A fitness trainer explains the early signs a client will succeed long-term: they stop spiraling over one cupcake, they care more about strength and how they feel than how they look, and they actually enjoy the gym. These mindset shifts come before the visible results.
When I work with clients, and maybe they've been struggling for a period when we just first started, and now suddenly they are starting to say things like, I just had a cupcake the other day, and normally this would just put me down a spiral of just being frustrated and everything, but now I'm actually, I was okay with it because I know it's still in alignment with my goals and I'm still progressing forward, even though I had this little piece of candy. Or when, for example, a client says that, oh, I'm not there where I want to be at visually with my body, but I'm getting stronger, I'm feeling great, and I do see some changes. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm enjoying the process. And I'm loving the feeling after having been to the gym when I hear things like that, then my inner start to be like, okay, I'm relaxed. I'm like, okay, great, we kind of made it. Because now it's just a matter of time before those results will start to be more and more visible.
