Health & Fitness coaching??

Re: Health & Fitness coaching??

• blushingbride_08 member

  August 2013

  The title has become watered down. Take the hungry girl Lisa (forgot her last name) she makes a lot of money I'm sure with her cookbooks and "celebrity" visits yet she is not even certified.

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• BabeDebolt member

  August 2013

  Personal trainer and high school coach here. I also ran D1 in college so I get good v bad coaching. I hear ya on your topic and here's my experience. Coaching doesn't pay alot so I feel thats why there is a lack of them. At the hs level, there is mom that's a coach for one of the sports and the team isn't extremely disciplined. Kids take advantage of her. Sometimes teachers are coaches. That's a lost cause often too-not always!-but alot of times. As a personal trainer, I've seen the best in shape or strongest looking trainers be god-awful trainers. They don't watch their clients, they stare at themselves and the form of the client is embarrassing. Then there are some out of shape trainers that don't give a damn, know a lot because they're smart, but don't apply it and are lazy. Then there are some fit trainers that just kick butt and know their stuff. You gotta be picky about your trainer in my opinion. Not all trainers deserve clients. Some really stink and its embarrassing to watch their session sometimes. Just like everything, there are good eggs and bad eggs.

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• tamararachel2 member

  August 2013

  @BabeDebolt I totally agree with you on the trainers, DH was a trainer when we started dating so I've seen all shapes and forms. My thing is with what they call "health and fitness" coach...like The Beachbody coaches. I do Insanity so I'm not dissing Beachbody at all, but they let anyone be a "coach." True that all they're really there for is motivation, but still. I also know of someone who became a health and fitness coach, and she knows nothing about nutrition and working out. Does she eat right? Yes, but can she explain how to eat and why? No. Does she workout at the gym and have good physique? Yes, but could she workout alongside someone and help them in their exercises and show them the correct way to do it? No. As blushingbride said, I think they use that term way too loosely and now anyone can just call themselves a coach.

  
  

   

   

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• jkelly41 member

  August 2013

  In relation to Beachbody, yes the term "coach" is watered down and anyone can be a BB coach. The theory behind that is a coach is there to help motivate and support you, but the programs and the Beachbody club membership are where you get the real technical advice.  I know this because I am a Beachbody coach.  When I realized I wanted to really take my sales business to the next level, I became a certified personal trainer. 

  
  

  However- think about the term coach.  What you described above is a trainer- not a coach.  I can't recall any of my coaches in softball or basketball really showing me how to do things.  They really guided me, motivated me, or reprimanded me  They gave small tips and advice but nothing at a level I would expect from a professional.

   

   

  
  

  
  

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• BabeDebolt member

  August 2013

  @tamararachel2. I've had a piece of sports equipment in my hands since age 5. Whether I'm with a coach, trainer, health or fitness anything, I expect this person to be fit. Even at age 10 when my bball coach was 40lbs overweight, I took his advice less serious. Not in a disrespectful way , but had a hard time getting motivated and inspired from him. I'm big on practice what you preach but it doesn't always swing like that. Some people don't need a practice what you preach trainer/coach. Different strokes for different folks!

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• Nm929

  August 2013

  Hi babe debolt :-)

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