The world is moving and changing fast. It’s impossible to know everything about anything, but if the subject matter is personally important you’ll stay up to date.
Fitness is moving. Changing. Growing. Streamlining. Trust things that have been around forever (yoga, kettlebells, resistance training) but keep an eye out for what’s coming; It could be life changing.
How do I do that? Easy. Instagram.
Go ahead and check out the hot bodies, but if you’re searching for something more it’s there behind some of the steroids, behind the photoshop. Instagram has figured out I am a Trainer and therefore exposes me to programs, books, and workouts I wouldn’t find otherwise.
For example: The Wim Hof method. Author Scott Carney prided himself on taking down false prophets. He would adhere, investigate and finally expose the wannabes, the people who claim if you buy into their system then you’ll become richer, healthier and more spiritually connected.
Eventually He heard of a Dutch Man healing people with autoimmune diseases using combination of deep breathing and cold exposure. Carney’s book ‘What doesn’t kill us’ details how he set out to expose Hof, but instead became one of his truest believers. I went down the rabbit hole: I read books, took courses, improved my health and became a certified breathing coach. It all started with me seeing an instagram post.
Cold immersion, breathing, splits, animal movement, yoga, lymphatic massage, and a ton of cool fitness gear (normatec boots, the neck hammock, vertiball) that Fit clients now enjoy: it all started with instagram.
I have also seen ads for crappy equipment like sauna suits and shake weights.
A reminder: All That Glitters ain’t Gold.
Yesterday I signed up for the 21 day hip opening challenge. For $60 (just $3 a day!) I receive access to a workout plan that in just 21 days (15 minutes a day) will open up the least flexible muscles on my body. If it works I’ve finally defeated the biggest physical limitation of my body; if it doesn’t I’ll at least learn something that will add value to all my workouts: mine and my clients’.
A Trainer can’t slap the junk food out of your hand nor can we lift the weights for clients. All we can do is suggest healthier courses of action and be the change we want to see in the world. Every client is different; you never know what’s going to work for someone, and nothing works for everyone. You have to stay current. Keep learning.
And hopefully share. The breakthrough a client needs to loosen up, get strong or lose weight is out there.
Fit works with the top 1% of Private Trainers. We keep searching for that breakthrough. Wait! I mean scrolling. We keep scrolling.
We also have an insta page. It would be nice to have millions of followers and make money off it, but thus far we’ve decided to keep our shirts on (shirts off and it’s all over).
We’ll settle for posting something that we think adds value to what we do for clients. Now go smash that like button and don’t forget to subscribe!