10/10/2021
Why should you hire a coach? 🧐
I honestly believe everyone should have a coach 💁🏼♀️
No I know what you’re thinking! ✋🏼 It’s NOT because I’m a PT. I could think of 20 reasons before that, of the benefits and values of hiring a coach 🏋🏽⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
In fact I’m going to share my top 6 below 👇🏼 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
1️⃣ Goal Setting 🥅 - a coach can help you set SMART goals. You want to ‘lose weight’? ‘Tone up’ Get fitter’? All very common - yet generic - goals. A coach can help you get not only specific with these goals, but educate you further on the process, provide a map to obtain these goals and give you a realistic time frame to achieve these goals.
2️⃣📚 Educate - with all the fitness BS (diets, waist trainers, fat burners, exercises that avoid giving you a “thicker waist” 🤦🏼♀️) a coach can help you sort through this jargon & provide you with research / evidence based FACTS, so you’re not left doubting what you should/shouldn’t be doing.
3️⃣ 🏋🏼♀️ Form & Technique - obviously a major value here for any beginner/intermediate client. If you’re new to the gym then it’s a MUST you should get a coach to take you through the foundations of training for at least the first few years. As you advance through machines -> barbells, through exercise selection and difficulty, having great form and someone to guide you is necessary.
4️⃣ 📝 Personalized Program - nothing will ever beat a personalized program suited to you, your injuries and weaknesses, your goals and your level of training. If you have a specific goal then it is even more essential you obtain a personalized program suited to that. There is numerous factors we consider as coaches when developing a program - we don’t just mash a bunch of leg exercises together and call it “leg day” (will save this D&M for another post 😂).
5️⃣ 💪🏼 Challenge you - a coach should be able to challenge you. They should be able to judge your limit and know that sweet spot on where to push you to, to help build confidence, improve strength and leave feeling great. Making client sick / vomit / so sore they can’t move / they hurt themselves is NOT ok 🙅🏼♀️
6️⃣ 🙌🏻 Accountability - everyone can benefit from having someone to stay accountable too. We all know motivation comes and goes (mostly goes) so ensuring you have accountability will help you stay on the path to your goals. A coach follows up on whether you’ve trained or not outside your sessions, encourages you, follows up on your nutrition, checks on mindset and is there to LISTEN to you! Not only will you benefit from the accountability of the coach, but the rest of their clients & community are there to keep you accountable too. It can be a great way to meet new people, belong to a community that has similar goals to you and keep you motivated.
Now even though I believe hiring a coach is beneficial to everyone - I do believe that not everyone needs the same package. Most people (beginners/intermediates) will benefit from the face to face sessions, however some people who have been lifting for numerous years, are confident with their technique and don’t have injuries/illnesses to work around may benefit from a less hands on package. Online coaching can be a great tool in this case, with programming and nutrition being provided you can keep the accountability and stay motivated with fresh programming every 4-6 weeks.
Bottom line - EVERYONE can benefit from a coach in some capacity (face to face or online). So do your research, hire an experienced coach and I guarantee you will start to see more results than you are getting on your own 👌🏼
