Cueing 101: How To Effectively Cue Your Clients
Written by Master Coach Kim Leggett Being able to cue effectively is a vital skill that every coach needs to master as it can mean the difference between a client learning a movement pattern correctly and them also either enjoying or hating a session. No matter what clientele you work with, coaching proper technique with […]
Goal Setting With Clients
Written by Lauren Irvine When it comes to coaching your clients, setting measurable goals that they can track and tick off will no doubt make the process of training more enjoyable. Additionally, many clients who just want to “get fit” or “lose weight” have been working towards these goals for a long time with no […]
Top Tips for Coaching Gen Pop Clients
Written by Master Coach, Jade Mckee As a fitness coach you are likely to be working with a number of general population, or “Gen Pop” clients.When it comes to fitness, ‘Gen Pop clients’ refers to the General Population – those who aren’t athletes, or training for a specific sport. When you are also working with […]
Do You REALLY Understand Your Client’s Body Composition?
Written by Master Coach Kim Leggett When your client comes to you with a new goal, it is often one of either two camps – fat loss or muscle gain… but where does improving body composition sit amongst this? The main pitfall of anyone looking to lose fat happens when they step on the scale, […]
Top 5 Tips to Motivate Your Clients
Written by Lauren Irvine There’s nothing more exciting for a client than starting a new program with a coach. Motivation is often high in the beginning, with clients determined to hit their goals. But a few weeks in, they may not be getting results as quickly as they thought, or they’re not as enthusiastic about […]
Strength Vs Hypertrophy Training
Written by Master Coach Kim Leggett When it comes to goal-specific resistance training, understanding the acute training variables and how to change these over time in order to elicit the right results is one of the most-challenging aspects of programming. Variables such as exercise selection, sequence, sets, reps, rest periods and time under tension will […]
Understanding Maintenance Calories
Your client has finished their fat loss phase, making it to their goal weight. Check. They then followed their reverse diet to a tee. Check.What comes next? What is the benefit of your client eating at their maintenance level of calories? What are “maintenance” calories? When your client is eating at “maintenance”, this is the […]
How to Develop Power- Part 1
Written by Stefan Ianev (Research & Development Specialist) Power is the motor quality that separates the great athletes from everyone else in most sports. World renowned strength coach, Charles Poliquin, who had perhaps the greatest track record of any strength coach in history used to have a saying that in most sports, “The money is […]
Effective Coaching for Different Types of Clients
Written by Education Manager, Stefan Ianev An important component of coaching which is often overlooked and not commonly used by personal trainers is personality profiling. The more you know about your client’s personality type, the more effectively you can communicate with them, and make better decisions about what type of training and nutrition plan they […]
Program Design for Fat Loss
Written by Master Coach Kim Leggett When it comes to designing a program for a client, we need to firstly look at their goal in order to ascertain what approach and training systems will best elicit results. The number one principle we look at when designing a program for fat loss is ensuring we are […]
Conservative Vs Aggressive Reverse Diets
Written by Master Coach Kim Leggett Going on a diet appears to be the obvious first step for anyone who has made the decision to take control of their physique and lose some fat. However, not everyone should do so! If your client is someone who has a history of yo-yo dieting, severe calorie restriction […]
