How To Get The Most Out of MyFitnessPal

How To Get The Most Out of MyFitnessPal

Nutrition

If you’ve ever tried using MyFitnessPal (MFP) for fat loss, you’ve probably been through this cycle: You start off strong, tracking diligently. But after a while, it feels tedious. Some days you track, other days you forget. Eventually, frustration sets in, and you...
Longer Term Diet Planning

Longer Term Diet Planning

Nutrition

Now, before we finish up this series of articles on the diet, I would like to discuss longer term diet planning and lay out a rough timeline for the diet. What I mean by longer term diet planning is how to set up the diet to actually produce the results that you want...
Calorie Counting Isn’t Always Your Best Approach

Calorie Counting Isn’t Always Your Best Approach

Coaching

Calorie counting isn’t always your best approach. As a coach with years of experience guiding clients toward sustainable, lifelong health and fitness, I’ve learned that the tools we choose can profoundly impact a client’s progress. One of the most hotly debated...
Coaching Resources

Coaching Resources

Coaching

Below, I’ve put together the most comprehensive list of coaching resources you will find online. This is everything I’ve encountered in my years of coaching. Whether you’re brand new to coaching or looking to refine and scale your existing practice, you’ll find...
The 4-Hour Work Week For Coaches

The 4-Hour Work Week For Coaches

Coaching

Tim Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek is packed with ideas on how to rethink work, time, and lifestyle. Having recently re-read it, I wanted to do a bit of a review of it, and then turn it into something other coaches might find valuable. I highly recommend you get...
Diet Quality Overview

Diet Quality Overview

Nutrition

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 to Handle a Client Who Wants a Meal Plan

Coaching

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

Why Meal Plans Don’t Help Your Clients

Coaching

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...
Shift Work and Consistent Exercise: A Case Study

Shift Work and Consistent Exercise: A Case Study

Case Study, Training

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,...