ActivHealth

𝐁𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐬.⁣
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Those little time cushions that you factor into your guess for how long it takes to do stuff.⁣
⁣..Or you don't, and you're constantly late, or flapping to get things finished.⁣
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Last week I spoke to a new online coaching client about how long she thought she could work out for each day.⁣
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She's working from home with all the demands on her time that you’d expect - plus caring for a young daughter, and a shift worker husband.⁣
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She thought about it... she could find 45 minutes every day.⁣
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I made her programme less than half that.⁣
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Around 20 minutes long, 3 times a week.⁣
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Buffering a programme is one of the most helpful things a good coach can do in these circumstances.⁣
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Now she'll open that programme 3 times a week - and think "this is easy, I'm smashing this!"⁣
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As a result?⁣
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She'll do more workouts... more consistently... and stick with the programme for longer...⁣
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Meaning: She'll make amazing progress.⁣
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That's the power of a buffer.⁣
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If I wrote a 45-minute programme spanning 7 days a week?⁣
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She might get one or two sessions done.⁣
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But stuff would crop up.⁣
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45-minute sessions with a buffer? She'd need over an hour.⁣
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Every day.⁣
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With a little kid needing to be entertained while dad sleeps off nights?⁣
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It wouldn't fit into her life.⁣
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But with this buffering method, we've got a system that she can stick with long term.⁣
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How many times have you started a new workout programme - keen as mustard - only to fall off the wagon after a couple of weeks?⁣
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Buffering may help…⁣
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But working with a coach that understands you and the unique demands on your life will help faster.⁣

“𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬”⁣
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I had this conversation with a client this week and it helped us massively. ⁣
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I’d love to tell you about it.⁣
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Like loads of women, she’d joined the programme for weight loss. ⁣
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She wanted to drop about 2 stone and after a few weeks of the scales bouncing around, we had a conversation.⁣
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She said, “thin women are bitches” - it was an off the cuff comment but it was the key to everything.⁣
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She’s been struggling to make progress with her weight loss goal and we’d been struggling to figure out why she was sabotaging herself.⁣
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This comment revealed that she felt conflicted. On one hand, she wanted to lose weight…⁣
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…but on the other, some part of her believed slim women that had a physique she wanted weren’t the kind of person she wanted to be.⁣
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That’s the key to it all.⁣
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She’d been struggling with her goal because she didn’t want to see herself as one of THOSE women.⁣
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Shallow. Vain. Even vapid. ⁣
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Now, obviously, this isn’t what slim women are like, and on a conscious level she understood that.⁣
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But unconsciously, it was creating a fair bit of friction for her and stopping her from accepting the new identity.⁣
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Once we were able to address that…⁣
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It was like a switch had been flipped. Now she’s flying along.⁣
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If you’ve been bouncing around your weight loss goal for a while…⁣
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And you keep getting palmed off with the “calorie deficit” crew where the extent of their coaching is “eat less, move more”…?⁣
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There’s a better way, and you deserve it. ⁣
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