Coaching

Coaching can help you achieve and maintain your independence by getting healthier in the fastest way possible though weight-loss, alongside tools and techniques for managing stress and building strength & resilience.

“i didn’t know what ‘coaching for weight loss’ actually meant until a friend referred me to Chris. With my longterm chronic back pain i’ve been avoiding the gym for years and was firmly of the belief that i was never going to lose weight without exercise.

Running a business from home, i was getting into a stress spiral and needed some help to get my diet back on track. But Chris has helped me achieve so much more. I’ve lost 23lb in this time and learned how to keep it off. With the many habits I cemented using his A.D.A.P.T. methodology, my average day is a lot more productive and much less stressful”

Jim Scott

No Before & After Photos or FB Groups !

A confidential one to one service with absolutely no pressure to share your latest success on forums, facebook or linkedin groups etc. Allowing you to focus on the job at hand without worrying about onlookers or fitting in with the instagram crowd. This is about YOU not me, so unlike the rest of the industry, I won’t be asking you to take photos for MY marketing either. For the record, building a weight-loss centric business is much more difficult without photos to demonstrate results, but someone has to take a stand for privacy, so these are NOT required by your coach. Plenty of references are still available.

No More Time Wasting Fads!

An evidence based approach which also happens to be a more flexible, easier and simpler alternative to the ‘fat-burning’ exercise centric dogma seen elsewhere. Connect online with your coach at a time convenient to you; say early before you get showered or after the kids have gone to bed. 

If you put any sort of value on your time, then why would you waste it doing star jumps with Joe, to burn off fewer calories than your post-workout latte contains? 

Absolutely no generic exercises, restricted foods or mass-mailed prescriptive meal plans that pretend to be individualised.

This is NOT for everyone

Unless any of my experiences resonate with YOU?

• The idea of providing a coach or PT with ‘before and after photos’ is enough to make you avoid getting help. 
• The idea of being thrown into a back slapping FB ‘fat-fighters group’ isn’t really your cup of tea.
• You find intense cardio for weight loss fairly miserable, inconvenient or time consuming.
•   Pain or a longstanding injury has excused you from getting to the gym or going out running. You’ve told yourself that’s the reason you will never lose ‘the weight’.
•   On those occasions you’ve lost weight through exercise or diets, it doesn’t stay off for long.
•   You’ve lost weight on a few different diets but don’t know what to do when the diet ends.
• Group ‘shred’ or ‘spin’ classes were never discreet or enjoyable enough. Not really your scene. 
•  You’ve often told yourself ‘this brutally hard cardio session is what I deserve’. Perhaps following an indulgent weekend.
•  You beat yourself up on the days you are unable to get out for a run or a cycle because that’s how you’ve historically managed your weight. 

If you don’t enjoy the process, it won’t actually happen.

We all know this, but we somehow continue doing the same old punishing diets and routines while expecting a different result. I was no exception.

You may have already experienced that, what worked for a family member, didn’t work that great for you.

It’s not that you can’t get results, with the age old popular ‘solutions’. Because Spin, Crossfit, Cambridge, Keto, or the 5:2 diet, all work when applied consistently. But these extreme solutions are difficult to adhere to long-term, for most people. This is why we cant keep on track. We can only tolerate being miserable for a limited amount of time!. Makes total sense eh?

We’ve all struggled with this popular but dated ‘all or nothing’ approach to food and fitness at some point.

Is This What Success Looks Like?

Instead, we need a plan we can stick to, which in practice, means we need to establish what’s going to work for you!

Wouldn’t you prefer to achieve great results without cutting out your favourite foods? Without the hardship?

At this point, there’s a good chance you’ve already tried the diets, boot camps, spin classes, slimming classes and other popular approaches?

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The reason we can’t lose weight and keep it off is because without personalisation it’s a MISERABLE pursuit!

Coach Chris

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Sound Familiar?

Because there’s a much easier way to GET LEAN and more importantly, STAY lean. We already know that diets are hard to stick to long term. But it’s also time to stop beating yourself up when it comes to (not getting enough) exercise. Because both the evidence and our shared past results confirm that exercise is mostly a distraction when it comes to weight-loss. Unless your most important goal is getting faster, getting fitter, building muscle or getting stronger then fat-loss should be your first priority to get back to health, in the fastest way possible.  We already know that the commonplace goal of getting “allround healthier” is far too meaningless and general to pursue with any real measurable progress.

 Note: Of course, exercise is still important:) See the Q&A section for more info on where exercise fits into this programme.

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Enough Is Enough

Just like you, I spent years spinning my wheels before I realised I was spending lots of time on the wrong things.

A burgeoning pharma, diet, food and fitness industry relies on us all continuing to buy into their lies to keep their shareholders happy. With advertising budgets the size of an ‘oil rich nation’, these global organisations (bankrolled by us) have the best persuasion and behaviour manipulation tactics in the world at their disposal. For these businesses and industries, ‘facts’ are very often the enemy of profit. 

When this is considered, we can forgive ourselves for historically taking the wrong path on our journey to better health.

Are you fed up with the clickbait headlines, misinformation, and sensational content all masquerading as ‘fact’?

Is it time yet to move away from those solutions that only work for the short period you’re on-plan?

What happens on day 31 of our 30 day diet? Are we seriously going to go ‘keto’ for the rest of our lives?

Get the tools and knowledge you need to ESCAPE those Yo-Yo results of the past.

• Be totally converted to a new of thinking around weight loss and weight management.
• No longer be frustrated that you can’t find time for the gym or exercise.
• Walk away with the knowledge and information you need to maintain a leaner, more capable version of you.
• Be looking sharp and get back to to your confident self again, ready to go after the next big goal on your checklist.
• Be all-round healthier with newfound energy and resilience for whatever this bizarre world decides to throw at you next.
• Be quietly grinning at all your friends who are still pursuing those hip & trendy ‘all or nothing’ diets and fitness regimes of the past. 
• Enjoy getting leaner on YOUR timetable.

Take the 5 Step ADAPT approach for the Easiest and Fastest Path to Better Health, Or Your Money Back!

A nutrition, lifestyle and performance focussed framework that builds on habits over time without major commitment or hand-holding. 

All delivered once a week with personalised coaching via video or phone call at a time convenient to you. 

A.D.A.P.T.

Awareness and Analysis

How could anyone put a plan in place without first establishing where you are NOW? Particularly in MAD 1984! 

We will have a friendly chat around what YOUR life currently looks like. What action have you taken so far, what actions are currently moving you toward your goal and what might be getting in the way.

We are all heavily influenced by our environment and it’s important to get a sense for what you currently have on your plate, including responsibilities and any potential hurdles we may need to navigate. Discussing important things, like stress levels, sleep and energy levels which are all key factors that influence our ability to take control and stay on track.

Diminish

1. Removing Obstacles 

Based on our initial fact find, we will together come up with some options for destroying any obstacles that have prevented you succeeding in the past to allow us to effectively incorporate those initial subtle changes to your day. 

2. Removing Bodyfat

We will prioritise getting you as healthy as possible using the scientifically quickest way available. By reducing body-fat.

Your unique plan will be agreed together on our first chat with on call availability once per week to address any changes needed to keep the weight moving. 

After coming up with some options for making those initial subtle changes to your week, you get to pick something from our shortlist you can actually achieve! This is the game-changer.

 

It makes complete sense that we will get better results by keeping it simple. So unlike other ‘programmes’, we won’t be learning or implementing strategies for ‘food prep’ or ‘snacking’ if these aren’t a problem for YOU. Also, we will only be tracking those things we need to track to ensure we can monitor progress and get you the results you’re after. No more, no less.

 

Augment

Once we have the weight moving with predictability we can start adding in the fun stuff!

Getting lean will get you healthier faster than any other one thing as I’ve written about often enough. Now we can take the time to bring focus to those skills, knowledge and habits that properly round-out our health, capability, resilience, confidence and fortitude for the long term. 

Pick a new area of focus:

1. Build strength and muscle using bodyweight and minimal equipment?

2. Anxiety and Stress Management techniques?

3. Health, longevity and resilience techniques – Fasting, Sauna, Cold Water?

 

Persistence

We won’t fall into the commonplace ‘novelty’ trap from week to week seen everywhere else. If something’s working then we won’t be inclined to add in lot’s of new challenges or mini-goals in addition to what you’re already doing, just to keep it “interesting”. Consistency with the small stuff will get us results!

 That being said, each week is an opportunity to either modify the course we’re on, or choose a different option. Nothing is set in stone.

 In addition to those online chats, you’ll be receiving weekly nutrition and lifestyle hacks, to help you implement successfully and keep the weight off into the future under your own steam.

 You’ll have access to recipe packs, cheatsheets and our unconventional guides on snacking, alcohol, portion control, binge eating, training, cold/heat therapy, anxiety and fasting alongside many others you won’t find anywhere else. 

Thrive

   What does living your best life look like for you and your family? Strong? Stress free? Financially and physically independent? Perhaps you just want to be around longer to support the ones you love as much as possible?

Everything you’ve learned along the way gets collated as we go within your coaching portal, with perhaps the most important part of your coaching journey being our final call.

Because all of the tactics we identified along the way (unique to you) come together in a wrap up session, with a follow up action plan for going it alone.

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What’s the Damage Chris?

Whats the damage if you don’t take action? How much do you want to change? You’ll be pleased to learn this isn’t a commonplace one-size-fits-all ‘solution’ for the masses that only gets ‘results’ for SOME people. Because a coaching approach helps us focus on YOUR specific health needs, which is what sets this solution apart from everything else you’ve experienced. Individualisation takes more time, but this is how we get REMARKABLE results. 

That being said, given that most people (quite rightly) want to focus on losing weight initially, i’ve created my Weight Reset DIY programme to strike that balance between affordability and the service level you need to get results.

*NOTE: If you’re cash poor and SERIOUSLY want to get back in control of your health then just get in touch to explore possibilities that will get you the results you’re after within budget.

DIY WEIGHT RESET

4-12 Week Weight Loss Focussed Coaching Programme (eat nothing and be happy:)

£* see note above

• Choose your duration up to 12 weeks
• Self Directed, with timely guidance
• Weekly Check-ins
• Fortnightly Zoom Calls
• Steps through your free workbook.
• Weekly habit and nutrition skills based learning modules
• Includes a support call at 3 months post completion      

THE WEIGHT RESET

Fully featured 12 week improvement plan with guided support

£ enquire

• Weekly check-ins
• Weekly Zoom calls
• App access
• Coach monitoring (Via App)
•  Tracking sleep, stress, activity and energy levels through the App
• Access to all library resources for 3 months post completion
• Includes a support call at 3 months post completion  
• Split payments available 

BUILT BACK BETTER

As WEIGHT RESET with ‘total support’, additional time and flexibility for bigger goals (not yet ESG approved:)

£ enquire

• 14 flexible check-ins
• 14 flexible Zoom sessions
• Email Access
• Daily coach monitoring (via App)
• Book your own adhoc sessions
• Access to all library resources
• Package can extend to 6 months
• Includes access to all learning material for 1 year
• Includes two support calls at 3 and 6 months post completion
• Gift a friend or family member access to 4 weeks of coaching for free

30 Days Money Back Guarantee

If you are ready to take action but are hesitant for whatever reason, i can totally understand. That’s why i created this guarantee, in order for you to feel comfortable with your decision, and remove any perceived financial risk. 

If after participating fully, you do not agree that the process of coaching is worth every penny of the price you paid, inform me any time within the first 30 days and I will promptly refund you for the entire amount. 

So what have you got to lose? Because the risk is ALL Mine!

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“i didn’t know what ‘coaching for weight loss’ actually meant until a friend referred me to Chris. With my longterm chronic back pain i’ve been avoiding the gym for years and was firmly of the belief that i was never going to lose weight without exercise.

Running a business from home, i was getting into a stress spiral and needed some help to get my diet back on track. But Chris has helped me achieve so much more. I’ve lost 23lb in this time and learned how to keep it off. With the many habits I cemented using his A.D.A.P.T. methodology, my average day is a lot more productive and much less stressful”

Jim Scott

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Take control of your health, stay ahead of the game, inspire your family to do the same.

Coach Chris

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One Man and His Dog Can Only Do So Much

It’s only Chris here at ManAdapted HQ for the moment and i’m properly busy making sure my clients get a great service. So there’s a limit to the number of clients I can onboard each month.

So schedule a call, i won’t bite. I’ll support you on your journey for as long as you need me, but within a short period of time you’ll have all the knowledge and tools you need to get the job done (forever). When the plan is to have you looking great and fending for yourself it’s hopefully clear this is a very different, results orientated service. After we’re done, I honestly never want to see you again unless it’s over a beer.

Another Snake Oil Salesman?

Unlike those smooth talking and much better looking insta gurus cluttering up your feed with ads, I don’t have any secondary products to sell, nor am I proposing a ‘magic’ food, powder, bodytype diet, ‘fat burning’ regime or ‘blueprint’.

Question Everything

Any claims made on this page can instead be wholly substantiated. That’s because what I practice and recommend, follows basic, evidence based, common sense principles for the most part.

But I also understand nothing nobody is to be trusted anymore, and you don’t know me from Adam, so please, please do your own homework, and feel free to put me on the spot about anything 🙂

My Background

“How’s things chunky?” My loving brother would say, as he slapped me on the back…

For a long time, that was his customary greeting and my fairly regular reminder that I was out of shape. I suppose it was a ‘laugh’ the 1st few times he did it.

I’ve always been fairly thick skinned, so it was going to take more than a few jibes and jabs of my beer belly to get me to change my ways. But overweight and in a desk job, perhaps it was just a matter of time before I also developed piriformis syndrome and sciatica.

Only 41, I was starting to to get worried about the trajectory of things and it took me a while to realise that I was doing a lot of moaning, without actually doing much about it.

Running, cycling or kettlebells didn’t help either….

Because when I tried to lose weight following the mainstream ‘exercise’ advice, my sciatica pain levels became unbearable.

Going ‘full bore’ down the gym had always been the key tool in my toolbox when it came to losing a few pounds. But even though the belt buckle was moving in the wrong direction, I gave myself an easy time about it, because I had back and leg pain after all.

With a raised BMI being a KEY risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, musculoskeletal disorders and certain cancers, i knew i needed a plan.

But I enjoyed a few few beers on the weekend and could never be the obsessive healthy eating guy, so I guess It was just easier to accept that age, obesity and ill health would take it’s course as it does for almost everybody else.

It was during my evidence based nutrition studies, that I later discovered that everything I believed about exercise and fat-loss was wrong. That the gym and exercise is fairly useless for fat-loss, for most people.

I’ve written extensively about how exercise and it’s effectiveness for ‘fat loss’ has been greatly exaggerated over the years. It’s a pervasive myth that won’t die. Because if life ever gets back to how it should be, gyms and 5K starting lines will most likely fill up once more, with people trying to lose weight unsuccessfully.

I’ve learned that we can do more for our health and risk factors by simply losing weight, than by focussing on any other one thing, and that many of the usual pursuits (falsely associated with fat-loss) are just distractions for most people as they were for me.

A final word. 

I don’t know about you but I’m a terrible back seat driver:)

But I know that, by focussing on the things we can control, not only can we reduce anxiety and stress, we can also become less reliant on the help of others over time.

So with ‘the reset’ in full swing, along with increasing doubts around whether support structures like pensions or health services can be relied upon in old age, I believe that our personal independence and autonomy has never been more important.

What do you believe?

Let me help you build some healthy lifetime habits, to put you back in the driving seat.

Chris