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👉DONT GET IT TWISTED👉
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Basic fundamentals, executed well and often, are they key to success in life and in fitness.
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Right about now the gyms are flooded with beginners who have already begun to sew the seeds for failure.
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Having the expectation of constant variety and novelty is a huge mistake. The more movements you try to master at once, the less likely you are to master anything. Which means you’re doing a whole bunch of stuff incorrectly. Movements and exercises done incorrectly are ineffective at best, and potentially dangerous.
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Now if you really want to set yourself up to fail, take a movement you're not very good at, and add speed, load, resistance, volume or complex variation. This is not a recipe for progress or results. Its a recipe for disaster.

Progress is its own reward. Fitness becomes fun when your efforts bare fruit. In the beginning, focus on the basics, done to the best of your ability, consistently for at least 2-3 months.

Set yourself up for success. Build a solid foundation of fundamentals. Only then, a Jedi you will become.

👊I AM NOT AN ENTERTAINER🤡
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One of the biggest reasons I see people fail in their fitness routine is false expectations.
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A lot goes into being a great coach or trainer. Knowledge of exercise, nutrition and it’s application. People skills, communications skills, leadership, psychology....the list goes on.
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While being personable and friendly are certainly valuable assets on the list of soft skills, at the end of the day we’re all adults here.
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A coach has a job to do and being your friend, or all nicely nice is not necessarily in the job description. The job of a coach is not to entertain. It’s to train. To get results. Failure to get results means most times being out of a job. Sometimes being too nice just allows people to continue to deceive themselves.
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One of the biggest reasons I see people fail in a fitness routine is because of expectation. They expect to be entertained. They get bored. They expect training to be fun and as soon as it’s not fun, as soon as they get bored, it’s time to quit or try the next thing. While fun is certainly a bonus, the expectation of entertainment might be the exact things that’s sabotaging you. Your constant need for novelty and variety is keeping you from being consistent or mastering the fundamentals required to succeed.
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Fun, like most things in fitness, is earned. I’ll tell you when fitness is fun. When you’re fit. When you’re not being crushed with the realization of how far you’ve let yourself go, or how far you have to go to crawl out of the hole you’ve dug for yourself. Fitness is fun when you feel yourself getting better. Feel yourself getting stronger.
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Dig deep and be honest. How you do anything is how you do everything. Instead of being bored and expecting your trainer to provide the entertainment, maybe you could stick to this one thing, just this once, long enough to succeed.
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I’m not an entertainer. While you’re busy being bored I’m doing my job. Participation may not be mandatory, but it goes a long way to achieving your goals.
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Happy New Years.