Hi and welcome back to Get Fit Guy. I'm your host Kevin Don. And this week I thought it would be fun since we're kind of at the totally arbitrary point of a new year to see if I could make a case for you in 2024, avoiding as many fads as possible and sticking with the training basics.

Now, I see there being three main obstacles to progress.

Firstly, being distracted by shiny new hype.

Secondly, historical experiences.

And thirdly, correlation where it doesn't belong or doesn't exist.

Now, as someone who trains clients myself, both remotely and in person, by the way,

shameless plug for myself, but if you would like remote coaching to work together on your goals or have some

kind of movement assessments, please reach out. I'm always quite surprised that in almost 18 months

of being the get-fit guy, I've actually only had two emails about people inquiring about being trained. And both of those people

never got back to me. So anyway, I can tell you that being a trainer can be stressful because

your clients are on a conveyor belt, right? It's like their training lifetime. At some point, due to life

circumstances, it could be saving up to buy a new house or adding another child to the family,

something changing. Maybe you just get really bored with the training and you want to go do something else, you know, you want to take up a new sport or something like that.

Clients are kind of on this conveyor belt and eventually they drop off the end.

So you're either having to put new clients on at the start of the conveyor belt, faster than the old ones are dropping off,

or you have to find ways to extend the

lifespan of each client.

For many personal trainers and coaches, lifespan extension equals bamboozlement, right?

Because if you can continually put clients into this confused state of exhaustion or post-workout pain,

then you create this false impression that the training is really working. And that's because

most people correlate pain with workout quality. Now, as we've discussed before, humans are in this preferred state,

which is called homeostasis. Homeostasis is basically where you've adapted to your current

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