Coaching
We believe your health and wellbeing journey extends well beyond injury. Once pain is managed and rehab complete, its time to reach your real health potential with the Merseyside Health Coaching Service.
Our Coaching Pathways
Health Coaching
Merseyside Health Coaching is our entry coaching program. This service is appropriate for those who want to learn and implement the fundamentals of building a sustainable healthy lifestyle.
Cutting through the health industry gimmicks and fads, our trusted team of sports and exercise scientists, physiotherapists and dietitians will identify your health priorities and coach you to a fitter, stronger and healthier you.
How Coaching Works
Many of our health coaching clients have come to us through injury. So we tend to know you quite well already. If this isn’t the case we will find out about you and make a full assessment of your goals. For every person health coaching should be a unique experience based on your priorities and our assessment of your health needs.
How to apply. If you have not been seen by a member of our team previously and referred for health coaching by a physio, please don’t worry. Simply book a Health Coaching onboarding appointment via our booking system. This is where the conversation begins and a plan takes shape.
Our Promise To You
We will provide individualised evidence based health coaching from real life registered health professionals, no auto generated AI programs, no cookie cutter generic advice. This is all about your health journey and taking you beyond the point of injury recovery to the best health possible.
Performance Coaching
Merseyside Health Performance Coaching is a service designed for those with high levels of physical fitness who are ready to take their fitness goals to the next level. Perhaps you have taken on the challenge of a lifetime or need sport specific conditioning to reach your performance goals this season.
Read our coaching team profiles below to gain a full insight into our experience. From Olympians to premiership footballers and ultra endurance athletes, our coaching team has the depth and breadth of experience to see you reach your potential.
Getting Started
Onboarding call – all performance coaching clients begin with an onboarding call to check your suitability for the program and ensure we have the experience and resources to help you. You can book this call now.
Testing
Performance coaching requires testing to establish baselines and evaluate the effectiveness of the program over time. Our coaching team incorporate a series of tests from lactate threshold & cardiovascular assessments to strength and symmetry markers. we want you to feel the difference but also track objective progress.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is this coaching Online or face to face?
This coaching service is hybrid (online & face to face). We are dedicated to serving the Liverpool and Merseyside region and so many of our clinics and facilities are in this area. For the purposes of testing for example you may be advised to come face to face into clinic but a simple program check in would likely be a phone or video call. Usually our coaches are based in clinics so if you need to see them it can easily be arranged.
Can I still have physiotherapy while being on the coaching program?
Yes – your physio may feel that its time for you to move towards a coaching model of care but we know that at any time niggles can return. Simply book a physio appointment for treatment as you did before and let your coaching team know at the next check in so they can adjust as needed.
What is the difference between health and performance coaching?
The principals are often very similar, but it helps us to organise our coaching team. Performance coaching requires more back room planning and strategy to keep things progressing towards a specific goal. While our health coaching clients often need more time to build habits and foundations for future progression.
How long before I see progress?
A health coaching client will often be starting from a lower fitness baseline than a performance one and so progress is often more rapid compared to our performance clients slogging it out for that next 1% improvement. When you start making positive changes to your diet and exercise you can begin to feel better very quickly. We know exercise and diet can have profound short term benefits to mood and sense of wellbeing. However objective measures of real strength gain and cardiovascular changes can takes months. Its better to think about your health over months and years. If it was quick and easy everyone would do it.
I have been promised rapid weight change with this program I have seen online. Why should I go with your approach instead?
There a many ways to skin a cat. But when it comes to health and specifically weight management, sustainability is key. We know from the research that people who lose weight rapidly through aggressive crash dieting and intensive exercise gain back again rapidly. Health coaching is about sustainable progress and supporting you do this in a way they doesn’t damage your health.
I'm currently injured can I still join a coaching program?
Yes, ensure you tell your coaching lead and they will make sure the program works around your injury. Many of our coaching team come from a rehab background, so they will likely want to support you and check what you have been doing. If you are being treated by a Merseyside Health Physio your coach will already be aware as our physio and coaching team are fully integrated.