Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness podcast. This episode is going to be all about

using behaviour change principles to get you long term fat loss results. This is essentially what

makes our coaching and specifically the Commit to Sixth program different because this is what we've built it all off.

So when I first started coaching, I thought I just needed to know how to optimize training and nutrition.

I'd studied sports science at university and nutrition and I thought, okay, all I need to do is basically just tell people what to do

and then they'll do it and then that's how they'll get results. And I soon realized that

unless you work with robots or in some cases, although they are humans too,

you know, like elite level competitive athletes

who will basically just do what you say,

that's not really how it works, right?

When you work with real people,

that isn't how things work.

Now fat loss, and especially long-term fat loss,

is far more about behavior change than it is about nutrition or exercise specifics.

That part is actually quite easy, right?

It's not to say that diet and exercise aren't important, they are, obviously.

You have to be helping people consistently focus their efforts in the right places. So understanding

diet and exercise and where people need to be focusing their efforts is so important. But actually

that side is relatively easy to teach, right? And probably an unpopular opinion. But for most people, if they just ate sensibly and did some form of exercise three or four times a week, they wouldn't go far wrong.

The interesting part about coaching and the impactful part about coaching is understanding human behaviour.

That is far more important to fat loss than the specifics of the diet and exercise.

And there's a lot of complexity in our individual responses to the world that we live in.

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