Really great to hear and read so much less on last years pet term metabolic damage. Not to say people both client and trainee are not subjecting those or others to it, but I am glad its all quietened down. I must admit I did enjoy Luke McNallys s article in the current edition of Ironman (check out my monthly Ask the Expert column) slightly ho hum, own it as your possible fault take on metabolic damage. I agree with much of what he wrote. More ownership required I am afraid. Any diet that takes any client beyond their body fat set-point for too long can create metabolic issues or burnout. The diet is only one part in all of this. Your own genetic makeup and metabolism are the true key determinants of whether or not you’ll be susceptible to metabolic issues or burnout. And no coach alive can look inside you and tell you what your metabolic determinacy is. As far as I know I am the only coach in Australia who has come out on social media and declared that I did not see the signs of one client in 2009 when I should have, and have written extensively about how we recovered very, very slowly from the horrendous experience of it. (How fortunate this client didnt dump me). All a real coach can do is be extremely efficient and aware of accurately reading and assessing client biofeedback as they go along, which is an ongoing thing, not a static thing that exists in any given diet. What I can tell you all now is the only nutrition plan that prevents this risk is the plan that ALWAYS considers the individual’s biofeedback as he/she goes along. The only way of relieving this risk is to see the signs and never take a client’s body to a place it does not want to go. And there will always be indicators that a client’s body is at this point if a Coach is able to read them. This is not so about knowledge, it is about client-coach and duty of care. Does anyone want me to find the link to how I missed the signs, and what happened leading to comp (yes she won everything that season), and the dreadful aftermath)? Happy to share again if it helps anyone...
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:54:36 +0000
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