Are Your Sacrificing Your Health In Order To Achieve A Performance Goal?

I think working with someone that is sacrificing their health in order to meet a performance goal will be very difficult to not bring my personal feelings and experience to the table. In fact, it may even be triggering for me. I think if they are not open to putting their health before their performance goal, I will take myself out of the equation for their health journey. Before doing that, I would review their NAQ, food & mood journal and initial interview form. It would be at the initial consultation where I would question how committed they are to improving their health even with certain obstacles (their hobbies) present. Talking this through with them one on one will go a long way in figuring out if we can actually work together. I would make the case of how the stress present in their body from their feeding and training schedule is negatively impacting their digestion and hormonal balance if that is the case. I would point them in the direction of backing off training while not losing any performance markers such as speed, max reps, muscle mass, or body fat. We would discuss the fine balance of hormones with macro- and micronutrient intake as well as the important first step of a properly-prepared, nutrient-dense whole food diet and how this can fit into their current schedule. If they are excited to incorporate a healing protocol into their diet, mindset, and stress management and potentially back off of their training schedule if required, I think we would be able to have a great partnership that helps them meet both their health and their performance goals using their body’s healing as the time schedule.

To recap, I would put the following recommendations in place.