Step 1: Assess
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Step 1: Assess
Today, we’ll look at the first step in the Precision Nutrition coaching process: Assessing your clients.
As a coach, you need to have a clear, step by step, repeatable, and trusted system for assessment.
Having a standardized set of forms and questionnaires lets you get accurate, useful, action-oriented information as efficiently as possible.
(It also helps you repeat the same great process with each and every client).
In our Level 1 and Level 2 Certification programs, we use a wide range of forms, questionnaires, and worksheets to assess/track everything from body measurements, eating habits, time use, stress, blood chemistry, and a lot more.
Today, I’ll share a few of these forms to give you an idea of how they work.
Today’s Resources
Initial Assessment & Triage questionnaire
Start here. This questionnaire covers the basics when working with new clients. It’s thorough while also being simple and clear.
Ready, Willing, and Able worksheet
How ready, willing, and/or able is your client to make changes? This form can help you assess a client’s starting point, as well as how consistent they’re likely to be with nutrition habits.
Note: While filling out this worksheet (or after) you can also ask clients what might make them more ready, willing, and able. Their answers can give you interesting insight as you co-create their action plan.
Eating Habits questionnaire
Instead of starting with a food journal, this eating habits assessment gives you a broad overview of a client’s nutritional skill and consistency.
Body Measurements form
If your client wants to change their body composition (for instance, to lose weight / fat or gain muscle), use this form to get a baseline and track progress.
Note: Client versions of Precision Nutrition’s forms are for the clients to take home and fill out themselves. Coach versions of PN’s forms contain scripts or background info you can use to either explain the form to clients or to understand why we’ve asked certain questions. It’s like a “Teacher’s guide” for school teachers.
Wrap Up
As mentioned above, we use a host of different assessments with our clients, based on their goals, where they’re at in the program, and their limiting factors.
In fact, there are 30+ questionnaires, forms, and worksheets in our toolbox to be used at various times with different clients.
If you’re interested in downloading all of them (including both the client and coach forms) click here.
Print them out as-is (with the Precision Nutrition logo) and start using them immediately. Note: Graduates of our Level 1 Certification program are permitted to rebrand these with their own company logo so their brand is front and center.
And that’s it for today; tomorrow I’ll be back with the next step in the nutrition coaching process… Step 2: Advise.
Specifically, we’ll discuss how to use what you learned during the initial assessment to plan a client’s nutrition strategy.
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