For medical, health & fitness professionals

Become a certified GLP educator and coach

GLPs are changing the rules of the game. With this new certification course from Dr. John Berardi and the GLP Coaching Institute, you’ll be the first to know how to play it.

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30M+

GLPs users worldwide

750%

Increase in GLP users since 2020

1 in 4

Will be recommended GLPs by 2030

Zero

Hours of GLP training for most health and fitness pros

The reality

Your clients are changing faster than the textbooks

GLPs reshape appetite, energy intake, hydration, recovery, and muscle retention. The exercise, nutrition, sleep, and stress management protocols most coaches learned don’t account for this. They’re just improvising in real time.

Results don’t last

Without a strategic plan, many GLP users regain weight when off the medication. You see it but you weren’t taught how to prevent it.

Risk of muscle loss

Up to 40% of weight loss on GLPs can come from lean tissue. Without the right programming, clients lose the wrong kind of weight.

New questions but no playbook

Clients are asking how to eat, exercise, and recover on GLPs. But coaches without GLP experience are relying on irrelevant and outdated information.

Energy and recovery difficulties

Many GLP users struggle with energy intake, poor recovery, and extreme fatigue. Unique food and fitness adjustments, plus recovery tools, are required.

What’s coming

A complete education program for working with GLP users

Five modules based on the same evidence-based, behaviour-change methodology that has trained over 350,000 clients, coaches, and clinicians worldwide. All translated for GLP users and the professionals who work with them.

Five modules. The complete coaching curriculum:

  1. Module 01

    The science of GLP medications

    Pharmacology, mechanisms of action, the active drug landscape (semaglutide, tirzepatide, liraglutide), side-effect profiles, and the physiological changes you need to anticipate as a coach or clinician.

    • Mechanism
    • Drug landscape
    • Side effects

  2. Module 02

    The 5 GLP Types assessment system

    The diagnostic framework we use with thousands of GLP users. Learn to identify which of the five distinct response patterns each client is presenting, and select the right protocol for each one.

    • Strength Type
    • Fuel Type
    • Fitness Type
    • Recovery Type
    • Result Type

  3. Module 03

    Nutrition for reduced appetite

    Protein targets, micronutrient density, hydration strategy, and meal architecture for clients eating 30–50% less. How to prevent under-fueling without forcing food.

    • Protein
    • Micronutrients
    • Meal timing
    • Hydration

  4. Module 04

    Exercise programming for muscle preservation

    How to build training plans that protect lean mass during rapid weight loss. Volume, intensity, frequency, and recovery decisions specific to GLP users at every fitness level.

    • Resistance training
    • Cardio dosing
    • Recovery

  5. Module 05

    Behaviour change without hunger cues

    When intrinsic appetite signals quiet down, motivation, identity, and habit architecture do more of the work. The coaching skills required to support real, lasting change, on and eventually off the medication.

    • Motivation
    • Habits
    • Off-ramp planning

Who it’s for

Built for the health and fitness professionals on the front lines

If your clients, patients, or members are using GLPs and asking you what to do next, this is for you.
  • Personal trainers
  • Health coaches
  • Registered dietitians
  • Physicians, NPs & PAs
  • Physical therapists
  • Allied health & wellness pros

Why this curriculum

The same methodology that changed an industry

The GLP Coaching Institute applies a proven curriculum design — evidence-based, client-centred, rooted in behaviour change — to the specific demands of working with clients and patients using GLPs.

Dr. John Berardi

Scientist, coach, and educator with 30+ years experience in health and fitness.

  • Built the world's largest health certification company, working with over 350,000 clients and coaches in more than 140 countries.
  • Advisor to Olympic athletes, professional sports teams, and elite performers around the world.
  • Co-founder of Precision Nutrition, the world's largest nutrition coaching, education, and software company.
Dr. John Berardi

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About the program

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A defining moment

Stand out as a GLP certified coach

As one of the first coaches qualified to support GLP users in your community, you’ll be the go-to expert. The one people turn to for the support they’re not getting anywhere else. Add your name to the waiting list to go first.
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