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Lauren Muney at age 40:
Wellness coach and featured in
"Fit Over 40: Role Models for Excellence"

COACHING AT MERRITT ATHLETIC CLUBS, BALTIMORE AREA (Maryland)

 OVERVIEW | PROCEDURE | EXAMPLES_OF_GOALS | PROGRAMS_AVAILABLE | MEET_THE_COACH | FIND_OUT,_SIGN_UP | INFORMATIONAL_SEMINAR
 

 

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To MERRITT MEMBERS:

Are you achieving all the fitness results
you deserve?

Have you been striving to improve your physical, mental, emotional, and even your business health, and still feel stressed in achieving your goals?

Do you want to completely transform
your life?

To change your life, you must first learn how to change your mind: You are taught to empower your fitness, your health, your work, your spirit, your own life! Coaching accelerates your fitness results, and improves other facets of living: time-management, stress-management, comprehension of confusing ‘diet hype’, reversing negativity, overcoming obstacles which block your reaching your best “life potential”. This program is BASED ON YOU: your desires and your goals. Imagine, a coach is helping you in the way YOU need it most!

This is the most convenient, most custom,
most supportive program that you
ever participated in!

OVERVIEW:

The traditional personal trainer concept may work well for one hour in the gym, but what about the other 23 hours of the day? YOU are coached to be your OWN ‘TRAINER’, to re-form and re-establish your ideas about fitness, nutrition, and wellness.

Only when the mind and spirit are changed, can the rest of the body follow.

Changing the body requires changing the mind.

A new approach is required. You demand a personalized program which deals with your unique situation and barriers to success, while helping you make changes that last. Coaching is the solution. The coach can helps you reach the wellness goals that you are struggling to reach alone. The coach equips you to take responsibility of your life like never before.

One-on-one coaching empowers you to:          

  • Develop a life vision which encompasses all aspects of physical and emotional well-being: physique goals, energy goals, stress-reduction goals.

  • Make long-lasting changes and reach a higher level of fitness, wellness, time-management, and stress-management

  • Finds strategies to deal with your unique challenges

  • Asks you to do more than you may have done on your own

  • Helps you focus better in order to produce results more quickly

  • Make sense of the confusing media hype about nutrition and/or exercise

  • Provides you with the understanding, comprehension, support, and structure to accomplish more than before coaching began

Wellness/Lifestyle Coaching can provide the support and guidance needed to make physical, nutritional, time management changes that can create a healthier and happier life.
 


READ TESTIMONIALS FROM CLIENTS (<--- click here)
 
PROCEDURE:

Here’s how it works: you provide background health information through a comprehensive questionnaire during their first coaching session so that Lauren is well-informed on the key issues, including medical limitations.

You learn how to seek a vision for your life to take, set realistic concrete goals toward that vision,  and systematically make progress towards the goals, which work for your entire life!

You and Lauren, together, then commit to a coaching program for making changes towards the vision. There are several coaching programs to choose from, ranging from a one-time 2-1/2-hour seminar to target lifestyle trouble spots, to three-month program whereby you would be coached weekly by phone.
 
EXAMPLES OF VISIONS AND GOALS:

  • "I see myself looking as young on the outside as I feel on the inside"

  • "I see myself living my life, but not have my life run-over me"

  • "I see my future self a role model to my children"

  • "I see myself enjoying every day, not being hurried, and savoring what life has to offer"

  • "I see myself finally understanding how to eat"

  • "I see myself entering a marathon next year"

  • "I see myself completed non-stressed, calm, organized, and with a willing smile all the time"
     

  • Learning to eat healthier for your own needs

  • Healthy weight reduction

  • Stress management

  • Time management

  • Fitness scheduling

  • Less fat, more muscle (changed body composition)

  • More energy

  • Better self-talk

This list is in no way exhaustive. Most clients come with their own needs and wants. Each client is different from another, and sometimes the goals modify over the coaching timeline.

In the 30-40 minute weekly telephone coaching sessions, you and Lauren review the progress from the last week’s goals, learn something new or develop a solution to overcome an obstacle, and then agree on a set of goals for the following week. After a few weeks of coaching sessions, you begin to notice improvements in how you feel and look, and your motivation to continue efforts to change increases. Obstacles are discussed with the coach, and solutions are integrated into behaviors.

By the end of three months, clients typically reach more than 70% of their established big goals and are energized and confident to commit to changing new areas.
 

PROGRAMS AVAILABLE:

Members will be able to choose from several programs offered to Merritt Athletic Club members:

SmartFitness: a one-time-only in-person 2-1/2-hour seminar which reviews your health history, eating, exercise, and stress management habits to overview what changes would be beneficial. This program is more on a consultation basis, directive in approach. It is a 'jumpstart 'program to learn more in-depth about your own lifestyle needs and how to create your own health. This program is a stand-alone, and is not any prerequisite for any other program.        

Lifestyle Coaching: starting with a three-month commitment, the your health history, current eating, exercise, and/or stress management actions are investigated. Through goal-setting and weekly telephone coaching, your are encouraged, guided, and uplifted to meet, exceed, and evolve the goals. These telephone sessions can be held via cell phone, work, or home phone, depending on the agreed-upon schedule of coach and client. Very convenient way of being guided on your goals!

MEET THE COACH:

Merritt Athletic Club’s lifestyle coach is Lauren Muney of Physical Mind. Lauren is a certified physical fitness trainer and health coach; both her certifications were awarded at the Cooper Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, Texas, one of the most prestigious fitness-research facilities in the United States. She is currently enrolled in Wellcoaches coach-training program, and maintains a private lifestyle-coaching practice, focusing on the holistic (“whole-body”) aspects of fitness and wellness. Lauren believes that if you locate the source of the difficulty (not just the symptoms), you can solve the problems. She is a member of the DC Coaching Federation, and has workshopped through Coachville, a highly-respected coach training program. Lauren is also Merritt Athletic Club’s corporate coaching trainer/educator. She is a native Marylander, although blessed with travel and work throughout the United States.
 
FIND OUT, SIGN UP:

If you are a Merritt Athletic Club member and are interested in this wellness coaching program, please contact Lauren.
 

INFO and SIGNUP: contact Lauren

INFORMATIONAL SEMINAR:

There will be periodic member seminars regarding the wellness/lifestyle coaching.

For additional FAQ, please see the FAQ page.
 
DISCLAIMER: Any application of the recommendations set forth in this website or in personal consultation is at the reader's discretion and sole risk. The advice and coaching from Physical Mind and Lauren Muney is intended for people in good health. Anyone with medical problems of any nature should see a doctor before starting a diet and exercise program. Even if you have no known health problems, it is advisable to consult your doctor before making major changes in your lifestyle. Any recommendations regarding diet or nutritional treatments should be discussed with your doctor.

Last website update: 06/09/2005
Physical Mind Fitness is NOT affiliated with the
PhysicalMind Institute of Pilates training and certification,
which can be reached at its own website.