Over the past few weeks, we have covered healthy mindset, simple nutrition, basic exercise, and some recovery tips that are all vitally important. Today, we are going to cover the final aspect of fitness that we have used to help hundreds of people transform their lives and perform at their very best.
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
-Henry Ford
People call it support, guidance, team or family. At Innovative Results, we work hard to create a supportive, encouraging environment that allows people to grow, struggle, change, adapt and overcome. So many gyms are full of big meat heads, intimidating trainers and unfriendly (insecure…) people that can make most of us feel uneasy. The truth of the matter is that all of us need a little encouragement, an outside perspective and a guiding hand to keep us on point and working to our potential.
Every great sports movie has these characteristics: team/family, goal, struggle, overcoming, and victory.
Have you ever been a part of (achieved) something great?
Who was involved?
What struggles did you go through?
What lessons were learned?
Maybe it was a high school team, college, church group, or other activity, but the key is that the team of people had a goal, a common vision, learned to play their part, supported the team, overcame obstacles, persevered and accomplished something great. Long lasting relationships are born is times of struggle and overcoming, not just when times are easy and everything is perfect.
Once you make a decision to get in the gym or to charge toward a world title, you have to have people around you to keep you accountable, push you, give you feedback and to pick you up when times get tough. Having a championship group of people there to support you can mean the difference between making progress or failing again.
Who do you have in your corner?
The IR Family
We talk about ‘The IR Family’ all the time in our meetings and discussions. The IR family includes trainers, clients and anyone else that is in our sphere of influence. We are truly committed to helping people make the necessary changes to hit and accomplish their goals. Sometimes its fun and sometimes we have to hold people accountable and help them through habits that are holding them back. The bottom line is that we are committed to helping through good times and bad.
In addition to the trainers, the clients at our place work together, sweat together, bleed together (sometimes :/) and all strive towards something. The common denominator is that people come to our gym to improve their lives. Some may fight on television, while others fight off stress from a crazy week. Either way, people are improving and you can feel it throughout the gym.
If you are truly looking to make a change this year, then take the time to pull together your own supporting cast. Find a group of people with a common goal, willing to attack it consistently, that are committed to making something great happen. Maybe its a few friends, maybe its at your office, maybe its a team of people, or maybe you need to find a group that is already chasing something.
What’s your favorite story of success? Leave a comment…
Need some extra support on your journey? Leave us a comment and stay in touch. Iron sharpens iron and we absolutely love to hear about other people that are chasing a goal with intensity and commitment.
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