The Coaching Lab: Health, Wellness & Performance! (Brad Cooper, PhD)
Welcome to The Coaching Lab podcast, your trusted source for engaging, evidence-based, thought-provoking health, wellness & high-performance insights for those looking to improve their lives (or coaches/clinicians looking to enhance client outcomes). The Coaching Lab is the evidence-based journey toward better! If you've been looking for a health & wellness podcast that avoids the fluff and the headline-chasing fads while providing practical, real-world guidance, you just found it. We bring together the world's foremost experts, from world-class researchers and best-selling authors to elite athletes and coaches, sharing their insights about how to make the most of your personal and professional life. If you're looking for an entertaining format to help optimize your own health, wellness and performance through such evidence-based practices, this is the place for you! The Coaching Lab podcast is hosted by Dr. Brad Cooper, who brings a uniquely expansive background to the table. He has a PhD in performance psychology along with Masters degrees in both physical therapy (MSPT) and business (MBA) and a Bachelors degree in biology. He is CEO/Co-founder of Catalyst Coaching, an internationally recognized speaker, and elite masters endurance athlete (11 time Ironman, including 4 times at the Hawaii Ironman World Championship, winner of the 2-person 3,000 cycling Race Across America and 2:47 marathoner). Most importantly, he's husband to Suzanna (celebrating 30 years of marriage) and Dad to three amazing kids, now ages 30, 28 and 25. You can tap into Dr. Cooper's "NOT DONE YET!" (Fitness & Life After 50) publication free of charge at https://betterpath.substack.com/
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The great Yogi Berra was famous for saying “Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical.” While that brings a smile to our face, he may have been onto something… something that applies to each of us across the spectrum of pursuits. We look to bring the very best version of ourselves as we step up to the plate ea
Are you in the 2nd half of life? or are you a coach coming alongside those looking to make the most of THEIR second half of life? It"s a unique journey, and one we felt could benefit from a new resource created specifically to bring insights, ideas and encouragement to those walking this journey. This is a special cros
This special episode focuses on key essentials to getting started in a career as a health, wellness & performance coach, including the 4 primary ways to get started. Here is the link to the YouTube Coaching Channel playlist mentioned in this episode if helpful. Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certificat
In this very special BEST of The Coaching Lab episode, you"ll get to tune into a real, live - and completely unscripted - coaching session between a NBHWC nationally board-certified health & wellness coach and her client. Info re earning your health & wellness coaching certification, annual Rocky Mountain Coaching Retr
Goals? They can be beneficial, but there"s an even more valuable process available for those who truly want to bolster their personal or professional lives (or both!). In this special episode, Dr. Cooper discusses the value of creating a clear, personal vision for your life and walks through the steps to creating your
One of the most common questions we receive is how best to narrow down the 120+ NBHWC-approved health & wellness coaching certification programs to the one that is best for you. There isn"t an easy answer, as the needs, goals and preferences of each student are unique. However, there are some essential ways in which yo
