Structure

Why structure beats willpower, and how to build it into a full week.

Engraving of the physician Santorio Santorio on his weighing chair next to a laid table

19 October 20268 min read

How often should you weigh yourself? What the studies measure

There is no proven ideal frequency. Weight loss programmes in which participants weighed themselves produced 3.4 kilos more loss than minimal support. Trials that asked for daily weighing did no significantly better than trials that asked for less frequent weighing. For keeping weight off after losing it, the evidence points to near-daily weighing, under the same conditions and going by the average.

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12 October 20266 min read

Why another app? The story behind Coach Timon

I'm a health coach in Ghent and I built an app. Coach Timon runs on the same rules I use with my one-on-one clients and adjusts your training and nutrition to your own data every week. This is why I built it, who it's for and what it costs.

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27 September 20263 min read

What is the difference between a personal trainer and a personal coach?

A personal trainer usually guides one side of your health: training. A personal coach covers all four building blocks: training, nutrition, lifestyle and sleep. That matters because most of the result happens outside the gym, in the structure of your week.

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Your training and nutrition, adjusted to your own data.

You log, the app reads your trend and moves your targets every week. Training, nutrition, lifestyle and sleep in one plan. On the waiting list you hear first when it opens.

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