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...
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...
However, if you are doing something really awesome, you should totes keep doing
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...