2 of The Biggest Reasons to Hire An Experienced Online Coach

Almost any information you need can be found online for free. This is definitely true about health, fitness, and nutrition information (this blog being a primary example).

So why, some people ask, would you hire an Online Coach – like an Online Personal Trainer, or Nutrition Coach?

There are quite a few reasons, but I’m going to highlight 2 reasons that pertain to working with an experienced online coach.

1. Saving You Time

Time = Money. Depending on who you are, this may be obvious. If it’s not obvious then let me explain. It takes a lot of time to look up and read all of this “free information” (what type of workout plan and exercises you should be doing, what foods you should be eating, etc.). It also takes time to analyze your results regularly and assess what changes need to be done.

Or, you can simply be told what to do, execute, and save a lot of time. As a thought experiment, suppose you value your time at around $40/hr. Instead of doing the dishes, cleaning, etc. you can pay someone $40 to go do whatever you want for an hour – read a book, take a nap, etc. Your value might be higher or lower than $40, but I think for most $40 is a conservative estimate.

How much time would it take to be completely in charge of creating and managing your own workout and/or nutrition program? Another conservative estimate would be around 1 hour per week; this time includes things like reading the latest articles, watching workout tip videos on social media and YouTube, and analyzing and critiquing your current plan.

At $40/hr, 1 hour per week, that’s $160 per month. So, if you hired a coach for $160 per month, you’d break even and have “bought back” 4 hours of your time.

I like this video by Jonathan Goodman that helps highlight this well:

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2. Wisdom

I have four things to highlight about wisdom:

1. Just because it’s (knowledge) on the internet doesn’t mean its correct. Even if an authority figure says it correct doesn’t mean it’s correct – eg. there are plenty of doctors (eg. Dr Hyman) out there promoting poor nutrition advice.
2. You need a certain amount of knowledge and experience to be critical of what you’re reading.
3. You need to know how to translate information that you’re reading so that it is applicable to you. For example, if you’re reading advice from someone who does bodybuilding you need to know what takeaways are applicable for you.
4. You need to know what is reasonable to expect for things like results (eg. losing more than 2% bw per week is not reasonable, nor is putting on 1lb of muscle per week), what goals should be working on independently and which ones can be worked on together (eg. building muscle and losing fat should be worked on separately), changes that can happen (eg. with weight loss it’s natural to feel tired, a little hungry, sex drive to fall off etc.), and know how to strategize and troubleshoot along the way.

An experienced coach will help with most, if not all, of the above points. They are a trusted source, and have experience. This wisdom will save you time – and is something worth paying for.

There are more reasons, like accountability, motivation, on-going support – to name a few. But saving you time and wisdom are two reasons, in my opinion, that have the most value.

I’d be happy to hear your thoughts – if you think I missed something let me know.

Till next time,

-Mike

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