This month Weight Watchers, the Google of the weight loss industry announced a new ad campaign. With no celebrities. Or promotions. Or promises. Or before and after photos. It's all real people talking about their real struggles, physical and emotional, with weight loss. In an article for USA...
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One of the problems that the coaches in the Motivate Collective have discovered about Habit-Based Coaching, is that there is just not a ton of stuff out there for our clients to read. They are deluged with questionable crap from magazine covers, Dr. Oz, and other less awesome fitness professionals...
This article originally appeared on Seth Munsey's new blog, "The Client Centered Coach." Seth is one of the many awesome gym owners in the Motivate Collective who are adding habit-based training and behavior change techniques to the way they do business. You can join our conversations on our...
We at the Habitry Collective got a lot of feedback on our free 167 Fat Loss Habits and the general consensus was, "it's too much awesome information! Make it smaller!" Politely ignoring the fact that our biggest complaint was that we were giving away too much for free, we heeded the call for...
This article originally appeared on Seth Munsey's new blog, "The Client Centered Coach." Seth is one of the many awesome gym owners in the Motivate Collective who are adding habit-based training and behavior change techniques to the way they do business. You can join our conversations on our...
For the past two months, the Motivate Forums have been crackling with amazing discussions about working with clients (Not a member? Why not? It’s free and there’s only mild hazing!). A lot of these discussions have centered on communication, and I have found myself teaching my fellow Motivators new...
Steve Ledbetter, a.k.a. “Coach Stevo” is the featured guest on this week’s show and he shares amazing insight on the power of our habits. Let me tell you now, this is a different kind of interview from things we typically discuss on the show, but the insight is extremely valuable for all of us....
We hear a lot of excuses about why people don’t exercise. “I don’t have the time.” “There’s not a gym close to me” etc. And sadly, most questionaries for the CDC, NIH and other government surveys use these misleading answers on their forms, so most of the survey data on how much we exercise as a...
One of the biggest problems that we coaches face is often not recognized as a problem until it’s too late. Until after a few clients have just stopped showing up. Or maybe never came back after that summer vacation. Or joined a Soul Cycle. But this problem starts on Day 1, often during the...
Months ago, when I announced the first Motivate Summit in Salt Lake City, I was scared. Motivate SLC was the first meet up dedicated solely to behavior change in the fitness industry and the first public UNconference in our industry as well. So not only was it new, not only was it weird, it was new...
Health and wellness professionals are often united by a common goal of wanting to help others adopt a physically active, nutritionally balanced, and mindfulness-centered lifestyle. As many of us know, this is no easy task. We are constantly facing an array of barriers to exercise and adherence to...
My friend and mentor Dan John is famous for a quote that should be a required tattoo in the health and wellness professions. <blockquoteThe goal is to keep the goal the goal. </blockquote Years ago I realized that my clients often have absolutely no idea where they wanna go (yet), and often just...
The average Utahan (a word I very recently learned how to properly pronounce—no small for feat for a boy raised in the derrty south) is 29 years old, married, conservative, white, “barely” male (49% of the population is female), stands 5’8”, weighs 170lbs, lives in a two bedroom house with 2.14...
You’re a really smart person. You know more than most people about at least a few things. You might even be an expert at some of them. And chances are, if you’re reading this, more than a few people look to you for advice (or even pay you for it). Maybe it’s about what to eat. Or what to do at the...
One of the sessions at the Motivate Summit was convened with the question: “How Important are fast initial results in long-term client success?” It was such a great question that we decided to keep the discussion alive on the Motivate Forums. Andrew McGunagle summarized what I think is a very...
Matt McGunagle convened a session at the Motivate Summit with the post-it note you see above. These are his notes from that session and a small glimpse into an optimistic future. I led a group conversation on this topic recently at the Motivate Summit in Salt Lake City and wanted to share my...
In October 2013, I decided to take on the 10,000 KB Swing Challenge by Dan John. If you aren’t familiar with the 10,000 KB Swing Challenge, it involves taking a Kettlebell and swinging it 10,000 times in a month. Simple, yet brutally effective. The challenge is broken down into 500 swings a day for...
On a rainy Saturday in Utah, 41 people with the passion to show up got together in a circle and something happened. "I don't know what 'this' is, but it's something amazing," Bill recapped. 41 people, brought together from all over the USA by Facebook, a few blog posts, and word-of-mouth found out...
Bill Nye is a great teacher. He is witty, smart, and above all, incredibly empathetic. He has an uncanny ability to see the world through his students' or readers' eyes and craft his message to meet them where they are at. And he does this with superhuman patience, as demonstrated in his February...