New Regular- Quotes for all Occasions
As an exercise in both thought and writing, I have decided to take a randomly generated quote and turn it into something valuable for training. It won't neccesarily be anything earth shattering, but this is a great mental exercise to derive benefits for training from something completely unrelated to training. So without further adieu, here is this weeks quote:
Become a fixer, not just a fixture.
Anthony J. D'Angelo,
The College Blue Book
Wow. This one is pretty loaded. I think the best piece of advice to glean from this quote is something going through the motions is not the way to go about training. Imagine someone who wants to lose body fat who toils on the treadmill for three hours a day, but never seems to lose a pound. While this person may be a fixture of the gym, he never makes progress towards his goal. He is wasting time that could be better used. Being a fixture doesn't always imply that action, so action is on you.
Another big thing that can be taken from this quote is for coaching purposes. Clients of all kinds are constantly evolving in how their successes and short comings change, so a coach much always be on top of how the client is changing and how to respond to those changes. Ideally, a coach should be preempting those changes or have a good idea where the changes will be, but whatever the case may be problems arise and they need to be fixed. Problems should never be problems for long.
So there are two little bit of information I got from this quote. I'd like to make this a bi weekly column. Comments as always are highly encouraged.