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While we have a lot of free content on all things health and fitness, I know that very often as a coach (whether you are a personal trainer or a nutrition coach), you have specific questions and issues that aren’t covered by the general health and fitness stuff. So the aim of this page is to create a place where coaches can come and get their specific questions answered. Unfortunately, there aren’t that many places where coaches can get access to the information they need, and this generally leads to very enthusiastic and intelligent people leaving the industry.
So our goal is to make this a place where you can learn, and become the best coach you can be.
If you want to dig deeper into this stuff, we do also offer a variety of courses too.
Coaching Knowledge Base
The goal of this section is to help you rapidly increase your experience as a coach, and to get access to the knowledge you need to succeed. The information you will find here is the same kind of information we teach on our courses and have honed in our own coaching practice.
Coaching Skill Development
- What Is My Coaching Footprint
- Why Your Clients Struggle to Stick to Diets and How You Can Help Them Succeed
- 10 Creative Ways to Motivate Clients Who Hate Exercise
- Build Lasting Healthy Habits In Your Clients With Habit Stacking
- 10 Ways To Build Stronger Client-Coach Relationships
- 7 Essential Nutrition Coaching Tips Every Coach Needs To Hear
- 10 Common Mistakes Coaches Make and How To Avoid Them
- Why Successful Coaches Focus On Habits Rather Than Outcomes
- Key Skills To Teach Your Clients
- How to Identify and Address Limiting Beliefs in Your Clients
- Calorie Counting Isn’t Always Your Best Approach
- Understanding Problem-Solving for Coaches
- Using The 80/20 Rule In Your Coaching
- Creating If-Then Plans For Your Clients
- Navigating Goal-Value Incongruency in Coaching
- How To Build Confidence As A New Coach
- How To Develop Your Knowledge as a Coach
- Overcoming Paralysis By Analysis In Coaching
- Using Cognitive Defusion in Your Coaching
- Using Cognitive Restructuring In Your Coaching
- Using Floor and Ceiling Goals With Your Client
- How Identity Shapes Behaviour
- Good Coaches Focus On The Process Rather Than The Outcome
- A Step-by-Step Framework for Coaching Identity Transformation
- Using Socratic Questioning In Your Coaching
- 6 Ways To Get Clients Back On Track After They Lose Motivation
- The Role of Agency and Autonomy in Client Success
- Coaching Clients With An All-or-Nothing Mindset
- Habit Formation vs Habit Disruption
- Setting Process Goals Rather Than Outcome Goals With Clients
- Why Meal Plans Don’t Help Your Clients
- How To Handle A Client Who Wants A Meal Plan
- Understanding Habit Formation
- Helping Clients Break From Hyperfocus On The Scales
- Procrustes’ Bed And Your Coaching Approach
- Helping Clients Deal with the Shame Spiral
- Helping Your Clients Deal with Quixotic Ideals
- Beyond Empathy: Using Theory of Mind In Your Coaching
- Using the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) to Enhance Your Coaching
- How To Deal With Clients With Rigid Thinking Around Food
- Why Measurement Is So Important In Coaching
- Mastering N=1 Experiments In Your Coaching
- Guiding A Client to Intuitive Eating
Business and Career Development
Coaching Resources & Tools
Here you will find a variety of resources and tools that can help you with your coaching practice. We have many resources and tools planned out, so please do check back frequently to stay up to date with what we are building.
Exercise Calculators/Tools
Health Habits Calculators/Tools
Case Studies
Coaching is a challenging business. But one thing that can really accelerate your abilities is seeing examples of successful interventions. It quickly allows you to become a much better problems solver, and to help more people achieve their goals. So the goal of this section is to provide you with a variety of case studies that will show you what works and what doesn’t.
Nutrition Case Studies
- Nutrition for Hard Gainers
- Nutrition For Female Body Recomposition
- Helping Vegans Eat Enough Protein Case Study
- Insufficient Carb Intake For Performance Case Study
- Case Study: How to Stop Evening Snacking
- Case Study: How to Stop Weekend Overeating
- HYROX Performance Nutrition Set Up Case Study
- Breaking the Dirty Bulk Cycle: A Case Study
- Trying To Stay Too Lean While Gaining Case Study
- Changing The Aggressive Fat Loss Mindset Case Study
Latest Posts On Coaching
Guiding A Client to Intuitive Eating
Guiding a client to intuitive eating is very tricky. Most of your clients come to you thinking they need to track calories forever. They've been told it's the only way, and they're resigned to a lifetime of logging every meal. Maybe you've reinforced that belief...
Triage Emotions Wheel: What Am I Feeling?
The Triage Emotions Wheel is a decision-tree tool that transforms vague feelings like "stressed" or "fine" into precise emotional identification, guiding you through 126 possible emotions to the exact one you're experiencing in under a minute. Think of it as the...
The Science of Habits: How to Create Lasting Change in Clients
Understanding the science of habits will allow you to consistently create lasting change in your clients. Every expert-level coach masters this skill, even if they don’t expressly state it. It is a foundational meta skill, that is required to coach effectively. You...
Using Floor and Ceiling Goals With Your Client
Most coaches get goal-setting all wrong with their clients, especially when it comes to implementation. Floor and ceiling goals can really help with this. You see, there's a paradox we have to contend with as coaches, and it is that the pursuit of perfection often...
Triage Ultimate Health Targets Assessment Tool
As a coach, I’ve watched smart, motivated people spin their wheels for years because they didn’t know what actually matters most for their health right now. That’s why I built the Triage Ultimate Health Targets Assessment Tool. It helps you to turn scattered data into...
Mastering N=1 Experiments In Your Coaching
Mastering N=1 experiments in your coaching will truly transform the way you think about coaching, and your ability to get results with your clients. You see, when I first started coaching, I thought the key to getting great results was throwing the kitchen sink at...
Why Measurement Is So Important In Coaching
Measurement is so important in coaching. You see, most of the “problems” we run into in health and fitness aren’t really training problems, or nutrition problems, or even motivation problems. They’re measurement problems. Early in my coaching career, I used to rely on...
Using Cognitive Restructuring In Your Coaching
Are you using cognitive restructuring in your coaching practice? A lot of coaches aren’t even aware of these kinds of practices, and are at a serious disadvantage as a result. I made this mistake myself, and early in my coaching career, I honestly believed that if I...
How To Deal With Clients With Rigid Thinking Around Food
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
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...
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...