When I was first learning to play golf, almost every person I’d play a round with had some sort of advice to help me with my game. In an effort to improve, I not only listened to these various volunteer coaches but I’d buy the magazines, books, videos and devices that all pledged to straighten my slice, improve my iron play or help me putt like a pro. They each had their own unique perspectives and opinions on the right way to hit a little ball into a hole in the ground. With apologies to a few individuals who actually did help me, what I came to learn during those times is that advice on improving your golf game is worth exactly what you pay for it. The more you spend on help and instruction, the more you benefit from it in performance and over time; and free advice is generally worth exactly that, nothing. If you really want to improve, you need to do two things; go see a professional who can analyze your swing and game and work directly with you on your specific needs, and then go out an apply what you learned with attention and intention. It’s much more expensive and time consuming than the other options but its the only way to see real results.
I’m quickly realizing that fitness is much the same. Especially this time of year, we are inundated with information on diet programs and fitness routines that promise us results for our New Year’s resolutions fast. We also get loads of advice from family, friends and coworkers who are more than willing to tell us what worked for them (for a while, anyway). Even the websites that we join with forums to support one another are filled with opinions and suggestions that can be confusing, contradict one another, and are sometimes not even medically sound. So, again, I remind you that advice is worth exactly what you pay for it. Infomercials are free, even if there products aren’t. Their recommendations that you need to join their program or buy their DVDs aren’t even advice but advertising. Recommendations from friends you have in person or in cyberspace are worth what you pay for them also. The only way to get real results is find a fitness professional that can assess your individual needs and develop a program designed specifically for them, and then go out and apply that program with attention and intention.
That’s my advice to you, and you can take for what its worth knowing exactly what you paid for it.
I’m quickly realizing that fitness is much the same. Especially this time of year, we are inundated with information on diet programs and fitness routines that promise us results for our New Year’s resolutions fast. We also get loads of advice from family, friends and coworkers who are more than willing to tell us what worked for them (for a while, anyway). Even the websites that we join with forums to support one another are filled with opinions and suggestions that can be confusing, contradict one another, and are sometimes not even medically sound. So, again, I remind you that advice is worth exactly what you pay for it. Infomercials are free, even if there products aren’t. Their recommendations that you need to join their program or buy their DVDs aren’t even advice but advertising. Recommendations from friends you have in person or in cyberspace are worth what you pay for them also. The only way to get real results is find a fitness professional that can assess your individual needs and develop a program designed specifically for them, and then go out and apply that program with attention and intention.
That’s my advice to you, and you can take for what its worth knowing exactly what you paid for it.
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