Network Magazine spring 2014 | Page 4
With a little hard work anything is possible
I recently read an article focusing on the achievements of
some of the competitors at the Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow whose backgrounds weren’t those of your
‘typical’ high performance athletes. Rather than tales
of intensive training from a young age, and regimented
lives lived in sporting academies, these were stories of
people just like you and me, your clients and members
– everyday people of all ages who had come to their
disciplines later in life and discovered a previously
unsuspected aptitude. An avid kebab and beer-guzzler
turned marathoner; a beauty queen turned weightlifter;
and a visually impaired older lady turned bowls demon.
This led the article author to conclude: ‘The
Commonwealth Games, by contrast (to the Olympics),
is the Everyman Games. Whatever your age, weight or
kebab intake, with a little hard work, there could be a
place for you here.’
What a positive message, especially for those who
may never have dreamt of such achievements. We never
know what potential is waiting to be unlocked, but we
can do all we can to try and find out. Several features in
this issue provide inspiration for heightening the results
you elicit from clients, from video capture apps that
help you evaluate and enhance client performance, to a
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Until next time, keep up the hard work!
Oliver Kitchingman, Editor
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calendar, the Network Intensive Training Summit being held in
Sydney on 19 October – check out page 43 for details
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more effective exercise prescription based on a better
understanding of how muscles work in daily life.
Who knows, with the next Commonwealth Games
bound for Queensland, could that quiet guy who
started training with you last week be lifting weights
for Australia in four years’ time? Or perhaps the young
mum who’s been steadily chipping away at her times in
your running group could be pulling on her green and
gold running vest. As the tagline for the Gold Coast
2018 Games says, ‘anything is possible…’
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