No reason to abandon a practice which 1) you excel teaching and 2) is often helpful in achieving (or enduring) other parts of life. Do not discontinue the fitness content.
As soon as the title of "Hollywood Trainer" was applied and I began seeing how performative some aspects of training had become it made me sick enough to want to disassociate. That said, full separation will never be possible. I did come across these notes today:
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Training is a tool in the moment, a metaphor overall. We use it as transport. We use it to change who we were into who can achieve the goals we have imagined. Training is not the destination. And in the end, it is irrelevant. It can be put aside like we set down the hammer when the problem is no longer a nail. When we shed old skin and grow into new, naturally we must use different tools to carve a new path ahead.
Very true. I have worked as a coach and really struggled to get students to learn to ‘back off’ the intensity in some sessions, but then to switch it on and to truly try in others. Difficult balance.
Definitely in the middle ground myself now, but content with that!
It's almost as if some folks are trying to "get in shape today", and I've certainly had days like that myself or at least that's how we sarcastically described them after having gone a bit or a lot too deep (generally on a bike). The middle ground is just fine as long as our expectations regarding the outcome are aligned.
No reason to abandon a practice which 1) you excel teaching and 2) is often helpful in achieving (or enduring) other parts of life. Do not discontinue the fitness content.
As soon as the title of "Hollywood Trainer" was applied and I began seeing how performative some aspects of training had become it made me sick enough to want to disassociate. That said, full separation will never be possible. I did come across these notes today:
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Training is a tool in the moment, a metaphor overall. We use it as transport. We use it to change who we were into who can achieve the goals we have imagined. Training is not the destination. And in the end, it is irrelevant. It can be put aside like we set down the hammer when the problem is no longer a nail. When we shed old skin and grow into new, naturally we must use different tools to carve a new path ahead.
Very true. I have worked as a coach and really struggled to get students to learn to ‘back off’ the intensity in some sessions, but then to switch it on and to truly try in others. Difficult balance.
Definitely in the middle ground myself now, but content with that!
Thanks for the article.
It's almost as if some folks are trying to "get in shape today", and I've certainly had days like that myself or at least that's how we sarcastically described them after having gone a bit or a lot too deep (generally on a bike). The middle ground is just fine as long as our expectations regarding the outcome are aligned.