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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
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...
Procrustes’ Bed And Your Coaching Approach
Have you ever heard the story of Procrustes’ Bed? Procrustes was a rogue blacksmith and bandit who lived along a well-traveled road near Athens. He had a peculiar way of “hospitality.” Whenever travellers passed by, he would invite them to rest in his home and...
Creating If-Then Plans For Your Clients
One of the most powerful tools I’ve added to my coaching toolkit over the years isn’t a new app, a meal plan, or even a specific training protocol, it’s something deceptively simple: If-Then Plans. You’ve probably seen this happen with your clients (or even yourself),...
Overcoming Paralysis By Analysis In Coaching
Paralysis by analysis is probably one of the things that holds the most coaches back from ever actually achieving their goals. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you’ve found yourself staring at your laptop at midnight, tweaking a program you already...
Training Intensity Too High To Be Sustainable Case Study
Clients coming to me with their overall training intensity too high to be sustainable is one of the most common patterns I see as a coach. It usually starts when someone gets fed up with how they feel or how they look, they get a burst of motivation, and they decide...
Changing The Aggressive Fat Loss Mindset Case Study
Changing the aggressive fat loss mindset with clients can be quite difficult. As a coach with years of experience in both general population and physique-focused clients, I’ve noticed a recurring mindset that very often derails progress. The aggressive fat loss...
Trying To Stay Too Lean While Gaining Case Study
One of the most common dilemmas I see in my coaching practice, especially among physique-focused clients, is this: they want to build muscle, but they’re also trying to stay as lean as possible while doing it. They are trying to stay too lean while gaining, but...
Helping Clients Break From Hyperfocus On The Scales
Helping a client to break from a hyperfocus on the scales can be quite difficult, and if you are a coach, you will likely have to do a lot of this. Let me paint a picture for you. A new client signs up, motivated, committed, maybe even a little desperate for change....
Breaking the Dirty Bulk Cycle: A Case Study
Over the years, I’ve worked with a lot of clients who have followed the classic “dirty bulk” approach (eating anything and everything to gain size as quickly as possible) and who generally aren't happy with the results. While this can lead to some muscle gain, it...