4 Ways Health & Fitness Pros Can Create Income Right Now
Your clients need it. Can you define Metabolic Flexibility?
Metabolic flexibility refers to the ability of the body to efficiently switch between different fuel sources and adapt to changes in nutrient availability. That is, when your client eats a lot, or your client skips a meal, metabolism isn’t damaged and fat is not stored.
It is a key aspect of metabolic health and plays a role in maintaining energy balance and weight regulation.
When we consume food, our body breaks down macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins) into smaller molecules that can be used as fuel. Metabolic flexibility allows the body to utilize these different fuel sources based on the body’s energy needs and nutrient availability.
In a metabolically flexible state, the body can easily switch between using carbohydrates and fats for energy. For example, after a meal, when glucose (derived from carbohydrates) is readily available, the body primarily uses glucose for energy. However, during fasting or periods of low carbohydrate intake, the body shifts to using stored fats as the primary fuel source.
Having good metabolic flexibility is beneficial for overall health and can contribute to weight management. It allows the body to effectively use stored body fat for energy,
which can help in reducing excess body weight and maintaining a healthy body composition. Moreover, metabolic flexibility is also associated with improved insulin sensitivity, better blood sugar control, and reduced risk of metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes.
Certain factors can influence metabolic flexibility. Regular physical activity and exercise can enhance metabolic flexibility by increasing the body’s capacity to burn fat and improving insulin sensitivity. A balanced diet that includes a variety of macronutrients and minimizes excessive consumption of refined carbohydrates and added sugars can also support metabolic flexibility.
On the other hand, factors like a sedentary lifestyle, a diet high in processed foods and added sugars, chronic stress, and poor sleep habits can impair metabolic flexibility.
What Impairs Client’s Metabolic Flexibility?
Cutting calories too low for too long impairs metabolic flexibility.
Fasting while also decreasing caloric intake for a short period of time may be a positive stressor, but for too long or without the post-feeding, can backfire.
Over exercise and undereating combined – that is too low a caloric deficit.
Not sleeping is a risk for metabolism slowing.
Sugar Burning vs Fat Burning: The Metabolic Flexibility Difference
These factors can lead to a preference for glucose as the primary fuel source and hinder the body’s ability to efficiently utilize stored fats.
Improving metabolic flexibility can be achieved through lifestyle modifications, including regular exercise, a balanced diet, stress management techniques, adequate sleep, and
maintaining a healthy body weight. By enhancing metabolic flexibility,
individuals can support their overall metabolic health and improve their body’s ability to adapt to different nutrient conditions.
Metabolic Flexibility
And… it’s the RIGHT type of:
Exercise – balanced exercise for a midlife woman is not “according to guidelines”
Diet – balanced diet is not equal amounts of protein, fat, and carbs
Body weight – may be less important than body composition
Ask for Advice
Marketing for health & fitness pros has never been so easy! This one is foolproof if you share something that matters to your audience.
What should you wear for a photo shoot? What should you call your next program? How would you describe our business? Which colors do you like best? What logo design is your favorite?
Women love to give their opinions! And they will. What they say may or may not be as important to you as the engagement. DO be prepared for responses and then comment!! On every single one!
I’ve gotten great responses to ingredients in a new product, to which dress to wear to an event, and which tights to wear at a photoshoot.
Ask Some Questions that They’ll Ask (subconsciously) After
- Did I feel heard?
- Is there something that makes me curious to know more?
- Did I feel more energized?
- Did I laugh or smile?
- Do I feel a little more inspired or excited?
Marketing for health & fitness pros from dating advice – who knew!? But you truly are starting a new relationship. Let them see the real you, or the you that is your brand.
4. Package all of These Income Generators together.
Send an email today, suggesting a new group starting that’s focused on a problem you know a lot of your community have, offer it at 20% higher rate than normal – it’s specialized afterall – (or suggest you are going to raise the rate after this beta group and they want to get in now to take advantage of it. Offer an upsell for more private time with you, or simply an add-on that you know they’ll need to have to be successful.
Think like … You HAVE to. Sometimes you just have to imagine.. That you do in order to get out of your way and do what was always possible anyway.
Your email list should provide you that kind of cushion. You have the ability to send an email and make money every single day. Are you using it?
Which one will you use first?
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