Certain things in the world of fitness and health can only be taught through experience. After ten years in the industry, I’ve only now started to realize that I can refer to myself as a trainer who’s done some decent time in the game.
That’s long enough to notice the revolving door that is fitness and diet trends, and long enough to realize that extremism is far from dead.
Times have changed.
Where I live, the expense of general existence has gotten much higher than what it was when I was 18, and now there are much more innovative ways to make a living. On that note, I can list countless instances where university trained, degree baring individuals end up as baristas at Starbucks.
If you want me to be honest, I’ll say this: As far as we’ve come where health and fitness are concerned, we’ll still be in a place of relative darkness until we all get on the same page as a community.
Until then, the Tracy Anderson Method and cash-grab systems like it will still be among the top trending workout systems on the internet.
My industry sorely lacks a dose of reality when it comes to promises it claims it can keep concerning a prospective client’s results. It doesn’t help the situation when many commercialized fitness experts make resolve to “reshape your body in 6 weeks” while oiled and nearly naked on screen.
I’ve written a lot on the dangers of pushing yourself beyond a threshold, both physically and psychologically as a lifter. Especially in the case of the latter, it’s a toll that few people even know they’ve paid, since it’s all shrouded under the concept of good health.
This is my 5th year writing a blog article like this, and despite the amount of cliché there is in doing it, I still find good reason to. People who lambaste other coaches for doing this may not realize that it’s a good way to centralize key reminders, help inform the masses, and say a few thank you’s, all at the same time.
