Motivational Interviewing for Personal Trainers and Fitness Coaches

von Jason R Kricks

120 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Your clients usually know what they should do. The harder part is helping them keep doing it.Motivational Interviewing for Personal Trainers and Fitness Coaches gives you a practical communication framework for turning resistance, ambivalence, missed workouts, stalled progress, and inconsistent motivation into more productive coaching conversations.Instead of pushing harder, repeating advice, or relying on accountability alone, you'll learn how to help clients uncover their own reasons for change-and build plans they are more willing to follow.Inside, you'll learn how to: - Use OARS-open questions, affirmations, reflective listening, and summaries-in real fitness conversations- Recognize and strengthen change talk using the DARN-CAT framework- Work with resistance, hesitation, setbacks, and relapse without creating shame or confrontation- Improve conversations about exercise adherence, goal setting, nutrition, plateaus, and returning after time away- Apply the four MI processes: Engaging, Focusing, Evoking, and Planning- Match your coaching approach to a client's readiness for change- Build client-owned SMART goals and realistic action plans- Handle reluctant and physician-referred clients more effectively- Stay within professional scope when conversations move toward nutrition, mental health, or other clinical concerns- Bring motivational interviewing principles into classes, bootcamps, teams, and your wider coaching practiceWritten specifically for working personal trainers and fitness coaches, this book translates established motivational interviewing principles into conversations that actually happen on the gym floor. The manuscript also provides realistic coaching dialogue and practical applications throughout its 30-chapter progression.Stop trying to manufacture motivation for your clients-start learning how to draw it out. Get your copy today.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175327039
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2026
• Größe: 279 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Independently published