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Question #7: What accountability measures are part of the program?
No matter how good a program is, you will not experience results if you are not held accountable to following the program. At some boot camp programs, after you sign up, you either show up or you don’t. Your coach may do very little to find out why you weren’t in class or to encourage you to return to class if you have been absent. In addition, some programs offer a 1 hour nutrition seminar at the start of the session and you either follow the program or you don’t. Many times the seminar is designed by a qualified professional but delivered by the boot camp coach or an outside nutrition professional, who is not a part of the program nor works on an ongoing basis with the participants but is only contracted for the seminar. When this happens, there is often little effort to hold you accountable on a weekly basis to your adherence to the program and/or no support when you have questions or need to troubleshoot a plateau in your weight loss progress.
As the Fit Club coach, I hold every woman accountable for showing up to class daily. If there is an unexcused absence, my clients know and expect that I’ll be calling to find out if they are safe, why they missed class, and to suggest what exercise they can do that day to make up for their missed session. Because of my qualification to coach healthy individuals on nutrition changes that support weight loss, my clients are held accountable weekly to following the nutrition plan and given the support needed to troubleshoot any stall in weight loss. I partner with alocal nutritionist and dietician so that my clients with metabolic disorders or other problems beyond my scope of practice have a qualified resource to lead them through the nutrition changes necessary to see results.
It has been shown in numerous studies that accountability and social support could be the biggest factor in weight loss success so make sure that your prospective boot camp program is designed with measure to keep you accountable.
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