The Beginning, Where It All Started
In the beginning it was what it was, and was, is what it is, but then eventually I found it. I found my IT thing, you know the thing you’d wake up and do every day until you die, the thing you would wake up and do every day and do for FREE if you could get away from paying the rent, the utilities etc…
Personal Training boy oh boy I never saw that smacking me in the face like it did, not because I wasn’t into sport or maintaining a healthy ish lifestyle. As a kid I play team sports, Footy & Cricket but as I grew older and swapping so many schools, way to often & I became very disinterested in playing as well as losing any support network I thought I had to help me keep in touch with my sporting activities.
But fast-forward 10 years after I finished High School and not attending College, I was in my worst physical condition EVER! 98 kg’s to be exact and 5"6 ish that's pretty Fucking shit to be honest and with my firstborn on the way, I decided ENOUGH was ENOUGH and I decided to workout. I picked up a treadmill, and a weight bench from a mate with a bar and some weights and that’s where it began, at the time I still hadn’t seen the KICK in the nuts that was coming from doing this that now turns out to be PASSION. I started training with my little brother-in-law, you see he was a chubby little 14–15 year old kid that spent much of his time on his PlayStation, but wanted to train and get STRONG for Soccer and Footy which is another reason I was training I wanted to be a little lighter ok who am I kidding a fucking shit load lighter but also get a little bit of strength about me for Footy season even though I was just running around in the 2’s ha-ha.
One Of My First Group Fitness Sessions
As time passed, Michael progressed into this new way of life that was transforming him before my very eyes, this kid went from what he was to this driven, motivated young man that began to thrive on exercise and take the discipline from this new-found hobby into his school life and work life, waking up with me at 3am to hit the gym at 3:30am and smash iron and cardio for an hr every day, then would go home and go back to bed and then get back up for school. Watching this young man transform right in front of me filled me with so many good feelings, so much excitement for him and what he was achieving and I want to do this for more people.
Another Saturday Morning Group
This is where I got the kick in the nut sack that I knew that this is what I was meant to be doing every day until I do, this is the thing I would do no matter what it took and that's what I did, I got educated, I passed my Cert III & IV in Fitness plus a Diploma in Business. It took me three years to complete but at the same time I started a Business of my own and did everything all at once with 0 regrets.
That was the beginning, that was my smack in the face or kick in the nuts moment… I didn’t find it after year 10, I didn’t find it while travelling and working up and the East Coast of Australia, I didn't find it while swimming and working on the Whitsundays. I found it at 26–27 years old, I found it 10 years after leaving High School, the point is your beginning could be very well already in front of you or it could be 10 years away and you’ll never know unless you stop stressing about it. So enjoy every day as it comes, attack the day, I said to a client recently who is 17 “Life is literally trail and error man, you might not know now what you love but at some stage you will” do not be afraid of it, GRAB that moment and live in it.
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