San Antonio Personal Training

10/25/07

When you were a little kid, did you ever do one of those paint by numbers?  These paintings were pre-designed, with the numbers 1-10 correllating to a different color.  You would paint the picture by matching the numbers with the paint color.  These paintings were great because no matter how bad of an artist you are, when you were done with these paintings they looked pretty good.  The only problem with these paintings was that you could not design them to look the way you wanted them to, you had to paint them just as the numbers said.

Today I had a new client come and talk with me about her goals and what she would like to achieve by working out at MPT.  She suprised me when she told me that she is not worried about her weight, or about what size pants she wears, but she is instead worried about how she looks.  She told me that she had done cardio classes previously and that she had lost weight, and even got down to a size two, but that she was not happy with the way she looked. 

SHE GOT IT!  She understood that numbers on a scale, dress sizes and body fat percentages, while important measures, were not her goals.  Her goal was to look the way she wanted to look, which she verbalized with me and then we discussed a plan to help her get there. 

Fitness goals are not paint by numbers paintings.  One woman in a size two dress may look great, but someone else in a size two dress may look like skin and bones.  Some men who bench press 400lbs may look like a god with their shirts off, but other men in order to bench press even 300lbs will look completely rediculous.

If your fitness goals revolve around what you want to look like then don't set those goals around some arbitrary number that a magazine tell you would look good.  Instead, work based on what you want to look like.  You will be happier that you did, because you will achieve the results you were looking for.

Make it a great day San Antonio!

Nicholas Wood

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