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This one was a LONG one to learn for me gang. I remember when I started training professionally for a gym in West Mifflin. Not even a month had passed and I got a bad review online by someone that I didn’t know, wasn’t a member of the club or had interacted with me at all. The review was based mostly on my physical appearance, with lines like “Trainers are supposed to inspire and I don’t think I’d be inspired by a guy who looks like that” and “look at the way he looks, he should be getting trained instead.” Luckily my employer, like always, was in my corner but it left a huge mental stain on me that lasted a long time.

Even when I was in PT school, I always wrestled with the fact that I wasn’t…..’blank’ enough, tall enough, buff enough, attractive enough. Personal Trainers have a very public career, depending on far you develop your business and people are cruel with their words. Once I became more educated and started getting years under my weight belt, I realized that you can look like Thor but if you don’t know what you’re teaching someone, it doesn’t amount to anything. You lose clients, your business fails and your mind starts to play tricks on you.

At this point in the game, I KNOW that I am platinum status when it comes to being a great trainer because I have educated myself and continue to do so. I also know how to listen to people where many trainers don’t. Let this be a lesson to those just beginning any sort of journey, you can always look the part but if you can’t back it up with actual substance, quit while you’re ahead. When you know better, you perform better and then you can truly say in the mirror, I AM ENOUGH.

#fyp #reflection #behaviormodification #motivation #compassion #personaltrainer #onlinereviews #depressionawareness #performanceanxiety #menswork #coaching #educateyourself #fitness #learningeveryday #lifelonglessons #teachingmoments #fyp #foryou #bodybuilding #positivity

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As a kid, the thought of having letters after my name was of somewhat of an importance to me. I thought it gave a person credibility, clout and bragging rights. As an adult, those letters equal hard work, discipline and responsibility.

Being a Fitness Trainer is something that I take extremely serious because it is an important thing to help people reshape the direction of their lives and secondly, because it is something that I’ve worked so hard to obtain. I sometimes sit, think and amazed by what I get to do everyday because it doesn’t feel like work and it’s truly awesome to find yourself in a position where you basically get to play everyday with people you consider your second family. I’m not really sure where I am going with this post other than, practicing gratitude for the opportunities I have to change people’s lives everyday and interact with friends that I tend to call family is something that I don’t take lightly. I’ve worked to hard for this life to brush it off so easily and neither should you. Be grateful. Each and everyday for what you have.

#grateful #begratefuleveryday #connection #fitness #fit #fitspo #fitfam #bebettereveryday #hardwork #determination #grit #exercisetherapyspecialist #therapist #allplaynowork #empath #menswork #masculinity #lgbt #gayman #pittsburgh #workout #letters #businesscard @issaonline @nptipgh @nestacertification #sportsinjury #physicaltherapy #orthopedics @nasm_fitness #motivation #fitnessmotivation #lifecoach #onlinecoach

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Sometimes you need to be your own superhero.

#masculine #superheores #fitmen #fitness #actor #pecs #empathy #superman #comics #compassion #menswork #therapy #lifecoach #personaltrainer #therapist #transformation #spiritualawakening

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