Hey guys and welcome to yet another post,
Today's post is in response to a challenge set by a mentor of mine called Dax Moy, his challenge was to post in your blog what you believe with regards to training, exercise or even life in general.
If you want to have a look at the original post it can be found HERESo following is my response to that:
==> I believe in honesty and transparancy, yes in everything. Now i'll say this is not easy, some times very hard in fact, what you get from it long term though eclipses any short term gain from hiding or telling little white lies. It takes dedication and persistance and a concistant attitude towards the truth, if things aren't going well with your business then be honest; if your back pain still hurts just say; if your not losing as much fat then just say. Now it's not to say that you have to be blunt, nasty and not disregard people's feelings, including yours. You do that and you tend to find that it comes back to bite you in the arse anyway. Having had a lot of stuff happen in my personal life which involved a lot of stuff with my partner Jamie after a very hard period of we have endured and will continue to endure due to the openess and honesty between us
==> Compassion, it is my belief that in an industry that professes to "help" people, it really annoys the f**k out of me (excuse my french), that there are people that have no compassion, no empathy and no patience. For god's sake, people aren't always simple answers, they won't always listen to what you say, yes i do also get frustrated when client's don't take my advice or recommendations but as some one who enjoys coaching people, you realise that as a coach you'll do what ever it takes to help people win. you may change your approach but even if people ignore you that never means you'll stop trying, if so then i'd even say that is not your true passion and that you may wish to re-think what you do.
==> Speaking of the approach something that i like is flexibility, not just the physical kind. I mean that we all have a message to teach and coach, what we all sometimes forget is that there is more than one way to get a message across. A great example quote for this is:"methods are a many, principles are a few, methods always change, principles never do."Your message is your principle, your beliefs or your legacy, how you get it across to people is the method, people aren't always the same, develop the flexibility to change your method according to who you're talking to.
==> Caring about people, you're in a customer service based profession and industry, not caring about people and just taking them for a ride is plain wrong, pure and simple!
==> I believe that health and fitness can be both independant of each other and work in conjunction with each other. For example you can have certain yogi's that are incredibly healthy (blood pressure, heart, muscles etc) but are not necesarilly fit (run races, elite performance). On the flip side you can have athletes that are fit but not health at all. It is my belief that for optimal performance you must have clear definitions of what both health and fitness are for you and a clear plan how to achieve and marry up both as they are not mutually exclusive.
==> I believe in giving, pure and simple give and ye shall receive, enough said.Anyway i hope you enjoy this is part one and I'll put part 2 up later but it's currently 7.20pm and I'm off to watch Harry Potter and snuggle up with the Mrs.
Till next time.
Dave
http://www.backpain2leanframe.com/
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Saturday, 6 September 2008
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Friday, 5 September 2008
Success In Business Or Your Life!
The ESSENTIAL Action You Must Take For Success
I've just got out of my weekly meeting at work in Islington London with my boss, where we spent 2 hours talking about how we can improve on the performance of the company.
This is a weekly ritual where we conduct a no-B.S 'autopsy' of the past week figure out what worked, what didn't and what needs to be improved upon. This is the most valuable 2 hours of the entire week, I can tell you.
Well, this week was no exception. In fact, I'd say it was one of the most important team meetings we've had in a long time because it contained a message that my team REALLY needed to hear and, in all likelihood, what most of my readers need to hear too.
The message was a reminder, an urging, no, a DEMAND that each and every member of my company remember what our business and what life is about.
A little background...
Over the last few weeks since the boss returned from a vacation he's been studying the team and how they conduct business.
They're all great coaches, very passionate, dedicated and hard working so I'm very fortunate to be one of them.
Unfortunately, in his absence we all picked up a habit that was harming us, the business and our attitude to life.
We started equating the time that we spent at work with how valuable their work was to the business. For example, whilst we all complete a 40 hour week of time AT work, much of that time was spent on activities that had zero effect on the growth and success of the company.
For example, lets say they performed 18 appointments and 5 hours of marketing activity. That's 23 hours. Add to that 4 hours of staff training and the team meeting and we're up to 27 hours of productive work.
That leaves 13 hours of non earning, non learning and non-productive time each and every week where they're reading emails, scouring the web, waiting for clients, chatting with colleagues and, to be blunt, wasting time.
13 hours.
That almost a third of a working week where we're failing to take action on the core imperative of business...
To find, acquire and keep clients.
In other words, to engage in the activities that add to the bottom line value of both the company and their own bank accounts.
This is the most essential activity for success, not just in personal training but in all business, hell even in life.
It's the only reason for the existence of ANY business and in life.
In fact, if you're not actively seeking, finding and keeping clients then you don't have a business at all. You have a part time job and one that can dry up at any time. Also if you're not doing things that find, acquire and keep you on track to your goals then it's NOT productive.
The thing is, most of us don't realise that we've substituted the important for the less important.
We confuse busy-ness with business and, in doing so, ruin any real chance of success.
Maybe YOU'RE doing this too? Believing that because
you've been busy all day that you've been productive?
That you're adding to the net worth of your company?
Are you contributing to your life?
If you are... stop it!
I mean it, stop it right away.
Get in the habit of stopping several times a day and asking yourself this simple, yet powerful question:
'Is what I'm doing either part of seeking, acquiring or keeping my self on track to my goals?'
If the answer is no, then quit it immediately (no matter how much importance you've attached to redesigning that workout template) and get to working on something that is.
Hardly rocket science, I know, but who said success has to be complicated, right?
Spend the next 7 days asking yourself the question and see for yourself what impact it makes on your life.
You'll be amazed!
To your success
David Elcoate
www.backpain2leanframe.com
www.personaltraineressex.com
Tuesday, 12 August 2008
Olympic Commitment
Hey guys,
I just want to do a little posting on the word commitment, well that and perseverance, that I think everyone who is looking to change their figure or achieve any fat loss, weight change goal should really think about. Although this may not just be a little post it may as usual turn into a full on rant (as usual).
First of let's look at the two words and what they mean:
Commitment1. The act of committing. 2. The state of being committed. 3. The act of committing, pledging, or engaging oneself. 4. A pledge or promise; obligation: We have made a commitment to pay our bills on time. 5. Engagement; involvement:
Perseverance 1. Steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. 2. Theology. Continuance in a state of grace to the end, leading to eternal salvation.
So you guys can take from that what you will, the ones that stand out to me are as follows: the act of committing, pledging or engaging oneself and steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc.... especially in spite of difficulties.
The reason I write this today is that at 4:50 am I was watching the 2008 Olympics, in particular the gymnastics. Now if you've ever watched the guys and girls, their physiques are amazing, the only thing greater than that is their commitment and perseverance towards that ever elusive gold medal.
One performance by 2 members of the USA team in particular inspired me; both occurred on the pommel, for those of us more old school it used to be the horse in gym class. The USA were competing with the Japanese for the Silver and Bronze Medal respectively, when during a difficult turn and re-mount the USA athlete slipped and mistimed the mount, the look of sheer disappointment on his face, my heart went out to him there and then.
Did he quit? NO!
Did he give up? NO!
Did he turn and flee? NO!
Did he there and then decide that gymnastics wasn't for him and it doesn't work anyway? NO!
Well go on, what happened? Yep you guessed it, he gritted his teeth and remounted and continued that routine right to the very end. Something I think that sometimes is severely lacking in people's achieving results in the fitness industry is their commitment and persistence, that and an ability to recover from a stumble. Perhaps we should all take heed of this example and learn to apply it in our own lives.
Well what happened next was even more inspiring; the score was low enough to put the USA in jeopardy of loosing even the bronze medal. Up last for the USA team was the youngest, most inexperienced team member, who was clearly showing his nerves. The television crew were quick to point this out and were quick to tell the viewers that the pommel was his worst event and a it's a fact that the Japanese team were obviously aware of.
The as he stepped onto the mat to present, the transformation happened! It was like an iron wall of certainty, belief and perseverance had come over him, gone was the nervous young man previously seen, before us now stood a warrior forged for battle. It was up to this young man to regain any medal hopes and with the eyes of the world upon him, boy did he answer...
Even his team mates stood there gaping as her performed some of the most complex movements I have ever seen a human being go through and he made them look easy. His scores were that high that he clawed the USA back into medal contention and gained some of the highest individual scoring all competition.
Again he did not back down, he did not falter, he just kept that end result in his mind, committed to achieving it and persevered no matter what until he had! Ask yourself, can you commit to your results like this? can you change what you do to get to those levels?
If so then go now and commit to action no matter what and persevere until the end.
You know why you read this today, to quote nice "just do it".
David Elcoate
www.personltraineressex.com
www.backpain2leanframe.com
I just want to do a little posting on the word commitment, well that and perseverance, that I think everyone who is looking to change their figure or achieve any fat loss, weight change goal should really think about. Although this may not just be a little post it may as usual turn into a full on rant (as usual).
First of let's look at the two words and what they mean:
Commitment1. The act of committing. 2. The state of being committed. 3. The act of committing, pledging, or engaging oneself. 4. A pledge or promise; obligation: We have made a commitment to pay our bills on time. 5. Engagement; involvement:
Perseverance 1. Steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc., esp. in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement. 2. Theology. Continuance in a state of grace to the end, leading to eternal salvation.
So you guys can take from that what you will, the ones that stand out to me are as follows: the act of committing, pledging or engaging oneself and steady persistence in a course of action, a purpose, a state, etc.... especially in spite of difficulties.
The reason I write this today is that at 4:50 am I was watching the 2008 Olympics, in particular the gymnastics. Now if you've ever watched the guys and girls, their physiques are amazing, the only thing greater than that is their commitment and perseverance towards that ever elusive gold medal.
One performance by 2 members of the USA team in particular inspired me; both occurred on the pommel, for those of us more old school it used to be the horse in gym class. The USA were competing with the Japanese for the Silver and Bronze Medal respectively, when during a difficult turn and re-mount the USA athlete slipped and mistimed the mount, the look of sheer disappointment on his face, my heart went out to him there and then.
Did he quit? NO!
Did he give up? NO!
Did he turn and flee? NO!
Did he there and then decide that gymnastics wasn't for him and it doesn't work anyway? NO!
Well go on, what happened? Yep you guessed it, he gritted his teeth and remounted and continued that routine right to the very end. Something I think that sometimes is severely lacking in people's achieving results in the fitness industry is their commitment and persistence, that and an ability to recover from a stumble. Perhaps we should all take heed of this example and learn to apply it in our own lives.
Well what happened next was even more inspiring; the score was low enough to put the USA in jeopardy of loosing even the bronze medal. Up last for the USA team was the youngest, most inexperienced team member, who was clearly showing his nerves. The television crew were quick to point this out and were quick to tell the viewers that the pommel was his worst event and a it's a fact that the Japanese team were obviously aware of.
The as he stepped onto the mat to present, the transformation happened! It was like an iron wall of certainty, belief and perseverance had come over him, gone was the nervous young man previously seen, before us now stood a warrior forged for battle. It was up to this young man to regain any medal hopes and with the eyes of the world upon him, boy did he answer...
Even his team mates stood there gaping as her performed some of the most complex movements I have ever seen a human being go through and he made them look easy. His scores were that high that he clawed the USA back into medal contention and gained some of the highest individual scoring all competition.
Again he did not back down, he did not falter, he just kept that end result in his mind, committed to achieving it and persevered no matter what until he had! Ask yourself, can you commit to your results like this? can you change what you do to get to those levels?
If so then go now and commit to action no matter what and persevere until the end.
You know why you read this today, to quote nice "just do it".
David Elcoate
www.personltraineressex.com
www.backpain2leanframe.com
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Olympic dedication to lasting health and fitness
I was a pretty good Sprinter in secondary school. But I'm closer to Al Bundy of Polk High than I am an Olympic athlete.
Those guys are the real deal.
Soon the world will be talking about the dedication and drive exhibited by those taking the gold, silver and bronze.
I don't have personal experience, though I do imagine training for Beijing hasn't been a piece of cake, in fact downright excruciating at times.
But how can you apply their lessons to YOUR life, training, exercise, out look, whatever....
For one thing, if you have a goal you can be inspired by them.
They sacrifice so much for just for the CHANCE of Olympic glory.
They train and train and train with great purpose and dedication.
They strive for ever greater heights over and over and over again.
They commit to that end result 'NO MATTER WHAT', they do whatever it takes.
Just imagine what your life would look like if you lived with the same passion and enthusiasm.
What your back pain would would be like if you committed to ending it with the same tenacity.
What your figure would look like if you dedicated yourself completely to achieveing your dream bidy.
How fust your fat loss and muscle gain would be with that level of persistance.
Just something to think about.
To your looks, health and lack of pain
Dave Elcoate
Those guys are the real deal.
Soon the world will be talking about the dedication and drive exhibited by those taking the gold, silver and bronze.
I don't have personal experience, though I do imagine training for Beijing hasn't been a piece of cake, in fact downright excruciating at times.
But how can you apply their lessons to YOUR life, training, exercise, out look, whatever....
For one thing, if you have a goal you can be inspired by them.
They sacrifice so much for just for the CHANCE of Olympic glory.
They train and train and train with great purpose and dedication.
They strive for ever greater heights over and over and over again.
They commit to that end result 'NO MATTER WHAT', they do whatever it takes.
Just imagine what your life would look like if you lived with the same passion and enthusiasm.
What your back pain would would be like if you committed to ending it with the same tenacity.
What your figure would look like if you dedicated yourself completely to achieveing your dream bidy.
How fust your fat loss and muscle gain would be with that level of persistance.
Just something to think about.
To your looks, health and lack of pain
Dave Elcoate
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Behaviour and attitude
Guys,
Hello from the great beyond, I've just come back from an exhausting weekend had my Kung-Fu grading on sun at 9am, ouch!!! Lots of forms to learn and free fighting from 1-4 people to take part in, a few bruises and a refusal to give in and I'm a belt higher than previously. Anyway this grading, an e-mail i got from Dax Moy on his magic 100 blog earlier and an incident I witnessed in London on Friday means that i am posting about behaviour and attitude today.
The magic 100 on the link http://www.magichundred.blogspot.com/ is about a 14year old boy who recently won Britain's got talent, he has no special background, no special abilities save two: the potential to utilise his natural talent (singing and dancing) and the refusal to quit when the going gets tough and to stick it out to realise his dream. One of the judges called him the dancing version of Rocky Balboa as he didn't even make the final last year, did he cry, winge, moan, complain? Hell yes i bet he did!!!!!! It was after that though that he went away re-worked what he had and came back better and stronger than he was before.
How many of us can say we do that? We all have tragedy's that befalls us, those that shine do the winging, moaning and grieving, learn from it, ask what they can do and get from it and then move on to becoming something better.
Those that don't, get stuck in the moaning phase and even have the audacity to complain that life isn't brining them what they want, a quote that i remember from school is that "your goal come to you as fast as you progress towards it!"
This is something you may want to do this weekend: Figure out where you are in the sequence above, if you're a winger, learn from it and start to make changes to moving on. Also, figure out what your natural potential is (don't know ask your friends, family and loved ones), figure out what you can do with it and ways you can make life better for yourself and others and ask what can I do and get from it and then move on to becoming something better.
The above will be a stark contrast to what i saw on the London Underground on Friday afternoon, as we pulled into a station the doors opened and there was a gentle man waiting on the platform. Elderly supporting himself on crutches and having trouble walking, looked like some neurological disease (think tucker in Something About Mary Film). Here was someone less fortunate than myself, for the sake of waiting an extra 10mins for another train, I was the only person next to the doors that got off!!!!!!
It would have taken 3 of us to create the space for this gentleman, 3 people, only 1 person out of almost 20 got off, it made my blood boil, even writing this i can feel myself getting angry!!!
So ask yourself what attitude and behaviour will you display? Which scenario will you fit into above: Full filing your potential via a dogged determination to see things through to the end or a completely apathetic, nonchalant don't give a S**T attitude, where you care about no one but yourself????
Remember you get back from life what you put into it, one of the attitudes and behaviours requires persistent excellence and hard work; the other is easy as sin but long term gives you nothing.....
I know which side of the fence I sit on!!
Dave
www.personaltraineressex.com
Hello from the great beyond, I've just come back from an exhausting weekend had my Kung-Fu grading on sun at 9am, ouch!!! Lots of forms to learn and free fighting from 1-4 people to take part in, a few bruises and a refusal to give in and I'm a belt higher than previously. Anyway this grading, an e-mail i got from Dax Moy on his magic 100 blog earlier and an incident I witnessed in London on Friday means that i am posting about behaviour and attitude today.
The magic 100 on the link http://www.magichundred.blogspot.com/ is about a 14year old boy who recently won Britain's got talent, he has no special background, no special abilities save two: the potential to utilise his natural talent (singing and dancing) and the refusal to quit when the going gets tough and to stick it out to realise his dream. One of the judges called him the dancing version of Rocky Balboa as he didn't even make the final last year, did he cry, winge, moan, complain? Hell yes i bet he did!!!!!! It was after that though that he went away re-worked what he had and came back better and stronger than he was before.
How many of us can say we do that? We all have tragedy's that befalls us, those that shine do the winging, moaning and grieving, learn from it, ask what they can do and get from it and then move on to becoming something better.
Those that don't, get stuck in the moaning phase and even have the audacity to complain that life isn't brining them what they want, a quote that i remember from school is that "your goal come to you as fast as you progress towards it!"
This is something you may want to do this weekend: Figure out where you are in the sequence above, if you're a winger, learn from it and start to make changes to moving on. Also, figure out what your natural potential is (don't know ask your friends, family and loved ones), figure out what you can do with it and ways you can make life better for yourself and others and ask what can I do and get from it and then move on to becoming something better.
The above will be a stark contrast to what i saw on the London Underground on Friday afternoon, as we pulled into a station the doors opened and there was a gentle man waiting on the platform. Elderly supporting himself on crutches and having trouble walking, looked like some neurological disease (think tucker in Something About Mary Film). Here was someone less fortunate than myself, for the sake of waiting an extra 10mins for another train, I was the only person next to the doors that got off!!!!!!
It would have taken 3 of us to create the space for this gentleman, 3 people, only 1 person out of almost 20 got off, it made my blood boil, even writing this i can feel myself getting angry!!!
So ask yourself what attitude and behaviour will you display? Which scenario will you fit into above: Full filing your potential via a dogged determination to see things through to the end or a completely apathetic, nonchalant don't give a S**T attitude, where you care about no one but yourself????
Remember you get back from life what you put into it, one of the attitudes and behaviours requires persistent excellence and hard work; the other is easy as sin but long term gives you nothing.....
I know which side of the fence I sit on!!
Dave
www.personaltraineressex.com
Sunday, 23 March 2008
web links.
Guys attatched are some links to some very good sights that i recommend
Dave
Troy M Anderson:
http://www.andersontrainingsystems.com/
http://www.stopthemuffintop.com/
http://troyats.blogspot.com/
http://www.101fatlosstips.com/
http://www.bluecollargolfer.com/
http://www.liftdragcarry.com/
Dax Moy:
http://www.themagichundred.com/
http://www.daxmoy-pts.co.uk/
http://www.personaltrainersuccessacademy.com/
http://www.fitsystemtraining.com/
http://www.lookgreatnakedchallenge.com/
http://www.daxmoy-pts.co.uk/eliminationdietcookbook.asp
http://www.eliminationdiet.ning.com/
http://www.themagichundred.ning.com/
http://www.dailydoseofdax.blogspot.com/
http://www.magichundred.blogspot.com/
Jeremy Nelms:
http://www.thefitcouple.com/
http://thefitcouple.ning.com/
http://thefitcouple.blogspot.com/
http://www.nelmsfitness.com/
http://www.ftgardens.com/
http://www.prescottbootcamp.com/
http://www.ftgardenschallenge.com/
http://prescottbootcamp.ning.com/
Matt Murphy:
http://www.mattmurphyfitness.co.uk/
http://mattmurphysolutions.blogspot.com/
http://www.optimiseu.com/
http://www.turbofittraining.co.uk/
Josh Henkin:
http://www.sandbagexercises.com/
http://www.ifsstrength.com/
http://www.kettlebellfitnesssystems.com/
Laurie Gomes
http://fit-to-function.blogspot.com/
Paul Michael Love
http://www.fitcamp.info/
Kris Ashman
http://www.metabolism-manager.blogspot.com/
David Elcoate
http://www.trainerregister.com/personal-trainers/87/david-elcoate.htm
Jerry Hill
http://www.crossfitoldtown.com/
Nicky Sehgal
David Osgathorp
http://aayou.co.uk/default.aspx
Michael Gardiner
http://www.westendfitnessstudio.co.uk/
Simon Jones
http://www.simonjonespt.com/
Judit Rago and Mark Lawrencehttp://lawrenceandrago.com/
James William Goulden
http://25minutefitness.com/
Paul Mort
http://www.precisionfitness.co.uk/
http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/health/weightloss
Dave
Troy M Anderson:
http://www.andersontrainingsystems.com/
http://www.stopthemuffintop.com/
http://troyats.blogspot.com/
http://www.101fatlosstips.com/
http://www.bluecollargolfer.com/
http://www.liftdragcarry.com/
Dax Moy:
http://www.themagichundred.com/
http://www.daxmoy-pts.co.uk/
http://www.personaltrainersuccessacademy.com/
http://www.fitsystemtraining.com/
http://www.lookgreatnakedchallenge.com/
http://www.daxmoy-pts.co.uk/eliminationdietcookbook.asp
http://www.eliminationdiet.ning.com/
http://www.themagichundred.ning.com/
http://www.dailydoseofdax.blogspot.com/
http://www.magichundred.blogspot.com/
Jeremy Nelms:
http://www.thefitcouple.com/
http://thefitcouple.ning.com/
http://thefitcouple.blogspot.com/
http://www.nelmsfitness.com/
http://www.ftgardens.com/
http://www.prescottbootcamp.com/
http://www.ftgardenschallenge.com/
http://prescottbootcamp.ning.com/
Matt Murphy:
http://www.mattmurphyfitness.co.uk/
http://mattmurphysolutions.blogspot.com/
http://www.optimiseu.com/
http://www.turbofittraining.co.uk/
Josh Henkin:
http://www.sandbagexercises.com/
http://www.ifsstrength.com/
http://www.kettlebellfitnesssystems.com/
Laurie Gomes
http://fit-to-function.blogspot.com/
Paul Michael Love
http://www.fitcamp.info/
Kris Ashman
http://www.metabolism-manager.blogspot.com/
David Elcoate
http://www.trainerregister.com/personal-trainers/87/david-elcoate.htm
Jerry Hill
http://www.crossfitoldtown.com/
Nicky Sehgal
David Osgathorp
http://aayou.co.uk/default.aspx
Michael Gardiner
http://www.westendfitnessstudio.co.uk/
Simon Jones
http://www.simonjonespt.com/
Judit Rago and Mark Lawrencehttp://lawrenceandrago.com/
James William Goulden
http://25minutefitness.com/
Paul Mort
http://www.precisionfitness.co.uk/
http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/health/weightloss
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