 Next question is from Coralfit6. As a new trainer, I'm struggling with getting my clients to express how the workout is affecting them. I usually get only short answers like good. I try to get them to elaborate, but it seems like they don't know how. Any suggestions? Yeah, you gotta get specific with what you're asking. That's right, that's your job. What are your fitness goals? I want to get in better shape, right? Or, you know, okay, what does that mean? You know, a couple of things you could do. One is ask how do you mean? It's actually more effective than saying what do you mean? So if someone says, you know, how are your workouts affecting you? They're good. And you look at them and go, how do you mean? Sometimes I'll get them to elaborate, but oftentimes you need to be specific. Hey, how's your sleep? How's your energy? Are you noticing any differences in your energy? Is your appetite any different? Are you noticing changes to your libido? Now that you're stronger in the gym, do you feel more stable outside of the gym when you're doing things at home? And oftentimes when you do that, people will go, oh yeah. How do your joints feel? On a level of one to 10, where's your soreness? Would you say you're a 10? You're really sore? Or would you say you're not sore at all? Like giving them the one to 10 thing for specific things I think is a really cool way. Cause I understand where this question is coming from because clients don't, they don't know how to articulate that. This is completely foreign to them. And it is really on you to ask a lot of the right questions. If you ask a vague question to somebody that knows very little about your field, of course you're going to get a vague response. Here's your best example. This happens to every trainer who does a goal assessment. You'll ask a person, potential client, and you'll say, do you have any areas of pain on your body? No. Okay, if you leave it at that, there's your answer. Oh, do this. They'll say no. It all comes out in the workout. Oh yeah, no, they say no. Go down the body. Okay, do you have any issues with neck pain or stiffness? Do you, what about your shoulders? What about your upper? And here's what's gonna end up happening. You'll go down and be like, what about your shoulders? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes my left shoulder kind of bothers me. Like, okay, left shoulder. What about your low back? Your low back ever get tight? Yeah, it gets tight. I sit down for longer than 30 minutes. Okay, low back, tightness. What about your knees? And then next thing you know, it was like five different areas of pain. I always have those conversations in the workouts, in the rest periods, because I would observe. And if I had to in the beginning, I would write notes, but you'd see where the compensations happened or where I shrugged the shoulders or if they're holding their wrist or if they wince a bit more than normal or if they're breathing excessively. And so those are the types of things that I pay attention to and see how I can address those by then bringing them up to their attention and also like revisiting that later on. No, that's a great time to do that. And that's where those are, you have a client doing something as basic as a tricep push down on the cables and you're asking them like, where do you feel that? And not what muscle, don't ask them that because they don't know anatomy. You know what they say, where do you feel it? My core. Yeah, that's why you need to ask those questions. Where do you feel it? Or even more specific, where do you feel it at the bottom of the movement? Where do you feel it at the top of the movement? Do you feel anything in your shoulders when you do it? Do you notice anything in your core where you do it? Do you feel your chest? You're asking all these- Can you squeeze your chest right now? Do you feel that? Right, and so you're asking all these very specific questions to the movement they're performing at and you're using layman's terms, okay? You're not using all the things that you learned in your surgery. If you listen to your latissimus dorsi. Yeah, you have to say these. You know, it's funny because, but you know, here's the deal. Like people are not aware of the benefits. This is true. The average person really isn't fully aware of the benefits of exercise and nutrition. In other words, they're not even aware that they're improving unless it's weight loss, right? So if you ask someone, how's your workout going? Oh, I lost 10 pounds. They know that. But if you say, hey, how's your workouts going? And they're getting better sleep. Their skin looks better. They have more energy. They might not say, I don't know, I haven't lost any weight. I don't know how my workouts are going. People are literally not aware about all of these benefits because we've attached weight to exercise. That's it. That's the only thing that's important. They haven't attached anything else. But then when you get to specifics, I used to love doing this. Like, you know, hey, how's your workouts going? Oh, it's okay. I think I only lost a pound. Well, yeah, but how's your energy? And they'll think, they'll be like, you know, now that you say it, man, I feel way better. And it's like, you have to reveal this to people because they don't understand. That's such an important point. Because we talk on the show all the time about that's a major part of being a really good coach is actually getting these clients to get away from the mirror and the scale. Like that's their two ways right now of measuring their success. That's the only two ways. It is. And they always think that way and you're trying to get them to stop thinking that way and really make, because that's what you getting them to stop thinking about the scale and the way they look, no matter how much they say that that's all they care about is what's going to really determine whether you keep these people going forever. Because the scale and the weight thing that will go up and down and change and that will make them motivated and not motivated. And if you're relying on that motivation to keep them in the gym, they'll fail. But if you learn as a coach to as they're going through this process, you start connecting it to their relationships, their energy, their attitude, their sleep, their libido, all these other things. If you can learn to help them make the connection that, oh wow. And here's the cool thing about being a coach and a trainer and I'll tell you, here's the answer to the test. Guess what? When they're training and they're eating correctly, it improves all those fucking things. So it's kind of a rhetorical question, but you're helping them, you're getting them to say that. That's what's important. You need to get them to keep saying that, like, oh yeah, you know what? You're right. Since I actually increased my protein and increased my fiber, I do notice that my stomach feels better and I do notice I'm sleeping. You know what I'm saying? You need to, as a coach, being very specific and getting them to say those things to make that connection. Remember, what you say can be true or false. What your client says is always true. So I could tell them all day long, exercise is gonna give you so much energy and it's gonna make you feel better or whatever. And they're gonna be like, okay, that's fine, but I don't know, is that true or not? But if I say, hey, how's your energy? And they go, huh, my energy is better. Boom, now it's true. Hey, how's your libido? You know, now that you said that, man, my wife and I have had a great time since I started working out. Boom, now it's true. Very important you do this as a coach.