Your Passion–Not Your Business
I’ve heard it many times, "find your passion and do it." So, when I started working out for myself, I was very passionate about it. However, over the course of the summer I have learned, my passion for working out is not my business. Personally training myself is one thing, when it comes to others, I have no freaking patience. I’m thinking, looking back, I should have been aware of this from the get go. I don’t work out with a partner, it’s MY time. I have to "talk" myself into allowing someone else to work out with me. Dealing with my own incompetencies and shortcomings is about all I can handle, anyone else…I have no patience. I find that being a PT is kind of like being a cheerleader and I tried that once and hated it. Why the hell did I want to be cheering for freaking jocks? Making posters, on the road attending games, cheering for guys that hell, I was convinced, couldn’t even hear you! Hell no! Besides, I got the jock anyway, in the fieldhouse while I was lifting weights, no skirt required. LOL, another blog or maybe not.
I don’t know about this PT thing. I find myself not in the gym as much. I’m a little disgruntled and discouraged over the entire thing. I know, no matter what you do in life, there is always some kind of quirk or hassel to it and so I’m mindful of this. I’m possibly not being realistic, I have been a housewife for 9 years and dealing with other people outside my household is going to take some time. I DON’T KNOW! I have no sense of direction or feel on the matter. I hate to quit, quitting never settles well with me. I hate to stay in it simply because I hate to quit and so, for right now, I’m sincerely stymied.
August 6, 2008 at 7:33 pm
As a PT I go threw great periods of burnout! lol It is VERY demanding on the energy…and frustrating at times when people want ‘quick fixes’ and dont understand the amount of work that is actually involved in reaching certain levels of fitness/bodybuilding and even weight loss. *sigh*
I’m totally going threw a burn out phase right now and am glad to be working in a supps and nutritional store….the break was needed and when i’m ready to go back to a gym….it will be my own gym! lol
Dont worry…PT burnout happens…your not alone on that. Sometimes its a case of reevaluating what it is you really want to be teaching….
August 6, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Thanks Stormi! What about the whole "sales" crap. Ugh…despise that along with the whole "prospecting" thing. Gyms, budgets, money, training. Hookers, pimps and clients, money! LOL, all in a day’s work.
August 7, 2008 at 7:22 am
Why are you coming down on pimps? at least with a pimp you get what you pay for. A lot of PTs in the gym dont know what the hell they are doing or practice what they preach. We had a guy at the friendswood 24 hour gym thatwas built like a 200 pound woman with man boobs and all training someone WTF!!!