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One of the most common reasons that people say they do not want to join a gym is because they aren’t in good enough shape. Many people laugh at the paradox in that thought, but as coaches we take it upon ourselves to understand where a client is coming from. Many people fear the judgement, real or...
By Sohee Lee Sohee, no stranger to the Coyote Point Kettlebell Club, writes on Livestrong about the struggles that every one faces with body composition and lifestyle change. Specifically, patience and delegating your energy to the places that matter. As we have learned from the great work of Roy...
Ed Deci and Richard Ryan introduced SDT in 1985 as a framework for understanding motivation and how it can enrich our lives, formalizing it in 2000. Since then, many health interventions have been created with SDT at their core. In their 2012 paper Fortier, Duda, Guerin, and Teixeira, all of whom...
<blockquoteDo what you need to do, and let the itty bitty details take care of themselves. </blockquote - Sohee
<blockquoteThe biggest stopping point is the feeling of inadequacy, discomfort, mistrust, or a lack of self-efficacy. </blockquote - Jonathan
<blockquoteThe strength model offers promise in identifying strategies to minimize short- term decrements in self-control and assist in developing interventions that foster better self-regulation. </blockquote - Hagger et. al
<blockquoteHabits gather by unseen degrees,As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. </blockquote - Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book XV, line 155. Dryden's
<blockquoteThere is a wide gap between knowing… and doing. </blockquote - John Berardi,
One of the most important topics in coaching that has only recently been studied in depth is willpower. Also known as “discipline” or “ego,” social scientists have finally begun in-depth explorations of how willpower works, is affected, is used, and is improved with training and time. The majority...
One of my first clients as a personal trainer was Erin, an 80 year old Irish woman who came into the gym, straight from Mass on a Tuesday, only to find her previous personal trainer had stood her up for the 3rd time. She was hopping mad, and just wanted a personal trainer who would show up. “My...