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!

As a Personal Trainer In Singapore I read Mind your Body each week in the Straits Times. It’s probably The most widespread Singapore health publication in newspapers or otherwise.

Unfortunately some of the stuff is just plain wrong… and before it gets out of hand, here is the correct information.

There was an article on red meat and how bad it is… uh huh… really?… This is WRONG. Red meat is GREAT for you. The fat in the meat increases good hormone levels like testosterone and it also slows digestion of the food so that you don’t get a big bad "rush" of energy that encourages your body to store fat.

The reporter also mentioned that she feels "bloated" after eating red meat. That is NOT the fault of the meat! Thats because her digestive system is in poor shape. Fixing a person’s digestive system is the FIRST thing we do with all our clients so that they can digest all the nutritious food we ask the to eat!

There was another feature on this guy who looks fit. It was on the back page of the newspaper. He says he trains 3 hours a day and sleeps 5. This is also WRONG. He would do ALOT better training 1 hour and sleeping 7! When you sleep too little your hormones again get out of whack. Yes you can keep it up for a while but you run the risk of burnout. Your hormones that were in overdrive to help you sustain the crazy life suddenly shut down from overwork and in a few months you can suddenly bloat up from your slim waistline to a big baloon because the body gives up.

There is always a price to pay for sleeping too little and stressing your body too much.

I applaud health publications attempts to get people to be more healthy… its just that sometimes they are just plain WRONG.

But hey… they aren’t the ones giving money back guarantees to their clients right:)

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Personal Training in Singapore helps me to meet many people. In fact many of my clients do very well in their field of work. When you are dedicated, comitted to excellence and highly motivated, you tend to be very good at what you do.

They are so dedicated that I have one client who is a physics teacher call the weights "mass" instead. (That is technically more accurate actually haha).

• "Oh this dumbell has a greater mass than the one I used last week"

I also have a guy who is a manager in the IT field… he calls repetitions "itterations". As in how many times (itterations) does a computer program go through a loop of code for example when it’s searching a set of data.

• Coachjon: "Did you set a new reccord this week?"
• Mr IT manager: "I did not increase the weight but the number if itterations increased"
• Coachjon: "Chuckles haha… haven’t heard that word used since graduating from Computer Egnineering!"