CONFESSIONS OF A PERSONAL TRAINER

I wish back when I started as a personal trainer I knew what I know now. You see, I’ve come to a really good frame of mind when it comes to nutrition and exercise. I’m not always perfect at practising my beliefs, but I do my best, and I’ve come to realise that Yes, My best IS enough! :)

I was talking to an old client the other day, who said she liked how I have tried everything that I know. Anything I ask my clients to do, I’ve tried myself.

I would never ask anyone to do anything that I haven’t tried. I would never recommend giving up added sugar if I hadn’t tried it.

I’d never suggest quitting caffiene if I hadn’t tried and failed and tried and failed and tried and failed it! I’d never request exercising twice a day – or more! – if I hadn’t been there done that already.

I’d never suggest a dogmatic approach to food and exercise if I hadn’t already practised that approach myself.

But the thing is… I’m not a dogmatic kind of person. And it took all this experimenting on myself to realise this.

I could’ve cut the whole process short if I didn’t put my body through strict gruelling workouts, getting up at 5:30am 5 days a week with a sleep in til 6:30 on Saturdays, putting HOURS in the gym until

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I could no longer walk, tried intermittent fasting while using caffeine to get through to the first meal at 1pm, practised endurance racing while on a vegetarian ketogenic diet, run an ultramarathon on a course of 14 laps just to see if I’d go crazy doing the same lap over and over and over again,

I’d never have tried all those weird wacky diets that some of my clients think is the next best thing just to see how bloody awful it is to eat NOTHING BUT MEAT for a whole day when I am an animal lover hippy at heart.

Maybe I could have saved hours, days, WEEKS or MONTHS of time had I not read up on all these topics. Maybe, just maybe, I’d never have experienced wacky hormones had I not done all that stuff, and maybe…

just maybe I’d never have learnt as much about my body without treating myself as an experiment of n=1.

So maybe… I’d never have learnt for myself my current theory, which of course is ever evolving, and that is simply to do what makes you happy.

And by happy – I mean really truly happy in mind and body.

So I know you might feel happy knowing you can eat whatever and however much junk food you like – but I also know you’ll feel awful afterwards, if not during.

And maybe not even immediately afterwards – it might show up the next day with fatigue, or the next month in the form of tighter clothes.

And I know you might think you feel happy not exercising AT ALL, but I also know that you’ll feel awful afterwards – with a sore back, inability to keep up with your kids or grandkids, depression, a heart attack…

And I also know that you’ll be truly happy having that gourmet ice cream every now and then, and having a wonderful sleep in to catch up on sleep to recharge your body.

I hate the phrase ‘everything in moderation‘ and I still don’t really believe in it. Because does that mean that even your happiness should be in moderation? I’d much rather aim for happiness in everything I do all the time.

Of course, I’m not perfect, and this is always something I’m working on rather than something that I’ve already achieved and can tick that box.

I’m a work in progress.

And so are you.

So whilst I have done a million and one experiments on myself to see what works for me at this point in time, I can’t necessarily just tell you what works for me and expect you to do it.

Because my thoughts are not yours so I cannot make you think or feel the same as me.

And because you need to learn for yourself.

You don’t have to lift weights for over an hour a day every day for a month (like I almost did, but kept getting sick), and you don’t have to run 100 kilometres just to see if that’s long enough for you to start hallucinating (no, it’s not – note to self: try 100 miles next time), but you do need to look within to see what resonates with you.

Because if you can find a method that you truly resonate with and you KNOW will bring you happiness and freedom, then that is the method for you.

Hmmmm so we’ve gone from confession time to finding a health method that works for you…

The lesson is: Look within to find not only what works, but to find what you are aligned with. Because you need to believe in it, and you need to feel content with it, and you need to genuinely want to do it for it to happen on a LIFESTYLE level rather than a 90 day quick fix level.

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