How To Deal With Clients With Rigid Thinking Around Food

How To Deal With Clients With Rigid Thinking Around Food

Coaching

Every coach has met the client with rigid thinking around food, and who seems to thrive on rules. They come in with a list of foods they’ll eat and a longer list of foods they won’t. They weigh, track, and measure everything with military precision. On paper, they can...
Using Cognitive Defusion in Your Coaching

Using Cognitive Defusion in Your Coaching

Coaching

Do you use cognitive defusion in your coaching? Most coaches could dramatically improve the results they get by utilising cognitive defusion in their coaching. If you coach long enough, you’ll notice the real challenge isn’t usually knowledge. Most clients know...
Beyond Empathy: Using Theory of Mind In Your Coaching

Beyond Empathy: Using Theory of Mind In Your Coaching

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

Helping Your Clients Deal with Quixotic Ideals

Coaching

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

Helping Clients Deal with the Shame Spiral

Coaching

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...