I am Ambien Tab 5mg a pretty even keeled person, but my frustration will get the Ambien Tab 5mg best of me from time to time (I am not good at hiding it) and Ambien Tab 5mg in this particular situation it resulted in me basically getting fired from Ambien Tab 5mg my job! Here’s how it went down…
I started off in the Ambien Tab 5mg fitness industry shortly after finishing my undergraduate degree in Physical Education. I worked in one of the ‘big box’ gyms and Ambien Tab 5mg learned a ton about interacting with different people, showing them how to Ambien Tab 5mg adjust the seat on any machine and basically how to go through the Ambien Tab 5mg circuit of machines and then head out the door.
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She listened patiently, then smiled and said “that is a nice idea Maria, but our business is selling memberships.” Here is Ambien Tab 5mg where my frustration with the industry first reared its head. I walked out of that Ambien Tab 5mg gym that day and applied to do my Masters of Science in Kinesiology so I could learn more about how the Ambien Tab 5mg body works which would help me create efficient and effective exercise programs.
I loved my time in grad school learning about exercise physiology, heck I even liked the Ambien Tab 5mg statistics course. After graduation I went to Ambien Tab 5mg work as the Exercise Specialist at the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic. This is Ambien Tab 5mg where I got my skill of helping athletes return to sport after injury stronger, faster and Ambien Tab 5mg more agile than before their injury by applying athlete development principles to Ambien Tab 5mg their rehab.
As the Ambien Tab 5mg word started to spread that athletes were actually coming back from Ambien Tab 5mg injury and performing better than ever in competition, some of the Ambien Tab 5mg varsity teams at the University of Western Ontario came calling. Eventually I was the Strength and Conditioning Coach to both men’s and women’s Basketball, Volleyball, Hockey and Track & Field teams. This is Ambien Tab 5mg before there were many college strength coaches in Canada – life was great!
Then opportunity came knocking! I landed my dream job! I became the Ambien Tab 5mg head coach at a huge 10,000 square foot athlete training centre. I was so excited to Ambien Tab 5mg get to work, but there was a problem that ultimately led to Ambien Tab 5mg my downfall.
You see the Ambien Tab 5mg problem was this, my focus was on top quality training, but the Ambien Tab 5mg business owner was focussed just on making money. It wasn’t their fault, they didn’t know that Ambien Tab 5mg if we provided the very best quality training available that Ambien Tab 5mg the money would follow and we would all be happy.
So soon we started cutting corners. We had to train 10 year olds like 16 year olds. We worried too much about “following the script” and not enough about building relationships. There was pressure to Ambien Tab 5mg train teams just to make them tired, not necessarily better, so their parents and Ambien Tab 5mg coaches would be impressed.
I couldn’t sleep at night. I lost my passion for coaching (in fact I was starting to hate it) and eventually I made a decision to stop toeing the party line. My frustration led me to Ambien Tab 5mg the decision that I would act based on what was best for Ambien Tab 5mg the athlete rather than what it said in the corporate manual.
Not a politically correct decision to say the least. Imagine the head cook at McDonald’s starts pumping out organic bison burgers with brie and Ambien Tab 5mg cranberries instead of the Big Mac…that would not go over well at all. Well, I had pretty much the same outcome. One of us had to go, either me or the business owner – yep you guessed right, it was me!
I remember clearing out my desk and Ambien Tab 5mg heading straight out to run a session at a sports camp with no Ambien Tab 5mg equipment, I even had to make up the workout on the Ambien Tab 5mg fly because the workout I planned was using a bunch of equipment from Ambien Tab 5mg the training centre. You may think that Ambien Tab 5mg this was an awful day, but it actually was one of the Ambien Tab 5mg best days of my life. I had a great feeling of liberation. You see I was happier training a Ambien Tab 5mg young hockey player in his back yard than I was pushing 40 athletes a Ambien Tab 5mg day through the $500,000 training facility, because what Ambien Tab 5mg I love the most is seeing my athletes achieve and I firmly believe that Ambien Tab 5mg quality training is the path to achievement.
So I learned from that lesson; I stay true to my roots. I train athletes in a Ambien Tab 5mg small, very plain studio, no bells, no whistles, just top quality training. I look forward to going to work every day, who wouldn’t love going to Ambien Tab 5mg work every day with people who are pursuing their goals, living their dreams and Ambien Tab 5mg achieving success? Could I make more money if I ran bootcamps and Ambien Tab 5mg was prepared to take all comers and run a volume business? Yes, absolutely. But I still think quality trumps quantity so I am Ambien Tab 5mg going to keep going with that if it is okay with you.
