What is this video?
I’ve taken up the challenge Dax Moy has issued to his Facebook group to create 30 videos in 30 days. Come join me in the challenge and give your fitness business a kick in the butt.
A common question that I get here and see in our Facebook group is ‘How can I make my client(s) stick to their diet/coming to sessions/health habits?’
The answer is a really simple one:
You can’t.
You can’t force someone to change who isn’t ready. In this video I talk about why that is the case and what you can do to instead.
Now over to you
What are your tricks for helping clients change? What have you found to be effective?
Kyle Wood created Bootcamp Ideas in 2010 when he was hunting around on the internet for workout ideas. He ran a successful bootcamp in Victoria, Australia and spends his spare time managing this site, adventuring (or lazying) with his wife and find new ways to make bootcamps even better.
Kyle,
Thanks for the call out on 21 day fixes and plans and such!
I see so much of this B.S. in our industry, guys looking for a quick $ grab telling people what they want to hear. Would love to see all trainers agree that we will stop this nonsense and be honest and tell them to patience and consistent hard work is what it takes. Rome wasn’t built in 21 days on a cleanse…..
Agreed! There is no “fix” out there. I tell my clients to eat the way now that they want to eat for the rest of their lives. Make their diet full of high quality, whole foods that are the freshest, best tasting they can afford. Enjoy treats as treats and don’t eat junk. I journal my food because I was once 100 pounds overweight, but find I just do it more as a check in on my nutrients.
The way I, personally, keep my clients motivated to stick with fitness is through goal setting. I teach a bootcamp as part of my run coaching and many of my clients stick to running as their main form of fitness. I advocate well rounded runners in both training and life, so we do a lot of social runs, social advocacy (we just raised enough money to buy a local young man a racing wheelchair, and last year was able to send money to a small village in Senegal to get eye surgery for two girls with enough leftover to build a health hut for women to give birth in), and we all cheer for each other from the fastest to the very very slowest of us all. You’d think I have a huge group. I don’t. I have a core group of people who just infect the community around them and we become involved in our community more and more so that we want to be role models to others around us.