Picture one of your older clients. They can hold a solid wall sit, manage a reasonable leg press and even surprise you on the seated row. By most measures, their strength is in good shape. But ask them to catch their balance after a stumble on the kerb, react quickly…
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Picture a Monday morning in your local leisure centre. A GP has just referred one of your gym members to you. The referral form says type 2 diabetes, diagnosed eighteen months ago, currently on metformin, HbA1c of 58 mmol/mol. The client is 47, hasn’t exercised regularly in years and is…
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Walk into most gyms at 6am and you’ll spot a group of clients in their forties and fifties who’ve been showing up diligently for years. Many of them have been told, somewhere along the way, that this is the life stage where yoga, Pilates or low-impact cardio should take centre…
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Most of us can build a solid programme and write a nutrition plan that makes sense for the client sitting in front of us. The harder question, and the one that comes up more and more the longer you coach, is what do you do when that client knows exactly…
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You’ve probably had the client who does everything right. They turn up on time, hit their sessions, eat a sensible diet, sleep seven or eight hours a night. And yet something is off. Progress stalls. Recovery feels heavier than it should. Bloating, sluggish mornings, the odd unexplained energy crash mid-session….
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