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Imagine if losing weight
and getting into the best shape of your life were as easy as making a
20-minute phone call? Using a new fitness coaching program called Fitness By Phone®,
it just could be this easy. Fitness by Phone® (FBP)
is a highly effective concept in the fitness industry that many people have
never heard of. It empowers clients to take full responsibility for their
results without depending on a particular person, place, or time for
exercise while still providing access to expert direction every day of the
week. The success of FBP is largely due to its professional coaches and the
individualized monitoring system they incorporate into each clients program.
Fitness
Monitoring with Personalized Feedback
Each client receives a
heart rate monitor and an accelerometer (calorie counter). FBP coaches call
these Motivational Activity Monitors and they allow constant feedback to the
client ensuring that the exercise regiment is being done
effectively. Clients also receive a specially designed FBP diary so they can
record the numbers from the monitors. This diary is faxed weekly to your
Master FBP coach to review, evaluate, and comment on. The beauty of this type
of program is that you don’t have to stress over what exercises to do or at
what intensity. That’s where the 20 minute phone call comes into play. Each
week, you talk to your Master FBP coach and go over the prior week’s
workouts (how you did, how hard or easy were the workouts, did you reach
your goals, etc.) and you also set your goals for the upcoming week. Your
Master FBP coach will tell you exactly how to fill out the diary with your
new goals. All you have to do is just follow what the diary says. That’s
what makes this whole program so successful. There is no guessing at what to
do, how fast to do it, or how long to do it for, etc. You also don’t have to
worry about ever reaching a plateau like many people do on traditional
fitness programs because each week the client progresses to new levels of
fitness and calorie burn.
Not only do you get to
talk to a certified personal trainer for 20 minutes about your program once
a week, but you also get unlimited access to your coach 7 days a week by
phone, fax, or email. If you have any questions about your program, feel
free to fire away with your questions or comments.
Success Through
Accountability
The whole idea of success
through accountability is not groundbreaking news. It has already been
proven in most behavior modification programs. There is something about
holding yourself accountable to someone other than yourself that increases
the percentage of success.
A study conducted at the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute demonstrated that only two percent of study
participants completed a 24 week walking program on their own, as opposed to
over 50 percent of participants who received a phone call once a week to
check on their progress.
To add to that,
additional research shows that 90 percent of FBP clients still exercise
anywhere from four to seven days a week after their initial 24 week FBP
program has ended. Phone coaching is ideal for just
about anyone, especially:
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busy professionals
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busy parents
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people who travel
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beginner exercisers
Most people’s lives are
just too busy to meet with a trainer on a specific day at a specific time.
Work, kids, and family obligations are all things that we deal with
day in and day out. Now, there are people who do have personal trainers and
are very successful with them. What happens a lot, though, is a person works
with a trainer two times a week and then does absolutely nothing as far as
exercise the other five days.
Phone coaching gets you motivated to not only work out on
your own, but to do it four to five times a week. There is no greater
motivator than reaching your goals on your fitness diary each week. And if
you’re reaching those goals, you can bet that you’re reaching your goals of
weight loss, muscle tone, etc. They go hand in hand.
Why Phone Coaching Works The success of phone
coaching can be attributed to five main factors:
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Flexibility and
Convenience: Clients can call from wherever they are for their weekly
phone appointment and they can exercise wherever and whenever it fits into
their day and week.
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Goal Setting: Goals are set around the equipment clients have available to them, what they
enjoy, and customized to their health and exercise needs.
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Support: Clients
enjoy the support, encouragement, and teaching of a professional coach who
designs very specific personal exercise goals to maximize results and
minimize the time spent achieving them.
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Motivation: Motivational activity monitors provide immediate, objective feedback to tell
them whether they are on track, or not, in the amount of activity, and the
appropriate intensity level.
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Accountability: The weekly phone call holds clients accountable to someone other than
themselves, so they are more likely to do the exercise they are committed to
do.
So remember, the only thing stopping you from
getting into the best shape of your life could very well be a 20-minute
phone call.
Kevin Valluzzi
is the owner/operator of
A & B Fitness, an in-home personal training business. He is also a Fitness
By Phone coach. You can reach Kevin via
email,
through his
website, or by phone at 201-384-3372.
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