Essential Self-Care Strategies for Coaches: Simple Steps to Boost Your Well-being

Summary

In this episode of the Coaching Clinic, we discuss three straightforward strategies to help coaches take better care of their health. Inspired by a fitness expert's insights, the episode emphasises the importance of regular movement, staying hydrated, and considering intermittent fasting. The host shares personal experiences, including daily swimming and intermittent fasting, and encourages coaches to integrate simple, sustainable practices into their routines to enhance both their personal and professional lives.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome to the Coaching Clinic

00:43 Simple Strategies for Coaches' Health

01:11 Incorporating Movement into Your Day

02:53 The Importance of Hydration

03:31 Intermittent Fasting and Nutrition Tips

04:39 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

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Welcome to Valencia and welcome to the Coaching Clinic.

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And, uh, by the end of this video

today, you are gonna have some three

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clear strategies you could take away

to make sure you are looking after

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yourself effectively as a coach.

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Recently on my other podcast, I had

a guest who was talking about fitness

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and health for speakers, and one of

the things that she was saying was

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how it doesn't have to be huge things.

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You don't have to.

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Necessarily take care and

manage every aspect of it.

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You don't have to be super

fit and healthy, of course,

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not a bad thing if you are.

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But as coaches, we tend to

spend a lot of our days sat

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down, rather sat down coaching.

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We sat down marketing, we

sat down creating content.

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We're often sat down.

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So there are definitely things

we could do to help improve.

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And I think three simple strategies that

could help us to do that would take it in.

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Some different aspects, things that

should be easy to implement in most

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of our lives and things that I have

been implementing for myself as well.

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Let's just get a, a bit of a look

at what, where I am right in the

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center of, uh, Valencia here.

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But really it doesn't have to be

complicated, so I don't want you

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to make it complicated either.

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Let's keep things nice.

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Let's keep things nice and simple.

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Just going down some steps, but just

getting up and making sure that you move.

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I think could be a great thing to

help you start your day, right?

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Whether that's just gonna be

stretching a bit of a walk,

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maybe a full on exercise routine.

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You can take your pick,

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but find something simple that

you can do and do continuously.

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Now, for me, I start here, it's um,

probably last year around November

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time, swimming every day because

I was, I got inspired to that.

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I thought that's something

I could do every day.

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Didn't have much resistance to it.

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I do enjoy swimming.

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And I started doing it every day.

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Now I wasn't getting huge results

from it 'cause it's pretty low impact,

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but I was doing it consistently

and getting some some results.

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So I felt healthier for doing it and I

think it improved my general performance.

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So I do think regular something you

could do regularly that you're not

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gonna have huge amount of resistance to.

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It's gonna be ideal for you to keep it

going and stay healthy long term Also.

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Because we do spend so much of our

day sat down creating content and

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coaching and whatever else we're

doing in our offices or homes, it's

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really good to make sure we're at

least standing up some of the time.

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Now, I do have a standup

desk in my office.

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Don't use it as much as I should, but

it is there for me to ideally be able

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to stand up more of the time, especially

for the bits of work that I'm doing that

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I don't really need to be sat down for.

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So if I can be stood up instead,

that's usually, usually a lot better.

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So I can at least take some short

breaks from sitting down all day and

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stand up for a short while at my desk.

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But of course, uh,

hydration matters as well.

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So I always keep a big glitter bottle

of water next to me at my desk.

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Again, don't always remember

to drink loads of it, but when

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I do, I feel better for it.

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I don't, I don't one of those

people who think hydration

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always has to be just water.

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So I do like to have some, uh.

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Sugar free Cokes in my day, one

of my guilty pleasures, 'cause

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I just like the taste of it.

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I like the, uh, ones with Stevia

in because I, 'cause I get

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concerned about other chemicals

that go into the other stuff.

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But I found that that's good for me and

it helps me stay on track with things.

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I really introduce things like

intermittent fasting into my life.

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So again, don't do this all the time,

but most weeks, Monday to Friday.

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I don't eat in the morning, and

I don't eat in the day really

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until about two, between two and

three o'clock in the afternoon.

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So it's a longer period of

fasting than advice people would

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have until their breakfast.

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That's all.

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Might be more interested in the

scenery behind me right now.

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Yeah.

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In uh, in, still in the central

part of Valencia and, uh.

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So even for, even for just these

things, there are simple things we can

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do to help take care of our nutrition.

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I like that one because it fits

in easily with my lifestyle.

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I don't have to, uh, complicate it.

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I eat less calories.

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I eat less carbs because I

tend to have more carbs in the

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morning when I do have that.

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So a cup of coffee and a glass of

water is what's usually for breakfast

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when I'm intermittent fasting,

but I don't do it at the weekends.

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I eat regular breakfast at

the weekends and allow myself

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to eat mostly what I want.

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There's certainly eating less, snacking

less, or snacking on healthier things

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rather than the foods that we know

aren't good, less processed foods.

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And there's all stuff that we know can

help us, but we owe it to ourselves

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and we owe it to our clients as

well, to take as good a care of

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ourselves as we can, as coaches.

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And so hopefully, at least some of the

suggestions here might be things that

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you want to try out or you may have.

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Your own ideas what you can do.

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Maybe you know what to do and you

haven't been doing it, or maybe you

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are doing a really good job already

of taking great care of yourself.

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But I think we can always, we can

always find something to add in

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to turn up the, turn up the dials

and improve our health even more.

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So if you find that today, let us know.

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Let me and Angie know what you do

to look after yourself and make sure

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that you stay, uh, healthy and fit and

charged up and energized as a coach.

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We'd love to hear it.

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All right, that's it from the

coaching clinic to see you next time.