Hi
We all get it in our FB feed, inbox and on our TV:
- 'sweat is pain leaving the body'
- people in hot pants looking fabulous lifting weight (IMO if you are not grimacing when doing this then you are lifting too light!)
- 'work harder' pics
- weight loss updates
In fact if you go back through the archives you will find it seems like I'm doing it too :-D
It is natural to want to shout from the rooftops that you are doing well and totally fine if your main focus is 'if I can YOU can!'
As long as it is helping people.
Dr John Berardi (head of the best Nutrition Company there is....Precision Nutrition) spoke about it at the Perform Better Summit this
year.
He describes it when fitness professionals position things wrong with their clients it creates an UNBRIDGABLE 'gap' between the people we are, and the very people we so badly want to help.
It almost seems as if we are saying 'my lifestyle is awesome, yours isn't'.
Some maybe
do mean this, however I assure you that the fitness industry is packed full of the most positive and helpful people there are.
A PT's lifestyle is pretty dialled into being fit and lean and full of beans..it's our job in a way.
Where it can (and thankfully this is less and less so its not all doom!) fall down is when this certain 'gap'
appears.
This disconnect is the distance between the bouncing fireball of fitness passion that is a PT, and the very people we need to be help.
Everyone's priority is different and everyone's lifestyle is equal, their path is THEIR path
Just because a PT's lifestyle seems close to 'perfect' with regards to health, other areas will need work i.e. finance, business acumen and so on
The coach that succeeds needs to recognise this
I am a bit
wobblier, and definitely can't run as fast as I could before my two boys were born or our business grew, however I am far healthier now when I take into account mind, rest, fun and work...its all much more in balance.
I have been on both ends of the spectrum, however it was long ago that I was at the this end so I have to remind myself regularly of how that felt.
26 year old James:
