Putting In The Effort

Hi There 

 I love my job. I love that I get to help and see other peoples' progress. I feel honored being a part of their journey. 

 But THEY need to put in the effort. When we start on their movement journey, we enter into an accountability relationship.This means we are accountable towards each other and our goals.

 I need to design programmes that challenges you in every way and that meets your physical standards and i need to make sure all this happens in a safe and productive way. YOU need to do the WORK. YOU need to put IN the EFFORT at your highest ability for it to work. I CAN NOT DO IT FOR YOU! I can shout, jump, do every movement with you whatever it takes, but I CANNOT DO THE WORK FOR YOU! Even if I sometimes wish I could. 
Remember we are in this together. Sometimes it takes longer to see results or due to injury we get frustrated, but that is life. We have to push through the feelings and follow Nike and JUST DO IT. We might even have to start over or go in a different direction. But we go on.

 This part of the job scares me, because it is the most important part. I need to do MY part in our relationship, but I can not do everything and I am human too. I need to trust that YOU are doing your part. This is not always easy. We both are accountable.

 Sometimes it is not a bad coach, personal trainer etc. but YOU NOT doing YOUR part. It is not always the case but I have seen it happen. Next time you work with a coach, personal trainer etc. remember this and try to strengthen the accountability relationship so that both of you reach your goals and are comfortable to push forward responsible and safe and be successful.   
   
Keep Moving until next time👋



Location: South Africa

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