How Do I Become a Professional Sleep Trainer?

June 15, 2022 by Liz Carter

How Do I Become a Professional Sleep Trainer?

For many, getting a solid night’s sleep is as elusive as winning the lottery. Getting too little sleep is so common that it’s become almost a badge of honor to get through each day with sleep deprivation. Even if you feel like you can function on little sleep, it’s actually debilitating, if not dangerous, to a person’s health and mental faculties.

When you are deprived of sleep, you make it next to impossible to achieve your health and fitness goals. Lack of sleep can increase stress hormones in your body, and over time these can lead to inflammation and chronic diseases. Make sleep a priority to let your body heal and rejuvenate.

Sleeping well directly affects your clients’ mental and physical health. Fall short and it can take a serious toll on their daytime energy, productivity, emotional balance, and even weight.

Many of our clients are regularly tossing and turning at night, struggling to get the sleep they need. Getting a good night’s sleep may seem like an impossible goal when they are wide awake at 3 a.m., but they have much more control over the quality of sleep than they probably realize, and seeking the help of a Certified Sleep Science coach or trainer is becoming increasingly more important for many people around the world. [Read more…]

Scientifically Proven Ways to Improve Your Immunity

April 5, 2022 by Liz Carter

Scientifically Proven Ways to Improve Your Immunity

Is there any magic pill or a supernatural supplement to enhance immunity? The simplest answer is, NO; immunity can be improved with natural ways only. Do you wonder how you can enhance your immunity or is enhancing immunity a backbreaker? This article is for you, and here you’ll be guided on improving and strengthening your immunity.

Immunity is like an army, having so many soldiers guarding a country’s borders. Foreign bodies or antigens are “enemies.” These soldiers fight against these enemies. In critical conditions, the army summons more soldiers. Similarly, in case of infections, the immune system produces antibodies against invading organisms and antigens.

From fighting against a common cold or flu to Covid-19 pneumonia, your immune system protects you in every possible way. It must be strong enough to fight against foreign bodies but not overactive, causing autoimmune disorders. In which the body starts killing its own cells. Inputs and outputs tightly control immunity.

How to improve Immunity?

Plenty of herbal supplements and medicinal drugs claim to improve immunity, but improving immunity naturally is the best way. Improving immunity naturally is a little bit arduous but – for a good reason!

Immunity has an utmost role in warding off infections. Without immunity, a minor cut may lead to worse consequences. It walls off invaders from entering your body and causing illnesses. The following are scientifically proven ways to enhance immunity. [Read more…]

Improving Your Sleep Hygiene This Year

March 2, 2022 by Liz Carter

Improving Your Sleep Hygiene This Year

Do you struggle to have a good sleep when you go to bed at the end of the day? Do you keep staring at the ceiling fan while waiting for sleep to come and provide you an escape from the hustles of life?

If you are looking for something to improve your sleep, “Sleep Hygiene” would be the perfect solution. Sleep hygiene might solve all your sleep-related issues without making you fall into the trap of side effects.

Negative effects do not accompany sleep hygiene like they do while taking sleeping pills. So, the best option to deal with sleep-related problems is to follow sleep hygiene.

What is Sleep Hygiene?

Whatever accounts for providing good sleep comes under sleep hygiene. Not only does having a clean bedroom with soothing fragrance get counted in sleep hygiene, but the behavioral adaptations you do throughout the day are also important in sleep hygiene.

Sleep hygiene also involves taking a healthy diet, having an uninterrupted and stable sleep schedule, getting into physical activities, and getting yourself into pre-bed fruitful habits like reading your favorite book.

Sleep hygiene helps you get back to the normal track of your sleep cycle by helping you feel good physically and mentally. [Read more…]

Fresh Coach and Client Perspectives: Hitting the Reset Button

September 9, 2021 by Liz Carter

Fresh Coach and Client Perspectives: Hitting the Reset Button

Written by Mark Teahan. This article was originally published in Issue 13 of Personal Trainer Magazine. You can download the newest issue and all past issues here.

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) did no less than 3 membership surveys in 2020, mining for information from Coaches during the pandemic. It became a common response within a chaotic period, everyone wanted to know how others were shifting around during the first waves of COVID. Still, there was a fair amount of Coach training discussed, mostly for how the industry would rise to meet the challenges of coaching during a time when we needed it most but were least able to provide it. [Read more…]

Why What You Eat and Drink Affects Your Sleep Quality

July 21, 2021 by Liz Carter

Why What You Eat and Drink Affects Your Sleep Quality

When you eat and drink can affect your sleep, and how you sleep can impact how much and what you eat and drink. Meeting health-related goals like weight loss warrants attention to this interconnected relationship. Come explore the physiology so you can guide your clients thoroughly.

The body has many separate parts but ultimately (and ideally) works as a fluid system. Paying attention to the various components of human physiology helps all the parts work together fluidly; leading to more complete wellness.

How Sleep Affects Appetite

Sleep scientists have examined how a low night of sleep affects food choices by presenting study participants with a buffet of food the day after a full night’s sleep and after a low night of sleep. Food choices and caloric intake are recorded to determine the effect of sleep on appetite.

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Common Sleep Disorders and Treatment

April 12, 2019 by Liz Carter

Issues with sleep may be as a result of an undiagnosed medical disorder. It is important that as a certified sleep science coach you are able to recognize the common disorders. Unless qualified, we do not diagnose or treat these disorders, however.

Insomnia

The most common sleep disorder is insomnia (22). This is described as insufficient sleep due to problems falling asleep, waking up often throughout the night, getting up too early, or feeling tired after waking. Insomnia is more common in women than men and tends to increase with age (22).

Acute insomnia can occur as a result of emotional or physical discomfort, stress, environmental noise, temperature extremes, jet lag or due perhaps to medication side effects (22). Chronic insomnia can happen from a mixture of physical or mental disorders, undiagnosed or uncontrolled sleep disorders and can even be due to taking certain medications.

Treatments

If you suspect or know your client has insomnia, treatment is normally tailored based on personal needs. If it is due to a medication, they may need to see their doctor for more advice. If it is due to any psychological issues, then that must be addressed. This will include the need to always observe professional coaching boundaries and skills. Some behavioral modification may be needed, like developing better sleeping habits, as outlined in previous sections.

Avoid alcohol as a treatment as it inhibits REM sleep, affects sleep during the early morning hours and is believed to prevent restorative, quality sleep (22). [Read more…]

How Sleep Affects Appetite | Sleep Science

March 26, 2019 by Liz Carter

How Sleep Affects Appetite

Having an adequate, high-quality, restful sleep is an important part of adhering to healthy eating plans. Metabolic problems associated with overeating include high body mass index (BMI) and long-term health risks like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some types of cancer. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults aged 18-64 years should have sleep duration of 7-9 hours every day (Hirshkowitz, Whiton & Albert et al., 2015).

Sleep-related problems can affect how our bodies regulate food intake and can increase hunger and our appetite to eat more food.

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Why is Sleep So Important for Your Health?

February 27, 2019 by Liz Carter

Did you know that sleep deprivation can also have profound consequences on your physical health? Poor sleep puts you at risk of serious medical conditions, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes and it shortens your life expectancy.

How much sleep do we need?

What matters is that you find out how much sleep you need and then try to achieve it. If you wake up tired and spend the day longing for a chance to have a nap, it’s likely that you’re not getting enough sleep.

A variety of factors can cause poor sleep, including health conditions such as sleep apnoea. But in most cases, it’s due to bad sleeping habits.

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Brain Fitness & Sleep Science Coaching Combined Together Seamlessly

May 18, 2017 by John

The Missing Pieces Are Found

Hello,

If you are a trainer/coach who helps your clients improve sports performance, business performance or life skills, you MUST also have a deep understanding of sleep science and brain fitness.

WHY?

I could get really nerdy here…but,…. okay…. I’m going to get nerdy just for a minute! [Read more…]

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