I coach each client based purely on them, with no pre-set pattern or schedule. All that is important to me is doing my job, which is helping you confirm and achieve the goals that are most important to you. Yes, we will cover your diet, a health and lifestyle screening, some basic goal setting, and everything else you need, but it will all be done based on what is best for you.
I work with clients both face to face and through email/telephone correspondence.
20 client sessions with me will cost you £600.
A one off consultation to put things in place, program, diet etc, will cost you £50.
Advice for those who want to become coaches,what courses, what to study:
I’ve walked out on more courses than I have stayed in. I get offended when some overweight guy dressed in a washed out polo shirt who has been in the job 2 years is trying to teach me a bench press. I get annoyed when a lady who has been doing MT (Metabolic Typing) for 6 months tells me to eat coconut for breakfast, or when squash is listed as a post workout drink. I’m a man of principle, big time, and to be taught I have to have respect for my teachers and instructors, not just listen without question.
GB Fitness Nutrition and Personal Trainer Course
- Run by Cain Latham, these courses will give you a lot of practical information that allows you to start working successfully with clients. Cain has learnt his skills from experience, and continues to work 1-1 with clients today.
WABBA Personal Trainer and Instructor Courses
- Alan Runacres and Scott Burton are 2 of the most knowledgeable men I have met. Courses are very comprehensive and provide trainers with a tonne of skills and tools to work successfully with clients.
NASM (delivered in the UK through Premier)
- This course is very in depth and teaches things like basic movement assessment. I am unsure as to the delivery in the UK but I do know that in the USA this is a superbly run course.
My own advice is first to work on yourself, use your own body to try and test things that you can then use with clients. Commit to personal development (kaizen, the practice of continual development) and never place a chip on your shoulder and think “my way is best”. Professional ego is the biggest barrier to development, so don’t develop one. Stay humble in your quest for knowledge and seek out the most successful people in each field, spend time with them, then model the strategies you like the most. Forget conventional wisdom, the longer you progress through a career in coaching, the more you will find it is actually the enemy of progress and success.
Ill list a number of links to websites and articles on this site that will help any client of coach with their development.
SJ
Contact me via email to simon@winners2000.co.uk for more information.
