05/10/2022
How I got started with online fitness coaching ....
In March 2022 - I'm stuck inside like everyone else.
My business is closed (I run a brick and mortar private gym), I'm working all day trying to pivot my business into something workable, and I'm splitting the day with my wife watching our two year old, who doesn't have daycare.
As the days tick away, the frustration and stress grow and even though I'm a fitness professional, my body is getting pudgier.
You would think I wouldn't have a problem staying in shape knowing everything I do about nutrition and training.
But the reality is - even though I'm not eating terribly, I'm just slowly packing on the pounds.
When I look back at it, this issue with my weight and how I looked and felt all started when my schedule went from routine to "ALL HANDS ON DECK".
New stresses were added to my life and my normal routines and workouts were thrown into the trash.
I got lazy and thought I could take my attention off my fitness for a while I was putting out fires.....I started intuitively eating. ..I thought I was putting in enough effort to eating healthy during the day..I was drinking more in the evenings to distract from the stress of the day
How'd all of this get resolved?
During all of this, I was in constant contact with other gym owners who were also going through the same thing.
The gym owners who were doing better than others were telling me that they invested in an online coach to help them ACTUALLY get their training and nutrition back on point.
Even better - their businesses improved and their relationships improved because of the skills they learned with this coach....
Fast forward - I sign up with a coach (all remotely btw - he was in Seattle and I'm in Pittsburgh).
After a slow onramp period, my weight starts melting off. I ended up dropping close to 30 lbs and got the leanest I've been since college rowing racing season (20 years ago).
I realize that I had all the best intentions with my fitness.....and I had all the knowledge....
but bridging the gap between intention and ex*****on was something I was missing.
And I wasn't doing anything crazy - no weird food timing strategies, no special supplements, no endless workout regiments - and I was still eating the foods I loved.
It was incredible to see how small, focused changes to my diet, to my training, or to my mindset made incredible changes to my health.
If you've been stuck in your health but can't figure out why, I would love to guide you through a similar process and get you some amazing results from focused but simple efforts.
It'll save you months of trial and error and get you the results you know you deserve.
If you're looking to invest in your health look freaking great and want the guidance from an experienced coach who knows what it's like - send me the message "Results" and we'll discuss what a plan could look like for you.
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How I got started with online fitness coaching ....
In March 2022 - I'm stuck inside like everyone else.
My business is closed (I run a brick and mortar private gym), I can't workout like usual, I'm working all day trying to pivot my business into something workable, and I'm splitting the day with my wife watching our two year old, who doesn't have daycare.
As the days tick away, the frustration and stress grow and I try to distract myself from it by drinking more in the evening. My eating is haphazard because I'm trying to put my focus on my work.
My two big rocks - my family and my business - are getting all of my attention.
My health - a major part of my identity - sucks and I'm looking more and more soft, squishy, and completely out of shape.
You would think that I wouldn't have a problem staying in shape considering how much I know about nutrition and losing weight. But the reality is - even though I'm not eating terribly, I'm just slowly packing on the pounds.
When I look back at it, this issue with my weight and how I looked and felt all started when my schedule went from routine to "ALL HANDS ON DECK".
New stresses were added to my life and my normal routines and workouts were thrown into the trash.
I got lazy and thought I could take my attention off my fitness for a while I was putting out fires.....I started intuitively eating. ..I thought I was putting in enough effort to eating healthy during the day..I was making my own food, which I thought was better than most people
But apparently I just opened up the flood gates for getting out of shape quick.
How'd all of this get resolved?
During all of this, I was in constant contact with other gym owners who were also going through the same thing.
The gym owners who were doing better than others were telling me that they invested in an online coach to help them ACTUALLY get their training and nutrition back on point.
Even better - their businesses improved and their relationships improved....
What was the secret then?
I knew so much about training and nutrition, there definitely wasn't something they would tell me that would "change the game."
..But the fact of the matter was - what I was doing wasn't working and I wanted to see what it actually looked like to get this under control and what it would take to get "ripped."
Fast forward - I sign up with a coach (all remotely btw - he was in Seattle and I'm in Pittsburgh). I start off with a baseline week of tracking and building awareness of what's going on in my life and we then jump into a fat loss period.
I realize that I had all the best intentions with my fitness.....and I had all the knowledge....
but bridging the gap between intention and ex*****on was something I was missing.
Not only did I need to ACTUALLY do some basic habits, but I needed to do them in the right order.
On top of that, because I was stuck inside, I needed to adjust my expectations for how long everything was going to take.
Basically, all of the things I was telling my clients, I wasn't doing myself. And getting a coach to get myself out of my own head and to actually take the correct action at the right time really started helping me stack wins. I invested in my health - which meant I was actually paying attention to it (both literally and figuratively).
It was incredible to see how small, focused changes to my diet, to my training, or to my mindset made incredible changes to my health.
I was in awe of how powerful focused change was to my physique and it was powerful for all of my remote clients who started to benefit from my new tools and implementation.
I ended up dropping close to 30 lbs and got the leanest I've been since college rowing racing season (20 years ago).
If you've been stuck in your health but can't figure out why - even though you might know a ton about food and training, etc ...I would love to guide you through a similar process and get you some quick results from focused but simple efforts.
It'll save you months of trial and error and get you the results you know you deserve.
If you're looking to invest in your health look freaking great and want the guidance from an experienced coach who knows what it's like - send me the message "Results" and we'll discuss what a plan could look like for you.
