well my Coaching Director at the gym I own (West Loop Gym in Chicago) has been after me to start a blog and I have been fighting it for as long as I can. I'm not much of a typer but here we go. ( I sure hope this has spell check)
Since this is my first official Blog I thought I would explain the reason I picked the name"Still Training". It has a couple different meanings and although it's not so "cool" and creative, It means something to me.
I got into this field in 1990 after graduating from colledge in Exercise Science from Illinois State University. I really was just a College Wrestler that wanted to be a coach and after doing some student teaching, realized that I didn't want to teach high school kids. ISU had just started the Exercise Science program and my adviser suggested it to me.
After college I did an internship with the Coca Cola company's Health and Fitness center and eventually went to work for them. To make a long story short, I have worked in virtually every type of Health and Fitness facility there is since 1990 and learned something from every one.
Back in the early 90s Personal Training was just getting started and the money was not nearly as good as it is now. You really had to love this field to be in it because you were certinaly not gonna get rich doing it. So the first meaning for the name is that after almost 20 years in the business I am still training and more importantly, I still love to do it.
Another meaning for the name is that I am still training myself. I still train myself as hard as I ever have even though injuries and time restraints often will limit the frequency and duration. The workouts have changed quite a bit over the last 20 years but I still don't feel good unless I am pooring sweat and breathing like a dog thats been running in the heat. I still train Jiu-Jitsu and plan to as long as my body will let me.
The last meaning of the name is that I am still training as far as education is cncerned. New things are constanly being developed in this field and as far as I'm concerned it would be arrogant and irresponsible if I didn't stay in touch with the information and education that is available. I still love to go to seminars and workshops and picking the brains of the guys that love this field as much as I do. I would like to get invoved in presenting workshops myself someday, however I am concentrating on developing my business for now.
Thats it for my first official blog. I will be posting as new ideas as come to me (hopefully sooner than later)...
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