I always like to encourage social support in our personal training sessions. Even among the coaches here at out gym, training together makes us improve together. Today on a public holiday, we invited our current and former cleints to join us for some free training. No need to pay:) Membership has its priviledges.

But its good for them to see strong people training. Derrick and I were working on olympic lifts and squats. We train together and encourage each other with positive words and coaching cues.

Admittedly, as we get more advanced in training, its harder to find suitable training partners who can keep up! But hey, at the Genesis Performance Center right here in Singapore, if no other clients can keep up with you in your personal training groups, we have the coaches who can:)

Derrick went up to 190kg x2 in the squat despite just recovering from a groin strain, and I hit a single 190kg despite not back squatting for 3 months. A good training session I would say!

As a Singapore Personal trainer, I wrote about constant but steady progress - The Kaizen Principle…in life and fitness. Hey! Better practice what you preach Coach Jon… I’m using Kaizen for my piano playing… but here is the main "subject" I have been working on lately.

Performing the olympic lifts. Almost nobody coaches or performs them properly. But luckily on our staff we have a national team weightlifter, Derrick Kim. He has been helping me with my technique. This process is NEVER ENDING and is built up bit by bit. Hey thats the Kaizen principle I wrote about!

It starts off here: really ugly and bad techinque! Arms bend too early so I lose power that is supposed to come from the hips…I also don’t extend my body fully so I also lose power. And I also look Uncool…

But hey, improve little by little right!… So, I improved the extension part so the pull is more forceful…but still the bar is too far away from my body…

So I have been working on that "bar close to the body" problem… and its alot better now, my hips extend more forcefully. And the weight I can use is now 115kg when previously it was only 100kg.

The cool thing about the kaizen principle, is that as you focus on small improvements during the PROCESS, the RESULTS improve automatically! This is applicable in all ways… eat too much cake? next time just take a bite instead of the whole piece! Don’t exercise at all? Start proper training at least once a week… and focus on the process… the results will come.

The only mistake you can make is SITTING ON YOUR BUTT and doing nothing!

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Personal training in Singapore is also about coaching skill. One thing that I encourage you to have is to live with the Kaizen Principle.

The Kaizen Principle is a Japanese idea where we see constant measurable but small increments in ability/progress/skill etc.

You can see it in "japaneseish" kind of industries like cameras and cars… each year brings a new model with small tweaks and improvements at a slightly better price point than the previous

This is logical yet AGAINST what we like to hear: "Instant results RIGHT NOW"

Yes I take pride in getting clients great results, but still it doesn’t happen overnight. It is a process.

But that process is measurable, fun and educational.

Lift a little more each week. Change an unhealthy nutrition habit to a healthy one each week, switch an inactive hobby for a more active one… etc

If I could lift even just 0.5kg more each week, In 2 years I would be the world record holder in every strength sport in the world! Thats how powerful the kaizen principle is. (Although this is not possible due to other limitations… its just an example of the high standards that can be reached with constant but slow progress)

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Meanwhile… I got my some positive comments on my piano playing (which is NOT an area I’m particularly good at… so encouraging! haha) Another area of life I’m trying to improve little by little!