This truly is the key to succeeding as any type of professional in the health and fitness industry. The fact remains, if your clients see amazing results, those clients will continue to pay you, and their friends will want to do the same. It really doesn’t need to be more complicated than that. Here’s the catch; for many health professionals, creating unbelievable results for their clients is easier said than done.
The Top 4 Health Pros Fails
- Applying Your Health Success To Your Clients
Most health pros are either in great shape, made the transition from fat to fit, or have improved their own health issues in some way. While any of these options can be good for business, they can be misleading when a pro starts to work with clients. If you believe that the techniques you used to improve your health are going to work for all your clients, you’re in for a long, frustrating road.
- Failure to Understand Bio-Individuality
In my early days as a trainer, my biggest mistake was making suggestions to all my clients based on what I knew worked for me. When they didn’t get results, I assumed they were lying to me. I had no idea that every person processes foods differently and there is no diet that is right for every person.
- Failure to Look at Each Client as an Individual
If some clients process carbs better than fats, some clients process fats better than carbs, and some clients can’t break down protein at all, why would you make the same dietary suggestions to all of them? It’s a mistake, and it’s very common.
- Failure to Work WITH the Client’s Body Chemistry
If a client is dealing with digestive issues that are restricting their ability to break down protein or emulsify dietary fats, and you put them on a low-carb diet, you just removed their only fuel source. However, if a client is burning fat like a champ, but can’t process glucose to save their life, reducing their fat intake could be just as disastrous. It’s crucial to get an idea of how your client’s body chemistry is operating so you can make suggestions to work with their body instead of against it.
Helping Your Clients Succeed
There is a reason your clients are coming to you for help. Everything they’ve tried has failed miserably. When you give them advice that goes against how their specific body is operating, you’re setting them up for yet another failure. This failure, however, could turn out to be much more costly. Since you appear to be in perfect health, and you do this for a living, when the suggestions you give them don’t work, the only conclusion they can come to is, it must be them. They must be destined to be miserable and there is no hope to turn that around.
You have the ability to change this person’s life. When the mainstream media tells us to just burn more calories than we eat, and every “expert” they meet is making suggestions that won’t work for them, you have the ability to right their ship. You can not only guide their choices towards how their body is currently operating, you can also help them correct malfunctions and broaden the variety of nutritional choices that CAN work for them. That’s pretty exciting!
By learning how to look at very simple physiological markers, like blood pressure, breath rate, and even fasting glucose, you can easily gain incredible insights into which food choices might be best for your clients.
We have a free 4-week digestion course on our site, KickItNaturally.com, where you can learn how to better understand how to look at these physiological markers. We hear from consumers every day that have learned how to look at their own chemistry and improve their health. As a health professional, these concepts will be even easier for you to pick up.
In upcoming posts, we’ll be looking at a variety of ways to use this information to basically cheat and get better results than any other health pro you know. But for now, testing some of these tricks out with your body can be a great way to start learning.
Be excited! Your ability to help clients improve a wide variety of health concerns is about to skyrocket!
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