Fitness professionals, can you describe your approach for integrating mental health practices into physical training programs and it's impact?

Depending on whether I see my clients in Person or Online, determines how our Fitness sessions will go about mental health. My business focuses on Body, Mind and Spirit; thus, during my 1:1 Personal Training sessions with clients, I usually provide a consultation that is like mental health therapy while pushing them and guiding them through their workout. The conversations naturally flow on improving the client's mind, sleep, awareness of their choices, spiritual development, diet and more. My sessions are typically intuitive and provide the workouts I feel clients need at the time. I asked them how their energy was that day, how much they slept, and how their bodies felt. As a result, their minds are nourished, and I can focus on different necessary exercises to strengthen and heal their bodies and nurture and heal their minds. Implementing change in their physical training programs stimulates their minds and brings them joy. I focus on the fitness regimes that clients enjoy, such as sports, yoga, or martial arts, depending on what is best for their minds. Reiki Healing and meditation are often conversations, and I typically have clients who receive energy healing services from me and personal training. As a result, they receive a nice balance between Yin and Yang, rest and action.

Talking about goals throughout the entire process of change is really important. We discuss goals when clients first join The Athleticus Personal Training Studio. We also have a monthly review, complete with an InBody body composition reading that we conduct and review monthly. It's important to create and continuously reinforce a partnership of coaches and clients, to show how incremental progress adds up to big changes. Mentally it's much easier to focus on one small goal that is achieved relatively quickly and easily than it is to focus on one huge goal that will definitely take years. So we create bite size pieces and help our clients see how small changes and successes can build into really big ones.