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 …
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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 …
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 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 …
Prime The Body To Perform Better
Whether it’s playing a sport, going for a jog, or training in the gym, we all want to perform at our best. Leaving performance gains on the table is something that most people who enjoy training do not want to do. However, implementing proper strategies to get the body moving and feeling better prior to your activity has become a hot topic to discuss as many are looking at figuring out ways to gain a competitive edge …
Things to Consider When Picking Continuing Education
First and foremost, I believe the coach is the steward of the client’s dreams. Which means as a coach, it’s not about you. While I believe most coaches have good intentions it can be easy to get caught up in programming or coaching for an athlete based on what you like or want to coach. Instead, I challenge you to change the way you think and start asking yourself one question: What is best for my client? When …