#198 How To Address Support System With Larger Body Population (Clients Looking To Lose 100+ Pounds)

In this episode of the Grow Your Nutrition Business podcast, host Nicole Aucoin is joined by Athena Perez to discuss the critical role of support systems for larger body athletes in fitness and nutrition coaching. Athena shares her personal journey through CrossFit, her weight loss experience, and becoming a CrossFit affiliate owner. The discussion highlights her course designed to help coaches address not only physical and nutritional needs but also the importance of emotional support. They explore the challenges athletes face, such as the strain on personal relationships when health priorities shift, and emphasize the need for coaches to guide clients in building and navigating these support systems. Athena also announces upcoming events and seminars to train coaches on working with this demographic more effectively.

What You'll Learn:

• Importance of support systems for larger body athletes in fitness and nutrition coaching
• Athena’s transformative journey through CrossFit and weight loss
• Becoming a CrossFit affiliate owner and its impact on her coaching approach
• Creation of a course to help coaches serve larger body athletes
• Addressing physical, nutritional, and emotional support in coaching
• Challenges of support systems, including personal relationship dynamics
• The effect of health priorities on relationships, such as increased divorce rates
• Upcoming events and seminars focused on training coaches to work with larger body athletes

Are you looking to work with larger body athletes? 

Take her course at Healthy Steps Nutrition & CrossFit HSN on November 9th. Use the code GROW50 to get $50 off the course. 

Register here: https://scalednationtraining.regfox.com/working-with-larger-bodies-pompano-beach-florida

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