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| EUGENIZATION a personal training blog |
From the category archives:
Every so often I’ll get in a client who was a jock of some sort in a former life. Either they played ball in high school or college, or they had some experience on a professional or semi-professional level. But the story is nearly the same in every case: Through accumulated or acute injury or [...]
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The surest way to lose focus during an exercise is to judge yourself on that exercise. Instead, get “mechanistic.” Focus on what you can actually do, as opposed to your emotional reactions to the exercise.
Don’t think, “Damn, this weight feels heavy.” Instead, think, “Drive your heels through the floor; be patient; make it happen.”
Don’t think, [...]
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Learning To Care, or, Avoiding the Suck.
August 4, 2009A fellow trainer (name withheld) asks me how I can be so nice to my clients all the time, even when it’s clear they aren’t even trying.
The answer’s simple: To them, they are trying. They don’t know how far they are from fulfilling their potential. In fact, their actual “potential” is as inconceivable to them [...]