REAL TALK – WITH RICK LOCKE
Hey Champions!! After a very grueling two session workout yesterday (2/1/12) with great and energetic people, I was approached by one of the participants who stated that they felt they were reaching a plateau in their weight loss progression even though he/she has been busting his/her butt in our training classes. Eager to impress this person by trying to diagnose what I felt at the time was simply not enough hard work in the off days of fitness camp; I missed the opportunity to ask the tough but necessary questions. I’m normally great about thinking before actually speaking to address a question. Not so much this time.
When I got home my wife and daughter presented me with a wonderful birthday dinner and very excellent practical gifts. I notice that my gifts from them for Father’s Day, Christmas, and Birthdays have been changing over the last year and a half since I’ve become a fitness training coach with Jason at Yun Fitness Boot Camps. Now I get workout equipment and attire. This is fantastic, because they have bought into my lifestyle change. This motivates me to be a better father, husband, trainer and human being. Now, this takes us back to the questions a good trainer would have asked before jumping in and telling this person, “Do more work in the off days!”…..
1. Are you being honest with yourself when you say that you are working to your potential? Hopefully you are pushing your body during your workout. Jason Yun, owner and founder of Yun Fitness Boot camps posted a YouTube video blog about workout intensity. Check it out here: http://youtu.be/XRzjOhWUyaw
2. Are you following any guidelines for proper nutrition? Yun Fitness provides this information in the form of a Look Better Naked Nutrition Blueprint for its members. (Email if you didn’t get it)
3. Are your fitness goals realistic? Real weight loss is a steady progression when done properly. It won’t happen overnight. Change just doesn’t happen, it takes work!
4. Are you backing up your statement with facts? Progression photographs do wonders. Yun Fitness also provides members with a Body Composition consultation which consists of body circumference measurements, body fat testing, and before pictures. You can schedule this today with Jason for your first time or for a reassessment.
5. Have your family and friends “bought into” your fitness lifestyle change? This question is very important because we are products of our environment. Therefore, we must exchange our unhealthy home and work environment with one that is conducive to our new mind and body sets. Having a great support system makes all the difference. Plus it will, most likely, encourage others to change for the better.
Change can be difficult, but with hard work and an open mind it will definitely still be just that; a change. But it’s your choice: for the better, or for the worse?
My response to this person bothered me so much that I felt I needed to share this not only with the concerned party, but with everyone I know in an all out effort to help promote positive changes in our lives. It also gives me a opportunity to redeem myself and be that good trainer.
Now, in closing I would like to share with you my thought of the month. I do not claim this as mine and it is not necessarily fitness related, but just something to think about to make us all better communicators:
Why Complicate Life?
Missing somebody…….Call them
Want meet up……Invite them
Want be understood……Explain
Have questions……Ask
Don’t like something……Say it
Like something……State it
Don’t make your life more complicated by over-thinking a situation or expecting (or wanting) the other person to ask or go first. Life’s too short – Take charge……Just Do It.
STAY STRONG!!
Sincerely yours in health & fitness,
Rick Locke
