Navigating Diet Culture: Coaching Clients and Athletes on Weight and Body Composition Within Your Scope of Practice
Description
Navigating Diet Culture: Coaching Clients and Athletes on Weight and Body Composition Within Your Scope of Practice is an essential session for performance coaches, trainers, and wellness professionals. In 45 minutes, you’ll learn how to address weight and body composition conversations without reinforcing harmful cultural messages or stepping outside your scope. You’ll explore how to separate performance-based goals from aesthetic pressures, recognize when to refer out, and understand the growing influence of weight loss medications. Grounded in a performance-first philosophy, this session equips you with practical tools to guide clients and athletes toward sustainable habits that support health and success.Learning Objectives
- Define diet culture and understand its impact on clients’ and athletes’ goals
- Navigate weight and body composition conversations using a structured, scope-appropriate approach
- Set realistic expectations and educate on sustainable health and performance practices
- Understand common body composition testing methods and how to communicate their results
- Identify when a goal or conversation exceeds your scope — and know how to refer appropriately
- Promote a coaching philosophy that prioritizes well-being and long-term performance over appearance
Course Content
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In today’s coaching landscape, weight loss and body composition goals are often heavily influenced by diet culture — a system that equates thinness with health and worth. For performance coaches, this presents a unique challenge: how to support clients and athletes who bring these goals into the room, without reinforcing harmful mindsets or stepping beyond your scope of practice.
This session gives you the clarity, confidence, and language to navigate those conversations responsibly. You’ll learn how to take a structured, client-centered approach to body composition goals, when and how to refer out to nutrition and medical professionals, and how to use basic nutrition education to guide performance-oriented decision-making.
You’ll also explore current trends shaping client expectations — including the rising use of weight loss medications — and gain a clearer understanding of body composition testing methods, their limitations, and how to communicate results with care.
Taught by a credentialed Registered Dietitian, Leron Sarig, this course supports a performance-first, health-driven philosophy that helps you protect both your clients and your credibility.
Who Should Take This Course:
Sports coaches, personal trainers, fitness instructors, group trainers, wellness coaches, physical therapists and other practitioners serving youth, high school, and adult clients and athletes.
Subtitles Available
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and German.
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