You, Your Coach and Accountability
So let’s talk about accountability. It’s something most of us don’t hold ourselves to and it’s actually something most of us don’t like being held to. We know when we’re messing up, and we’re not really thrilled with someone telling us or reminding us that. However, if you have a goal and your goal particularly relates to something fitness driven, this could be that you’re trying to put on muscle or it could be that you’re trying to get stronger, without accountability there’s no proof of anything working. Now you might say “No, I step on the scale”. If that is the only thing you’re using for accountability you probably already know this: it’s really frustrating. Because it is but one measure when perhaps, most likely, many other measures have been changing or are changing. And maybe the scale weights are not necessarily reflecting some of the positive changes that are also taking place with your body composition. The scale, which is a tool but again, it is a measure, would be akin to you reading your daily horoscope and actually believing that there’s truth in that.
So the scale is just one measure, and it could drive you absolutely bananas. Here’s what you need: To think about when it comes to reaching your goal. This is pertaining to somebody trying to lose weight, but it also pertains to somebody who’s trying to increase speed, increase power, put on more muscle, lose body fat, altogether, wants to look better naked. It applies to every one of you.
When you have a goal, hopefully you are learning to train rather than work out. But what’s wrong with just working out? It’s fun, but it doesn’t deliver predictable results. Training on a structured program does produce predictable results. Of course there will be ups and downs along the way but again, just let it do what it’s going to do. The outcome is inevitable. You’re following structure. Simply follow a structured training program that will produce a predictable outcome and try to have as many measures as you can along the way. And so, when you think just a scale weight didn’t move, almost assuredly many of the other numbers did move in a favorable direction.
Every celebrity or athlete that you aspire to want to look like or become like have coaches to this very day. The accountability of having a coach is where a coach’s true value comes into play. Because if you think a skilled athlete does not walk into the gym, dreading the workout that’s coming, if you think that athletes love the workout that’s coming you’re grossly mistaken. Athletes are human just as you are. And trust me 90 to 95% of the time they wish there was another way of doing it but they have a goal that they want to attain. And they don’t expect it to happen in one week. We don’t expect it to happen in three months. You need to know getting to your goal is a journey. You need to be accountable. Statistically speaking, 97% of people who join a gym have goals, but don’t have a clue how to get there and they’re constantly being distracted by bright shiny objects often known as social media. And every Tom, Dick and Harry telling you to do it like this, do it like that, but none of them are providing you with structure.
If you’re following structure, if you have an actual coach holding you accountable to that goal you will definitely see the results much quicker. Just as athletes who dream of standing atop that podium, their coach gets them there. If you do not have a coach, I cannot recommend it enough. And I don’t mean just a coach to teach you how to do an exercise. To me the coach’s real value is keeping you accountable to the goal. However, no one is more accountable of your personal goals.
Accountability; If you don’t have it, get it.