The Price For Fitness

Various places around the net provide quality aspects of what people are looking for and a great many of them can be costly, as much as $10,000 or more just to go to a seminar. Is it really worth it? If you got the savings and have a determination to do it, that's awesome and hope it gives you something in return. When it comes to fitness courses or even the cost of personal training, not all is created equal.

In many cases, you would expect that if you pay for this much for a book or a session with somebody, it's going to be the best quality possible yet in reality, there are some greedy bastards out there. Don't get me wrong, I bought plenty of courses over the years and got great benefit out of them. I also got courses that were expensive but the quality of them were as shitty as you can get; crude pictures, writes like a 5 year old who just discovered sesame street, too much about the author, very little in how to apply exercises and other things. 

Over the years as well, you pick up on who writes what and how they advertise. Some people copy and paste someone else and pretend that they're unique and you got people who rip off someone else's work entirely. It won't be the first time and sure as hell won't be the last. Matt Furey has been ripped off many times but he also took a man's style of training and molded it into a global phenomenon which put a lot of people off but also made a killing in revolutionizing physical culture in the modern era for 20+ years now. I get it, people need to make a living, they want the best things in life but I believe in not always needing to stomp on people and take them for granted.

There are so many versions of methods of exercise that you don't know who's really the best or who's just out for the money. Let me ask you this: Is it worth it to you to buy a course for 250 bucks and get crappy quality? Or, would you want a course that's just under 30 bucks that has roughly the same amount of exercises, has ten times the quality and is relatable to even the average person? I would guess quite a few would go for the latter but in this day and age, gullibility can make it easy for some shmuck to spend some of his weekly paycheck to buy a course that promotes well but brings false promises and horrible writing along with making a customer work on exercises he clearly isn't ready for.

Believe me, in some cases, it's better to pay and invest in your health than end up paying a ton of hospital bills and end up in so much debt that it never ends. Unfortunately, some people pay good money for something and end up in the hospital anyway because something went wrong either by following a program too religiously that it caused problems or a program set them up for failure. It happens sometimes.

You can find some of the best training programs for free on the net, even some of the old time mail order courses but even free comes with a price if you're not careful. Just because its free, doesn't mean you won't pay for something later on. Some "gurus" even make the most ridiculous claims in order to sell courses and there are literally some guys out there who sell courses that belittle people and go straight for the jugular in hopes of making them believe their work is the end-all-be-all. That's just messed up and if you're going to belittle, make people feel horrible about themselves than they already are or even try to make them believe your shit is far better than anybody else, that says more about you than your customers. 

There's always a price, the question is, which one are you willing to pay? Personally, I believe in high quality work but not perfect. You don't need to be a perfectionist to have a great course and it certainly doesn't need to be bedazzling either. I believe in finding stuff that hits the spot for you. It's like the idea of Three Bears Method....There are things that are too much, too little and there's that one that just hits it right on the mark and you made it work in your favor. The idea is to find the third bear first, it may take trial and error but the possibilities are there. 

You'll find some of the best stuff just on the side bar of this blog alone. Are they the Babe Ruth of all courses and equipment? Hell no, but the quality, affordability and reviews on them are pretty damn awesome. You don't need to take out a mortgage payment to get the very best. Stay strong and be amazingly awesome. 

Training Comes With A Price

            What you believe in is your choice. Some people prefer weights over bodyweight, some loath weights and find them useless for any given strength; the truth of the matter is to find what’s suited to you and really only you. When you become comfortable in the way you train, take it a step further and challenge it a little, mix things up, make the exercises harder, experiment with different tempos, speeds and play.

            Not everyone will agree with what you do and that’s ok. You are unique and your body responds differently, so train according to how your body responds to the training you create and experiment with. Me personally, I like different styles that I mold into my own. I do a little gymnastics, a little weights, animal movements, natural movements, bending steel and whatever I can come up with. If you’re into one particular style and that’s it more power to you. I'm a big man and I've been told I shouldn't be able to do the things I do but you know what, I love it and that’s what is important.

            Be open and share who you are but also use it as a positive influence. There are great trainers and fitness guys out there who are awesome at what they do but their attitude needs a little shaping. I’m not asking you to change who you are, you're awesome in your own right but a positive attitude is a key to success. I believe in helping others and giving them tools with a smile and bringing love and care to help them be successful but there are some out there who are bitter and treat certain people calling them whiners and whatnot, this isn't the military, these are human beings trying to find what can work for them.

            Have a kick ass attitude, sometimes a little tough love to help reach their potential but to a degree. If you're overweight and want to drop a few pounds, I'm not going to tell you upfront you're fat or put you down like some people I know but I will tell you this; the battle is on you and how you win it is up to you, if you want to lose weight, take it one step at a time, I’m not going to hold you your hand but to be motivated is to believe even for a fraction that you can make something happen. If you're rail thin and need to put on some muscle, same principle applies, believe even if it’s down to the smallest fraction that it could be possible, it’s a start and progress upward one fraction at a time.

            I know what it’s like to not be motivated, to give up, being depressed because of my weight or because I'm not as strong or fit as the guy next to me in the gym, I've been there and I've had a wake up call that is a little extreme than most people. You are a very strong person even if you don’t know it yet, the power is there and it’s edging to come out. You're not a loser and you don't need to listen to some bullshit people who drag you down, you are mighty and you are powerful, it takes practice but you can bring it out. That to me is the price of training, to find your true self and how you apply it to everything else in your life.