Your clients don’t mean to self-sabotage, but they can’t put an end to it if they don’t know realize what they are doing
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In this episode, I’m discussing the things every health coach needs to know about self-sabotage if they are serious about helping their clients improve their health and mindset.
I break down the science of self-sabotage by digging into the most relevant, high-quality research. I also go into the different types of self-sabotage and give you tips for helping your clients overcome their self-sabotaging behaviors.
Episode Highlights
>>(1:43) Your mindset as a coach around self-sabotage impacts how you can help your clients overcome these behaviors.
>>(5:49) Helpful research on how self-sabotaging behaviors are likely to impact someone’s fitness progress.
>>(7:33) Recommendations from multiple meta-analyses on how to help clients stop self-sabotaging.
>>(10:07) Defining self-sabotaging behaviors and what fitness coaches need to do to help their clients overcome these behaviors.
>>(15:37) The root cause of self-sabotaging behaviors.
>>(21:03) The role cortisol plays in self-sabotaging behaviors.
>>(25:23) How the approach-avoidance conflict triggers clients to unintentionally sabotage themselves.
Listen to the full episode to get a better understanding of how self-sabotage plays a role in your client’s fitness journey and what you, as their coach, can do to help them overcome these barriers and increase their neuroplasticity.
I also have a blog post that goes more into how fitness coaches can help clients overcome self-sabotaging behavior. Read it here!
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Links From the Podcast
More information on meta-analyses and how to identify good research studies
Research mentioned: The Trans-Contextual Model of Autonomous Motivation in Education: Conceptual and Empirical Issues and Meta-Analysis
Research mentioned: Efficacy of the Theory of Planned Behaviour: a meta-analytic review
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