The Enterprise Fitness Podcast

Empathy and authority.   The two most powerful forces in coaching.   Empathy is about understanding and compassion.   Authority is about respect and earned trust.   Sadly, this isn’t taught in personal training school, and very few trainers ever get the memo.   A coach with empathy means they ‘get you’. They understand your situation, and you’re not just some schmuck with average goals. They know how to read you, when to push you and give you vinegar, and when to support you and give you honey.   A coach with authority has a why for everything they do. It’s built on them studying their craft and being a student. You respect and trust them because they actually know what they are doing and how to get you results (unlike many of these thirsty social media fit-pros who are more concerned with whether they took a good selfie than serving their client).   But that’s a topic for another day.   It's the dichotomy of empathy and authority that creates a great coaching relationship.   This is something that I teach to