Dare to be different
The average person in the U.S. is overweight, stressed, bored with their job, and spends their life waiting for the weekend. Furthermore, the average gym-goer gets absolutely nowhere with their health and fitness.
While in the process of opening Underground Functional Fitness, I was a premier trainer at a large commercial gym, or what I like to call “big box gym”. My superiors there told me that 80% of gym users don’t get the results they desire. Which isn’t surprising, especially after they also stated “a monkey could learn kinesiology, you have to develop them into salesmen”. At this particular gym, members were paying about $550 a year for sub-par service and training. What’s even more ridiculous is that these same people who didn’t reach their goals last year were quite happy to pay out again come January 1st!
Now if you want to avoid being one of those “average” people feeling constant dissatisfaction and underachievement then you must do things differently than everybody else. You must be willing to step out of your comfort zone to force change.
Trainers at big box gyms aren’t any less of a person than those of us at Underground Functional Fitness; we’ve just taken the time and made a commitment to pursue higher education to learn what is necessary to make constant progress. If something doesn’t work, don’t keep doing it!
“Keep doing what you are doing, and you’ll keep getting what you are getting” –
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One of the keys to success is to not be afraid to make mistakes. This is often the best way to learn! It doesn’t matter how much you read or absorb, not everything works for everybody. What you are going to learn from us at Underground Functional Fitness is an accumulation of everything we have learned from our own experiences and education. We have proven results from our clients – so we know what works and it works very well!
Certain tweaks in your training may be necessary to suit your own personal needs. There is more than one way to skin a cat so always remain open to new ideas. This may contradict what you have learned and what everyone else around you is doing.
Listen to the people who have already achieved fantastic results and you won’t go far wrong! Enjoy doing things differently than the “Average Joe” and you will soon be reveling in the awesome results to follow. You could become the person that people turn to after they’ve had enough of their bog-standard, crappy lives because they have chosen to follow magazine clippings and listen to what “certified” (not educated trainers) tell them.
Remember new inventions can result in incredible rewards for the inventor because no one else has done it yet. Many people will laugh at their ideas until they perfect it. Then suddenly everyone wants a piece of the action!
“If you dare to be original, be prepared to be copied” -Mike’s hard lemonade
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds” -Einstein
So don’t be afraid to go out on a limb and stand out. Eventually you will be rewarded!
