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Callin'
Out
Listen
up! Hear me now! I'm callin' out kids 12 to 18. Let
me give you this single piece of knowledge I wish I
had when I was your age:
the
fitness patterns you develop now will be with you for
the rest of your life.
Whether you don't like to or don't have to
work out, I encourage you to develop a fitness work
ethic anyway. Not in a crazy-obsessive-gotta-be-a-supermodel
type way, but something more than sitting in front of
video games and smootching rides off of everyone.
When
I was in high school there were really pretty girls
in my class who didn't work out at all. When bikini
season came around they would just do some drastic diet
and voila! They'd look good in a bikini! It was easy
and they figured they knew the formula. I on the other
hand was someone who was always a few Chicken McNuggets
away from having a gut. As a result, for good or for
bad, I've had to work out most of my adult life and
consequently feel very natural at any gym, pool, track,
whathaveyou. Boy am I thankful for that!
Because
you see, no matter who you are you're going to hit an
age when a few days of calorie restriction will no longer
get you into beach shape. UH OH. What will you do? And
though you may feel that age safely off in the distance,
to be dealt with later, I encourage you to invest in
yourself NOW, not just to benefit 10 or 20 years down
the road, but to learn amazing things about yourselves
at this moment!
Believe
me, I see it all around me. People who have hit that
age and suddenly NEED to work out and its scary and
its hard and who knows if it will even cause results!
Yikes!
I
can help you. (Because I'm pretty sure you won't listen
to your parents.) And in this case maybe you shouldn't
listen to your parents, unless they walk the walk and
talk the talk i.e. are fit themselves. And I want
to help you. So if you or your parents can't pay for
my services, email
me anyway and I'll see what I can do for you.
There
are essentially two levels of kids (that come to mind)
that I can help. The first level would be kids who already
have a decent workout ethic; perhaps they are on a school
team which requires conditioning. If this is you, I
can help you hone your skills (in whatever sport --
it doesn't matter --its all mental anyway) and more
importantly, cause breakthroughs for you in a fun, productive
way.
Here's
how I was in high school. I was on the basketball team
and was fairly decent. Typical kid that I was I wouldn't
think about getting in shape until about 1 month before
the season started. I'd lace up my high-tops and go
run as hard as I could around the track, perhaps lasting
a couple of laps, hurt, then call it a day. Maybe repeat
this work out a few days later. In other words, I had
no clue about what I was doing! And my results, well,
what results??
I
sincerely wish I had a coach like me in my life back
then because I sure wasn't going to listen to my dad.
(Oh, that's a whole other story!) And the team coaches
back then were just teachers moonlighting on the side-nothing
wrong with that, they were great people, but they weren't
always very knowledgable or inspirational.
And
so if you're this type of kid, I can will transform
for you what are now "work outs" into "training," an
huge distinction.
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