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Have you ever asked yourself "what is my coaching footprint?". Or, as a trainee, "whose footprints have affected me?". You probably haven't. But, you should.
“Harm” in the fitness industry is acknowledged. But, this harm is generally exclusive to acute injury or illness. You will often see coaches and trainers virtue signal about how their clients are so healthy, injury free, never sick, not hungry etc..
However, I would argue that a lot of the harm left behind, or, one’s coaching footprint, actually goes unnoticed. It is the fear of certain movements; of food; of weight gain; of living “impure”. It is the belief that for one to be healthy, one must reduce all life decisions to “positive” or “negative” for health. It is the attitude that health can be viewed through a purely biomedical lens, at the expense of one’s career, relationships, and sense of fulfilment. It is a flawed
understanding of the principles of nutrition. It is the misapplication of “feelings” in exercise prescription. It is the debt incurred by one’s monthly supplement bill. It is the fear of not being “perfect”.
