Everyone Under the Sun

So I have a feeling the trend for the weeks will be very concise posts. Fifteen hours shifts will do that to you. So, today I trained two cancer survivors, a pro athlete, watched an MMA fighter train, and coached kids ranging in age from 11 to 22, and the biggest thing I learned from today is everyone can and should exercise. Besides the obvious looking good naked benefits, exercise has been shown to lower stress, increase life span, and improve all sorts of esoteric markers of health. But more importantly and less measureable, it makes you feel better about yourself. I see all this kids come in with such terrible motor control who I can only imagine have been heckled by coaches, teammates, peers, and maybe even their own families, that being able to complete a few sets of exercises really helps them out with their own self images. Obviously, little kids aren’t going to get jack3d lifting at such a young age, but the mental pump they get is going to build on itself so that when the time is right, they really will take off.