinoza wasn’t blending smoothies, tracking macros, or debating the...
The Triage Ultimate Fat Loss Guide
If you’ve ever tried to lose fat, you’ve likely seen some success. But reaching your ideal leanness, or maintaining it, can feel impossible. It’s frustrating to try and fail, especially when there’s so much conflicting advice online. So, in this fat loss guide, we are...
Diet Quality: Micronutrients and Nutrients Of Concern
We can’t discuss diet quality and food selection without discussing micronutrients and the nutrients of concern in the diet. When we discussed “diet quantity” we noted the order of importance of things, so you could make better decisions with your overall...