Hello listeners. I hope everyone had a great new years and I wish everybody good health for the

upcoming year. I'm going to start off this year by talking about something I have spoken about

many times before. However, it's always good to hear things again as a reminder, and there are also new listeners

coming online all the time, and they've perhaps not yet listened to the entire back catalog.

So let's talk about intentionality and maybe psychology in fitness training.

As usual, this has some element of something that I have recently experienced. So here's

a story. A few days ago, I was chatting on WhatsApp with a friend that I haven't spoken to

in a long time, maybe a few years. I asked her if she was still training in the sport she was doing

previously and told me, actually, no, but she'd recently taken up CrossFitFit and then told me the gym she was training

at and how wonderful it is. I asked her where that was and it just so happened that I taught

a two-day seminar at this gym in 2017. Now, the future does not resemble the past, but there

were some things that happened at this gym that I found

to be red flags. The first was that I spent two days explaining to all of the coaches there

why to do lifts a certain way and not another way, and had the sea of coaches nodding at me in

agreement and vigorously taking notes. Post seminar, they told me how much they'd learned,

and literally one week later, I saw a video on the gym's social media of them continuing to do

things the exact same way that they'd been doing it before the seminar, which led me to ask

some questions of myself. Questions like, why would a gym pay me to fly over?

Spent two days on coach education, only for things to change in absolutely no way whatsoever.

And I know that for myself, when I get new information, I'm super keen to implement it.

So why weren't they doing this? Secondly,

it may very well be the case that they simply didn't disagree with what I was saying.

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