As a trainer, I am often, or at least it seems like it, expected to know everything there is to know about health, weight loss, and muscle building. People come to me, want a trainer, assume if I accept them as a client that they will lose fat and build muscle.
Sometimes these assumptions happen to work out and these people are successful. But then there is the majority. Those who struggle day to day and find it hard to see results. They lean on me and ask what can they do. What should they do, or why aren't they losing weight?
It took me a while to learn that I couldn't do it all. I couldn't be the movement/strength/kettlebell guy and the nutrition/holistic health & wellness guy at the same time. Where is the mastery in that? I had to let go of the false idea that what I do is for everyone and what I do is going to help everyone. This is because of one small fact:
I don't know everyone.
By that I mean, nutritionally I have no way of knowing what your body needs and in what quantities. I am not qualified other than one chapter in a personal training book I read a decade ago. I have not worked with enough in depth cases to be able to give you the same product an RD, or nutritionist could as they went through and continue extensive education and licensing to do so.
I found through my kettlebell & movement journey that there are a lot of smart people who workout with kettlebells and build movement pattern strength. My desire to be one of those smart people kept me in the kettlebell/StrongFirst/RKC world. There I learned about strength, movement, mobility, stability, and how to make someone stronger in every sense of the word. I started to look at all those other things I thought "I needed to be", or people assumed I should know, and realized how small those things were and how a lot of people in other industries were putting years of time into understanding and teaching those areas.
I knew it was time to let some stuff go.
So, my response when someone comes to me for nutrition: Let's find you an awesome nutritionist!
"You can't just write me a meal plan?"
Great question! Actually, I can't. And its for multiple reasons, but the most important reason is you need someone with the passion and years of education that I have in movement and kettlebells.. in the nutrition world. And in my opinion, You know what you need to eat to lose weight, and you know what not to eat.
"If you know what to cut out, then cut it out. You know what to eat more, so eat more of it."
Trust me, you are not at a place yet where you need to over analyze what time of day you're eating and pick apart which vegetables are best to consume.
We all know if you move more, you will have more energy. If we eat better we will have better energy. If we sleep more, we will have more energy. The more energy we have the more active we are. All of this tends to result in a lighter body weight. But what if it doesn't but your doctor says you are healthier than your previous visit? THEN YOU ARE WINNING!
So you know what you need to do to lose weight and build muscle. So go do it. There are 168 hours in a week. At most you are with me for 5 of those. Let me do what I do best and have passion for in those 3-5 hours a week to impact your life. In those 5 hours with me you will learn a lot, you will work your butt off, and you will move better, get stronger, and have less pain. The other 163 hours you're not with me, you know what to do, what to not eat, how much to sleep, and how much water to drink.
Show up, work hard, and spend the rest of your time doing what you need to do when you need to do it, so you can achieve the goals YOU want to reach.
Talk Soon,
Kris
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