Here are some ideas for how you can use the information from your clients’ logs to help them achieve their goals. MyFitnessPal also connects to more than a dozen popular activity trackers to help keep all of your technology and tracking in one place. If your workout of choice is not listed, it takes about 15 seconds to create a “new exercise,” which will be saved for regular activity logging. In the fitness and activity department, there are many exercises to choose from with general caloric values. If what you are eating comes from a package, the barcode scanner is a helpful tool for worry-free food tracking. If a particular food or dish is not listed, you can easily “create a food” under the “my foods” tab or better yet, import a recipe from the web and the ingredients and nutrition information will show up, ready for you to log. The MyFitnessPal food database is packed full of thousands of food options, from homemade meals to dishes at most major restaurants. Times sure have changed! If the folks you train are reluctant to take on the task of tracking their intake and activity, the MyFitnessPal app makes the whole process a whole lot easier to log both their food and their fitness. I recall about 15 years ago having my clients carry around notebooks and ridiculously thick books of caloric values. While creating a specific diet plan is outside of our scope of practice as a health and fitness professional, we should encourage our clients to track their food intake and activity so we can help them stay accountable for the other 165 hours of the week. How many clients do you have who train and train and train, yet make no progress with their weight-loss goals? With a mere two or three hours of personal interaction during the week, there is only so much we, as trainers, can do for these clients, right? WRONG.
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