My Sweet Spot

Damn but I love it when someone shows up at the gym and asks for help. 

Not in doing specific exercises but to find out which ones are going to get them the most bang for their buck.

Out of all of the Dojo stuff I do, this is the one that I like the best. 

Some people really like it when I do what they call “magic” (magic being un-understood technology).

My magic is directly related to the skill sets around crafting exercises. 

It’s not just a straight prescription.

It’s like tailoring a suit.

There is a certain common style, a certain form given the desired outcome. 

And, to fit in the best way possible, to get the most out of it, it has to be tweaked to the individual. 

It’s great watching them try it on. 

There is enough there for them to get the implications, to get the probable difficulties, the probably resistances.

And the probably outcomes. 

Always hoping that the fittings create a “Holy Shit! This is really happening! This might really work!” experience.

We polish it up, try to come up with contingency plans, come up with workable aftercare.

Then they get to go out and try it out.

While I am all for using wing-people/spotters, I don’t think that it’s such a good thing for me to perform that function. Much better to have comrades, peeps, or buds, do that. 

They come back, report, we tweak it and out they go again.

Second and more times out, they should be tweaking it on their own.

Ideally, they come back all on fire about creating change in their life due to the success of this one. Then it’s less about my expertise and more about how to train them to craft their own with more and more awareness of nuances. 

Hopefully, off they go, not only able to craft exercises on their own but also how to diagnose and tweak exercises.

It’s nice if they check in after a couple of years.

Hopefully, they will have come up with something that I never would have dreamed of.

And there is always the possibility that they bring something that they want to work on and realize that it’s out of their range and that I might be able to help.

The physics remain the physics. 

There is always further to nuancing.