What is “Health & Fitness Coaching”?

My business cards say, “Health & Fitness Coaching.” But, what exactly does that mean? What do I really do? The services I provide are Individual Design Coaching programs, One-on-One Training, and At-Home Training. That just tells you what’s on the menu, though, it doesn’t really tell you what I DO. In order to understand that,Continue reading “What is “Health & Fitness Coaching”?”

Coaching is Not Therapy

I needed a picture for this one, so I Googled “coaching is not therapy” and came across a TON of great infographics supporting my topic today. If you’re curious, why not give it a Google yourself and see what you learn. So, the images I chose to include today are simply a series of 6Continue reading “Coaching is Not Therapy”

Individual Design Coaching

These blogs describe what I do in my ID Coaching work. Being Real = “Clean” Why Assess? Balancing Challenge & Support Individual Design Coaching – What It Is Individual Design Coaching: Define Your Goals Individual Design Coaching: Assess, Don’t Guess Individual Design Coaching: Design Your Program Individual Design Coaching: Implement Your Program Individual Design Coaching: Evaluate Progress Individual Design Coaching – WhatContinue reading “Individual Design Coaching”

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 – 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”

Balancing Challenge & Support

Balancing challenge and support is one of the critical skills I practice in my coaching work.  This skill is also necessary in other areas of my life, as a friend, a father, and a husband.  Too much challenge becomes a vexation to people, and too much support becomes coddling.  Neither extreme will succeed in helpingContinue reading “Balancing Challenge & Support”