FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
$49 a month for Nutrition BEST On-Line coaching available bar none, with an option to quit anytime. Pro-Coach On-Line Workouts. ProCoach Workouts is an optional program and, as such, the cost to upgrade is $49 USD per month. Here at PN, we've always included workouts in our coaching programs. Now you can have access to our database of expertly-designed workout programs and use them with clients who choose to workout as well. We offer clients comprehensive exercise programs that seamlessly integrate with their lessons and habits, maximizing their results. -28 expert-designed workout programs for men and women. -Fully integrated into ProCoach for one seamless client experience. -Covers all common goals, skill levels, injuries & limitations. -Programs include HD video demos and detailed written explanations. -Clients can choose harder / easier options for each exercise. -Proven effective in both in-person and online coaching environments. Plus each workout track contains: -Modifications for every exercise, allowing selected clients to adjust any workout based on their current capabilities. -Hundreds of HD videos and instructions on how to do each movement. -Three variations of each workout (full workout, abbreviated workout, at-home workout) for whatever client's day brings. Workouts are delivered just like the daily nutrition habits via a card within the ProCoach platform. In this card you (client) will be given your workout for the day. And you'll be instructed via photos, high quality narrated video, and text descriptions. Each day, each client has the ability to choose from a menu of 4 options depending on the time they have available or their ability to get to the gym: 1) The full workout, 2) A shortened 30-min version of the workout, 3) An at-home version of the workout, 4) Doing my own thing. For each individual exercise, on any given day, the client (you) also has the ability to choose an appropriate progression (harder) or regression (easier) based on their skill level, or pain, or any other need. Clients (you) will mark off whether they've done their exercise for the day via a card just like their habit cards each day. And exercise consistency will be tracked in your progress area. Contact me for more info as soon as you can, to get your spot and change your health and life.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Precision Nutrition Coaching is an Online program. Since this is an OnLine program, clients could be living anywhere in the world, so, I communicate with a clients through special ProCoach board,through an e-mail,phone or Skype. There’s nothing else like Precision Nutrition Coaching. Sure, there are other “nutrition software packages”. But they’re generally geared toward generating “customized meal plans”. Here’s how those programs work: They input a client’s statistics and food preferences, the program spits out a meal plan, and they ask the client to follow that. Sounds good in principle. Sadly, only about 1 in 10 clients actually follow a customized meal plan for more than a few weeks. You see, meal plans just aren’t practical. (We’ll talk about this more later.) But let’s say you do have a few clients who can follow the meal plan. That’s great. How long can they (or will they want to) follow a specific menu? A year? 10 years? 25 years? While “meal plan software” sounds good in principle, it’s not very useful in practice. And the evidence is written all over the market. Hundreds of meal plan websites and apps have come and gone in the last 20 years. None of them stick around very long. It’s a fitting end considering that’s exactly what happens to the clients trying to follow their meal plans. Needless to say, we use a totally different approach. In our early days, we learned something the hard way: Meal plans and diets aren’t useful or sustainable for the vast majority of clients. Clients often feel like they’re either “on” them or “off” them. The black and white nature of a meal plan suggests that people have to eat perfectly at each meal (to match what’s listed in the plan) — or they’ve failed. It’s psychologically unpalatable and unsustainable. Even more, meal plans are too inflexible. They don’t work with the reality of people’s busy lives. Work meetings, children’s programs, meals out, dogs that need walking, cars that break down, family members that get ill, etc. Meal plans take none of these into account. Finally, meal plans assume people already have the skills to follow them. But that’s simply not true. Most people who aren’t eating healthy today don’t have the basics down. Without skills like: -planning grocery shopping; -choosing the right items from the store; -storing and preparing food correctly; -eating slowly and mindfully; -tuning into hunger and appetite cues; -avoiding problem foods; and -choosing better options at restaurants... ...following a meal plan becomes hopeless. You might as well ask someone who’s only strong enough to bench press 135 pounds to do 405 pounds. No matter how badly they want to, they don’t have the skills or capacity. But these aren’t just intellectual objections. In our experience, only 1 in 10 people can actually follow a meal plan for more than a few weeks. In the end, meal plans have such limited utility that we left them behind a long time ago. Instead of meal plans, we use something called habit-based (or practice-based) coaching. Habit-based coaching is rooted in the best practices of change psychology. In other words, it’s built on the latest science of what actually helps people develop new skills and make change in their lives. So, instead of giving people a menu that looks like this: Meal 1 (6:30am): 3 eggs, ½ cup oatmeal, 1 banana Meal 2 (9:30am): protein shake Meal 3 (12:30pm): turkey breast sandwich and small salad We give them a series of 2-week habits — which are both solid and flexible — to help them build the skills necessary to make better nutrition and lifestyle choices today (and for life). To support these habits, we also offer relevant lessons and assignments. Taking into account things like a client’s unique schedule, priorities, belief system, food preferences, food tolerances, and more, we help them build their own “Owner’s Manual”. In the end, rather than telling people what to eat for breakfast and when to eat it, we help them build the skills (and daily habits) required to eat well, every day, no matter what life throws at them. We also help them discover what’s right for them, in the context of their own unique lives. That’s why our program’s results are so sustainable.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
I am Precision Nutrition L1 Certified ProCoach. I am certified Beachbody Live Instructor. At Precision Nutrition, we have a world class coaching team made up of doctors, exercise specialists, naturopaths, dietitians, nutritionists and counselors. We’ve coached and mentored people in nearly 100 countries through our research programs, professional education courses, and personal coaching groups. And we were named one of the 10 most innovative companies in fitness by Fast Company magazine. When people want the best, they work with us. Thousands of people from all over the world. Companies like Nike and Apple. Professional sports teams like the San Antonio Spurs and dozens of Olympic athletes and their coaches. We've written for, or been featured in, these leading publications: The New York Times, Huffington Post, Time. Livestrong, Men's Health, Women's Health etc., And we've consulted with these organizations: Apple, Nike, Equinox, Lifetime Fitness, Seattle Seahawks etc., Lots of people consider us the world’s leading experts in nutrition coaching. That’s a big responsibility, and we don’t take it lightly. Beachbody is a large community of people just like you and me, wanting to loose weight, gain muscle and get in best shape of their lives, and to lead healthy lives. I have all the workouts available in LIVE training sessions specially made for Beachbody Instructors.