]Been getting A LOT of questions from Personal Trainers about using the program with their clients, so I thought I'd post about it:
Ok, so here is how a session really goes:
1.) Working on food strategies for 10-20 minutes (as long as necessary)
2.) Warmup 5-10 minutes (more in the winter, less in the summer)
3.) Strength training 20 minutes,
4.) Swings (cardio) OR recapping and re-committing them to the food strategies.
Clients do the hardest workout that week with me,
and they do the other two easier workouts on their own.
We'll talk about the Six Keys to Easy Fat Loss during their rest periods on their strength training. I take really good notes each session, and I make sure every week that they get a couple more reps on something. When they get all the reps, we move up the weight or go to a harder variation of a bodyweight exercise.
It all comes from one overlying principle: The workouts are necessary but not sufficient. If I have to spend 45 minutes of a 50 minute session with my client working on their food planning grid, going through every meal and talking about what is going on in their life each day and what is realistic and how to plan and when to shop ect., I'll do it.
If, as personal trainers, we know food is #1, then why do we spend an hour working out? Why not spend the lion's share of the time working on strategies to have our clients eat in line with their goals?
Another question I get from personal trainers: Is it really enough for clients to only change one or two meals per week?
YES. YES. YES. CAN I GET A HELL YEAH?
When they go from 27 free meals per week to 25, and then the next week they go to 23 free meals per week, and then to 21 free meals per week, things change.
And most importantly - YOU HAVE TIME TO WORK ON THE NINJA FOOD SKILLS. People totally suck at the SKILL of eating well. They don't know how to shop, they don't know how to prepare or cook or portion food out.
By changing only a couple meals per week, we have time to learn how to prepare. It's ALL the ninja food skills.
-Josh
Daniel John
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