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Certifiable and seeing stars
Jun. 4th, 2007 09:43 pmI passed the exam this morning -- I'm now NASM certified as a personal trainer, or I will be as soon as the testing center sends some paperwork to the central NASM office.
I know; we all expected this, including me. There's a fine line between trusting in someone's abilities and drive and taking things completely for granted. I had more than one person say, when they heard I was studying, "that must be a snap for an MIT grad like you", which not only hops right over that line but manages to forget that it still involves a 700-page textbook. Even MIT type people have to read a page at a time. If I'd had a freakin' Nobel Prize and ten million dollars it would have still been true. Sigh... so anyway. It was a bit of a slog and I'm glad it's over; that's one less thing to study. My friend, who I sort of coached through the study process, took it with me and passed too.
I may already have my first client, who I will give free training in return for the practice it gives me. She's perfect -- a deconditioned person who is smart and (I hope) can be motivated. (Does that sound odd? I want a deconditioned person so that I can spend time in the early phases of the conditioning program I just studied, stuff I know the least about from my own experience as a gym rat.) I'll find out later this week whether we decide to move forward with it or not. It would be great for me if that next step fell into place so neatly right after the exam.
Hey, also: my gymnastics teacher says my shoulders have gotten noticeably stronger since he last saw me, and also that they need to get much stronger still in order for me to really get my handstands. Sigh! The sand moves under my feet, but I'm not sure the stars are getting closer.
I know; we all expected this, including me. There's a fine line between trusting in someone's abilities and drive and taking things completely for granted. I had more than one person say, when they heard I was studying, "that must be a snap for an MIT grad like you", which not only hops right over that line but manages to forget that it still involves a 700-page textbook. Even MIT type people have to read a page at a time. If I'd had a freakin' Nobel Prize and ten million dollars it would have still been true. Sigh... so anyway. It was a bit of a slog and I'm glad it's over; that's one less thing to study. My friend, who I sort of coached through the study process, took it with me and passed too.
I may already have my first client, who I will give free training in return for the practice it gives me. She's perfect -- a deconditioned person who is smart and (I hope) can be motivated. (Does that sound odd? I want a deconditioned person so that I can spend time in the early phases of the conditioning program I just studied, stuff I know the least about from my own experience as a gym rat.) I'll find out later this week whether we decide to move forward with it or not. It would be great for me if that next step fell into place so neatly right after the exam.
Hey, also: my gymnastics teacher says my shoulders have gotten noticeably stronger since he last saw me, and also that they need to get much stronger still in order for me to really get my handstands. Sigh! The sand moves under my feet, but I'm not sure the stars are getting closer.
