Posts tagged Complexity
10 Of My Own Quotable Quotes – Part 64
Nov 16th
1. The main reason why people fail is because their level of awareness on failure being an option is very high. When your perception of life has a more vivid picture of failure than success, you will gravitate towards the more dominant and prevalent mindset. You will actually find creative ways to justify how failure is so human.
2. A seed is as useful as the soil that incubates it. There can never be a yield merely because of a good seed. Other environmental factors come to play. An idea is therefore as good as the mind and body that carries it. Some ideas have faced ideas rights violation where they have been mutilated and ignored instead of their full potential being realized.
3. Your mind power alone can not change the world. When you make a decision to sharpen your character by the ideas generated by your mind then you have a chance to transform humanity.
4. It is wrong to dismiss everything at the point of imagination. Many ideas have fallen victim to judgment before the embryo could even be given a chance to develop only to be shocked when someone else starts making money from exactly the same idea. There is no monopoly in ideas. Many may get the same imagination but few may develop it to the point of realization.
5. Possession of skill and talents is not good enough. The only way to make them useful is to use them. The choice you have to make is to use your gifting or lose it altogether.
6. The quality of your life is determined by those things you find pleasure in doing effortlessly without any reminders. Daily tasks and decisions culminate in the formation of a life story where you are the main focus. Your purpose is your compass that eventually leads you towards your own destiny.
7. Allotment of time to any tasks or activity should mainly be based on complexity of the task and more importantly the urgency or level of importance of the task with relation to where you are going. Not everything that is urgent is important. Not everything that is important is complex. All tasks however deserve your most excellent attitude towards their successful implementation.
8. Writing a book is about the easiest part in the publishing process. What is more crucial though are the tasks that come after your thoughts are in print. Books are rated in their sales but those sales are also driven by the value of the contents or what the book purports to carry. Your recognition is on how best you are at selling more than the actual writing. I advise that always make your material excellent enough to draw multitudes than focus on selling what you haven’t perfected.
9. No matter how talented or skilled you maybe, you still need to carry the winner’s attitude for you to succeed in the face of competition. You may never win until your view of winning becomes so possible in eye of your mind and so real that you feel you can actually achieve it.
10. Spectators have no business judging those in the field of play. The only people with the right to talk and criticize on performance and progress are those with the willingness to get their hands dirty. Surely you may crown yourself the best spectator but it is not what you shout on the terraces that can change the world. When you get down to the field of endeavor and act, you acquire the license to add value to the processes.
Boot Camp Exercises – 3 Tips for Creating the Ultimate Boot Camp Workout
Sep 25th
Choosing the right boot camp exercises is crucial to creating an effective workout that will challenge your clients without discouraging them as well. Yet many fitness instructors struggle unnecessarily doing exactly that, and end up losing clients in the process. So, here are three surefire tips to help you select the right combination of exercises for the ultimate boot camp workout.
Tip #1 for Choosing Boot Camp Exercises: Think Big!
When choosing exercises for your classes, it’s important to consider that your clients only have so much time to work out. Think about it – most of them are getting up early and rushing like crazy to fit your workout class in three to five times a week. So, you need to respect their time and give them the most effective and efficient workout possible for their time.
That’s why you need to think BIG with your exercise selection… as in “big muscle groups.” In other words, whenever possible try to select exercises that engage multiple large muscle groups.
My all-time favorite exercise that fits this requirement? Burpees, hands down. Burpees workout the entire body and will challenge your boot campers, but are not so complex a movement as to be difficult to do. Which brings me to my next tip…
Ultimate Boot Camp Workout Exercise Tip #2: Complexity In Small Doses…
I frequently see fitness instructors who appear to be competing for who can create the most confusing and complex workout. I think this is probably a throwback to the aerobics craze of the eighties, although it is also a sickness perpetuated by an industry that is always trying to sell the next greatest thing. But if your clients wanted to be confused by their workout, they’d go do a step aerobics class; trust me, making your workouts easier to understand will improve your retention, drastically.
So, at all times keep your exercise selections restricted to those movements that can be emulated with minimal demonstration and instruction. Here’s a litmus test for you – if your mom couldn’t do it after watching you demo it once, it probably doesn’t belong in your workout.
Boot Camp Workout Exercise Tip #3: Be A Multi-Maniac
“Multi-maniacs” are fitness instructors who favor exercises that engage multiple muscle groups, that are multi-joint, and that involve multi-planar movement. This is simply how the body normally moves during your clients’ activities of daily living. Whether they’re unloading groceries from the car, picking their baby up from the floor, or doing a double-leg take down in jiu-jitsu practice, the body moves in unison, not as separate component parts.
So, leave the single-joint/single-plane exercises to the gym trainers. As I said previously, if your clients wanted to be at the gym doing those exercises they would be. So, give them exercises that are functional and that add some fun and variety to their workouts. In almost every instance, the “multi-maniac” approach will fit the bill.
There you have it – my surefire tips for choosing boot camp exercises.
