Walk for 15 mins a day 

Do 10 mins of breathing and yoga 

Do whatever activity you enjoy for 2 hours a week 

Play a sport once a week to stay fit 

If a coach, physiotherapist or doctor tells you do whatever activity you enjoy and can sustain, they are doing you a disservice. I am not sure if it’s a marketing ploy or they really believe that something is better than nothing. Or are they trying to compete against content creators for likes ? 

In an era of vague and generic advice and marketing, health and wellness practitioners need to get incredibly pointed, precise and unapologetically rooted in cause and effect about their recommendations.

Clients need not necessarily know the why. But they need very precise what’s and how’s. The when and where is the only variable that clients need to figure out. 

Takeaway 

Here’s what any reasonable coach factors for: 

1. What exercises should a client be doing 

2. How much of each exercise should a client be doing 

3. How should an exercise be done to be effective

4. How does all of it come together to be coherent and sustainable 

5. Why do the exercises you have picked make sense for your client

6. Is the clients quality of life benefitting from the adaptations you have chosen for them 

We take for granted that what we are doing is good for our clients. What we really need to do is ask ourselves if we are nudging the clients to do what they need to do.