I have said before and I will say it again I LOVE my job and I believe to be truly successful within the health and fitness industry you have to love it and be passionate about it. Some people think that the job of a personal trainer is easy, you walk in and put a client through a series of different exercises for an hour and you go home. But over the past year and a half of doing this job I've learnt that as a PT you take on many different roles. You have to learn to read people in a way because if something is bothering them in their personal life they aren't going to be focused on their goals in the gym. You have to take the time to talk to and listen to them, know when to be hard and when to be empathetic and essentially you don't just help a person on their journey but you JOIN them on that journey. For me I want my clients to reach their goals as much as they do themselves.
Today's post has come about by one of my clients who has hit a crossroads in her training. She has achieved so much more than I think she ever thought she could yet she still holds on to self doubt and therefore is rarely willing to step out of her comfort zone unless I really push her.
All of us should be able to relate to this whether it be in the gym or just in our lives. Stepping out of a comfort zone is scary because lets face it we all like to feel comfortable and the unknown is well.. unknown.
In the gym it is easy to get stuck in comfort zones or comfortable routines because we are scared to push our bodies to new limits in case we fail. Nobody likes the feeling of failure or disappointment yet people rarely think about the fact that failure is not definite, just because you fail once doesn't mean you can't try again. When we get stuck in a comfort zone or routine then our bodies also get comfortable and we more than often plateau. The results we were once seeing are not there anymore and this is the perfect indication that it's time to step out of that comfort zone and shock your body by trying something new.
This week I can safely say I have stepped out of my own comfort zone. I had an interesting experience going on my first push bike ride since I was maybe in primary school. One of my clients asked me to go for a bike ride with him and I agreed although for the first 10 minutes or so I wondered why. Bike riding has never been somthing I have done much of and therefore I was not in my comfort zone. Some people think that working in the fitness industry means you are naturally good at all things fitness related but this is not true. I managed to fall off before even leaving his street lol lucky he missed it otherwise I would be hearing about it forever. Once I got over the initial factor of being out of my comfort zone though the next 60 minutes were fun. We went again today and I managed not to fall (I did have a near miss at a busy intersection) but I felt more comfortable.
That's the thing about stepping out of comfort zones we challenge ourselves and then when that zone which was once uncomfortable and unknown becomes comfortable, you know it's time to step outside again and challenge yourself to something new. Basically you will never know if you can do something unless you try and it's always better to try and fail than not to try at all and always wonder if you could do it.
So why not step outside that comfort zone in this coming week. It might be lifting heavier weights, running for longer or faster than you have before on the treadmill or trying something completely new or different that you might have always thought about but never given a go. Don't be disappointed if you fail because like I said failure is not definite, there is no limit on how many times you attempt somthing and if you commit yourself, work hard and perservere you will reach your goals :)
Keep an eye out tommorrow for this weeks fit FREAK and as always remember to eat CLEAN, train MEAN and you will live LEAN :)
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