Module 6: Decision-Making and Adjustments

Decision-Making and Adjustments lessons

Module 6

Overview Start here: don't be smarter than the solution✓6.1 Classify the week✓6.2 Find the main issue: coach the client, don't just drop calories✓6.3 Stalls that aren't about calories✓6.4 Sleep and stress: fix these before any lever✓6.5 The levers: one at a time, and where they stop✓6.6 Refeeds and diet breaks✓6.7 Decisions in a build✓6.8 Reading visual progress and rating the week✓6.9 Worked examples✓Takeaways✓Module quiz✓

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Module 6 check questions

5 questions. Pass mark 100%. Retake it as many times as you need.

1. A client is losing 0.6 kg a week, their lifts are steady and they say they love the plan. What do you change?Drop 100 kcal to speed things upAdd a cardio sessionNothingSwitch to high and low days

2. A mostly adherent client has stalled for two weeks. What comes first?Drop 200 kcalFind the main issue: hidden adherence errors, weekends, snacking, then the stalls that aren't about caloriesAdd 30 minutes of cardio a dayStart a diet break

3. A client's scale is up 1.2 kg on Monday after two late nights, and they're craving sweets. What's the move?Drop calories for the weekAdd cardio to burn it offHold the plan, address sleep, predict the water clearing, reassess in 7–10 daysTell them to skip meals to compensate

4. In a build, the scale is up but the lifts have stalled. What do you do?Add 200 kcalDon't add food. Fix the training: effort, form and programming.Start a cutAdd cardio

5. You've already dropped a client's calories once this month and progress is slow again. What's the rule?Drop again, 100 kcal this timeRun an adherence intervention before any further food dropDrop to 1,000 kcalDouble their cardio