Devante, remember how I said that there's always two sides to every coin, well above you have presented us with one side. Here's the other side.
This side of the coin says on it: "don't waste your time trying to change what could be unchangeable."
You have your trainees who don't want to fall in love with the mean that would get them their result, they hate, loath, detest (you name it) the training and /or dieting they have to endure to achieve their goal. The point I made in the "discipline and the fat man" article was that we (for these particular clients) need to have them focus not on what they hate the most (exercising/dieting), but on what they love the most, whatever that maybe.
I'll give you an example. Let's say you Devante love training, but hate squatting, leg pressing, hack squatting, leg curls (basically any leg work). But you love nothing more than to kick ass in some bodybuilding contest. You like the attention you get from the opposite sex etc. etc.
My job is to say to you here is yes Devante, I acknowledge your deep hate for leg work, but let's just put up with it (not trying to convince the client to like or love anything here notice Devante), but simply going along with them (as long as they do the leg program), they can whinge as much as they like. My focus would be on those girls’ attention during/after contest time, those other contestant who are going to get beaten by you etc. That’s what I will be constantly reminding you of and mixing with your soup (I mean your leg workout), making it that much easier and that much more pleasant to swallow.
Psychology plays a huge role in sport, much more than many many PTs and /or coaches will ever realise (until it's too late) Devante.
I left the sport of Olympic weightlifting (at 18), before I even got started so to speak because of bad management in psychology.
Fadi.
Sorry about that Linh.Fadi, Devante is the other bloke. I'm Dancelot (real name Linh).
Not now.Out of curiosity, do you still train people?
My mate was coming to the gym with me and he does bicep curls, dumbell lunges and peck deck and all that shit and i say do u want me to set you up a program ( just give him the rippetoes program) and he says nah im happy with what im doin, ( im thinkin fuck me dead ur stubborn) anyway the next week he goes nah cant gym today im sore from work, then he doesnt gym for the rest of the week and he buys this over priced shithouse protein powder from a supermarket and takes 1 scoop a day, and i say to him u can buy it in bulk for really cheap and he goes ill see if it works if not i wont buy it anymore ( felt like smashing my head against a brick wall) so i told him to go on www.bodybuilding.com and read up on diet and shit and he didnt even bother. he will gym 1 week then take 2 weeks off, fuckin pisses me off
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