Meet the man I’ve been in a LDR with. He’s a bit older than me, but that’s why I like him 😂
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In 2019 I met Dr Mark Slavin. I signed up for a course he was delivering called Resistance Training Specialist, purely on the premise that I knew and respected a couple of industry leaders who swore by it. My relentless pursuit of information to improve how I ply my trade meant it had to be worth a shot. I couldn’t deal with the geek-FOMO of not going.
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I was fucking busy as a coach at the time, I rushed in on the first morning at 09:05 to his raised eyebrow having coached 06:00-07:00 & 07:30-08:30. My attendance was just in case, why would I bother being punctual?
He started the intro and said the words force and torque. I sat up in my chair like someone had stuck a hot spear up my ass 😳 This was how I, a mechanical engineer, had always thought about exercise.
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Except I only had half the equation (looking back, I feel so thick for not realising it at the time 🤦🏻♂️). I’d never considered the internal factors and forces at play. Actually, I had about a tenth of the equation - there was a tonne I hadn’t considered. Having my mentality 10x-ed over the next 4 days was overwhelming but empowering. I still knew SO LITTLE, but now I at least knew how to think 🤔
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I was careful not to fall in love. I’d been wrongly impressed by the first educator I ever met. He had asked me to become a course deliverer for him and I politely declined due to being too busy. Thank fuck 😅 There are a few deceiving (intentionally or not) charlatans out there promoting thoughts, pseudo-science and opinions as facts. One-eyed men in valleys of the blind.
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Ironically it was his opinions I cherished the most. The elements of coaching that set someone apart. I deal in science and the literal, but his insane experience brought thought processes I couldn’t possibly have acquired by now. I was my usual inquisitive know-it-all pain in the arse and, bizarrely, he stopped me from leaving at the end of Day 4 and asked me if I’d be interested in becoming an RTS educator 😯
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