This is the third in a series of blogs about defining fitness. Catch up on the other ones here: What is Fitness? Part 1: Defining the Question What is Fitness? Part 2: Answering the Question for Yourself I’m going to start today with the words I finished with yesterday: Fitness, therefore, is about being yourContinue reading “What is Fitness? Part 3: Smart, Fit, and Clean”
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What is Fitness? Part 2: Answering the Question for Yourself
Yesterday, I talked about moving through the stages of learning from unconscious incompetence towards unconscious competence, and how this has allowed me to propose some questions about what fitness is. Today, I want to talk about answering those questions for yourself. Today’s blog builds off of yesterday’s, so if you haven’t read that yet, pleaseContinue reading “What is Fitness? Part 2: Answering the Question for Yourself”
What is Fitness? Part 1: Defining the Question
I set out this morning to plan a series of 15 blogs about how I define “Fitness” and what this name “Smart, Fit, and Clean” that I’ve adopted for my coaching business actually means. I got way into it, expanding my notes into broader and broader topics, coming up with themes and blog titles forContinue reading “What is Fitness? Part 1: Defining the Question”
Individual Design Coaching – What It Isn’t
I’ve been writing this week about Individual Design Coaching. So far, I’ve written about the entire process of Individual Design, from consultation to assessment to program design, program implementation, then continual refinement & improvement. Today, I’m going to put a cap on this definition of Individual Design by writing about what IT IS NOT. Now,Continue reading “Individual Design Coaching – What It Isn’t”
Individual Design Coaching: Evaluate Progress
Continual Refinement & Improvement This brings us to Step 5 of Individual Design Coaching: evaluation. To recap, here are the steps we’ve gone through so far: Consultation Assessment Program Design Program Implementation In Step 5, we see that the whole process is cyclical and continual. In Step 5, we return to all the previous steps.Continue reading “Individual Design Coaching: Evaluate Progress”
Individual Design Coaching: Implement Your Program
Program Implementation Ok. So, we did a consultation, and an assessment, designed you a program, and it’s time to put that program into action. Now you’re starting to get the idea of what Individual Design Coaching is all about. In Step 4, I have to teach you the new behaviors, nourishment strategies, and exercises thatContinue reading “Individual Design Coaching: Implement Your Program”
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”
SMART, FIT, AND CLEAN 