Explaining the Why

In leadership, business, or teaching situations, you must explain to a person why you want them to do something. That is the only way to achieve a complete buy-in. It's not enough to just tell someone that you want them to do it; people with critical thinking ability don't just give blind obedience like it's the 1950s. I see it with the high school football players that I coach; young people are much more empowered today than they were thirty years ago. While these young men have a healthy respect for authority (which we as coaches have earned by demonstrating positive habits and behaviors every day), they want to know the reasoning behind the task they are being asked to carry out. They deserve to know why!

It has been said that if you really want to learn how to do something, teach it. However, if you don't first understand the material, you will have a difficult time teaching it to someone else. Teaching requires the ability to break down and explain concepts in language that is easily understood. This helps to establish the teacher's credibility and gains the students' trust. The exceptional teacher or coach doesn't use a cookie-cutter approach, but rather adapts his or her methods to meet the needs of the individual that he or she is teaching. People learn in different ways and at different rates of speed, but if you explain the why it will help the student to retain the information more effectively. Most importantly, both parties will be on the same page from a standpoint of expectations.

There is a purpose for everything we do at Total Results. Our exercise environment is quiet, private, and free from distractions. High-intensity exercise requires focus - not just to maximize the effectiveness of the workout, but also to optimize client safety. We keep the temperature in the studio as close to 68 degrees as possible, with low humidity and adequate ventilation. Your muscles generate tremendous heat when you exercise intensely, and it is much easier to overheat than most people realize. If you stay cool, you can inroad your musculature much more effectively than if you are covered in sweat. The equipment at Total Results is engineered by MedX, Super Slow Systems, and Nautilus, which means that it tracks muscle and joint function properly and allows the muscles to encounter appropriate resistance at all points in the range of motion.

We select and sequence the exercises that will engage the greatest amount of muscle in the shortest amount of time; this enables us to achieve a quality exercise stimulus without overtraining. Compound movements allow us to perform five to seven exercises in twenty minutes or less; efficiency is a key element to our protocol. We advocate a speed of movement of approximately ten seconds on each positive and negative phase of each repetition. This keeps the potentially dangerous forces to a minimum, reduces momentum, and allows the muscles to remain under load throughout the exercise. Intensity can be defined as inroad/time, and it is the main component to a proper exercise stimulus. Therefore, we want to take each exercise to the point of muscular failure and push or pull for an additional ten seconds. This way we have done everything we can to stimulate the body to adapt. Your instructor will keep accurate records for every workout, and giving clients access to their spreadsheet will allow them to track their progress in real time.

In his excellent book, "Start With Why," author Simon Sinek says that, "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe." We believe that the Total Results exercise protocol is the safest and most effective means to stimulate positive physical change with the smallest time commitment. While we don't expect you to gain as deep an understanding of exercise as what we have, understanding your why will help you if you want to dig beneath the surface and find out what you are capable of. Discover your why and get started today!