Lisa Lewis – Psych Skills for Fit Pros – Volume 1
A psychology course designed specifically for fitness professionals
Accelerate clients’ results (and your success) by mastering communication and motivational skills
Discover how to effectively motivate your clients and help them change behaviors, pursue their goals, and reignite your passion for coaching, without burning out or adding to your current workload.
If you are someone who:
- Is a strength coach, personal trainer, nutrition coach, physical therapist, or just someone who wants to inspire change and enable success without feeling like you’re constantly arguing, defending yourself and your programming, working hard with clients without seeing any results.
- Likes the idea of creating a fun, safe, and enjoyable coaching environment for every one of your clients, so they look forward to their next sessions, and tell their friends and family about your coaching abilities …
- Prides yourself in providing quality service and constantly strives to improve your knowledge and coaching skills…
- Enjoys what you do and aspires to become the best coach for your clients, so that you can continue bringing value to other people’s lives, and feel like you’re making a difference …
- Wants access to simple “know-what-to-say” scripts in a variety of situations, as well as highly valuable interviews from seven world-class coaches across the globe, so you add prized coaching skills to your toolbox that every fit pro wished they had…
You’re in the right place.
The skills, techniques, and interventions I’m introducing to you are simple, effective, and highly valuable, but it does require effort and practice on your part to implement.
You could be in the fitness industry for decades, or just starting out.
The key is not how much coaching experience you have now. It’s how eager you are to learn, and your desire to become the best coach for your clients.
The skills I’m offering can help you learn:
- Evidence-based approaches for behavioral change and exercise psychology to help you sustain your clients’ motivation throughout their journey, so they consistently progress toward their goals.
- Simple communication techniques that can help your clients get out of their own way and get clear and effective results working with you.
- How to reduce burnout and work frustration by reframing and redirecting draining and negative client interactions, so you approach your work excited and motivated to coach, tapping back into the excitement and optimism you had when you first started in the fitness industry.
- Easy methods to add world-class skills to your coaching toolbox to keep a positive and fun training environment.
- How to stop taking on clients’ failures as your own, so you have confidence in your coaching abilities, and no longer take it personally when, resist change, or seem “unwilling”, no matter how hard you work for them.
- How most successful fitness professionals are able to separate work from personal life and take care of their own physical and emotional health.
- How to help your clients break through plateaus, reduce frustration, and make progress.
- The top 10 tools and techniques psychologically-minded fit pros can use to help them navigate the toughest clients.
Every year, thousands of fitness professionals enter the fitness industry, excited to be a beacon of change, motivating and inspiring people to lead healthier lifestyles.
But most fitness professionals leave the industry before a year and a half, frustrated, burned out, and missing the opportunity to tap into their full potential.
Why?
Most fitness pros get into the fitness industry because they are passionate about it. Fitness comes easy to them and it’s something they love.
You may have ended up in the industry for similar reasons.
As a fitness pro, it’s easy to pack your lunches and hit the gym five to six days a week. Habits like these come naturally to you. You’re excited about training, disciplined with diet, and get a kick out of fitness, organization, dedication, and persistence, so it can be difficult to remember that this is not easy for most people!
When clients aren’t “good,” or compliant, coaches can get drained, and frustration can build up.
Before now, there has not been a certification or qualification that teaches the fundamental, yet the most important, aspect of coaching. And it’s certainly not covered in your personal training or nutrition coaching exams:
What am I talking about?
How change actually happens,
and how to help make it happen.
Since you work with people who are trying to change on a regular basis, you know this is the core of your ability to be effective, to keep and grow your clientele, and to be satisfied by your work.
3 Reasons Why Your Clients Aren’t Getting Results
There are 3 main reasons you may be feeling stuck, burnt-out, or ineffective with clients:
Reason #1. Suffocating Clients’ Motivation by Being the “Expert”
Because fitness professionals tend to be passionate, caring, and committed to helping their clients, they sometimes lead conversations and goal-setting sessions with their own recommendations, advice, and values in mind.
This could result in the client losing interest in the goals, meal plans, or workouts, getting “stuck” and making no progress, or dropping out altogether.
For the trainer, this leads to frustration, confusion, and client turnover.
Instead of leading these conversations, having an ability to listen carefully and follow the client’s lead gives your clients a voice and helps them foster their own motivation and desire to improve.
Reason #2. Making Clients Dependent on You
If you’re someone who values and prides themselves in providing a high level of service to your clients, at some point in your career you will decide to add communication outside of the gym to your services.
(You probably already do this if you work with clients online)
In addition to a thorough assessment, comprehensive workout and/or meal plan, and regular re-assessments, you may give too much of your free time to additional client contact.
At first it seems like the right thing to do. But over time you realize the emails, text messages, WhatsApp and other conversations outside of the training sessions add up to take over a great deal of your time and energy.
As a result, you’re often in work mode.
This not only means you get drained or even burnt out, but also that your clients are not doing enough of their own work! It would be similar to you jumping on their bench or in their squat rack and completing their reps for them—it doesn’t help them to get stronger.
In addition, your clients may grow to feel dependent on you. They ask you every little question they may have, whenever they feel unsure and don’t know what to do. Even if they actually know the answers, or should be finding them out on their own.
As a result, you and your clients may both develop an expectation that you should “be there for them” and hold their hand every step of the way.
When you know how to establish healthy boundaries with your clients you reduce the risk of burnout for yourself, you provide appropriate expectations for the client, and ultimately you facilitate success, because your clients utilize their own resilience and decision-making when you’re not available.
Reason #3: Making Clients’ “Failures” a Reflection of Your Personal Success
Chances are you got into this industry because you want to change lives! You’re hungry to help people feel better, look better, and achieve their goals.
But when these things don’t happen for clients … it’s hard on you.
When your clients seem to be stuck, or seem unable to fix the issues they came to you with, it can feel like YOU are the one who might be unable to deliver the results.
You start thinking, “What am I doing wrong?”
While it’s valuable to think of ways to improve coaching skills, it is NOT valuable to make the client’s progress a reflection of your abilities as a coach.
Clients have all kinds of reasons they avoid, stall, or sabotage change. Your clients don’t change on your timeline—they change on their own.
Being patient, remembering “it’s not about me,” and supporting your clients on their journeys will help you to stay enthusiastic and consistent, and them to continue progressing — no matter how slow their pace.
Too many coaches see their clients’ failures as their own personal failures, and leave sessions feeling heavy and guilty, rather than upbeat, motivated, and proud they’re helping others live better lives.
Right now you might be thinking,
“This all sounds great, Lisa, but there are already books on motivational interviewing and behavior change out there. Why is Psych Skills for Fit Pros special?”
After working with many fitness professionals individually, giving talks on the subject, and doing many in-services in the fitness community, I realized there was a need for support AND education on psychological aspects of people-helping within the fitness industry.
There is not a single course available now that focuses on how to enhance your coaching skills AND how to improve your own personal well being and job satisfaction as a fitness professional.
Let’s be honest, your success in this industry depends on the successes of your clients.
There are plenty of books and journal articles that review motivational and behavior change theory, but none of them provide specific instruction on how to put it into practice with your clients, in a way that feels genuine to you.
With this course, you don’t just learn theories. You will be able to apply everything you learn to your specific client population and work environment. You will gain tools to use in your everyday coaching life, to help clients get the results they came looking for.
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