Wellness Coaching
Wellness is a dynamic concept comprised of an interrelated set of dimensions including emotional, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, and spiritual factors. Wellness is an active, lifelong process that involves expanding knowledge, skills, values, practices, and supportive environments that increase one’s ability to enjoy a balanced and fulfilling life.
Wellness Coaching is a combination of traditional life coaching, lifestyle fitness coaching, green living, sound nutrition, exercise and stress management.
Our Wellness Coaching program is designed to empower clients. The program is presented as a client-centered approach to facilitate wellness coaching, through the use of behavior change strategies and sound coaching practices used in the field currently. Our philosophy is to then empower the client with what is needed to make lifelong behavior changes. Our skills include being able to help clients when setting goals and to assist in planning strategies for change.
Wellness Coaching is a combination of traditional life coaching, lifestyle fitness coaching, green living, sound nutrition, exercise and stress management.
Our Wellness Coaching program is designed to empower clients. The program is presented as a client-centered approach to facilitate wellness coaching, through the use of behavior change strategies and sound coaching practices used in the field currently. Our philosophy is to then empower the client with what is needed to make lifelong behavior changes. Our skills include being able to help clients when setting goals and to assist in planning strategies for change.
Lifestyle Fitness Coaching is the Next Revolution
Lifestyle Fitness Coaching is the next revolution in the fitness industry. For decades, fitness professionals have had various degrees of success motivating clients and making them accountable for a healthy lifestyle. Today, fitness coaching has been refined into a science. Personal trainers no longer have to wonder how to get and keep their clients on track with their desired results.
Fitness and lifestyle coaching is different than personal training in many aspects.
Personal trainers are responsible for initial and ongoing fitness assessments, program structure, technique, application, programming updates and exercise science.
Lifestyle fitness coaches are responsible for uncovering the client’s motivational strategies, building rapport with the client,creating meaningful dialog, using questionnaires to determine likes, dislikes, immediate, intermediate and long-term goals.
In many cases, clients will greatly benefit from both personal training and fitness coaching. If an individual has more experience with exercise and lacks strategy or motivation, they may be a candidate for more coaching rather than training, yet both can be offered. When a person has little weight training experience, but well defined and appropriate goals, and shows consistent motivational techniques, they will likely need much less coaching and more direct oversight of their fitness training program.
What is the difference between a personal trainer, life coach and a lifestyle fitness coach?
Here’s an example for working with “Subject A”:
Subject A: Male, 55, moderately fit, no recent surgeries, no contraindications to begin an exercise program.
Sport of Choice: Golf
Goal: Improve golf game
Occupation: Business executive nearing retirement
Approach: Personal Trainer (PT) – After proper assessments, the PT begins a training program to include core, functional training, foam rollers, ROM and balance work to improve his golf game.
Life Coach (LC) – Assesses goals, values, resources and motivators of the client. LC works with client to create life balance, happiness and personal success.
Lifestyle Fitness Coach (LFC) – Works with the trainer or life coach (unless he or she is already trained these specific areas). The LFC works hand-in-hand with the client to learn how he will better integrate his love of golf, his improved ability to play golf, and his increased time to play golf, into his changing life as he moves into retirement.
The LFC will also discover through dialog how the client will best embrace a healthy and fit lifestyle (according to his values and beliefs) for maximum enjoyment and results.
There are an endless combination of scenarios defining which client will need more or less coaching and more or less fitness training. So, this is why it’s imperative for the fitness professional to become Lifestyle Fitness Coach. Many trainers offer “coaching” to their clients, but as you will learn, MOST are doing it incorrectly. You will want to know why, and how to correctly master this helpful skill.
“Coaching” is an art and “training” is a science.
When combined together correctly, your client attains higher levels of success and satisfaction.
Fitness and lifestyle coaching is different than personal training in many aspects.
Personal trainers are responsible for initial and ongoing fitness assessments, program structure, technique, application, programming updates and exercise science.
Lifestyle fitness coaches are responsible for uncovering the client’s motivational strategies, building rapport with the client,creating meaningful dialog, using questionnaires to determine likes, dislikes, immediate, intermediate and long-term goals.
In many cases, clients will greatly benefit from both personal training and fitness coaching. If an individual has more experience with exercise and lacks strategy or motivation, they may be a candidate for more coaching rather than training, yet both can be offered. When a person has little weight training experience, but well defined and appropriate goals, and shows consistent motivational techniques, they will likely need much less coaching and more direct oversight of their fitness training program.
What is the difference between a personal trainer, life coach and a lifestyle fitness coach?
Here’s an example for working with “Subject A”:
Subject A: Male, 55, moderately fit, no recent surgeries, no contraindications to begin an exercise program.
Sport of Choice: Golf
Goal: Improve golf game
Occupation: Business executive nearing retirement
Approach: Personal Trainer (PT) – After proper assessments, the PT begins a training program to include core, functional training, foam rollers, ROM and balance work to improve his golf game.
Life Coach (LC) – Assesses goals, values, resources and motivators of the client. LC works with client to create life balance, happiness and personal success.
Lifestyle Fitness Coach (LFC) – Works with the trainer or life coach (unless he or she is already trained these specific areas). The LFC works hand-in-hand with the client to learn how he will better integrate his love of golf, his improved ability to play golf, and his increased time to play golf, into his changing life as he moves into retirement.
The LFC will also discover through dialog how the client will best embrace a healthy and fit lifestyle (according to his values and beliefs) for maximum enjoyment and results.
There are an endless combination of scenarios defining which client will need more or less coaching and more or less fitness training. So, this is why it’s imperative for the fitness professional to become Lifestyle Fitness Coach. Many trainers offer “coaching” to their clients, but as you will learn, MOST are doing it incorrectly. You will want to know why, and how to correctly master this helpful skill.
“Coaching” is an art and “training” is a science.
When combined together correctly, your client attains higher levels of success and satisfaction.