How to Build a Profitable Coaching Business for Men Over 40

September 20, 2022 by Liz Carter

You can build a highly successful and lucrative coaching/training business for men over the age of forty. As you have likely seen, there are many programs for women going through significant life changes in the middle of their life. Many are fantastic. Some are not. Men have a lot of changes that happen as well, and you can be the solution for this serious challenge and be highly compensated in the process.

What Changes Do Men Experience in Their 40s?

Testosterone is the hormone responsible for the development of male sexual characteristics. The normal levels decline in men as they age. It happens to all men. After age 40, levels begin to decline by about 1% each year. This rate of decline can be affected by various chronic diseases, such as obesity, diabetes, and even several medications.

The average man’s maximum attainable heart rate declines by about one beat per minute, per year, and his heart’s peak capacity to pump blood drifts down by 5%–10% per decade. Although some of this is simply age-related, how effective the heart functions with each beat can be modified with proper rest, recovery, exercise, and nutrition. [Read more…]

Course Exam Preparation – Study Strategies for Coaches and Trainers

September 16, 2022 by Liz Carter

Spencer Institute Coaching Course Exam Preparation

Something we often get asked is whether we have any special tips or techniques to help our students learn and study their material so that they are best equipped to take their certification test. You can speed up your learning with these studying tips and learning hacks to help you quickly learn new skills and concepts and ace your next Spencer Institute course exam.

Make Sure You Have Access To Your Courses

Nothing hinders your study plans more than sitting down to get started and realizing that you don’t have access to your course materials or haven’t created a login yet. You may have noticed some changes to our website and your course access. We recently upgraded the portal where we offer Spencer Institute and NESTA coaching and training courses. If you purchased a course after March 23rd, 2022, you will find all of your courses in one place within our new learning portal. If your course was purchased prior to March 23rd, 2022, you will still access your materials via their legacy sites.

Do you have multiple accounts?

You need to make sure you use the same email address once you’ve initially created an account at learn.nestacertified.com. When you return to the original training sites, you will be asked to register again and when you do, you will select “I am an existing user”. When you log in with your new login, the course will be added to your account. If you need help, please contact us we’ll be happy to assist you. [Read more…]

27 Proven Health, Fitness and Coaching Business Ideas

September 8, 2022 by John

Here are the Best Ways to Build a Fun, Profitable, and Easy-to-Operate Health and Fitness Business.

Coming up with ideas for your own health, fitness, wellness, personal training, or nutrition business plan can be challenging even though you fundamentally know what you want and how you want to live your life.

Read on and you will discover 27 different ways to make a good living helping others improve their health, wellness, fitness, or sports performance. Remember, there are many instances where you may decide to combine our different ideas in this report. You may like one aspect of a business plan but know that combining it with another niche on the list will work better for you. Great. You have that choice. You are in control.

The following list is in no specific order, and each business model can work in essentially any city, town, or country. Of course, online business plans can be operated from anywhere you live. Explore the linked resources. [Read more…]

What Motivates You?

September 1, 2022 by Liz Carter

What Causes a Lack of Motivation?

Whether in relationships, school, work, or even our leisure activities, there are times individuals simply lack the motivation or energy to go that extra mile or even do the bare minimum. Lack of motivation may be caused by life changes or underlying mental health conditions like adjustment disorder or depression.

An unmotivated state of mind can be caused by seemingly innocuous, but impactful actions. The most common ones to look out for are:

Stress
Poor sleep hygiene
Unclear goals and priorities
Sedentary activities like watching TV or scrolling through social media (especially in the morning)
Unhealthy diet
Lack of exercise
Procrastination

Sometimes, we’re feeling unmotivated because we have never learned our motivational style, intrinsic versus extrinsic, or what types of stimuli are typically necessary for us to spring into action.

Each of your clients has different motivational strategies. We all interpret the world differently and we all get excited, inspired, and focused for different reasons. [Read more…]

Is Organic Food Healthier?

August 25, 2022 by Liz Carter

Why is organic food better for you?

Organic food is food grown, prepared and processed without chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or chemical preservatives. In the US, organic foods vary by degree as set forth by the USDA. Food can be 100% Organic, Organic (at least 95% organic) or Made From Organic Ingredients (at least 70% organic).

Organic foods are thought to have higher nutritional values than conventional foods. Foods grown without pesticides and fertilizers produce more phytochemicals (vitamins and antioxidants) that strengthen their resistance to bugs and weeds. People with food allergies or who are sensitive to chemicals or preservatives often find their symptoms reduced or eliminated when they eat only organic foods. [Read more…]

How Quality Sleep Protects Your Brain from Premature Aging

August 19, 2022 by Liz Carter

How Sleep Deprivation Ages You More Quickly

It usually starts in the mirror when you begin to notice. Your skin doesn’t have that same youthfulness it once had. The lines on your forehead begin to form permanent creases, and the color under your eyes is a little darker — this is the reality of aging.

We grow up and we don’t look quite the same. But all this is only on the outside. Beneath the surface, your body is aging too, and sleep loss can speed up the process. A study done by UCLA researchers discovered that just a single night of insufficient sleep can make older adults’ cells age quicker. This might not seem like a big deal, but it has the potential to bring on a lot of other diseases. Multiple sclerosis, heart disease, and cancer are just a few of them.

Insufficient sleep means that you get less than the 7 hours of nightly sleep that the American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends for adults. People in the study were allowed only four hours of sleep from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. This type of sleep restriction is actually the most common form of sleep deprivation. Long work hours may prevent us from getting the sleep we need. Or we simply stay up too late at night, failing to make sleep a top priority.

Improving Your Sleep

Sleep hygiene should be a priority at every age. That involves establishing healthy sleep habits such as avoiding late-day caffeine, limiting afternoon naps, skipping out on late-night screen time, and being exposed to natural light patterns.

However, truly disordered sleep requires intervention beyond those basic habits. Some disorders, such as sleep apnea, are readily treatable with devices or surgeries to open the airways. Prescription and over-the-counter sleep aids can be tempting to people tossing and turning all night, but they aren’t a substitute for natural shut-eye because sleeping pills do not induce normal patterns of restorative sleep.

Getting a healthy night’s sleep isn’t just a way to keep the wrinkles away for a little longer — it will actually make you healthier. So, how do you get better sleep and more of it? [Read more…]

Emergence: The Fitness and Coaching Industries in the Year 2022

August 9, 2022 by Liz Carter

Written by Mark Teahan, Director of Spencer Institute

After repeated waves of pandemic lockdowns and disruptions to daily living, the fitness training and coaching industries are emerging with a new outlook. For the fitness professional, it is one of bravado; within the coaching field it is more one of hope and opportunity.

The fitness industry was gutted during the COVID pandemic. Most of us can agree that it was also significantly altered, maybe permanently. But, it is emerging evolved and with more opportunity.

And in some more extreme cases, this led to some fitness clubs defying state orders to stay open, closing down entirely, or just waiting for something to break. This is not a great vision of hope.

Most fitness centers opened at differing intervals. In Southern California, gyms were limited to a certain capacity while people lined up out front for someone to leave and take their spot. You could feel the tension while people kept outside watched exercisers on machines.

The Gamble: your fitness club’s got this!

For one fitness chain in particular, staying open during the pandemic meant paying daily fines to the state. They didn’t need to worry about this, they had a massive influx of people who were willing to not only pay dues, but to work out during the pandemic, and do so without a mask. So workouts became political. You could almost sense some hate and disgust among members who disagreed on the use or non-use of a mask. For myself, I wore two. I knew the risk I was getting into, right or wrong – I felt confident.

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Holistic Living Guide: Improve Your Health The Natural Way

August 3, 2022 by Liz Carter

Your Ultimate Guide to a Healthy Holistic Lifestyle

If you’ve ever had an interest in holism, you have probably heard the expression “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” which is a great way to summarize holism, but what does that mean to you as a coach, or more importantly, what does this mean to your client?

The basic principles of holism are not new, having been around at least since the time of Hippocrates in the West, 2500 years ago, and even earlier in the Eastern healing traditions of Ayurvedic and traditional Chinese medicine. As you might suspect, the healers and physicians who practiced the art and science of holistic medicine all treated the whole person – body, mind, and spirit.

The word holistic denotes inter-connectivity. Prioritizing a Holistic lifestyle means understanding the importance of various factors in health, and how they are interconnected. It means that for a healthy lifestyle, one needs to take multiple steps in their physical and mental health and within their home. [Read more…]

Aerobic Exercise Benefits: What Science Says About Cardio

July 25, 2022 by Liz Carter

What is the Definition of Aerobic Exercise?

Aerobic exercise is any physical activity that makes you sweat, causes you to breathe harder, and gets your heart beating faster than at rest. It strengthens your heart and lungs and trains your cardiovascular system to manage and deliver oxygen more quickly and efficiently throughout your body. Aerobic exercise uses your large muscle groups, is rhythmic in nature, and can be maintained continuously for at least 10 minutes.

Common aerobic exercises include: cycling, running, swimming, brisk walking and rowing

Benefits of Aerobic Exercise

Aerobic exercise has multiple benefits that can put you on the path to total body health and is an easy and affordable way to stay out of the doctor’s office.

Natural Stress Reliever and Mood Elevator

Aerobic exercises do more than improve lung strength and muscle size. They also have mental health benefits.

Exercise releases endorphins into your body that can reduce stress, anxiety, and even depression. Many people also report sleeping better at night after engaging in physical activity.

The best part of aerobic exercise is that it can cost little or no money at all. All you really need to go for a long, brisk walk is some time and a little motivation. [Read more…]

How Can You Improve Your Metabolic Health?

July 19, 2022 by Liz Carter

Habits for a Healthier Metabolism

Clinically speaking, metabolic health is defined by optimal levels of five markers: blood sugar, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, blood pressure, and waist circumference—without using medication. We can improve most of these markers by consistently making choices that keep glucose levels in a stable and healthy range.

Eat a Diet of Raw and Plant-Based Food and Minimize Emotional Eating

The most nutritious diets have more organic fruits and vegetables, nuts, beans, whole grains, and low-fat dairy and less salt, sugary drinks, white flour, and red meat.

Emotional hunger is also sometimes referred to as psychological hunger or emotional eating – we feel driven to consume something (mostly comfort foods) because of an emotional upset or concern. Stress eating is also a form of emotional hunger. Emotional eating affects both men and women. It may be caused by a number of factors, including stress, hormonal changes, or mixed hunger cues. Find ways that are unrelated to food to deal with your feelings, such as taking a walk, meditating, journaling, or calling a friend. Become aware of the times when a feeling that you might call hunger is really based on emotion. [Read more…]

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