The Coach Celi Podcast - An Introduction

The Coach Selly podcast aims to guide listeners in achieving lasting progress with their health, fitness, and body composition goals. The host, Selly, wants to show that achieving goals doesn't have to be complicated or draining, and that there is a lot of contradicting advice out there. Selly shares her own journey of becoming a coach and her love for learning. She also discusses the importance of mindset and perspective in achieving positive body image and goals. Selly introduces her values-based coaching method, which focuses on finding out what truly matters to individuals and using that as a starting point for consistency. Listeners can expect more episodes covering different struggles and solutions. Hello and welcome to the Coach Selly podcast. This podcast will serve as your guide to actually achieving lasting progress with your health, fitness and body composition goals. You can expect to explore topics with me about how to empower yourself, change your perspective around challenges and gain knowledge on the basics so that you realize that navigating your goals does not need to be an overcomplicated, painful process. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Selly, your host, and I am an online coach and PT. I am creating this podcast really for two main reasons. One, because it genuinely gets me excited to get out of bed every morning to help my clients and to show people that achieving goals, whether that be fat loss, gaining muscle or strength, feeling good and healthier, does not need to be a confusing, draining experience. I think there is tons of contradicting, confusing advice out there and for the seven years that I have been in the fitness industry, I often see people put their efforts in the wrong places, naturally get frustrated and then not achieve lasting progress. I also really love learning and I'm fully aware that there is always so much to learn. There's always new research, different opinions and I have always loved looking at why things work a certain way and why we as humans think and work in a certain way. To be honest with you, I didn't feel confident in my abilities as a coach until I started investing in my own knowledge, doing courses like the EIT Nutrition course, having a coach myself for three years. It made me realize that often the steps to get to a goal are usually simple, but it's human behavior that makes things get a little bit more nuanced and where challenges can arise. With this podcast, I want to share what I'm learning, making sure that your goals work for you, not against you. To be honest, I want to show you how I coach so you can see the different steps to achieve different goals and make better decisions for yourself. I want to go into a little bit about me and my journey. I started working in gyms on reception and as a lifeguard when I was 16. I was part-time whilst I was studying and I got more and more into the gym and training. I decided to do my PT qualification and moved into a corporate gym in London. It was really in lockdown where I realized that my PT qualification didn't give me enough to help people properly with long-term behavior change or to teach them the truth behind nutrition and diet fads. I started becoming a little bit obsessed with watching videos from people like Dr. Lane Norton, listening to Emma Storey Gordon's podcast, Dr. Mike Israetel. I was hooked. I was hooked on understanding why fad diets didn't work and what did work instead. I also began to fall in love with building my body and strength. I decided I'm going to get a coach. I'm still coaching with Meg Sylvester. We did have the idea of maybe competing in a bodybuilding show. We spent a year building up my food. I did a practice prep diet, kind of like as a challenge to see whether I would enjoy it. Now, I definitely did enjoy the process and I learned how dieting works and how much of a mind game it is, which 100% I'm going to do an episode on just by itself. At the time, I was really focused on becoming a better coach and I didn't actually think competing on a stage is something that I wanted to do. I do continue to work with Meg for accountability, to help me with my training in particular. This is where I will mention, getting a coach makes you realize you have no idea how to train. When it comes to form, execution, actually going to failure, you think you have an idea but until you're exposed to training to failure and intention towards things like tempo with every single rep, it's a game changer. The more that I learned, the more I realized how much unhelpful advice there was out there. The main thing, and this is probably one of the biggest things I try to imprint onto my client's mind, is that your mindset and perspective can literally be the difference between a good experience with body image and a goal and a detrimental one. I truly believe that helping people with their self-belief, figuring out what their true priorities are, not other people's wants, not what they think society wants of them, but what their priorities are, is where the magic lies to gain inconsistency. That kind of leads me on to how I coach and I have actually changed the way I coach a little bit. I created something called the values-based coaching method and I'm planning on doing a whole separate episode on this, going into it more in depth. As a little overview, if you are someone who feels confused, frustrated, we're not getting long-term results, then the values-based coaching method is for you. The way I show people how to get consistent results is by finding out what their values are first. You can think of values as things that will spark action in you. Clarity on what is truly important to you in all aspects of your life gives you a starting point from which you can create consistency. There'll be more on that to come, but I thought I would leave you with that as a little bit of a preview of how I work. If you do have any struggles you want help with, this is literally what I do and I love hearing about things that people struggle with, so then I can show you the different solutions and show you that you can have simple effective steps. I'll cover them in following episodes and you can find me on Instagram at CoachZellie. I hope you have enjoyed this little introduction and I cannot wait to hear your feedback, so please feel free to send me any. Thanks so much for listening. If you do find this useful or you think someone else might find this useful, please share it.