Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. The topic today is the value of

coaching and also some tough truths about the relationship between effort, success, consistency and results.

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podcast because that massively helps me. Okay, on with the content. So something

that comes up quite a lot when I speak to clients or soon to be clients or people interested

in coaching is the question, what do I get when I sign up

and what they're asking is like what tangible things will they receive like will they get a meal

plan will they get recipes how many workouts will they get when will the workouts change what

do I give calorie and macronutrient targets?

How many checkings will I get? Will you contact me? What, what's the process of this? Which I completely

understand. And you do get all of the above from working with us. But that isn't what we're

offering because that isn't what you need.

You can get all of those things, maybe apart from the check-ins, but you can get meal plans,

recipes, workouts, macro targets, calorie calculators on Google.

That isn't what you're paying your coach for.

Yes, you're maybe paying for that's applied to you

in a closer setting, but really, that's not where the value is. If you've struggled with

losing weight or building muscle, it's usually not as simple as you were on the wrong meal plan.

It's usually that you weren't supported properly.

You didn't feel empowered. You weren't educated. You didn't have the right tools and coping strategies

to deal with things when they don't go exactly right. You were holding yourself back by your own

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