All New Plan for the New Year!

For most of you, you haven't noticed the new found energy that we've recently brought back to the gym and the carry over to the workouts. Trainers are no different than anyone else, except for the fact that our entire job is focused on being on top of the world at all times, which means we have to constantly motivate, motivate, motivate!
Motivation takes it's tole on the mind after a long day at the gym. On average a trainer may have to deal with 30 or more different personalities each day. Some are intrinsically motivated and some need our slap across the face to get going. The intrinsic guys are easy but at the same time as a trainer we need to take them up a level as well. The tough ones are the ones that show up dragging there feet through the door and the last place on Earth they want to be is in the gym.
For years, I've dealt with both kinds of people and at the end of the night I was exhausted at the end of the night. You see, the motivation was being sucked away from me. I would let, those certain people who didn't like fitness, get to me.
After a couple of years of dealing with this issue I was having, I finally had an epiphany! Those folks that needed me to motivate them, I would go above and beyond the call of trainer duty. Instead of just letting people go upstairs and walk on a treadmill prior to training, I would grab them (even when I had another client) and get them to grab a med ball and warm up with abs or something completely different then what they had been doing for ever... you have to break the cycle and at the same time motivate someone and educate someone on the reasons why they need to break the cycle.
Here's my question to you: Do you do the same exact thing every time when you go to the gym? You walk in, throw your stuff in a locker and do what, look to walk on the treadmill at a pace that is slower than what you were doing before you walked through the door? Why? Oh yeah, you are warming up, right? Well, who told you that? Oh yeah, my fault, I was probably lazy one day prior to working you out and said "hey, Joe, hop on a treadmill/bike/elliptical and get loose."

That is what you call a trainer being a lazy instructor and not a trainer. So, ever since I opened up The BAR Fitness in our own building I've tried to get you guys off the treads and grab medicine balls, do a dynamic stretch, ab work or whatever will get the body into sweat mode and ready to rock. Many of you have figured it out.. mainly the Hybrid members because since day one we have warmed up with dynamic stretching. I bet every one of our Hybrid members could run a dynamic stretch themselves without even stuttering about what exercise should come next. It's been instilled into your mind and therefore you could do it without a trainers help... why don't you do it then??????? Well, that's easy too. Hybrid is a team! You do everything with your team and you don't leave anyone out!
My personal training clients: this week, don't use the treads/elliptical/spin bikes to warm up. Grab a med ball and do some ab work or your own dynamic stretches. Do you think you can do it? I know you can.
I'll work with the trainers and get them going again. Look for all new motivators and exercises to keep everyone on track.
This blog was just a shout to what to expect in the new year. You are all up for it and can do it! Get ready for 2010. It will be the biggest year for you as a member and The BAR Fitness as a place to call your second home!
See you in the gym on Monday!