The End of Dieting – Interview with Kelsey Flanagan

Are 30 day challenges where you cut out certain foods or follow a certain diet a thing that we should stop encouraging? If we’re wanting our clients to get results they can sustain, are we better off helping our clients change their relationship with food vs encouraging another diet?

In this interview, Kelsey shares her nutrition approach she takes with clients. The results say it all:

Learn about Kelsey’s approach, start implementing a few things she talks about with your clients, or find someone like her to work with your clients if things are out of your skill set.

Where to find Kelsey:

Her website: https://kelseyflanagannutrition.com/

Instagram account: @kelseyflanagannutrition

Facebook Account: https://www.facebook.com/kelsey.flanagan.180

Courses/businesses mentioned if you want to take the route she took:

Precision Nutrition

Hormone Specialist Training 

 

 

 

 

 

Fixing Upper-Body Lifts with Breathing

I want my clients’ upper-body lifts to look good. When they look good we can really add load and increase their strength. If they fall apart and complain that it hurts, we can’t really progress.

During this webinar, I go over the mistakes I made early on that left me with little to no results. I go over what I do now to get my client’s shoulder mobility to increase and their pushing and pulling to look good 🙂

If you struggle understanding all this crazy breathing stuff, this webinar is PERFECT for you.

Enjoy!

Resources mentioned in the webinar:

(let me know if I forgot one)

A Safe Training Environment for Scared Rehab Clients

Do you work with the post rehab/chronic pain population? I’m sure you get a few who are scared of strength training, who think their body is fragile and only capable of low level activities like yoga and pilates.

How do you gain their trust and progress them through a program without them feeling like your training is going to hurt them?

Below is a video of my protocol for these types of clients. How I take them from scared fragile clients to regular gym-goers 🙂

 

If you’re interested in learning more about pain, I’ve written about it here and here.

If you want to know more about studying your target market check out this post.

Until next time 🙂

Lucy

 

Connection of the Week- Aline Thompson

Every single profession you’ll find people who are exceptional, average, and below average. In the physical therapy world, it has been a double edge sword to be introduced to countless exceptional physical therapists who are providing a service that is not seen with most PTs. It has made the standard that I hold people in this profession, very high.

As a trainer of the post rehab population, I want nothing but the best for them. I care about my clients just as much as I care about my family. If my family had to see a physical therapist, I wouldn’t want them seeing a below average one.

I don’t like seeing my clients dependent on a PTs hands to put their body back together every 5 weeks for the last 2-5 years. It makes me sad seeing my clients scared of moving because of the maladaptive beliefs they developed from the PT’s lack of proper communication. It disappoints me that PTs haven’t educated my clients on how the amount of pain they’re experiencing doesn’t equal to amount of tissue damage.

When I voice my frustrations on this field, it gets confused with frustration and disrespect towards all PTs. Which is not the case. It’s frustration towards the PTs who don’t know how to communicate with people in pain, keep patients on a reoccurring schedule that last for YEARS, and those who scare patients from living because they believe they’re one sneeze away from blowing out a disc.

My frustration comes from witnessing the ones that I care about go through unnecessary suffering, and knowing there’s better treatment out there

To expect below average therapists to change what they’ve been doing their whole career is unrealistic. The chances are very low for a whole industry to change. But what CAN happen is the younger crowd going into this profession knowing and being influenced by exceptional PTs.

Which brings me to my Connection of the Week, Aline Thompson.

She’s one who meets my high standard and if you’re in the rehab and fitness industry, you’ll definitely want to start following her.

She recently put together a blog post filled with resources if you’re wanting to learn and understand Pain Science.

I’ve barely scratched the surface on this topic but it didn’t take long for me to acknowledged most professionals don’t know how to communicate with people in pain. I’m not just talking about physical therapists. I’m talking medical doctors, coaches, massage therapists, chiros, the list could go on and on.

Most our clients will experience pain as some point in their life, and the lack of this knowledge could seriously hurt them….in more ways than one.

If you’re interested in making the health, fitness, and rehab industry better, Aline’s guide is the perfect place to start 🙂

Until next time 🙂

Lucy