{"id":2888,"date":"2017-01-25T05:13:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totalcoaching.com\/blog\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2017-01-16T03:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T02:35:00","slug":"improve-client-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.totalcoaching.com\/blog\/improve-client-consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Steps to Dramatically Improve Client Consistency in the Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":2925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"

If you want your clients to get results, and keep coming to you for training, you need to help them overcome the biggest challenge in fitness: consistency.<\/p>

\n\n\"Consistency\n<\/span>\n<\/div>

You know a lot about training, but all the information in the world can\u2019t make your clients keep working out.<\/span> As Derek Sivers<\/a> once said, \u201cIf information were the answer, we\u2019d all be billionaires with perfect abs.\u201d<\/p>

\n\n\"perfect\n<\/span>\n<\/div>

(AKA, this guy)<\/p>

But there are<\/em> ways for you to help your clients stick to fitness. This is a five-step process, based on psychology, to do just that.<\/p>

<\/a>Step 1: Goal Setting<\/h2>

You\u2019ve probably heard of the importance of go\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffal setting<\/a>, but setting the right goals is an enormous step towards consistency.<\/p>

Clients often come up with goals<\/a> like \u201cI want to lose 30 pounds,\u201d or \u201cI want to bench 225,\u201d and those are fine places to start. Use the principles of good goals to build on those statements and make them better.<\/p>

The three most important factors of goal setting are:<\/span><\/p>