Lifestyle Fitness Coaching

Lifestyle Fitness Coaching isn’t personal training, nor is it life coaching. It does draw from each.

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.

Making a Living as a Certified Lifestyle Fitness Coach:

One-on-one LFC: $50 - $150 hour

Group LFC: $15/person (20 people - $300/hour)

You can also make information products, write a book, have a radio show, do podcasts, write blogs, do TV interviews, and, of course, become a more well-rounded and more highly regarded fitness and coaching professional.

Do you think you already know how to be a Lifestyle Fitness Coach?

You may be surprised!

Take this quiz and then visit http://spencerinstitute.com/lifestyle-fitness-coach-quiz.html for the surprising answers.

STATEMENT

TRUE or FALSE?

1. People quit fitness in the first 6 months due to lack of motivation, time conflicts, boredom, and lack of support.

2. A good idea if a coach or trainer wants to reduce a client’s aggressive behavior is to have him/her do an activity like yoga, tai chi or Pilates.

3. Coach and client share 50-50 responsibility for program implementation.

4. Coaching and personal training rely on the same communication skills.

5. Coaches can easily switch back and forth between coaching and training roles.

6. Converting your club to a “coaching environment” is simply adding another line of business to your operation.

7. A great trainer will make a great coach.

8. Great coaches are charismatic, high energy motivators.

9. Clients generally know what their motives are. It’s the coach’s job to discover them.

10. Clients who are effectively coached will spend more time training at your club.