Keeping your clients engaged and accountable is one of the most essential components to a successful online coaching business. Coaching is more than just writing and dishing out programs. It’s crucial you provide the accountability, motivation, and support needed to help your clients thrive and see incredible results. Your online coaching business is an extension of your in-person coaching business. If you’ve …
Thinking Remotely
A Winning Introduction
When you first introduce yourself to new or potential clients, you’re doing more than sharing your name. You’re trying to convey your uniqueness - your intellect, experience, and reputation. What you have to offer, both in who you are and how you serve, is special. Aside from the pressure of conveying that uniqueness in a simple introduction, is the additional pressure of doing so in a way others understand and …
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 …
Focus On Your Groin Strength For Bigger Compound Lifts
The adductor muscles, aka your groin muscles, are a key component to improve performance in a lot of areas. While the quadricep muscles, the hamstrings, and glutes are what a lot of people focus on for performance gains, we shouldn’t be quick to overlook the groin and all the positive benefits that they can provide for athletes and the fitness enthusiast. I’d argue that when it comes to improving your compound lifts …
Why Macro Counting is a “Lower Order Priority” for Most Clients
If you have been working with clients for a while, you have probably encountered more than a handful who are interested in tracking their macros. Perhaps they have even asked you to tell them exactly how many grams of protein, carbohydrates and fat to eat each day. Sidenote: This isn’t about debating whether macro counting can help people reach their goals. Of course it works, which is why many high level …
How TrueCoach Makes Me a Better Coach
You don’t know what you don’t know. And that’s part of the evolution of coaching and gaining experience. My hope here is that I can expedite your coaching by learning through my experience rather than having to learn the hard way. When it comes to coaching, you really need to realize that your identity is much deeper than the word coach. In order to reach your goals in this industry you also need to adopt the …
How to Answer Difficult Questions
Your ability to answer questions is just as important as your ability to share what you know. Skillfully answering questions can build your credibility, in turn making it easier to inform, persuade, and inspire others. Questions come in one of two flavors: (1) A request for more information (2) A challenge/attack – personal or content-based Within those two categories, there will be …
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 …
5 Lies You Tell Yourself Why You Aren’t Creating And Sharing Content
You’re holding back your thoughts and ideas. Your desire to create is stifled because you’re lying to yourself. These lies protect you from being vulnerable. You think they protect you from the judgement and criticism you fear if you put your work on display for the world to tear down. You’re also safe from being loved, shared, and from positively affecting someone’s life. Share for the people who support you and …
Ditch the Quick Fix: 1% Rules
Being a coach is so much bigger than helping someone achieve narrow fitness goals. We want to inspire clients to be the best version of themselves inside and outside the gym. The connections we build with clients are far more important to their overall success than their grasping the science behind what we do. It is through these connections that we build buy-in, belief, and trust, all key for long-term …