The Quote "Nothing holds you back more than your own insecurities" is pretty good and true.
Yet it is other people may come to you at the gym and if they are trying to be polite ask you,
"Can I be
honest with you?"
To that you may say okay and they tell you "You won't be ready to compete."
I've met with trainers who say they same thing.
So what do you do if that comes from your trainer?
Do you enter the show
even if your trainer says you can't be ready?
They will have clients wait until the final weeks before a show and break them the news that they won't be ready and they must wait until the next contest to enter.
Is it good or bad to have clients wait for a show the trainer thinks the client has a chance to win?
Depends because you never know if that client will stay on a diet and train for the next event.
I've seen people NEVER make it to the stage many times.
The trainer may say to me something to the fact that as a promoter I just want everyone to enter.
To that I also say yes but I want people set up for success
and I want them to be HAPPY.
Why and how could people enter a show they may not win?
People win by setting themselves up for SUCCESS.
I'll try to explain.
Many people are insecure about their bodies - even the best bodybuilders and
fitness models in the world are sometimes the most insecure people.
For some reason some gym people and former bodybuilders at the gym like to tell people they won't be ready for a show. Maybe it makes them feel good and they think they are experts.
I also saw the quote that says, "You can't fix yourself by breaking someone else." I thought that says a lot
about people who tell you that you won't be ready. Okay they are being HONEST but also shooting down someone else's dream and goals.
That was kinda some deep thoughts right there.
People want to be honest with you and not let you get too upset if you don't win and if you don't place high the trainer might feel you don't represent them and all their diet
knowledge.
Here is my answer to that since only one person can win with that type of thinking.
Tell people you are "Shooting for a fitness magazine". Now if people at the gym ask "Are you competing" you answer, "Sorta but my main focus is my photo shoot with Status Fitness Magazine."
Book a
fitness magazine photo shoot and do the show as back up.
Trainers sometimes need to get over themselves.
Not all of them can be "Trainer of Champions" that title was already taken...
To me it is more about what did a person aka "competitor" did over the period of 12 or less weeks
time.
Do you look WAY BETTER than when you started - great you won! Results matter.
Fitness results are hard to get. Look at how many diet books are out and the entire personal training business is based on people wanting to get results that they don't know how to accomplish themselves.
You could
wait, and wait, and wait, and wait until the trainer thinks you will win and guess what you may not ever win.
Then what?
I've seen people do only one contest think they could win - plus everyone around them thinks they can win - and what happens? Someone better shows up and they get 2nd or 3rd and are
upset.
Crazy but the insecurities may be from trainers and gym members then they turn into your own.
You can be on stage at Mohegan Sun - how many times does that happen to anyone?
Anyone can go to a school auditorium and get on stage but Mohegan Sun that is
unlikely.
Isn't it odd that when people say you won't be ready you feel blah but when people tell you that you look amazing you feel incredible?
