Being original and non-conformist at times is often stamped out by a society and big corporates desperate to get you to fit in.
What most don’t realise though is that your originality makes you different, and most likely for you to have a positive impact on the world because you can change things far quicker than just playing along with a system that you know sometimes not to work.
As a gym and as a trainer, playing along with how most gyms teach exercise is something we will never adopt. We could never leave you on a treadmill and let you hope for the best. Most need coaching and guidance every session, no matter if you are a beginner or pro athlete.
We know that the public are individuals, all have different demands, different abilities and all of them need different programmes to reach that long lost potential that was often lost in the long grass since their school days.
Originality and non-conformity is something we encourage in our members too.
If you start an exercise and healthy eating programme maybe for the first time in 20 years, then we understand it’s a big moment in your life and a major upheaval, a major leap of faith full of uncertainty maybe based on several previous unsuccessful attempts.
With proper care and attention, and if you show up regularly, then you are capable of anything you put your mind to, and you can improve at regular intervals, bring fresh self-belief with every positive step you make.
So you probably had a lot of friends encouraging you to start, you have done well, now it’s time to be a non-conformist again.
Once you achieve a certain level of success, not everyone will be happy about it, you may have negative influences in your life telling you “you have done enough, why bother to keep going”. As you know, they don’t get it do they? You are continuing to do this because YOU feel BETTER, being fit and healthy is infectious and you only want to experience more of it.
The non-conformist in you will shrug off negativity and push for more. That person who was “not a fitness person” at the start will suddenly become someone who is positively fit in body and mind, and you will demand more out of yourself than anyone else could expect.
Forging a path of mastery of your own body and developing a positive mindset takes daily action, and you becoming that original person you were as a kid, full of dreams of what you could be without anyone putting you off, if someone doesn’t like it or continuously puts you off or thinks it’s “too ambitious” then tough, it says more about them than you.
Be the original person you were meant to be become, be a non-conformist and don’t accept any system that doesn’t work, never fit in for the sake of it, and see it through until you reach where you want to be. There will be plenty of doubt and indecision along the way, but stay the course long enough and that’s when true opportunity and sustainable achievement comes your way.
