HEALTH & WELLNESS COACHING:

THE COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIP THAT

                                      GETS RESULTS TO LAST A LIFETIME

Wellness coaches, often hired by corporations as preventive medicine, are now being sought out more often by individuals, coaches say. And the number of those coaches is growing. In 2000, Wellcoaches, an alliance whose training program is endorsed by the American College of Sports Medicine, trained 100 coaches. Last year, it trained 1,000.

"We're seeing this as a continuing trend over the last two years," said Walter Thompson, a professor of kinesiology at Georgia State University who surveyed fitness trends last year. "We think wellness coaching is today where personal training was 20 years ago."

                                                                   NYTIMES.com -March 6, 2008