If comedian Jeff Foxworthy were a competition trainer, rather than being noted for “you might be a redneck” he could easily be noted for a tagline of “you might be a self-sabotager.” It would go something like this… • If you hire a trainer, then only follow the parts of his/her program that make sense to you,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If you substitute food off your nutrition plan because you like something else better than what is on your plan,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If you add in extra minutes of cardio or “fitness” classes in an effort to erase junk food you snuck into your mouth when no one was looking,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If you don’t follow your diet until the show is right around the corner, then starve yourself and incorporate 7 days per week of extra cardio and workouts,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If you sign up for early morning training sessions, but can’t get out of bed early enough to eat breakfast,.. you might be a self-sabotager • If you sign up for early morning training sessions, but can’t get out of bed early enough to eat breakfast so you eat it in the car on your way to the gym, then throw it up 20 minutes into your session,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If you are asked to perform 15 reps of an exercise, but stop at 9 because it is difficult and you think your trainer isn’t looking,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If your cardio program calls for 45 minutes on a stepper and you switch it out for a “fitness” class,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If you just finished a rigorous shoulder session with your trainer on Tuesday, and you participate in a full bodypump class on Wednesday morning rather than the track workout your trainer asked you to do because the bodypump class is more fun, then you complain because your shoulders aren’t growing,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If your mentality is, “what (insert your trainer’s name here) doesn’t know won’t hurt (insert your trainer’s name here).” .,,you might be a self-sabotager. • If you let the forklift operator at Home Depot or clerk at Speedway, or the “nutrition expert” at the big box supplement store or the “trainer” with equivalent competition coaching experience as previously mentioned occupations convince you that you aren’t going to be ready for your show, so you drop out,..you might be a self-sabotager. • If you’re a “trainer hopper” and continually override or ignore the tough parts of your current program because your old trainer or trainers didn’t invoke that,..you might be a self-sabotager. While this is presented in a sarcastic and funny manner, please note that there is an underlying note of solid truth within these examples. Also consider that you are clearly intelligent enough to know if you have placed your care in the services of a trainer that truly cares and takes you, the individual, seriously enough to give you his or her best (even when it makes you mad or hurts your feelings), asks of you only as much as what’s necessary and achievable on your part so as to get you the results that you come to them for in the first place and that it is not just about putting your money in his or her pocket. At that point you should find it much easier to trust in his or her program, including following your diet and following your cardio schedule and follow it despite the fact you don’t understand every detail of it. -Bob
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 18:25:27 +0000
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