Great comments!

We all have our hearts in the same place, which is to help people. Even though we argue about what we feel are the best ways to help people.

You’re 100% correct as I was in no way saying to abandon new stuff.

We can’t accept something because it’s new, nor should we just discount it.

I simply shared my philosophy, which helps me to filter what
“new stuff” seems worthwhile to me vs. what I think is simply “trendy now.”

Best of luck with your training!
Coach N

“I only know what I see happen right in front of me. If it happens once, I largely ignore it. It it happens twice, I take note. If it happens again, especially across a large population of my clientele, then I begin researching.”

That quote is going on my FB page

Awesome comments – Thanks for taking the time to write them!
Coach N

As the saying goes: “Common sense may not be so common.”

Thanks for your kind words, bro!
Coach N

I only know what I see happen right in front of me. If it happens once, I largely ignore it. It it happens twice, I take note. If it happens again, especially across a large population of my clientele, then I begin researching.

I’m not a guru. I have zero intention of becoming one. But I firmly beleive if someone has done the work, put in the time to understand and has seen a pattern work, not work, injure or heal many people’s X situation then I am wise to listen and later pit that against what I know to be “true.” If the two “marry” as Nick exampled, then I bring the idea(l) on board.

That was a hard lesson to learn as a trainer. Thanks for the post, Nick!

We know that there is no universal exercise/modality/etc. that will work for everyONE or everyTHING. The problem is, in our “get your car battery, eggs and diapers here” superstores we often look for one solution to EVERY problem. It’s illogical and silly.

To counteract that movement Nick’s theory seems to be “don’t jump on the bandwagon until you’re sure the driver can drive.” I agree with this.

Allen counters by saying that “we can’t let every train go by, hoping that some day someone will invent the automobile”. I also agree with this point. I think both are getting at the same thing.

In essence, don’t be too quick to accept something as factual or be too quick to dismiss something as insufficient because something may disprove it later. If we did that with everything we would never walk. We’d contemplate the fact that our crawling or our toddling would be so laughable by the time we were able to walk that we’d never dare get up off the floor.

We have to learn by trial and error, after all that’s all science is and its all our “tried and true” methods are in the first place. How important is that first word? Tried? We have to dare to try, dare to fail, in order to succeed.

As long as we’re doing our best to be our absolute best for our clients we can’t fault ourselves for things we don’t yet know. But we can be at fault for refusing to find out.

Nick, as always, thanks for your posts, your words and your work inspire me to better, every single day.