Training Planification: how to make your coaching successful

Whether you are a sports coach, a personal trainer, a kinesiologist or a physical trainer, you need to know how to effectively plan your clients' workouts. Comprehensive planning is essential to achieving their goals. In this article, we explain the steps to create an effective workout plan to achieve your clients' goals.

 

The Benefits of Creating a Plan on the First Appointment

Creating a plan at the first appointment is extremely beneficial for both the coach and the client.

It provides a clear structure and direction for the workouts and allows the coach to better understand the client's goals and expectations. This ensures that the coaching is tailored to the client's individual needs and goals. In addition, this step helps the client identify strengths and weaknesses and set realistic expectations for progress. 

Creating a plan is the first step in a successful relationship with your client. It builds trust between the two parties and provides a clear path to achieve the desired results.

What Should a Personal Trainer Include in a Training Plan?

Planning motivates your clients and helps manage their expectations. When planning at the first meeting with your client, you should include the following:

1. An overview of what the client can expect

You should provide the client with an overview of what they can expect from the training sessions and from your work together. This includes information about:

  • The length of the sessions
  • Recurrence of the sessions
  • Expected results

This is where you clarify your client's goals, because most of the time they come in with unattainable goals.

2. How it will be evaluated

You need to assess the client's current physical condition to identify their strengths and weaknesses. You should also plan how you will evaluate your client over the next few months.

You will be able to re-evaluate your client's fitness level during the coaching process to see their progress and encourage them.

3. A timeline

You must provide your client with a 6 to 12 month timeline. This timeline should include key dates (such as Christmas, vacations, etc.), the different phases of training, and any milestones the client should strive to achieve.

By setting specific dates, you are making your client's plan a reality and proving to them that together you will achieve their goals.

How Can a Personal Trainer Create a Plan for the First Appointment?

Once you have gathered the necessary information for the planning, we strongly advise you to create it live with the client:

Hexfit is a powerful tool for coaches to create, manage and optimize schedules. With Hexfit you can easily create individualized plans from scratch or from templates.

The tool allows you to easily design and customize schedules by simply dragging and dropping elements into the right place. You can adjust the intensity and duration of each phase with a few clicks.

With Hexfit, you can also change the appearance of your plans with customizable colors.

You will be able to print it and sign it with the client, like a contract. This will commit the client to the goals. Make sure it is clear to everyone that this plan can and will change over time.

 

Training Planning in a nutshell

When creating a plan, it is important that you take the time to understand your clients' needs and goals.

By creating a plan at the first meeting, you provide a clear structure and direction while ensuring that your client's training is tailored to their individual needs.

In addition, creating a plan helps build trust between the pro and the client, and ensures that the client's expectations are realistic. Using a tool like Hexfit, professionals can easily create, manage and optimize plans, helping to ensure that their clients achieve their health and fitness goals.

Camille Boutin

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