If you want to build muscle, get stronger, see better results and gains in the gym, have more energy, and improve your performance, hiring a nutrition coach could be the best investment you have ever made in yourself. A coach can help you accomplish your goals quicker, focus on a doable way to reach those goals, and provide you with the emotional and social support you need to get there.

Key Takeaways

If You Want to Get Serious About Your Nutrition, You Should:

1. Stop spending your time, money, and effort on figuring it out yourself
2. Appreciate that you don't have to be an expert in everything you want to accomplish
3. Find a coach that will support you in your own unique environment

Doing It Yourself is Not Free

Many people out there think they can do it themselves when it comes to nutrition and fitness. While the internet is full of advice, that doesn't mean it's necessarily good advice. A meal plan or chatting with a bot does not help you change the things that are in your way, and will cost you your time, effort, and mistakes in return.

If you are ready to make serious progress in your fitness and nutrition goals, a coach is the best way to create a plan that is doable in your life, and that fits your unique needs, likes, and dislikes. You shouldn't have to be an expert in order to feel good in your body and supported in your dreams; that's what coaches are for!

Now is the Best Time to Start

Being able to assess a situation objectively is hard to do, especially when it comes to our own lives. If you want to progress and gain strength and endurance, it will take more of a sophisticated approach that helps you build sustainable and addictive habits.

When you get focused, get serious, invest in yourself, and put some money where your mouth is, it is incredible what you can accomplish. Don't keep putting off your goals, today is the best day to start, and it is never too late. With the right focus and support, I know you can do this.

Are you ready to hire a nutrition coach? Share your thoughts with me about my top 6 reasons in the comments on the episode page.

In This Episode

• Why hiring my first nutrition coach was the best investment I ever made in myself (2:12)
• How to navigate all of the fitness and nutrition advice you see on social media (6:11)
• Why DIY'ing your training is not as cheap or easy as you might think it is (9:58)
• Tips for approaching changing your fitness and nutrition regime as you get older (16:12)
• The problem with nutrition apps and why they can never replace a nutrition coach (23:44)

Quotes

"Hiring my first sports nutrition coach was a key decision that I made that really changed the trajectory of not only my fitness but my personal life and my career." (2:19)

"You might think that you are eating really 'healthy,' but that doesn't mean that you are adequately fueling, or eating enough of the right things, for example, to get you the fitness results that you want." (7:52)

"I wasn't just paying a coach. I am investing in my own growth and in actually having a plan to get me to my goals quicker and help me figure out why what I was doing wasn't working." (11:07)

"I want you to think about hiring someone to help you assess what needs to change, look at and identify the things you are willing to change, and how to do it in a way that is going to be doable in your life." (19:10)

"Meal plans don't teach you about long-term habit change, and they don't help you address the underlying challenges that might be getting in your way." (24:24)

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