Hello and welcome back to Get Fit Guy. This is your host, Kevin Donne. Today I would like to talk about an important

psychological aspect to fitness and its impact on the outcomes. This will also hold true for anything

that you do in your life that you're working towards in terms of goals.

It's important for business owners and educators, literally everyone.

And it's called trust.

And the claim I'm going to make is that low trust environments have low rates of investment.

In a 1995 study, which was Myers et al,

they published their model of trust and how it impacts outcomes.

Trust, when able to overcome risk perception,

resulted in risk taking. And only risk taking can lead to an outcome.

But way before risk taking and risk perception, at the very opposite end of the journey towards

your intended outcome, there are three components that combine to form trust.

And if these aren't in place, or if they change at any point before the outcome,

then trust is broken and the model collapses.

The three elements of trust are perceived ability, perceived integrity, and perceived benevolence.

Let's take these one by one and relate them to life in general or fitness.

The first one is perceived ability.

So let's say you decide you've been ignoring your doctor for far too long.

Your BMI is too high.

Your waist circumference is out of healthy ranges and your blood work is a mess.

So you decide, right, I'm going to go and hire a personal trainer. So you go along to your

first few sessions and it becomes clear that your trainer has a great love for Olympic weightlifting.

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