Although only a little more than half over, 2014 has (so far) been a year which has seen me make major changes in my life both in and out of the gym. Outside the gym, I left my role as a finance lawyer. In the gym, I stopped doing my own programming, instead deciding to follow the programming of a coach with a proven track record. Six and a bit months into my 2014 odyssey and I’ve come to realise that much of what I thought I needed, I really didn’t and don’t.

While being a finance lawyer may have paid better in a monetary sense than my personal training, training others has proven to be far more rewarding than any transaction I was ever involved in. I may not be ‘rich’ but I am ‘enriched’.

In terms of my training, it too has changed dramatically. Rarely am I doing two-a-days. No more trying to cram everything into a session, but leaving the gym feeling like I still haven’t done enough. I’m doing gymnastics. I’m getting upside down and actually enjoying it. I’m taking rest days! I’m doing (just about) everything I’m supposed to do, knowing each and every movement, lift, etc. is “part of the plan”. I’m doing less in the gym, but becoming ‘more’. More balanced, more focused, more motivated.

Find what you need, not what you THINK you need.