Normally a bad coach treats his clients in the following fashion:

1. He sends them a diet plan for them to follow like a recipe.
2. He limits his clients food choices.
3. A bad coach doesn’t tell his client the amount of macronutrients necessary for his diet, and doesn’t mention the importance of fiber.
4. He prescribes an obscene amount of cardiovascular exercise.
5. He NEVER proves his allegations with scientific data.
6. He uses his physical condition to justify his claims
7. He recommends a supplement without any justifications, he just says “it works”.
8. He values the number of meals, meal timing and other misleading restrictions like fasted cardio.

A good coach will guide you in a custom plan, involving all areas (exercise, nutrition and supplementation), so that he guarantees you will achieve without doubt the goals you have set. There can’t be any general “ recipes”, because each person is an individual and will have it’s own specificity, whether it be because of physiological differences or because of the goals they want to achieve.

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It’s very important that your coach knows how to analyze and work with your specific case; that he doesn’t limit his coaching to pre-conceived formulas; that he is technical and always alert for new research regarding training and nutrition, because they are areas that are always changing and improving, and have new methodologies every day.