Client Blogs I’ve always been a proponent of documenting your workouts and keeping a journal of your fitness and nutrition experiences. It somehow makes you more cognizant of how you exercise, eat, and how you feel, whereas most people just do things unconciously with their daily living habits. Anyway, I’ve been reading more and more lately about how people are using blogs as their source for keeping an electronic journal of their fitness or weightloss experiences. To me, this makes good sense and it’s a way to motivate yourself to continue getting results. Additionally, blogs allow “subscribers” (people who follow your blog) a first-hand, inside glimpse into a person’s adventures, self-reflections, struggles and successes. This is good too. Want to see some sample blogs on fitness and weightloss? Just do a search on Google, MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog and you’ll see tons of them. The biggest benefit I like with a blog for a client is that it can act as a behavior change agent for the client, not just as a source of information, research and news. It makes the client more accountable to him/herself, their trainer, and their “subscribers.” Of course, a person can set things up to be anonymous or have a private invitation only site. Does blogging require a lot of technical skills and html webmastering? Nope. Not any more. Everything is simple and layed out for you with the various programs available these days. You just have to have the time and dedication to write a post at least 2 or 3 times per week and the desire to write. If you want to create your own blog on your fitness or weightloss experiences, I highly recommend Blogger. It’s part of the Google Network, it’s free, and super easy to operate. You can get a blog up and running in less than 30 minutes. That’s it. If you need some help with creating your own blog, shoot me an email. I’ll help you get started and even set it up for you. Try it!
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