It's All About The Hips And Shoulders

My mind was blown and when I thought it was done blowing, it was blown again.  I had one of the best weekends learning EVER.  I go to quite a few seminars and workshops throughout the years, but this one made me so excited to go back to work.  I put pieces of the puzzles together and had one "aha moment" after another.  

I also got some very good advice on my squat and deadlift.  I love being coached and having someone dissect my movements.  I am competitive and a perfectionist, but I never think that I am the best or perfect.  So when someone takes the time to give me feedback, I jump at it.  

Maybe that's whats been missing in my own training.  I'm motivated to workout, I train hard.  But there is something missing when day in and day out I train by myself, writing my own programs and hoping for the best.  I'm slowly getting stronger and I feel pretty good.  But there is something missing.  Maybe it's the need for candy when I should just eat a meal.  Or having one more beer when I should just go to bed.  Maybe it is raising kids and running a business, where I feel tired to do mundane tasks.  All I know is that when I can have professional eyes pick apart my movements and give me solid feedback, I feel like I won the lottery.  I take every work and hold it tight to me.  I savor it and let it settle in both my mind and my body.  

Someone can give me a complement and I don't really know what to do with it.  I hear it, but it just floats away and I never give it time to settle.  I don't always believe it, or I think that maybe they are just saying something to be nice.  And all of this makes me laugh at my own hypocrisy.  I encourage my athletes to accept a complement.  I encourage them to own the good things that people have to say about them.  So often when someone has something nice to say, we don't even give it a chance to settle or to really hear it before we counter with a personal insult.  For instance, "You have a great pushup."  "Oh, but look at my stomach."  

I don't really know how I veered from one paragraph to another.  All I know is that I came home from this weekend feeling awesome.  I have tons of information to give to my athletes.  I have information for myself.  And I just stockpiled a whole bunch of information to come out as needed.