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10 Easy Steps To Teaching Your Personal Training Clients About Nutrition – Part 9: Stress & Sleep

Published on June 24, 2011 in Tweet Old Posts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

It doesn’t matter how much you exercise, how well you eat, or how strictly you control your caloric intake – your body is constantly stressed or your sleep is inadequate, you will constantly fail in pursuing your health, wellness, or performance goals.

But if these barriers are removed, you will vastly improve your ability to gain maximum benefits from a good nutrition plan.

As you explain the importance of stress and sleep to your clients, here is what to tell them:

The body has several neurotransmitters that are actively involved in control of appetite and mental motivation. Dopamine, one neurotransmitter, is your body’s pleasure molecule, acting to significantly affect desire for activity, eating satisfaction and food cravings. Inadequate dopamine increases the chances that you will have a decreased drive to exercise and be less effective at regulating your nutritional intake.

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10 Easy Steps To Teaching Your Personal Training Clients About Nutrition – Part 2: Protein

Published on February 24, 2011 in Tweet Old Posts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Now that you have a good idea of how to teach your personal training clients about the basics of carbohydrates and performance, let’s move into the next logical macronutrient: protein.

You’d be surprised at the number of people in your class who have only a very basic understand of protein, and often simply think that it is derived from meat and should be eaten with dinner.

Begin your discussion of protein with an explanation to your client of what proteins actually are: vital components of every organ and action within the human body, without which we would simply cease to function. In the absence of proper nutritional building blocks for protein, the human body will cannibalize it’s own lean muscle mass and organs, and experience a weakened immune system, poor performance, and inadequate recovery and fitness response. Proteins are comprised of amino acids – many of which the body cannot make on it’s own unless complete proteins are present in the diet.

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10 Easy Steps to Teaching Your Personal Training Clients About Nutrition – Part 1: Carbohydrates

Published on February 4, 2011 in Tweet Old Posts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

You can literally take each manageable section of this ten week series on nutrition, and turn it into a ten week nutrition mini-class for your fitness business. This will give you a value-added service that you can feature in your marketing, and give your clients both a physical and mental benefit during your classes. I’ll write each article in a manner that allows you to easily a) break information into small chunks so you don’t have to be reading this article off a piece of paper and b) easily explain it to your clients, most of which will not have backgrounds in nutrition science and physiology.

Everybody knows that nutrition is important. Whether a client’s goal is fat-burning or human performance, if the proper fuel isn’t there, the goal won’t be achieved.

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