How I train my personal training clients for weight loss

Here’s my experience with weight loss. I find that people need a list of 4-5 things to focus on each week to be able to lose weight.

When someone signs up for our personal training, I send them a message saying that they should focus on:

• Getting 10k steps per day
• Staying under their calorie goal
• Hitting their protein target
• Tracking their food every day
• Getting 4 workouts per week

Now there’s a lot of detail for each of these and I’ll briefly cover them them.

I find that most people are busy with work, so they will only get 6,000 – 8,000 steps per day during the week. But the goal is 10k per day. So here’s the solution. I tell them to do 70,000 per week. That way, if you’re short during the week, you can make up for it on the weekend.

This is kind of true for calories as well. Sure you can do 1,900 calories during the week, but if you’re goal is 1,500, you’ll have to do way less on the weekend.

The benefit of doing these steps is I find that our clients get visibly leaner. And I also notice that when I start actively doing more steps. I’m not trying to lose weight myself, but it’s good for health and lowering body fat.

I’ll cover the other 4 goals in later blog posts, so stay tuned. I have a newsletter you could sign up to if you want to get more tips like this at The Vitality Blog.