Health Coach vs. Personal Trainer: Key Differences and Similarities
Consumers no longer view “wellness” simply as “improved fitness and nutrition,” but, instead, as a much broader and holistic path—one that encompasses better long-term health management, mental health (specifically, mindfulness), and sleep.
4 Strategies to Help You Manage a High Volume of Health Coaching Clients
As your health coaching business grows, you may find that handling a larger volume of clients becomes overwhelming. After all, you have an increasing number of clients needing your attention day in and day out.
6 Ways Health Coaches Can Support Clients Experiencing Burnout
An Overview of Burnout and Ways to Overcome it Burnout is when your body and mind—which normally handle stress well—reach a limit on mitigating chronic stress and break down as a result.
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5 Ways Health Coaches Improve People’s Wellbeing
Research has shown that certified health and wellness coaches significantly improve client wellness and patient health outcomes.
Health Behavior Science and Why It’s Important for Health Coaches
As health, wellness, nutrition, and fitness coaches, one of the primary skills that you develop during your training is how to guide your clients toward adopting behaviors that make them healthier. You help them to achieve physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
How to Find Your Niche as a Personal Trainer or Health Coach
There are more than 350,000 personal trainers working in the United States and almost 110,000 health coaches.
How to Deal with Burnout as a Health Coach or Wellness Professional
Health coaches and wellness professionals often worry about their clients who are at risk of feeling burned-out and work to provide tools to help them prevent and recover from bouts of burnout.
7 Black Health and Wellness Trailblazers
Black-owned health and fitness entrepreneurs and health specialists been transforming industries for the better as long as they have existed. As far back as Dr. James McCune Smith and Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler in the 19th century, Black Americans have made vital contributions to public health, medical research, health business, and health education, despite arduous […]
5 Top Qualities of Health Coaches
What does it take to be a “good” health coach? By nature, most health coaches work directly with clients who are looking for support from a professional to implement lifestyle changes that aim to improve their health and wellbeing.
What Can You Do as a Holistic Health Coach?
Today, half of all Americans are battling a chronic disease, and one in four has multiple chronic conditions. By 2030, these chronic conditions could cost impact the global economy to the tune of $47 trillion in healthcare spending. What is the factor that weighs heaviest in chronic conditions? Habitual behaviors. Changing habits can be hard, […]