Part of the Crowd

Do you admire your coach?  Do you revel in their ability to put a few words out into the universe and all the sudden you get your first double-under or kipping pull-up? 

What they can do is advise you best how to be successful.  They do it ten times daily with various athletes and athletic back-grounds.  The best coaches pull for you more than you pull for yourself.  But they can never move the weight or pull you over that bar themselves.  Your coach will push you to be personally responsible for your own success.  You have to trust that this isn’t the same fad diet or Jane Fonda DVD that hasn’t worked before.  This is an opportunity for you to wholly invest yourself, with an amazing support group, in order to become that much healthier.  

People now expect everything to work in 30-minutes or less, but the best things don’t work like that.  There is no pill that makes you feel achievement, lose weight (safely), or make friends.  You have to realize that if you have been out of shape for two-plus years, it is going to take about that much time to undo.  You can’t expect to pay less but get more, this isn’t Wal-Mart.  If you want to achieve your fitness goals then you have to make them consume you.  You have to look at what you’re doing outside your fitness routine to make yourself successful.  

You have a group of people whose goal is to make you stronger, healthier, and happier than you were when they met you.  Your coach, for what ever class you may come to, has goals they want you to achieve, they aren’t astronomical or without worth.  The goals your coach has for you are for your own personal success.  A coach won’t get rich by making you deadlift 300 pounds or snatch 95 pounds.  As a matter of fact your coach will probably never have any great measure of material wealth.  But they invest more in you than you may have known before reading this.  

The take aways from this are: you are your own measure of success; work towards your fitness goals outside of the gym; high-fives and ass-slaps (same sex only please) are awards for achievement; and lastly there is no one else to blame for your success or lack there of. 

People don’t like to hear that it’s their fault for where they are.  It’s always easier to blame someone else, don’t do it. You have too many people to help you to be successful than to say otherwise.  As well, you have to revel in your successes.  Don’t get mired down in what you can not do and miss all that you have accomplished. 

You are the reason for your own success, start acting like it.  

P.S.-Please take a moment to think about the vast amount of time your coaches have put into every second you’re there.  The knowledge gained isn’t through osmosis.  It takes hours outside the gym to find the best way for people to put up PR’s.  It takes hours outside the gym to find out how best to stretch that little ache out of your lower back.  It takes hours outside the gym buried in books and online articles to find the best way for you to become healthier.  Coaches are just as much invested in your success as you are.  

P.P.S-Ass slaps are only OK if you’ve been to that persons house.