A bit about fitness in my life

Hi Everybody!

    My name is Rickey and welcome to my blog. I'm producing this blog as part of my progression through my career path as a Personal Trainer.
     
    I first started enjoying fitness when I decided to join the Australian Army. I needed to train before I joined to achieve a basic minimum standard, that being said, I used to be a really skinny guy who resented fitness. I was so unfit, I was lucky to achieve 5 full push ups! The army was a dream job so I gave it a really good go.
    
    It was then that I started appreciating fitness. I started to become a sucker for the punishment. Essentially causing myself injuries from pushing myself too hard so I could be accepted as one of "the boys". This was essentially doing more harm than good. I eventually pushed myself too hard during a training exercise and did severe damage to my knee. A meniscus tear kept me off my feet for 8 months.
    
    I healed up and kept plowing on. But through my time during the army I loved the fitness and the things I could do because of it. It also became competitive to me in some weird way.

    I am a competitive person by nature and with fitness I love to set a standard for other people to beat, or at least best the best standard of the fittest person there. I'm not a sore looser or cocky, just love the thrill of a competition.

    Through the injuries of pushing myself too far, I've learned to ease up a bit and never push past my breaking point, but still try my hardest.

    I also love to help make other peoples lives better. In any way I can. As an apprentice cabinetmaker, building a dream kitchen for a client is one way. They would appreciate the value of it and it makes their house a home. Just one of many ways to help people.

    I wanted to become a Personal Trainer for a few years now, since before I left the army. I love fitness and becoming a personal trainer is a perfect career for me since I love to help people as well.

    My ultimate goals for my career in this industry is, well, become a personal trainer and hopefully run my own business. Another goal is to rejoin the army as a physical training instructor and train future recruits and soldiers preparing for overseas exercises.

    Fit College is the group I'm going through to become a fitness professional. They stood out to me as a family more than a company after a bit of research. I found that most of, if not all, their trainers work in the fitness industry with active businesses and clients. So I knew that these guys knew their stuff. With that, it essentially gave me a guarantee that I would have the highest quality training and be up to date with the latest techniques.

    During my learning and training I will be keeping this blog going with updates of information and video presentations. Mainly for course purposes but the info would be useful to all who read my blogs as well.

    C'ya soon folks!