What is Not important
- Access to the latest and greatest fancy equipment
- Hyper focusing on every macro and micro nutrient you put into your body
- Following programs that elite athletes or lifters run
- Obsessing over social media and comparing yourself to everyone that access to photoshop
Things that are important but in all actuality might not be super important
- Exercise selection: picking exercises that are at your ability level and will help you get to your goals
- Exercise order: Please don’t do an hour of arms and then decide to deadlift as heavy as possible.
- Mechanics: How well you perform your exercises
- Goals: How do you want to train? Bodybuilding, powerlifting, OLY lifting, general fitness?
- Training history and age
- How long you train
- How to get huge biceps.
The above things are important. However, people seem to always miss the most important factor…
Drumroll…
Show Up
You can be the best programmer in the world. Dot all the I’s and cross all the T’s. You can throw in a bunch of fancy periodization techniques, off the wall percentages each day and none of this matters…unless you show up!
Showing up is a metric that we track at the gym. And it is often not what people think. If we write you a program for four days per week and you showed up 3 times last week…that is being consistent.
As long as you are making a weekly effort to some degree and not taking weeks/months off in-between, you are being consistent.
A few factors that can help
- Listen to people. This may seem like low hanging fruit, but if you just listen to people and respond with less uppity communication, you will get more people to show up. If someone tells you they want to “tone” up, don’t respond with…”well actually, Susan…tone is the tension in your muscle when it is relaxed…”. Instead, say…”sweet! We can help you with that!”.
- Remember…as a coach, it is not about you. It is about your client. Get them talking about themselves!
- Strive to make you clients as self sufficient as possible. Teach them everything you know. How to load properly, read their programs correctly so that they are not only safe, but get the results they desire.
- Make sure their programs not only fit their ability levels, but their goals as well. If you have a client that has a weak lower back, doing arms for 45 minutes each session is not going to help. When people first start at our facility, we make sure we program “no brainer” exercises. They are easy to perform, teach and they will get your client’s confidence up very quickly.
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