PRs Matter & Measure Progress Toward Client Goals - Coaching Success - #481

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

PRs measure progress toward your clients' goals - so you need to track & celebrate your clients' PRs, because PRs matter.

PRs Measure Progress Toward Your Clients' Goals

PRs matter.

Consistency underlies success. PRs pave the road to your clients accomplishing their goals.

Why?

They provide dopamine hits that encourage continued work toward building habits that move lifters toward their goals.

Early on, PRs tend to be easy - easy to track, celebrate, and establish.

The lifter's squat increases, the athlete can do more push-ups, the runner can run their mile faster, or the client's waist has shrunk.

Over time, establishing PRs becomes more difficult, as the PRs are not so clear.

Ensure PRs Connect to Your Clients' Goals

PRs measure progress toward your clients' goals.

Your clients' goals change over time, so you must ensure the PRs you're tracking and celebrating actually matter to your client.

If you continue to push the client's deadlift 1RM, but she wants to lose weight, you're missing the point.

PRs may track:

consistency
healthy habits (sleep, water, steps)
nutrition (macros, protein, drinks of alcohol, number of meals prepped)
strength (different rep maxes, tonnage, PRs for different lifts)
hypertrophy (leanness, size of muscles)

You should know your clients' goals. PRs measure progress toward your clients' goals, so you should know your clients' PRs that matter and help assess movement toward their goals.

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0:00.0	The podcast where we talk about what it means to experience strength.
0:08.0	And how you can use simple, hard, and effective strategies in training and nutrition to improve your life.
0:15.0	It starts with meeting you where you are right now in finding lasting solutions.
0:20.0	Welcome to the show.
0:31.0	You're listening to a coaching success episode on the Barba Logic podcast. I'm your host Matt Reynolds here again on a Friday.
0:39.0	Hope you guys had a great week last week.
0:42.0	We got to talk about why online coaching is better than in person coaching today.
0:45.0	I want to kind of continue that a little bit and really focus today on why PRs matter.
0:51.0	I don't think people actually think about this enough and I think the way they think about PRs is often incorrect.
0:57.0	And so a lot of times when we think about PRs or what some people call PBs.
1:00.0	I've noticed my UK clients call them PBs personal best we call them PRs personal records.
1:05.0	They very much matter and for most people and specifically with in person coaching,
1:12.0	you're often programming your clients maybe on an actual like written notebook.
1:17.0	And so it's very difficult to keep PRs like all of the PRs right.
1:21.0	So maybe you know and maybe you track someone's one rep max and certainly you probably do in all the main lifts.
1:28.0	Maybe you do those three rep max or the five rep max or the three sets of five and you can kind of see linear progression those sorts of things.
1:33.0	The original reason I don't know if you guys know the kind of birth story of turnkey coach.
1:38.0	The reason we moved away from the third party software was because it didn't auto track or auto collect metrics and metrics matter to people.
1:48.0	Like even if they're not really somebody that seems like they chase numbers.
1:51.0	I've talked about this before.
1:52.0	I like to gamify everything where my Apple watch.
1:54.0	I'm always tracking my workouts and riding my bike and making sure I look at my steps every day.
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