My career growth has always been centered around educational opportunities.

As a Personal Trainer, I’ve always found that educating those who hire me was my key to coaching fitness well.

As a Certification Coach for the Parisi Franchise, my job was literally to educate new coaches on the X’s and O’s of the training system.

And every week I sit down to write this newsletter I think about educating those reading it.

As I educate, I grow. That’s how it’s always been and that’s how I hope it always stays.

With this growth, comes one constant. My never ending feelings of impostor syndrome.

2 Truths & 1 Lie: Fitness Style

This weeks’ Purposeful Strength is a game; 2 Truths and a Lie

A classic high school ice-breaker.

Only in this case, there isn’t any ice to break. That makes it better, right?

Right.

This 2 truths and a lie format is a great feeder for something much larger I wanted to cover- training myths and misconceptions.

What 'could have been' is never as good as 'right now'

Over the past month I’ve found myself thinking about what could have been.

Being perfectly honest, It’s been eating me up.

I call this a trapped mindset.

Any time I’ve found myself thinking about the ‘what if’s’ or the ‘what could have been’ or even worse, ‘if I did this, then my life would be at this point’. No matter the way you frame it, it’s a trap.

It’s a trapped mindset.

I don’t know if a ‘trapped mindset’ is a real thing, but that’s what I call it.

3 Things Your Workout Doesn't Need

One of the more common elements of Personal Training is analyzing what your new clients have been/ are currently doing in their training programming.

Some stuff is good.

Some stuff is not so good.

Surprise, surprise, right?

But when it comes to looking at client programs, there are a few ‘red flags’ that tend to show up especially if the person is coming to me with some specific feedback on what they are feeling (injuries), lack of results (not training with intensity), or boredom (believe it or not, they are jumping from program to program too much and aren’t actually getting better at their workout).

Keeping those feelings in mind, here are 3 things your training program doesn’t need.

3 Things You Need To Hear (Vol.1)

I’m notorious for writing in three’s.

It’s kind of my thing.

If you’ve ever spent time on my website you’ll see short blogs that highlight ‘3 Things’ as well as my podcast, literally named, The 3 Things Podcast.

It was only a matter of time before it found it’s way over to Purposeful Strength. Whenever I plan on writing this week there is always a collection of preliminary thoughts that don’t quite have the horses in the race to make it on paper. As I collect a few of these miscellaneous thoughts, they’re going to become the 3 Things You Need to Hear.

Why are small victories so much harder than big victories?

“Why are small victories so much harder than big victories?”

This was the question I asked my long, long time friend, John Moljo on a recent podcast we did together.

I always liken it to this analogy. Would you rather find a $1 dollar bill or a $20 dollar bill on the ground?

Ten out of ten times, you want the $20.

Duh. Stupid question.