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Liv Grace

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Liv Grace

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Liv Grace

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Why Work With a Dietitian or Coach? - based on your goals

Working with a dietitian or coach is like having a guide.
You can try to figure everything out on your own, but having someone who knows the path makes the process clearer, safer, and more effective.

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Health and wellness

For overall health, a dietitian or coach helps you:

  • Build eating and training habits that support energy, mood, and recovery

  • Create routines that fit your lifestyle

  • Cut through confusion and conflicting advice

This is about feeling and functioning better day to day, not just chasing a number.

Fat loss / weight loss

Losing weight isn’t just about eating less or training more. It’s about finding the right balance so your body responds without feeling exhausted or restricted.

A coach helps you:

  • Create a personalised calorie deficit without under-fuelling

  • Maintain strength and muscle while losing fat

  • Adjust nutrition and training as your body adapts

  • Avoid extreme hunger, deficiencies, metabolic adaptation and rebound dieting

This approach supports fat loss while protecting health and performance.

Muscle gain

Building muscle requires more than just lifting weights. Your body needs enough fuel, the right training stimulus, and time to recover.

A coach helps you:

  • Eat enough to support growth

  • Train with the right volume and intensity

  • Progress exercises over time

  • Balance hard training with recovery

This is how muscle is built in a productive way that actually works.

Performance (endurance, sport, hybrid or athletic goals)

For endurance athletes or those training for performance, nutrition and training need to work together.

A coach or dietitian helps you:

  • Fuel training and competition appropriately

  • Improve recovery between sessions

  • Create structure with a clear performance purpose

  • Perform, play and train consistently, not just occasionally

Performance improves when effort is supported by personalised strategy.

Physique or bodybuilding prep

For physique goals or competition prep, precision matters.

A coach helps you:

  • Manage training stress and fatigue

  • Adjust nutrition based on your body adaptations and goal - division and category.

  • Protect health while pushing towards taking lean to the extremes needed for success.

  • Stay objective when the journey feels challenging.

This level of support is unmatched when you pair passion with expertise.

The bigger picture

A dietitian or coach doesn’t just provide a plan.
They help you:

  • Understand why you’re doing what you’re doing

  • Adapt when life, stress, or schedules change

  • Stay consistent when motivation or accountability wants to slip


The KEY reason...

Working with a coach or dietitian isn’t about replacing or throwing what you’ve done out the window.
It’s about adding clarity, perspective, and knowledge you didn’t realise you were missing.

Even with a plan in place, the right guidance can help things make more sense, fill in the gaps, and ensure your effort is actually moving you in the right direction.