How to fast-track your health & fitness Journey

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​Are you keen to start your health and fitness journey, exercise, and return to the gym? But are you just swamped with all the information out there? Or just don’t have the time to sift through it all? 

Maybe you just want the fastest route to where you want to go. You’ve read our other blog posts and realise there aren’t any real shortcuts, but there’s still an optimal route of travel and you want to be on it. 

You should consider hiring a coach. 

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​Obviously, that’s coming from me, a coach. However, those are some of the most common reasons I hear when I ask people what they’re looking to gain by working with us. They want someone else to handle the plan and they just execute whatever that plan is. 

Which makes sense, if your car starts making funny noises, or the check engine light comes on, 9/10 folks are going to take it to a professional to get it sorted. Could they look up the fault, get the equipment they’d likely need to do the repairs, and then practice a bunch while they mess up doing it the first few times? Yes, they could, but most people don’t have that kind of time or headspace to care that much about saving a small amount of money when compared to the time investment. You can always earn more money, you can’t get time back. 

What does coaching look like? (With ATS anyway).

Obviously, every coach is different, but if you’ve been on the fence about working with us or a coach in general, here’s an idea of what to expect. 

• You reach out and express interest in working with us, maybe you take up one of our offers (link)

 

• We have a chat and get a rough idea of your experience and what service you’d be looking to use. This is relative to your experience, beginners will need a lot more support than intermediate and advanced trainees. We aren’t looking to jam everyone into our most expensive service and call it a day, we want the best fit for you (and us).

 

• Once we’ve landed on a service fit, we either have a video call or in-person meeting where we go through some more detailed questions and you fill out the relevant safety and risk assessment paperwork. During the questionnaire, we use your answers to determine your aptitude and what exercises and plan structure would best fit you and your schedule.

 

• If you attend an in-person consult we will also go through a short movement screen, again just to test aptitude for where we start you and how much relative work you will likely handle on starting.

 

• Once we have all that information, we put together your exercise programme, add you to the live sheet, and we start working on your goals. You don’t need to have goals, we can just exercise because it’s fun, but we’ve found that it’s helpful to keep people motivated to have a series of things they’re working towards. We talk about goal hierarchies in one of our other blogs.

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• Once we’re up and rolling we just keep you on track and adjust program variables as we go to suit your ability and circumstances. Work deadline soon, we spin things down, big project finished and loads more recovery happening, we go a bit harder.

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Once things are in motion we regularly keep track of how you’re feeling about where we’re headed and possibly change up things as we go. Our main goal is to become irrelevant, so along the way, we’ll chat about why we’re doing certain things, how we think about putting things together, and how we make decisions. 

If this sounds like something you’d be interested in, please feel free to hit us up @atsapproved on all social media or via our contact form or clicking the button below. 

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Author: Will Brown

Will is co-founder and director at Athlete Training Systems, he has a true passion for coaching and helping people reach their goals.