Selling new clients is step one. Keeping your clients is a much harder step two. Most clients require new, fun challenges to be both entertained and to continually progress. One of my favorite ways to challenge my clients is to incorporate activity-specific exercises. As a coach, you fulfill a teacher-like position to your clients by imparting knowledge about health, exercise, and …
Madeline Allaire
5 of the Best ACL Injury Prevention Exercises
Despite the overwhelming prevalence of ACL injuries in athletes, ACL has become a taboo word for athletes and coaches alike in the fitness industry. So let’s start the conversation! Two questions every coach should be able to answer are: What is an ACL?What can be done to prevent ACL injuries? Let’s start with the first question. ACL stands for anterior cruciate ligament. Broken down, …
How to Optimize Your Exercise Technique Correction
Exercise technique correction can be a difficult subject to approach with your clients. Like any type of correction, there is a delicate balance of too much and not enough criticism. In the fitness industry not enough technique correction can be detrimental and result in injury. However, too much criticism can be overwhelming and discouraging to your client. To optimize exercise technique correction, find a good …
5 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Online Evaluation
Online evaluations are an entirely different ballgame than in-person. The high stakes of building a good first impression are still there, but for not-so tech savvy people, like myself, the online aspect can pose as a barrier. Don’t be afraid of online evaluations. Here are 5 simple steps to follow. These steps not only will help you get the most out of your evaluation, but also will help you enhance it in ways …
Creativity in Exercise: How to Make You and Your Programs Unique
Creativity is everything in the fitness industry. However big or small, a specialized niche is necessary to start, grow, and maintain a fitness business. Unfortunately, our brains are hardwired to produce what they already know and have seen. This can make generating a unique and creative idea seem like an impossible task. The good news is that creativity can be simplified. David Eagleman and …
4 Tips to Increase Compliance and Follow-Up With Your New Online Clients
Even before COVID-19, a hot topic among trainers and coaches was compliance with clients. Now, with many people transitioning to virtual training, compliance has an entirely new meaning. As a coach, you could build the best and most individualized program for your client available, but if your client does not actually complete the workouts, the program is useless. Here are 4 tips I’ve found that have successfully …
Notes from an Athletic Trainer: Injury Prevention Considerations When Returning to a Sport After Quarantine
This year has thrown all of us off of our typical routines. Athletes that were once on a perfectly periodized, year-round program found their in-season programs rapidly changed to off-season, at-home programs this year. Our bodies are more than capable of adapting to these changes, but not without educated coaches and trainers. With the new reopening progression, athletic trainers are cringing at the …
5 Tips on How to Build and Maintain Trust with Your Clients
2020 has brought some incredibly radical changes to the fitness industry. Clients are trying to get used to new routines, and coaches are trying to adjust to the world that is drastically changing around them. One aspect, whether virtual or in person, that has remained unchanged is the necessity of trust in a coach-to-client relationship. Cultivating professional trust between a coach and client is a slow, …
How to Use Sleep to Improve Your Coaching and Training
“How did you sleep?” How many times have you asked your client this question and received a groan in response? How many times are you, yourself, able to answer this question with a positive and convincing answer? Whether it’s inconsistent, not enough, or intermittent, a significant number of people in the United States do not receive the rejuvenating sleep that is needed each night. According to the …