Your Trainer or Coach is Not Perfect

How goes it this week friends? Today we're talking about an experience most teachers or trainers have, I'm sure you'll enjoy. It never fails when I mention to people what I do for a living, some new interaction brings about a comment to the like of, “You’re a trainer, you must workout 7 days a week and run 5 miles a day,” or one of my favorites “You must eat to super healthy and clean,” whatever that means. I’m not insulting any of these folks or trying to make them out in a bad light (mostly). They simply are going off what they know in their brain to start and interaction. I’m just here to clear things up a bit.

Let’s start with this, coaches and trainers aren’t perfect. Overall, yes, as a group we all try to practice what we are preaching, but then again, the above (though they are super exaggerations to drive the point home) isn’t all that healthy either. I personally am to improve everyone’s health, that’s both the body and the mind. With that, I’m freaking human too, we all are. I go through periods of time where I’m eating food that’ll fuel me well and take care of my body, but I also like to indulge a bit and go out with friends...really shocking I know.
 
Side note: When I hear someone say a term like "eating clean", this makes me want to walk away from the conversation very quickly and get a frosty one.
 
The point is, coaches do what we do because we want to show everyone how to live a health lifestyle, but we aren’t tyrants to our clients or even ourselves. Please alter your expectations of your coaching friends & acquaintances, you’ll find your conversations with them more enjoyable, I promise. Thanks for reading everyone, enjoy your end of September and beginning of October. Be back next week for more.