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Using Behavior Change Apps
This article reviews research into the efficacy of behavior change apps and explores ways to apply the findings to effective program design.
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Use the Psychology of Motivation to Stop Quitting
For the sake of our clients’ health and our business, it’s vital for health coaches to learn about the psychology of motivation and quitting.
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Why SMART Goals Might Not Be Smart for Exercise
Let’s take a step back and consider whether SMART goals are what we or our clients need. SMART goals are all about, well, setting goals. And goal setting is important because we need to know where we’re headed if we intend to get there. Widely promoted change strategies like SMART goals can be great for…
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Newest Fitness Technology Trends
Fitness technology has increasingly become a key element of program design for many personal trainers—we’ve come a long way since pedometers! It seems step trackers and smartwatches were just the beginning; now the industry is blossoming with sweat sensors, skin patches, smart clothing and even contact lenses. What can fitness professionals look forward to in the wearable fit tech space?
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Using Curiosity to Help Clients Get Unstuck
How we can use the power of curiosity to help clients unlock and swing open the door to the behavior change they seek.
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5 Crucial Behavior Change Variables
Behavior change theories are used to explain what drives a person to make a change and keep at it. Five key variables—person, condition, treatment, relationship with the healthcare provider, and environment—seem to play the greatest roles in determining whether a person will follow through on a nutrition or coaching recommendation. How can fitness professionals use these keys to help clients?
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Coping Through Stress to Flourish
Have hope and take heart: We can learn to regulate our stress levels with a practiced approach to prevent it or manage it well through behavioral shifts and coping strategies.
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Addressing Exercise Barriers
To assist clients in adhering to exercise routines, fitness pros need to have a system to help clients overcome exercise barriers.
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Anger: A Tool to Help Us Thrive
Anger is a normal human emotion, part of both our lives and our work. And while we instinctively want our clients to train happy, understanding and leveraging angry feelings can have some positive results.
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A Healthy Kitchen Begins with Organization
A sure path to a healthy kitchen and better eating habits begins with organization. Try these simple strategies for Kondo-ing your kitchen.
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Make Better Nutrition a Lifestyle
Strategies you can use to build confidence in your ability to sustain a healthy dietary change and make nutrition a lifestyle.
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How to Increase Men’s Physical Activity
Program directors vying to attract male participants to group exercise classes may want to consider men-only programming to increase physical activity.
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Embracing Health at Every Size
People who have worked to lose weight may have found that achieving short-term weight loss is relatively easy. But weight loss success all too often ends in weight regain. Soon, dieters embark on a new diet, launching a round of weight cycling that wreaks havoc on the body and causes many problems routinely blamed on obesity.
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Behavior Change: What the Research Tells Us
Behavior change psychology has immense value to personal trainers and other fitness pros looking to motivate their clients.
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Behavior Modification Strategies
Behavior modification can be a tricky thing when it’s just you and your client working through challenging issues. But what happens when others are proving to be obstacles to progress? IDEA asked a handful of fitness professionals how they assist or advise clients whose friends and family may be sabotaging their efforts to get healthy.
I often ask clients about their social habits and suggest, for example, that "girls' night out" could be replaced by a fun activity that does not revolve around eating. Discussing strategies with clients in preparation for events like that is often helpful.
What Is Mindset Training? A Primer
Michael Mantell, PhD, has spent the past 40 years urging people to change their minds to improve their bodies, using mindset training.
“I worked with an obese, gay male client, who finally came to realize that he’d been [too] humiliated to go to a gym because his mindset was, ‘People will laugh at me. I look horrible naked. I can’t ever have a lover because I can’t stand how I look, so how will anyone else?
The “Willpower Trap”
Are you trying to lose weight, eat more healthfully or stop smoking? Have you tried to change but not been able to do so? Do you chalk it up to lack of willpower? The good news is that willpower has very little to do with whether we can kick our lifelong bad habits.
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Fitness Motivation Research and Reality
Although the list of exercise benefits is impressive, it is apparent that just hearing about them does not assure consistent exercise compliance in most individuals. Regular exercise is a complex, multifactorial behavior that fitness professionals and scientists need to understand better in order to help clients stay active and healthy.
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