There is a saying that goes “ you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with” and in todays blog i am going to dive into this with a big focus on community, comparison and gymintimidation.
Healthy relationships are so vital for our health and wellbeing. Within our Technofunc community it is really important to make sure that those relationships are built between the staff and the customers, community also means positive relationships between the members themselves. Additionally, people motivate as well as challenge each other to take part in the workouts and work towards their fitness goals. Overall, the real meaning of community to us is to make people feel welcome as soon as they walk in the door.
Take a look at your relationships you hold and ask yourself are they healthy or unhealthy? Have you become to heavily influenced by any of those people? Do these relationships focus on belittling other people or praising and supporting them? Do any of these relationships impact other relationships you have?
Your Relationships should:
Challenge you but not completely change you
Build confidence but not cockiness
Impact you to impact others in a good way
Motivate you to be the best version of yourself
So what is the meaning of community within Technofunc?
In a strong community culture the manager/s and the instructors having an invested interest in the success of their members. The staff should create an atmosphere in which EVERYONE is comfortable and confident they can reach their fitness goals, not just single people out. We have always had at the forefront of our vision to create a healthy happy community so that everyone feels welcomed and heard no matter their age, gender and or capabilities. This starts with communication. This is something I personally myself have been working hard on to bring some new services and systems to Technofunc for ALL Of our members, not just our challengers.
For many, a group fitness facility, let alone a normal gym can be a really intimidating and scary place, so our goal is to create and keep that welcoming community feel.
Fitness is SO MUCH MORE than the physical aspect. In fact, it’s more about obtaining peace of mind and mental clarity once the class is over. In the end, a supportive community is such a place where people of various ages and backgrounds come together to carry out their workout routine. They all also have the goal in mind which is just to BE BETTER and this will lead me into my next topic…
GYMINTIMIDATION is a real thing…. and being a GYMTIMIDATOR is also a real thing…
Those of us who have always felt comfortable at the gym may not even know that gymtimidation is a thing.
Be part of creating a welcoming environment…
If you can lift heavy on a certain lift or hit a PB, great.. Well done, celebrate that shit. BUT do it in a manner that is going to make the next person doesn’t feel like they aren’t lifting “enough” or that they are beneath you because they aren’t at that weight…
If you consider yourself capable and like to add things to make an exercise harder, but you see the newbie behind you watching you and struggling to follow along when they get to that station, consider dropping all the fancy add-ons for a little while so that they can follow you.
Finally, make sure that you aren’t going around and commenting on people’s bodies and workouts, effort and commitment because it makes you feel like a good person. THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU. While you’re at it, make sure that you’re not “congratulating” people for not being the stereotype you expected them to be. That is very much about you — which is to say that it’s an opportunity to examine your own biases.
The second thing we need to remember is that our presence in the gym makes a difference but it can make a good or a bad difference. Your very presence may help reduce the gymtimidation that someone might have to experience themselves.
REMEMBER WHY YOU ARE HERE….
Along the way we all make new friendships, get results and form relationships, but its also really important to put those aside and get back to the core reason and your core values of why you are here? Did you join to make friends? or did you join to work on yourself, for yourself to be the best version of yourself?
Everyone is entitled to own their results, however there is a fine line to boast about it and make other people feel inferior. Each day is a new day to work on yourself. Each day is a day to get better than you were yesterday. Comparison is the thief of joy so my final message is DONT compare yourself to the person next to you or to you friend because you aren’t them, and you never will be them. You will always be able to be inspired by them which is fine, but focus on you. Focus on what you can do and what you have achieved and disregard the rest as we are all on this journey together and we are all equal..
Cheers,
Channy xo