All-or-Nothing Nutrition Thinking Is Killing Your Progress
A huge number of people fail with their nutrition and in getting results, due to all-or-nothing nutrition thinking. I see it all the time in my coaching practice. Luckily, there are ways to overcome this. Picture the following. It’s Thursday evening. You’ve put in a...
Wheel of Life Self Assessment Tool
The Wheel of Life is one of the oldest and most widely used tools in coaching and personal development. While its exact origin is a bit fuzzy as far as I can see, it is generally accepted that it became popular through the work of early life and executive coaches in...
Using the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) to Enhance Your Coaching
The Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) is a super-powerful concept that you can apply to your coaching. You likely already use it to some extent, but fully fleshing it out will really help you to become a world class coach. I once worked with a client who had been...
Beyond Empathy: Using Theory of Mind In Your Coaching
Theory of mind might sound like an academic idea, but if you’ve been coaching for more than a few months, you already know that success with clients is never just about designing the perfect training split or dialling in macros. Don’t get me wrong, those things do...
Helping Your Clients Deal with Quixotic Ideals
Now, you may be thinking, what the hell are quixotic ideals? But if you’ve been coaching for a while, you’ve almost certainly experienced them. You have probably seen the client who arrives armed with the “perfect” plan. They’ve got a six-day training split they found...
Helping Clients Deal with the Shame Spiral
You have almost certainly experienced the shame spiral with your clients before. Every coach has experienced some version of the following events. Your client skips a workout, eats something “off-plan,” or disappears for a week. When they finally resurface, they’re...
How To Develop Your Knowledge as a Coach
Do you know how to develop your knowledge as a coach? When I first started coaching, I thought the job was about sets, reps, and meal plans. If I could write a solid program and hand someone a decent nutrition plan, I assumed results would follow. And, you know what,...
Navigating Goal-Value Incongruency in Coaching
When coaching clients, you are almost always going to have to deal with some degree of goal-value incongruency. I would go so far as to say that clients rarely lack ambition. In fact, most arrive with extreme goals. Getting absolutely shredded, training like an elite...