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The mistakes fitness coaches can't make(2)

Update:06-05-2021
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What is the correct approach? The coach can improve the […]

What is the correct approach?
The coach can improve the flexibility and joint mobility of the client by relaxing or stretching to see if they can squat further. If they try various methods, the coach will take a step back and do the best within the range of actions the client can do.
In the final analysis, mass customers are basically just to keep fit and do not need to shine in fitness competitions.
Therefore, if the customer cannot train in the way you expect, then don't force them to do what you want, otherwise, you are hurting the customer's body!
Too much teaching makes customers discouraged.
I often find that this kind of excessive teaching behavior is easy to appear in some new coaches. It may be because of the fear that the client feels that they are not professional enough, and even want to simply brush up on their presence.
This kind of presence will only have a counterproductive effect.
For example, in an hour of personal training, you are adjusting your posture almost all of your training time: any movement is perfect, unbiased, the joints are in the best position, one breath and one breath are just right.
So what?
Customers will be annoyed by you, and they may not get the expected training effect, and will only get angry in the end, far away from you.
In the art of personal coaching, we should remember the principle that a little imperfect posture is acceptable, as long as the client is still safe during the entire movement.
If you really need to, you can correct the client's posture throughout the time.
But don't forget, your clients will definitely not devote themselves to training 100% when they come to the gym (maybe this is the case, but I have never seen it before). They will also have other needs, such as a good feeling during training, and physical and mental pleasure after training.
In this process, you will give the customer a lot of corrective points, which often leads to a lot of setbacks, eventually exhaustion, frustration, and the customer's self-efficacy drops to a freezing point.
Imagine that you are now doing something you have never seen before, maybe learning cars and English. Your teacher gives you 25 different instructions, and then every time you start trying, the teacher will correct your behavior, correct one by mistake, and go back and forth. Doesn't this make you frustrated and lose motivation?
If you insist on over-teaching, this is the feeling your clients will face.
The correct approach: First teach the client some small, easy-to-see, easy-to-digest instructional instructions.
For example: keep the lumbar spine neutral, pay attention to breathing, etc. After a week or two, customers can grasp what you are saying and can try to add one or two new instructions. Gradually join the teaching focus, so that customers feel that they can perform each link perfectly, and will not leave too much pressure.
This can improve customer self-efficacy.
For example, when teaching squats for the first time, only one piece of information is given to the customer, asking him to align his knees to his toes. When the customer can do 10 pairs of 8 reps, he can issue the next instruction.
In fact, compared with issuing orders, requiring every repetition to be flawless, it is not enough to be happy when the customer sees the effect on the body, and feel that they have gained the mood. This is a compromise of the fitness coach.
All in all, in an ideal world, you might see customers staying in the gym seven days a week, and then spend an hour each day correcting their movements, and then another hour for actual training, but in the real world this is not the case.
Excessive teaching is difficult to see obvious physical effects.
In fact, in a private lesson, if it takes a lot of time to correct the customer's behavior or output too many verbal instructions to the customer, then the load or intensity of the lesson will not be enough.
In other words, if your client's main goal is the change of body composition (most clients are), then without the intervention of high-intensity training, the body's progress will be slower and slower. In the long run, it will be difficult for them to achieve the goal.
Even reaching a small goal can help customers increase their sense of accomplishment and make it easier for them to keep exercising.
To keep each movement, each group, and each repetition perfect, customers will be extremely short of the load required for improvement, and thus cannot make them stronger and better-looking.
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