A personal trainer should ask clients "How is this a problem for you now?" before addressing any issue. One client might lose weight fine eating nightly ice cream, while another's ice cream habit triggers binges that sabotage progress. The same problem isn't a problem for everyone.
How is this a problem for you now? That's a question I often ask clients, trainers, people who I work with to get clear on what the problem is. Because a lot of the time people search for problems that aren't there, or a problem that should be a problem because it's a problem for someone else that isn't a problem for you. So don't take on other people's problems. An example of this is, let's say for example you have ice cream every night and you're still losing weight and you're looking great and you're progressing in the gym. Well, the ice cream clearly is not a problem for you, but for some people ice cream could be a massive problem. It could be exactly the problem as to why they're unable to weight, or eating the ice cream leads them onto a binge of not being able to control their own appetite. Well, for that person, it is a massive problem because that's the thing that's holding them back. So we need to look at our problems or look at our things that we want to get better at and understand and ask ourselves this first question, which is: how is that a problem for you now?
