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CONNECTING WITH YOUR CLIENTS
The other day I was approached by my son’s track and field coach and she, in the kindest way possible, asked my son to leave the team. As she put it: “His heart doesn’t appear to be in it”. This was odd to me, because he had previously been enthusiastic, engaged and energized by his practices which are all signs of a congruent lifestyle alignment.I put myself in the coach’s shoes to understand her experience with him. She explained to me that he use to come to practice and would try really hard but that in the last month he was coming up with excuse after excuse as to why he couldn’t participate. She said she tried everything to get him engaged (and I’m sure she did), but that he was bringing bad energy to the team and she couldn’t have that around the other athletes any longer. Fair enough. I could see how from her vantage point it would appear that his heart wasn’t in it.
EC SPOTLIGHT; ANTHONY KOPP
“For several years, I wrote (and made up) my own workouts with a few other people from my gym. Once I realized I was not hitting my weaknesses though, I then thought an online program would help me do that, so I started following CompWOD. I made progress for a while but ended up stalling out after a few months. Not knowing enough about recovery, I tried to push harder and ended up with a major back injury,” Anthony said.
OLD SCHOOL CROSSFIT AND MY WORK WITH EC
It’s funny to me, as the sport of CrossFit continues to evolve in mainstream media and public awareness of what exactly it is all about, how I have seemingly become part of a history lesson.
