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Individual Design Coaching: Design Your Program

Program Design There’s that picture again. I like to show that picture. It’s the “health house” that I’ve expounded upon numerous times. This time, it’s in the context of explaining Individual Design Coaching. Earlier, I wrote about the Consultation, and then the Assessment. The next step is cooperative: designing your program. When WE go toContinue reading “Individual Design Coaching: Design Your Program”

Individual Design Coaching: Assess, Don’t Guess

Assessment “Measure twice and cut once” as they say. In other words, know what you’re doing before you do it. That’s the philosophy behind assessment. Assessment is truth. It is an objective measurement (or set of measurements) that tells you what IS, so then you can strategize about what needs to change, how to changeContinue reading “Individual Design Coaching: Assess, Don’t Guess”

Individual Design Coaching: Define Your Goals

Consultation I recently wrote an entire series about defining your goals using 7 important questions. This is a critical first step in the Individual Design Coaching process. I start with a consultation, which is an opportunity for us to get to know each other and to unpack your goals and priorities a bit. The consultationContinue reading “Individual Design Coaching: Define Your Goals”

Individual Design Coaching – What It Is

I call it the future of health & fitness, not because that’s a trademark or a slogan (it does sound super slogan-y), but because I honestly predict this model growing in both the healthcare industry and the fitness industry over the coming years. I’ve been seeing this growth unfold in the fitness business for quiteContinue reading “Individual Design Coaching – What It Is”

Personalized Nutrition: Food Sensitivities

This will be the last article in my mini-series on personalized nutrition starting points. The last for now… I have a lot more topics to cover in regards to personalized nutrition, but they’ll have to wait. To recap, here are the topics I covered in this run: The Person Basic Lifestyle Guidelines Protein Hydration FoodContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Food Sensitivities”

Personalized Nutrition: Meal Timing & Frequency

Time to write about timing. I’ve been writing a whole series on personalized nutrition, starting with The Person, then discussing the importance of Basic Lifestyle Guidelines, following that with Protein, Hydration, and Food Quality. Today, I want to help answer the questions, “When should I eat?” and, “How many times should I eat per day?” When Should IContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Meal Timing & Frequency”

Personalized Nutrition: Food Quality

With my 5th blog in this series about personal nutrition, I’m talking about food quality. You can check out the other articles in this series here: Where To Start With Personalized Nutrition Personalized Nutrition: BLGs Personalized Nutrition: Protein Personalized Nutrition: Hydration Food Optimization When I teach people about food quality, I start with the conceptContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Food Quality”

Personalized Nutrition: Hydration

Wait… hydration again? I’ve been talking about personalized nutrition, and I already addressed hydration a couple of days ago in a bullet point under “Basic Lifestyle Guidelines.” Well, hydration is important enough to talk about more than once. I talk to clients about hydration first when we’re working on the ‘foundation’ that is their healthyContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Hydration”

Personalized Nutrition: Protein

The topic of this series is personalized nutrition. I began by talking about the person (the one whose nutrition is being -ized), and then about practicing some basic lifestyle guidelines as a starting point. Today’s topic is the first consideration that’s actually about food: protein. Protein First Why is protein first? Because of satiety andContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: Protein”

Personalized Nutrition: BLGs

This is the second blog in a series I’m writing about personalized nutrition. The whole idea behind personalized nutrition is that you eat what is right for you, NOT what is right for someone else (or what sells the most of a particular product, pays lobbyists’ salaries, or is trending on Twitter right now). PersonalizedContinue reading “Personalized Nutrition: BLGs”