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LIFESTYLES by Ronda Gates has been offering health promotion and fitness professionals an opportunity to continue their education for more than ten years. Our courses allow you to fullfill requirements for ACE certification. (Check with your provider regarding transferability of credits.) Here's our current roster of home study courses.


Overcoming Self - Defeating Behaviors
Discover strategies to foster life-enhancing behaviors
by Ronda Gates, M.S.

For 20 years I have offered individualized fitness and nutrition programs based on a full fitness evaluation and proven lifestyle change strategies. When clients returned for an annual re-evaluation I often heard them say, "I know what to do, but can't seem to do it." This phenomenon led me to develop Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors. This course draws from my own professional experience and the work of experts in the fields of human resiliency, self-esteem, self-actualization, and cognitive behavior therapy.

You'll discover the origins of self-defeating behaviors that prevent people from having the life they deserve. Using well-founded strategies, you'll be able to help clients transform destructive behavior patterns into life-enhancing patterns.

By completing LIFESTYLES' Continuing Education Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors Home Study Course, you will learn:

  • Basic principles of human psychological development

  • What self-defeating and life-enhancing behaviors are

  • Methods to make breakthroughs to healthier behavior patterns

  • See how the hierarchy of needs drives human behavior

  • How payoffs support self-defeating behaviors

  • Specific strategies to intervene in the self-defeating behavior process

  • The role of lapse, relapse and collapse in behavioral change including skills for lapse prevention

  • And more

  • Course materials: Exam, 154-page workbook, interactive pencil and paper materials, self-check quizzes, client handouts. CECs: .5 from ACE. (Check with your provider regarding transferability of credits.)

    USUAL RETAIL: $109.00
    OUR WEBSITE PRICE: $79.00

    Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors Package
    Boost your impact on your clients with both the Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors Home Study Course and Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviors PowerPoint Presentation. These products work hand-in-hand. With them, you'll be able to help clients transform destructive behavior patterns into life-enhancing patterns. Earn CECs with the home study course; then share your knowledge using the PowerPoint presentation

    USUAL RETAIL: $148.00
    SPECIAL PRICE: $99.00



    Coaching for Success: Communication
    Communication strategies to boost your fitness business
    by Ronda Gates, M.S.

    For many years I have been coaching individuals who wanted support as they embarked on a path to lifestyle change. Now I am sharing some of my success strategies in a series of Home Study Courses. The first, Coaching for Success: Communication will introduce you to the personal skills I believe made my coaching business so successful. This course is drawn from my professional experience, the science of motivational psychology, and well-established coaching principles. Once you complete this course you will have important tools to connect with clients and a structure to motivate them.

    You'll learn communication strategies, skills and qualities for successful coaching, how to cultivate trust, essentials of professional conduct, and how to use your people skills and environment to make your service stand out.

    By completing LIFESTYLES' Continuing Education Coaching for Success: Communication Home Study Course, you will learn:

  • The skills and qualities of a successful coach

  • The importance of client-trainer rapport

  • Criteria that underlie trust

  • Why environment supports relationship

  • Communication and people skills that foster strong coach-client relationships

  • Attending, following, and reflecting skills

  • And more

    Course materials: Exam, 64-page workbook, interactive pencil and paper materials. CECs: .2 from ACE. (Check with your provider regarding transferability of credits.)

    USUAL RETAIL: $49.00
    OUR WEBSITE PRICE: $39.00


    Coaching for Success: Supporting Change     NEW!!
    Boost compliance by coaching your clients to be fully invested in the change process
    by Ronda Gates, M.S.

    For many years I have coached individuals who wanted support as they embarked on a path to lifestyle change. In this second in a series of coaching courses, I share proven strategies that can help coaches. Coaching for Success: Supporting Change will introduce you to psychological theories of motivational behavior and well-accepted models for change. In addition to my professional experience, this course is drawn from psychological case studies and the science of motivational psychology and human development.

    This course reviews the principles that underlie the human change process. Once you complete this course you will have important tools to foster motivation and compliance among your clients.

    At the successful conclusion of this course, you will have the knowledge to:

  • Explain a transformational process

  • Describe Prochaska's Stages of Change Model

  • Identify a client's Stage of Change based on a few simple questions

  • Understand motivational factors based on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

  • Differentiate between intrinsically and extrinsically motivated clients

  • Understand the role of motivational interviewing

  • Understand behavioral models of several developmental psychology theories

    Course materials: Exam, 54-page workbook, interactive pencil and paper materials, client handouts. CECs: .2 from ACE. (Check with your provider regarding transferability of credits.)

    USUAL RETAIL: $49.00
    OUR WEBSITE PRICE: $39.00



    Coaching for Success Package NEW!!

    Increase your professional advantage with the Coaching for Success Package. You will receive Coaching for Success: Communication and Coaching for Success: Supporting Change.

    Together, these two home study courses introduce you to basic concepts about behavior change and practical strategies to establish rapport and build relationships as well as to foster motivation and encourage compliance.

    USUAL RETAIL: $85.00
    OUR WEBSITE PRICE: $75.00




  • Overcoming Self Defeating Behaviors is only $79.00
    Coaching for Success: Communication $39.00
    Coaching for Success: Supporting Change $39.00
    Coaching for Success Package $75.00
    Quantity discounts available.


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