Hi, it's Kevin Don the Get Fit Guy.

I'm a fitness coach with over a decade of experience training world-class athletes.

And on this show, I share some of the knowledge I've picked up so that you can improve your own fitness.

This week, I'd like to talk about training plans.

There are so many options out there,

different online templates, different coaches and different methodologies. Sometimes they agree,

sometimes they completely contradict each other. So how do we know which training program is best

for us? To start, I think we should have a look at the meaning of, or the etymology of the word

coach. The word is actually the meaning of or the etymology of the word coach.

The word is actually the name of a town in northwest Hungary.

K-O-C-S, pronounced as coach.

The location was renowned across Europe for the craftsmanship of a wooden wheeled cart called the cart of Cochie.

This is where we get the word coach.

So we can say that a coach is a vehicle for delivering you from point to point in a safe and efficient manner.

In terms of fitness training, think of your current physical capacity as the point of origin,

your training intent as the point of destination, and your training program as the vehicle

that delivers you from A to B. So, in order

to work out where this training journey is going, we need to spend some time being honest and

vulnerable in self-reflection. If we're in our twilight years, do we really have elite athletic

goals? If we want to spend time with our family and young children, do we really need to have

the body of an Olympian? Or is the goal just to move and resist the aging process? We can only begin to look at a training intervention

once we have answered the question of training intent. Once we've taken some time to consider

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