Red Flag 🚩: “I make fitness fun!”
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Yes, make fitness inclusive. Make fitness accessible. Make it enjoyable 😃
But please, don’t trivialise our profession 🖕🏽
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Question 1: What is the client’s goal? 🥅
Question 2: What do they enjoy? 😁
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From those answers it’s a matter of balancing what a coach knows is the scientific key to achieving their goal 🔑 and keeping the programming as close to that as possible whilst keeping them engaged.
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If they love stuff that comes with increased injury risk, it’s a coach’s job to ensure they’re technically as proficient as possible 👌🏽 and manage their load progression to minimise this.
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At no point does what someone enjoys teaching come into importance. If the coach and client are not a match and the coach doesn’t like delivering what is the most appropriate training style, refer on 👉🏽 There’s always a more appropriate coach out there in such instances, and it’s far better than a suboptimal training relationship that results in the client being the one who decides to leave 🙁
