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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