Crazy good week for client-friendly articles. Thanks to everyone in the Motivate Forum. Our featured article is from the Moms Done Dieting blog and enjoyed a lot of attention and discussion. Check out what Lauren Koski has to say: “I know, you’ve seen the AMAZING before and after pictures, but...
Good habits are, ideally, your life’s work. Translating wellness and fitness goals into habits means focusing on process over results. And like a good ultramarathoner or mountain climber does, practicing a habit also means putting one foot in front of the other, over and over, possibly millions of...
What’s the converse of the Golden Rule? If you treated yourself the way you would like to treat others, what might happen? Being generous with yourself might get you further than judgement. The brilliant Georgie Fear explains : [aesopimage imgwidth="435px"...
In the words of this week’s featured author, “It's so important to take back fitness and allow it to encompass health- mental, physical and emotional.” Here’s a vulnerable, inspiring —and for the fitness industry, unusually rational — story from Michele Burmaster: “About a week after I submitted my...
If you are reading this blog, it’s probably first and foremost because you want to help people. In 2010, I was helping people as a personal trainer and decided I wanted to expand my toolkit to help people change their behavior. So I started thinking about graduate school for Psychology. When I told...
Editor: James Mills might be a candidate for "Most Interesting Man in the World." He is a coach, a Lawyer, and his background is in professional ballet and union contract negotiations. He is also one of the smartest people I know, so when he asked me if he could write an article about his coaching...
This week’s themes: focusing on reality, staying positive, and doing things that work instead of things we feel expected to do. Warm up with a tip from Habit Lab: Fat Loss Habit #173 - Exercise Before Breakfast Kat exercises before breakfast because it feels better that way. It’s important to pay...
At the 2nd Motivate Summit this Saturday in NYC, it was 14 degrees with a wind chill below 0. The weather forecast showed 20mph winds and 3 inches of snow were en route to Mark Fisher Fitness. But so were 2 dozen coaches from California, Denver, Detroit, Boston, New Hampshire, Toronto, and all over...
The Habitry Collective loves books. We ask every new member of the Collective “what is your favorite coaching book that is not a health and nutrition book?” and we’ve kept a list of the 141 (and growing) answers. I also maintain an Amazon Wishlist for books on behavior change that has 22 titles on...
Editor: Sean McBride is one of the smartest people I know, so when he told me he was doing 10,000 swings and using a clicker like Seth Munsey, I knew I wanted to get his thoughts on the experience. Luckily, Sean is also a great writer! Last September I went to Utah at the invitation of Coach Stevo....
Here at Habitry, Co. we make communities. We make communities for the simple reason that communities work better. They work better than one-on-one. They work better than “groups.” Communities change people because humans are social cognitive learners (Bandura, 2001), mirror neurons are a thing...
Editor: Michele, a very active member of the Motivate Collective, contacted me about an outlet to tell her story. I was happy to help because I think that these lessons apply to anyone who's thinking of making the leap to owning their own place and following their passion. I hope you enjoy reading...
One of the best features of the Motivate Collective, in my opinion, is that it is a safe space to get advice about what to do with clients that happens to be populated by the best habit-based coaches in the world. Needless to say, the advice is insanely good. Yesterday, a coach asked for help with...
This weekend, there’ll be a run on snacks at your local grocery store. So it’s time for a snackable edition of Articles for Clients! First, help your clients be prepared to stick to their plans when they shop for Super Bowl Sunday by encouraging them to make a shopping list: Fat Loss Habit #60 -...
First, check out the latest fat loss habit video from the Habit Lab: Fat Loss Habit #173 - Exercise Before Breakfast - Habit Lab from Habitry on Vimeo. And now, from our community…when is fitspiration not inspiring? When it’s overbearing. Your clients see many different messages on their personal...
Steven Ledbetter comes on the show to talk about prevent to work motivation techniques that you can use to help reach your goals or to help others. Includes the biggest mistakes coaches make when motivating others, habit-based coaching, and more!
It’s likely that your clients have made a few resolutions by now. Possibly they’ve even started breaking them. Right now, about two weeks into January, the excitement of the holidays may have worn off and your clients may be looking for some extra motivation and direction. The Habitry Collective is...
I've been working with people to help them meet their health and fitness goals since 2008. I still work with anyone who shows up on my front door at 9AM every morning. I'm a coach, but in 2013 I stopped coaching people and started making a real difference. When I started graduate school for health...
Here are some articles written this week by Habitry Collective Members about habits, motivation, and behavior change that you can send to your clients! And this week you absolutely must read Marc Halpern's post on Lean Body 6 about his late grandfather: "Forget about the benefits I got. My grandpa...
Hey Motivators! We hope you’re enjoying the holidays! Grab some of that leftover eggnog and dive in to this week’s recap of all the happenings in the Motivate Forums. This week, we hazed Marcelino Martinez and Andy Fossett into the Collective. Welcome to the Collective! Habitry, Co. released a...