AFPA Health and Fitness Blog

If you’re ready to take the leap and become a health coach, you’re in good company. Health coaches have the power to transform lives by changing behaviors so people can make healthier choices in order to battle chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. Your passion for helping others pursue and achieve their goals […]

With the rise in healthy living, the need for personal trainers, health coaches, and nutritionists is greater than ever before. While it’s an exciting time for successful business owners, the tremendous growth of the market also means more competition for entrepreneurs in the space.

Imagine walking into the waiting room where you will meet with a new health specialist for the first time. 

As your health coaching business grows, you may find that handling a larger volume of clients becomes overwhelming. After all, you have an increasing number of clients needing your attention day in and day out.  

An Overview of Burnout and Ways to Overcome it Burnout is when your body and mind—which normally handle stress well—reach a limit on mitigating chronic stress and break down as a result.

As health, wellness, nutrition, and fitness coaches, one of the primary skills that you develop during your training is how to guide your clients toward adopting behaviors that make them healthier. You help them to achieve physical, mental, and social wellbeing.

There are more than 350,000 personal trainers working in the United States and almost 110,000 health coaches. 

Black-owned health and fitness entrepreneurs and health specialists been transforming industries for the better as long as they have existed. As far back as Dr. James McCune Smith and Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler in the 19th century, Black Americans have made vital contributions to public health, medical research, health business, and health education, despite arduous […]

What does it take to be a “good” health coach?  By nature, most health coaches work directly with clients who are looking for support from a professional to implement lifestyle changes that aim to improve their health and wellbeing. 

Today, half of all Americans are battling a chronic disease, and one in four has multiple chronic conditions. By 2030, these chronic conditions could cost impact the global economy to the tune of $47 trillion in healthcare spending. What is the factor that weighs heaviest in chronic conditions? Habitual behaviors.  Changing habits can be hard, […]