Question

Once certified, how do you plan on using your Nutrition Coach Certification? What type of population will you be able to work with and what type of coaching strategies will you be able to use? Is there any population that you will not be able to work with?

Answer 1

Once I am certified as a nutrition coach, I may start my own social media channel and provide basic nutritional knowledge and lifestyle advice. On the internet platform, I plan to educate people who wish to pursue a healthy and nutritious diet and who want to obtain a good body shape. I also plan to work with Level 1 and Level 2 young Asian clients who are social media influencers and who are enthusiastic about fitness. This is a very large market and since I am Chinese, I understand the culture and the mainstays of the Chinese diet. Also, being Chinese it is easy for me to communicate with Chinese speakers.One of my main goals is to help my clients understand the relationship between food and eating behavior, exercise and maintaining a healthy mentality.

Level 1 – The Fundamental Nutrition Coaching Tasks

Most clients are at level one, and even for those with more advanced habits and knowledge, level one coaching is a good place to start. You can’t go wrong with the fundamentals. Level one clients work out fewer than six hours per week; they struggle with consistency and staying on track with healthy habits; and they have a lot of limiting factors preventing change. Their main goals are to get healthier and fitter.

Level 2 – Going Beyond Good Health

Few of your clients ever need to be at level two. These are the people who already work out a lot and understand good nutrition. They mostly eat well and are healthy. What they want from a nutrition coach is to address performance and appearance goals. They want to improve their half marathon times or increase muscle size. A lot of level two nutrition coaching tasks are short-term, designed to meet specific goals like these.

Level 3 – Serious Athletes

As with level two, clients at level three are interested in improving performance, appearance, or both. The difference between these two levels is the degree of intensity, knowledge, and consistency. Fitness and health are their lives, and there are no barriers. These are serious or professional athletes looking to make minor tweaks.

Level three has the potential to be harmful: clients may go too far, lose too much body fat, disrupt hormones, get injured, develop mental health issues related to food, and even cut out other healthy lifestyle factors, like socializing with friends, due to lack of time. If you ever have a level three client, monitor him or her carefully.