TYPE 1: THE PERFECTIONIST-The Reformer-can be critical and impatient with results. They do well to have a coach to lead them the "right" way
When Type Ones focus on a priority, they want to do it right. Ones tend to go all-in with healthy eating and exercising and are very detail-oriented along the way.
How Ones Succeed: Type Ones need little outside motivation to get them into gear. When they know what is right for them as far as diet and exercise, they set their mind to it and ar...
TYPE 1: THE PERFECTIONIST-The Reformer-can be critical and impatient with results. They do well to have a coach to lead them the "right" way
When Type Ones focus on a priority, they want to do it right. Ones tend to go all-in with healthy eating and exercising and are very detail-oriented along the way.
How Ones Succeed: Type Ones need little outside motivation to get them into gear. When they know what is right for them as far as diet and exercise, they set their mind to it and are successful. Ones work well with short-term programs with few requirements.
Strengthen Through Stress: When Ones are stressed, they become moody and irrational. Type Ones can redeem this need to balance their emotions by slowing down exercise to focus on performing each move well and eating mindfully. Like preparing a wholesome meal, sitting down at the table, giving thanks, eating slowly.
TYPE 2: THE HELPER-can be people pleasing so they do well to have a coach pushing them. They tend to take care of others before themselves so need to be held accountable.
Type Two's motivation to get healthy is to support others. Type Twos tend to show their love in eating and exercising by cooking for others or doing manual labor chores, like helping with a move. If a coach tells them what they need to do to get healthy, they are better at adhering to their advice rather than trying it out on their own.
How Twos Succeed: Type Twos can encourage others to eat well by preparing delicious, healthy foods that everyone will enjoy. They are a joy to train or counsel because they take advice to heart and their motivations are others-centered.
Strengthen Through Stress: In times of stress, Type Twos disintegrate towards becoming aggressive and domineering. Twos can blow off steam with exercise that is challenging to them, like running farther or lifting heavier weight. Instead of dominating food by putting it into their mouth, they could redeem this need for control by engaging in an extended meal prep.
TYPE 3: THE PERFORMER-The achiever can be workaholics, competitive and image focused. At their best they can push themselves and others to finding their highest potential.
Type Threes are the go-getters of diet and exercise. They set goals and achieve them. Type Threes are focused on checking off lists, crushing personal records, and are motivated by healthy competition. When I look at setting fitness goals, I prefer to choose a program rather than an indefinite type of general workout. I get motivated by the sense of completion and accomplishment. If a program has a calendar, or to-do list that I can check off as I progress, even better!
How Threes Succeed: When Threes are challenged, they rise to the occasion. Threes are disciplined and are not easily distracted. Since Threes thrive on success, they can inspire others by achieving what others think cannot be done.
Strengthen Through Stress: In stress, threes disintegrate into the unhealthy side and will detach from others. Threes can redeem their tendency to withdraw in stress by taking some time to discover what their personal needs are and take care of themselves in a private setting.
TYPE 4: THE INDIVIDUALIST
Type Fours are the creative eaters and exercisers. If they can express themselves in some unique way, fitness and cooking is more fun and sustainable.
They will sometimes use their broad tastes as a way to express their uniqueness. They tend to make decisions based on unique experiences. It doesn't matter how healthy they are trying to be, if they have something unique or interesting on the menu, they'll have to try it.
How Fours Succeed: Type Fours think outside the box, and expand our perspectives of what food and fitness can be. They use their creativity to make typical healthy food taste amazing, or present it in a way that makes others get excited about eating well. Fours make games out of fitness and move their bodies in ways that encourage others. They also tend to have unrealistic expectations
Strengthen Through Stress: In stress, Fours become clingy and over-involved. Individualist Fours can lean into this tendency by finding someone to help instead of seeking others out for validation.
TYPE 5: THE OBSERVER
Fives are the thinkers of diet and exercise. They observe human motor patterns and diet correlations, share what they've found out with others, and experiment with personal theories.
How Fives Succeed: Since Fives are systematic and analytical, they are gifted at creating solid workout routines and meal plans. Fives are good listeners of others and sensitive, can easily recognize problem areas and will think hard about how to solve them. Sometimes this means walking for miles until they reach an answer in their minds.
Since Fives are hoarders of energy resources and often feel tired, thinking on an empty stomach often leads me to gorge on high-carb or sugar-laden foods. "
Strengthen Through Stress: In stress, Fives become hyperactive and scattered, which leads to gluttony. Fives eat to comfort themselves from mental work and will delay exercising by overthinking it. Fives redeem this tendency by going on a walk or doing something adventurous out in the open. This kind of movement gives their hyperactivity a place to vent and rhythmic motion pulls their scattered mind together.
TYPE 6: THE LOYALIST
The devoted Six is a creature of habit when it comes to diet and exercise. Type Sixes like to stick with what they know, enjoy connecting with others in their healthy journey, and like having someone or some program leading them along the way.
They are fine eating the same thing over and over. But then I also get overwhelmed if majorly restricted and end up binging or falling off the wagon. When at restaurants I always order same thing. As far as fitness goes, they love group exercise. They hate going into a gym alone
How Sixes Succeed: Sixes do not get bored easily and can eat leftovers for days or do the same routine every week without fail. This makes it easy for them to stay on track, as long as they have a well-balanced plan.
How Sixes Strengthen Through Stress: In stress sixes tend to become arrogant and competitive. Sixes can redeem this tendency by joining with others and competing not against other people but against an impersonal measurement, like signing up for a contest to get healthy for a set event. It helps for the Six to have a coach they know and trust to guide them when in stress.
TYPE 7: THE ENTHUSIAST
Type Sevens are the fun-loving early adopters of diet and exercise. They want to try all the food, are full of energy, and are always up for a new adventure in fitness.
How Sevens Succeed: Sevens are not in danger of movement or nutritional deficiency. Sevens don't need to be told to exercise. They have to move to move out all the pent-up energy within them! Since Sevens want to try one of everything, their diet is typically full of a variety of nutrients. Food can be a way to escape from feelings by eating them. Plan a Refeed for them
How Sevens Strengthen Through Stress: Sevens can redeem their stress-induced tendency towards perfectionism and criticism by adding structure to their eating and exercising. Sevens can adopt a habit of meditating on one question each morning like, "What is my one purpose for today?" while holding a challenging pose for an extended period. It needs to be something they can achieve to avoid self-judgement, and done on a regular basis to demonstrate gradual progress over perfection.
TYPE 8: THE CHALLENGER
Eights are passionate about whatever they are eating and thrive on opposition in fitness, whether the challenger is someone else, an impersonal target, or even a version of themselves they want to see changed. They like challenges, but don't have to compete against someone else.
How Eights Succeed With Their Health: Eights succeed in their health journey when they are educated about methods of diet and exercise that benefit them in the long-run. An Eight will do research, equip themselves with proper workout gear and healthy food, and defeat their enemy, at least for a time.
How Eights Strengthen Through Stress: In stress, Eights can do well to let go of their usual passions for feeling like "this is the only way" and exercise just for fun or eat a previously shunned health food in a new way.
TYPE 9: THE PEACEMAKER
Type Nines are experts at discerning what they need and choosing what will bring their mind, body, and spirit into harmony. They can tune into what their body needs is when they eat the best. And sometimes the best doesn’t mean the 'healthiest' option. They would much prefer to enjoy ice cream with a loved one or do what’s best for them in that moment.
How Nines Succeed With Their Health: Since Nines are sensitive to what is out of sync in their body (like stress that needs venting), they don't have a need to stick with a particular exercise program. Nines feel free to change course according to their needs. They love exercise that makes them feel good. They are not wired to be competitive, and they give themselves a lot of grace. It’s more about how they feel than how than how they perform.
How Nines Strengthen Through Stress: Instead of finding comfort in food or exercise, Nines can redeem this tendency by having a go-to "stress" practice of deep breathing, yoga, or some other mind-body movement that can help re-establish the peace.
Book credit "The Road Back to You" by Ian Cron and Suzanne Stabile
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