When a Blogger Goes Missing

Hello, My name is Carly and I have gone missing. Well, not in real life, I’m just a wee bit absent from my blogging life because LIFE happens. Life has been happening at a rampant pace in our little home and thankfully the hubs and I still love each other! This is not a pregnancy announcement, calm down.

I have been working on building my clientele and starting this new career as a certified personal trainer (CPT) and amongst all that I also have had to establish my confidence as a trainer. I know a piece of paper (certificate or degree) doesn’t mean you’re good at something, it just means you passed a test and stuck out the program. So when I completed my certification as a CPT I had a BASE of knowledge, coupled with my years of working out but I had never had to explain how to do an exercise.

Like, really think about it. Someone had to teach you how to use a BOSU ball or do a power clean, but have you ever had to explain it to someone else? Remember those test questions in school about explaining how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to an alien, well that’s been my life for the last three months. Figuratively, I’ve been covered in jelly.

Not to disappoint, I am also an avid learner on top of a perfectionist and if you didn’t read this already in my blog, a total Type A personality! So as I continue to grow in this field, I am also reading everything and anything I can get my hands on, coupling it with watching videos, pod casts and blogs about techniques and I have a boss that challenges me on so many planes.

So my work days are generally 10-12 hours long and I might only have one client that day but I am putting in the work so I don’t have to say things like “I don’t know” when a client asks me WHY I programmed something. I know I won’t always have the answer but I’d much rather have the answers 98% of the time than 28% of the time.

Thankfully I’ve had strong role models in my life that believed in me and my abilities. My mom always told my brother and I we could be anything we wanted to be as long as we were the best at it. She told us if we “wanted to be a ditch digger, be the best damn ditch digger you can be” and that is exactly what I am aiming for, sans shovel.