Health Coaching
Meet Coach Louis
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Greetings,
I’d like to learn more about your practice and share how my pragmatic, goal-driven approach assists people stay-on-track and achieve long-term success.
Decades of experience and specialized training has prepared me to work with a wide variety of patients to develop sound, balanced, weight-management programs that include nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle change.
My training has specifically enabled me to understand and apply:
Relationships between exercise and nutrition that apply to weight-control and athletic performance
Cardiovascular risk factors, physical activity guidelines, fitness assessments and injury prevention
Psychological aspects of weight management
Behavior change strategies and lifestyle modification plans
Biomechanics and physiological impact of obesity
Self-monitoring and modern day coaching tools
I look forward to learning the many ways my evidence-based services can enhance your practice and assist your patience who need additional support achieving their wellness goals.
Healthy Regards,
Louis Coraggio
Exercise Physiologist: BSc.
Professional Coach: CTI
Health Coach: ACE
Behavior Change Specialist: ACE
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Greetings,
Thanks for considering my pragmatic, goal-driven approach designed to help people achieve long-term health and well-being. Coaching FAQs
Decades of experience and specialized training has prepared me to design sound, balanced, weight-management programs that include nutrition, exercise, and lifestyle change.
My training has specifically enabled me to understand and apply:
Relationships between exercise and nutrition that apply to weight-control and athletic performance
Cardiovascular risk factors, physical activity guidelines, fitness assessments and injury prevention
Behavior change strategies and lifestyle modification plans
Psychological aspects of weight management
Self-monitoring and modern day coaching tools
Biomechanics and physiological impact of obesity
I’d like to learn more about your goals and organize a personalized plan that transforms your goals into reality.
Healthy Regards,
Louis Coraggio
Exercise Physiologist: BSc.
Professional Coach: CTI
Health Coach: ACE
Behavior Change Specialist: ACE
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Louis looks forward to learning about your goals and getting to know you better during your free coaching consultation. Apply Now
Coaching clients receive access to our cutting-edge coaching app
Coaching Benefits
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Common conditions such as obesity, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure benefit greatly from simple health and lifestyle modifications.
Personalized plans are designed to improve these chronic conditions, which are complex and expensive when poorly managed, but affordable and easily understood when managed well.
Louis works one-to-one with his clients and organizes easy-to-follow digital plans that deliver individual health tasks and a structured plan to follow.
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Weight management is largely a matter of energy intake versus energy output and establishing the recommended balance between the two. Other factors like stress levels and food quality are highly impactful.
Louis’ modern day weight loss strategies helps busy professionals perform their best mentally, emotionally and physically.
Instead of weight loss being a high-pressure effort, Louis’ affirmative coaching style introduces new concepts and solutions that encourage clients to enjoy their journey, every step of the way.
Louis’ modern day weight loss strategies helps busy professionals perform their best mentally, emotionally and physically.
Instead of weight loss being a high-pressure effort, Louis’ affirmative coaching style introduces new concepts and solutions that encourage clients to enjoy their journey, every step of the way.
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An astonishing body of research shows that simple lifestyle modifications such as:
Increased Physical Activity
Healthy Eating Habits
Constructive Coping Techniques
Significantly protects our health and enhances our well-being.
Three common behaviors; Lack of Physical Activity, Tobacco Use and Poor diet.
Lead to these life threatening diseases; Heart Disease and Stroke, Lung Disease, Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has found that these lifestyle-related conditions – are responsible for over 70% of global deaths.
89% of Americans said they would like to manage their healthcare using an app or a website in the future
Wellness Interventions
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Louis focuses on reducing hypokinetic diseases or conditions, which are associated with too little activity or exercise and may include:
Cardiovascular Disease
Low-Back Pain
Diabetes
Overweight/Unfit and Obesity
Armed with compassion, superior communication skills, rapport-building know-how, the ability to elicit motivation and increase a person’s capacity to change by embodying positivity, resilience and self-efficacy.
The present-day health coach helps clients accomplish weight related lifestyle modifications through:
Goal-Setting, Education, Motivation, Support, Planning
Appropriate Progressions, Referrals (when necessary)
Prospective clients receive a complimentary consultation after enrolling.
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Custom-Built Plans are available in Bronze, Silver and Gold. Each plan offers:
Four Weeks of Scheduled Activity
Virtual 1:1 Sessions that Multiply w/ Each Tier
Cutting-Edge Coaching App (iOS/Android)
Fitness Guidance, Health Coaching, Behavior Change Strategies
Personalized Habit Prompts
Habit and Task Assignments
Adaptive Fitness Routines
Progressive & Modifiable Exercises
Meal Sharing, Macro Ratios
Community Forums
Personalized 1:1 Support
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Stress is the most common reason people abandon their health goals. It depletes self-control, lowers feelings of self-efficacy and decreases energy and motivation.
Too much stress triggers negative emotions such as anxiety, anger and sadness.
Many people tend to respond unproductively to negative feelings and extreme emotional stress by over eating, even when they are not hungry.
Guiding clients to monitor and manage stress levels provides valuable feedback and keeps clients on track.
Well designed lifestyle modification plans strive to produce as little stress as possible, especially for emotional eaters.
Sometimes a goal to “eat less” than normal causes more stress, which can lead, paradoxically, to overeating.
91% of patients said they need more help with chronic disease management
Whole-Person Care
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A health care team is now globally recognized as an essential tool for constructing a more effective and patient-centered health care delivery system.
Most people know that physical activity is important, but they’re either pressed for time, tired, frustrated or confused about how to achieve results — so they just give up (not knowing how essential exercise really is).
This is where health coaches come into play and provides support, empathy and more information when requested. Having a team approach allows the best qualities of each speciality to shine.
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Doctors are becoming increasingly overwhelmed with patients who need extra support improving their health.
Most physicians do not have the extra time to assist patients in this way, which is why they are enlisting the services of health coaches.
Studies report that 50% of patients do not fully understand the advice of their physician. (Chodosh et al., 2005).
Among those who do understand, few internalize and act upon the advice, “eat less and exercise more” or even to take a given medication, with over 50% of medication prescriptions left unfilled (Sabate, 2003).
A team based approach reduces medication errors, supports patients and improves the limited amount of time doctors have with their patients each visit.
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Many people often say, “I know what I’m supposed to do. I just can’t seem to get myself to do it.”
People tend to consistently underestimate the time, energy, and other resources required to complete health related tasks and have a tendency to set unrealistic fitness goals.
Lifestyle Modification Tools:
Health history form and medical clearance (when necessary)
One-to-One virtual and in-person health coaching
Personalized daily health habit prompts
Activity, nutrition, and behavior-change plans
Exploration of preferences and self-determined health goals
Set realistic goals and take small steps that reinforce confidence
Self-monitoring and performance tracking tools
Feedback surveys, weekly check-ins, progress updates
42% of U.S. adults reported undesired weight gain since the start of the pandemic, with an average gain of 29 pounds
Action Plans
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Successful behavioral change is almost always the result of SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-Bound) goals accumulated over time.
Goal Setting Tips:
Specific goals add structure and direct energy to manageable actions and tasks
Avoid setting overly general or unrealistic goals. These type of goals can demotivate and overwhelm people
Transforming large, life goals into a series of small, task-oriented goals provides a roadmap for success
Achieve your goals faster with agenda mapping, weekly goal attainment check-ins and a variety of on-going support tools
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Accountability is the fundamental structure that keeps the conversation going and helps the coach and client have a mutual understanding, what goals the client agrees to start working on.
This helps people stay-on-track as they plan and commit to taking action and in return, learn from the action they take, or don’t take.
Inquiry Questions:
What are you going to do?
When will you have it done?
How will you be accountable?
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The planning phase establishes new habits and routines, determines when and clients will begin these actions and envisions how these changes will fit into their life.
The most effective behavior change strategies are stage-specific interventions that target the present mindset clients have as they progress from one stage to the next.
Precontemplation (not thinking about change)
Contemplation (weighing the pros and cons)
Preparation (getting ready to make a change)
Action (practicing the new behavior)
Maintenance (incorporating the new behavior)
Those in preparation, action and maintenance have advanced to the planning and execution stage.
Behavior Change Techniques
Evidence-Based Research
Please apply prior to booking your first session
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Louis looks forward to learning about your specific goals and connecting with you! After submitting your enrollment you’ll see a 15 min consultation online booking link. Apply Now