Overweight and Obesity

Learning to listen for when your clients’ commitment is on shaky ground and shoring it up with these five coaching strategies will enable you to help clients embrace commitment as an empowering part of their weight-loss journey.

As a health and fitness pro, you can make yoga easier and more approachable for your clients who inhabit larger bodies. Learn how to introduce clients to yoga in a physically and emotionally safe manner, which can help open a world benefits to those who might not be inclined to try it on their own.

Training clients impacted by obesity can be tremendously rewarding. Learn about the specific physical considerations you must take into account to develop realistic, customized and sensitive exercise programs that will set your clients up for long-term success.

Empathy, which is an evidenced-based skill, is incredibly valuable to health and fitness professionals in that it can help improve client adherence. Learn why mastering the skill of empathy is an essential key to reaching your clients affected by overweight and obesity.

While there is no single right way to train clients who are overweight or have obesity, using regressions can be an effective method to employ. Functional resistance training and training for daily activities is an ideal method to ensure clients connect their exercise gains with life movements. The key is to utilize “precursor” exercises, like the ones presented here, which benefit coordination, stability, mobility and motor control.