Posts Tagged ‘nutrition’

Client Diet & Nutrition Challenges – Solutions

Saturday, September 19th, 2009

In 15+ years of participating in and around the fitness industry, the challenge of addressing client nutrition has been an ongoing issue.

Knowing that a client has the ability to unravel a perfectly designed exercise program with only a few poor consumption decisions on their own time has left many a fitness professional frustrated… and I’m sure a few just plain pissed.

Clients as well as the majority of the population love to search out and buy into the latest greatest diet fad creating an often uphill battle with the topic of nutrition.

Because of this, I have for years been on the lookout for a scientifically based, sensible dietary tool that could be used to assist the client without taking myself out of my scope of practice.

That solution has been found, used by us locally, and with a little negotiation I am very happy to be able to provide this same opportunity to other trainers…

(more…)

Get Fat With Ease

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

In America the rising number of overweight and obese make it appear we are actually working to get fat.

Not long ago I generally made the statement that we were 60% overweight or obese and that it was roughly 30% to each of those categories.  Current reports put that percentage closer to 70% (67.something), with the larger portion going to “obese”.

The following video was pointed out to me by Dave Soucy. It is a bit long, but full of great information for the fitness professional and may be something you want to share with your clients/students.

This is not an excuse for many of our selections of food and certainly not for the portions we consume.  It is also not an excuse for the lack of exercise most choose not to participate in…

… But it is a bit of an eye opener in how it’s not made easy on us either. As a matter of fact, it’s pretty easy to get fat.