Lifestyle coaching; many people say that they want to lose weight, gain strength, have more energy and lead healthier lifestyles, but besides their workouts, they are overeating, stressed out and only partially committed to doing what it takes to reach their goals.
Lifestyle coaching focuses on creating positive results by building self awareness, supporting positive action and facilitating a deepened understanding of oneself. In a coaching context, lifestyle addresses the whole person, including physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing, depending on the client’s needs. Lifestyle coaching’s goal is to help individuals create healthy, productive, and purposeful lives.
Lifestyle coaching enables clients to take responsibility for their actions outside of personal training sessions or the gym. Clients obtain clarity about their ultimate goals and what they are willing to do to reach them. Many clients know where they want to go with their goals, but get distracted by obstacles and daily responsibilities. Most people don’t eat properly, are stressed out, and have lives that don’t support their goals, yet they still expect results.
Coaching sessions are focused based conversations between the coach and the client. The coach listens and contributes observations and questions. Coaching accelerates the client’s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of choice. A lifestyle coach helps clients change the way they think about their goals which allows the client to realize they have more choices. From this point, the client chooses the right path for them. Lifestyle coaching enables clients to maintain a healthy lifestyle on their own terms.
The whole premise of coaching is that clients are capable of change and are accountable to themselves with the coach as a guide. The client is responsible for his or her own actions and coaching supports the process of self responsibility. Lifestyle coaching gives clients room to find their own answers. A good coach relays information and clients choose how they can apply it to their lives. In the coaching model, clients are the experts.
