Key points in this article:

• The success rate of a person who is coached is significantly superior to the success rate of a person who does everything on her own;
• Learning everything alone can take many years. You will fail in trying to make what works for others work for you;
• Despite it being simple to make things work once you know your stuff, there are many approaches to dieting that should be taught by someone who can get us better results, and make us become autosufficient in record time. Specially if you want to follow a diet that isn’t painful, like flexible dieting;
• Being coached gives meaning to the saying: “do what I say, not what I do”. A person on her own is prone to straying from the right path due to many temptations and even new trends. A coach won’t let you stray from your “Yellow Brick Road” which will bring you the best results, will keep you motivated, and will also give you the best opinion on any fitness trend you have questions about.
• The coach’s mission is to support you and give you reasons to keep motivated. The process is much less hard when we have someone helping us in these aspects;
• Look at being coached like “Going towards your goal by aeroplane instead of walking”. By walking, you’ll eventually get to your destination, unless you get tired of walking. By going on an aeroplane, all you need to do is let yourself be guided, and you’ll arrive at your destination in much less time, and with much less sacrifice;
• Achieving a good physique doesn’t make the person in question an expert on the matter. It does however make that person know what needs to be done in her personal case. If you want a coach, choose one who has helped many people achieve their goals.

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Some of the members of #TeamTransformerz are fitness professionals, whether it be competitors, Personal Trainers or even Nutritionists. These same members (and the #TeamTransformerz staff in itself, seeing as we coach and guide each other) are sometimes exposed to questions like: “If you know so much about this, why do you need a coach?”

Well, in this article we explain exactly why it is that everybody needs a coach, guide or trainer (call it whatever you wish), what the great advantages that that brings you and why even the best aren’t afraid to ask for help.

Reasons why everyone should be coached:

• Learning how to do things takes time. If you’re coached, there will be less attempts and less mistakes.
• Most people make the mistake of looking up diets on the internet. By searching for diets on the internet you will end up with one of two results: You will have a fixed plan where your menu doesn’t change at all, and after very little time you will find yourself saturated. Or, you’ll start a diet that works perfectly for someone, but for you is simply inadequate. Normally, when you search the internet you can even end up with a mixture of both those mistaken diets. With a good coach, the diet model will be flexible and customized to your lifestyle.
• Along with the mistake of finding diets on the internet comes the mistake of following trend diets. There are no carb diets, high carb diets, low fat diets, high fat diets, cyclical diets, timing diets, among many others. When someone tries to do everything herself, sooner or later she will will soon find herself following a  diet that appears to be incredible in theory. But, in practice, it doesn’t work for her. Also, these diets tend to be inflexible, which makes them extremely hard to follow and diminish the quality of life of those following them. By being like this they bring the same results, or even worse, than a flexible diet that is adapted to each person’s lifestyle. If you’re being coached, you’ll only use one of these diets if it really makes sense for your case.
• Another very common mistake is learning or trying to learn nutrition tips from a guy at the gym. This is a huge mistake. Throughout the many years we have been in the business, we have coached many people, and of those many people, there are some who respond well to all stimuli, and others who only respond well to a certain stimulus. A person who responds well to any stimulus ends up reacting well to any diet. To show you an example of a person who reacts very well to any stimulus, a guy we personally coached for an international Men’s Physique competition, ate at sushi buffets and emptied condensed milk cans during his cutting fase, without it interfering with his results. The person in question knows quite a lot about the matter, but in around 90‰ of the time this isn’t the case, these people who react well to anything tend to not know much about what or why they are doing something because they never had to struggle to achieve something. So, they are not great to take advise from. However, we don’t consider it to be wrong to ask for advise from a partner or a professional that has shown the capacity to make any person reach their dream physique, and not just her own.

Learning how to train by yourself also has it’s inconveniences like: Badly structuring a workout (veja aqui como um treino deve ser estruturado),

• ), not evolving within training, starting a plan that doesn’t match your current physical condition, getting injured and not applying basic training principles. Without these basic principles you will have a hard time making progress. A good coach never let’s this happen.
• Teaching people how to diet, discovering the type of training that brings them the best results and adapting the plan to the person’s lifestyle is a process that isn’t built overnight. Even though the mechanism is created and the management within it being fairly easy, there are always many details to evaluate in order to decide what the most comfortable and efficacious way to evolve is. These details normally take someone who is untrained a lifetime to perfect, because all of the information available on the internet is right for a specific person, but normally not for us. This makes people try a number of things that usually go wrong, and a coach can help you choose what is going to work or not.
• The knowledge transmitted by a good coach/guide/trainer is individualized. What this means is that he is going to teach you how to work with your own body. At a certain point you will be able to manage your results by yourself without trying other choices or methods because your process is already ideal.

Reasons for our members with a degree to want to be coached:

• Coaches, even the best, don’t have a degree a lot of the times. What they have are years of experience within a specific field (teaching how to diet, fat loss, muscle gain, motivation, etc), and that can allow you to consider them experts in that area, as a pose to people with a degree who are apt to operate in general terms, but normally lack the specificity of knowledge only a coach has. This way, even having vast knowledge of various diets or workout plans, which they know have applications in many situations, with the help of a coach they are able o filter through that information and find what will work best for them!
• Another reason is the fact that the human being tends to be too soft or too extreme with itself, and this way normally doesn’t use the metrics it should for it’s own case (we mean that by ourselves, we tend to see what we want, and ignore what we want, and that tends to differ from reality).
• Just like we said earlier, even if you know a lot about the matter (which is the case of the #TeamTransformerz’s members), sometimes that knowledge is counterproductive. Let us give you an example: A person is following a low carb diet – a restricted diet, normally used for fitness competitions – that person knows her body has a carbohydrate reserve, and when that reserve is gone or almost, the carbohydrates will be kept in that reserve instead of being turned into fat. Well, someone who knows enough about the matter will use these “tricks” to have excuses to eat a few carbohydrates that she really craves, because it won’t make a difference. But it does. In these specific cases it does. Let us explain to you why: The purpose of these diets is to maximize the amount of hormones. And in this case of low carb diets, the purpose is to manipulate a hormone called insulin, being that carbohydrates, especially when the body craves the, are responsible for the release of this hormone. When you have a coach, that isn’t subject to any cravings (contrary to the person who is following a restricted diet, like any fitness competitor), will talk some sense into the person who is about to do this mistake. This mistake could be enough for the athlete in question to not place first in a  competition.

A coach will always use real metrics. It’s normal for a person to be extremely happy after losing 10kg in 2 weeks. However, a coach will make sure this doesn’t happen. Why? Because this isn’t a healthy loss, and isn’t just a fat loss (para saber mais a fundo, clique em qualidade do peso ganho ou perdido).

• Even for professionals it’s easier to accept vanity metrics than real metrics.
• By paying for a coach’s help, you’ll feel obligated to do things the right way, even though normally what you pay is nothing compared to the advantages and knowledge good coaching get’s you. Paying makes you feel the duty to follow the program without ant mistakes. At the end of the day, we’re paying the best in the industry to make us achieve our goals. If we fail it’ll be our responsibility, but no one fails at something really easy to obtain and that is totally in our reach, specially if we’re being helped by an expert. The success rate of who is coached is many times greater than of those who try to do it all by themselves.
• The Coach, like we have already mentioned, has proof of his worth seeing as he has already helped many people achieve their goals, and not just himself. That’s why a coach has to know how to deal with many types of physiologies and the many responses these have. This is the main difference between a coach and an athlete. The athlete knows what to do for himself, the coach knows what to do for many types of individuals.
• Not achieving results makes a coach’s credibility (someone with whom you probably will dvelop a good friendship) be questioned. Just because of these 2 aspects, people who are coached tend to be really motivated to achieve their goals.

These are the reasons why many of the members of #TeamTransformerz decided to be coached by us, despite any credentials they may have. A different point of view, someone who doesn’t let us stray from the path towards our goals, a friend we don’t want to let down. Above all, someone who teaches us to manage our path is a type of help that’s worth gold, but actually costs almost nothing, and #TeamTransformerz members are aware of that.