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Health Coaching: Behavior Change Strategies

By Ally Wascavage / March 20, 2024

We need to look at ourselves as change agents and implement the following behavior change strategies to help our clients.

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Exercise and Health Coaching for Pregnancy

By Shirley Eichenberger-Archer, JD, MA / March 7, 2023

Research shows that combining regular health coaching with an activity tracker can help women in pregnancy increase daily steps.

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Sustaining Behavioral Change

By Sandy Todd Webster / December 30, 2022

Behavioral change is hard because humans are complicated. Co-creating change with clients requires that you honor how complex behavior can be while also recognizing the efforts required to repattern a lifestyle.

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Heart Health, Super Bowl Sunday & Valentine’s Day

By Sandy Todd Webster / February 11, 2022

Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the United States, claiming the lives of more than 650,000 people per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Sadly, it is a mostly preventable lifestyle disease that is needlessly damaging too many lives. 

 

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Nutrition Coaching Primer

Nutrition Coaching: A Primer for Health and Fitness Professionals

By Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RD / April 16, 2015

Fitness professionals should discuss nutrition with their clients. 


Historically, many fitness pros have either avoided nutrition
discussions for fear of straying outside their scope of practice or gone
overboard by exceeding their scope of practice—recommending nutritional
supplements or individualized meal plans. 


There is a better way: Staying within scope of practice while adopting a
coaching philosophy that uses proven methods of behavior change. 


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