Welcome back to the Flex Diet Podcast! In this episode, I’m diving into some key concepts from my Flex Diet Certification, including the unique 8-intervention approach that combines metabolic flexibility and flexible dieting. I’ll share insights on the importance of actionable steps, research-backed nutrition strategies, and the innovative concept of 'coaching leverage' to help you guide your clients more effectively. Just a quick reminder—enrollments for the Flex Diet Certification close tonight, January 13th, 2025, at midnight PST, so don’t miss your chance to join! The next round won’t open until June 2025. Enroll here: https://miket.me/fdc
Welcome back to the Flex Diet Podcast! In this episode, I’m diving into some key concepts from my Flex Diet Certification, including the unique 8-intervention approach that combines metabolic flexibility and flexible dieting. I’ll share insights on the importance of actionable steps, research-backed nutrition strategies, and the innovative concept of 'coaching leverage' to help you guide your clients more effectively.
Just a quick reminder—enrollments for the Flex Diet Certification close tonight, January 13th, 2025, at midnight PST, so don’t miss your chance to join! The next round won’t open until June 2025.
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Dr Mike T Nelson: [00:00:00] Hey, what's going on? Welcome back to the Flex Diet Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Mike T. Nelson. On this podcast, we talk about all things to increase muscle performance, improve body comp, all within a flexible framework without destroying your health. Today, this is a very short podcast with one key concept from the Flex Diet Certification, which if you're listening to this today, January 13th, 2025.
It does close for enrollment tonight at midnight Pacific Standard Time, which is Monday, January 13th, 2025. We'll put a link down below. If you're listening to this now, you'll still be able to get into the enrollment for this round. And the next time it opens will not be until June [00:01:00] 2025, which is the only other time so far it's scheduled to open this year.
We still have some pretty cool bonus items there. We've got payment plans. If you have any questions hit me up. I will do whatever I can to answer your questions. But I wanted to discuss the concept of how the eight interventions in the FLEX diet cert are laid out. So if you're looking for a complete system for nutrition coaching, this is it.
When we set this up, I initially based this on metabolic flexibility and flexible dieting, which is the basis of the course, which does make it different than other courses. And we also have a ton of expert interviews from Dr. Stu Phillips, Dr. Jose Antonio, Dr. Mike Ormsby, Dr. Eric Helms, Dr. Dan Party, and many others that I'm just completely forgetting to list right now.
And we have eight [00:02:00] interventions that range from protein, fats, carbohydrates, NEAT, exercise, and many more. The issue I had when trying to arrange them was, if you are starting on, about a 28 hour cert, it can be pretty daunting. And a lot of certifications and other programs out there have good information, but I find they just tend to either be really heavy research based, which I love, but the practical side, not so good or pretty good on the practical side.
But if you don't follow the little algorithm directly. you get lost. So the biggest thing I wanted to do with this was have it arranged so that you understand the big picture of context. And that's based on metabolic flexibility, flexible dieting. So we have a module that kind of evolves to tell that story the whole time, and then still give you [00:03:00] a lot of the details that you would need.
So we go pretty hard down research on, protein and fats and carbohydrates and neats and all the other aid interventions that I mentioned. But we condense that down to only one hour of your time. And the third component is making it actionable. So you know exactly what it is you need to do with the client that's in front of you or yourself.
And they have maybe 40 percent of the people that go through are just fitness enthusiasts who want to learn how to do it better themselves and do that in a system so that it is very easy to apply, but yet it's still client led. So you're not forcing the client to do an action that they. Have a very hard time doing and that was the other stumbling block.
I ran into was I can just list these eight interventions in a random order But people want to start something right away They want to see results from it and I wanted people to literally be able to [00:04:00] apply What they're learning after module one of the eight interventions And the key I found to doing that was initially I had them based on physiologic response.
I'm like, great, we've, reviewed all the literature here. I think there's, I don't know, I freaking lost track of how many. references are in the course. It's probably close to 200, maybe 150 at least. There's a ton of them in there. There's a bunch more I didn't even put in that I read that I didn't necessarily need, or was able to fit into the course.
So there's a ton of research on that, and I was just going to base it on what is the physiologic response, thinking that the first place thing, intervention you would start with, has the greatest physiologic response. And that kind of made sense, but then I, when I tried doing that with clients, I realized, oh, not every client is going to do the things that have the greatest physiologic response.
So the example I [00:05:00] often use, and I had an Instagram video about this, was sleep. Man, should people do sleep coaching? Yes, I think they should. Should they start with a new client doing sleep coaching? I would say hell no. That's probably one of the hardest things to start with. Now if you're running a business where you're only doing sleep coaching, And people are coming to you and self selecting for that's a little bit different.
But if you're trying to help people with body composition and performance, we all know that physiologically, sleep is incredibly important. But I see a ton of sleep data on my own one on one clients, which I've done for years. We've, I've tried all sorts of different sleep monitoring technologies, since Garmin watches, the old Zeo device, if people remember that.
I was one of the first people to get the second generation aura ring shout out to her pre when he was the ceo there for letting me help out with that and giving me one and it's been super [00:06:00] useful and I also do all the sleep analysis for my buddies over at Rapid Health Optimization. So Dr.
Annie Galpin, Dan Garner, all those wonderful guys over there. So I see a ton of sleep data and I do direct action items for it and I think it's super important. However, I would not start there because your client's ability to change is very low. Compared to protein, if you tell someone that they're doing a diet and you want them to eat more of something, they're shocked.
They're like, well, what do you mean I need to eat more of something? I thought I was just supposed to eat less of everything else. And you're like, Ooh, I'm excited to eat more of something. And you explain to him, eating more protein will help with that. Again, we've got three expert interviews on that.
One you can look up with Dr. Jose Antonio about protein overfeeding studies that he's done. Dr. Stu Phillips is in the CERT also, probably one of the premier protein researchers in the world. Dr. Mike Ormsby. So we've got a ton of data on that in the CERT. And when I set up the arrangement, I wanted the top action [00:07:00] items.
that clients could do, be at the top, and would move the needle. So the concept I created is called coaching leverage, which is simply the physiologic response times the psychology, or the client's ability to change. And protein, if we do this on a 1 to 10 scale, protein's probably a 9 for physiologic impact.
Client's ability to change with some education is right around a 9 also. So your aggregate score is pretty high. Compared to sleep, maybe I could argue sleep is a little bit higher physiologically, maybe a 10. A client's ability to change, eh, a 1 or a 2. So it ended up being dead last. So sleep was actually 8, in terms of the intervention list.
And the reason I set that up is so now we've got a way to equate these things that, You are doing the thing that will physiologically move the needle for the client to get the result. And then [00:08:00] two, you are doing the thing that is more rigging the system in the client's favor. You're not having these long, drawn out arguments about sleep and everything else.
This makes your coaching life easier, because now you're able to get buy in. You're able to get the client's results faster, so they buy into more of what you are doing. Because everybody wants to get a result faster, and it makes your life easier because they're actually executing the things that you wanted them to do sooner.
Which is great. So that's the concept of coaching leverage which is a proprietary technology in the Flex Diet Certification. And what's cool about it is it makes both your life as a coach easier and your client's life better, and you get better results at the same time. Flexidize Cert ends tonight, January 13th, 2025 at midnight Pacific Standard Time.
Go to the link down below. We do have payment options in there. If you're not seeing the payment options for some odd [00:09:00] reason, depending upon your location just email me, we'll get something figured out for you. And we got a couple bonus items there still, and this is the last time it'll be open until June of this year.
So, thank you so much. Of course, we'd love to see all of you in the Flex Diet Certification. Thank you so much for listening to the podcast, really appreciate it. We've got tons of great stuff coming up on the podcast. This year we'll have another episode coming out here in just a couple days, so stay tuned for that.
Thank you so much, really appreciate it, and we'll talk to all of you. Very soon.
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