Came a question from a client during a coaching call:
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“How do you deal with trolls saying your content is shyte?”
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Answer:
When it happens, and it does not happen all that often, it doesn’t bother me because mentally healthy people who have achieved something of note with their lives tend not to poo upon others who are putting their best foot forward.
Sure, people of worth might not like or agree with what I say, but never do they ever have any interest in trying to take me down a peg or six for promoting sensible, sustainable approaches to fitness and selling products and services related to those approaches in an honest fashion.
By contrast, the wretched handful who find the idea of me feeding and clothing my three children offensive are invariably deficient in some way, shape, or form. Hence, they view my every action through a lens of bad faith.
Whether that’s interpreting my lack of any claim to a special method as evidence of profound incompetence or my being abundantly clear about who should NOT buy my offers as sneaky reverse psychology to better scam people out of their hard-earned coin.
Believe it or not, there is a point to all of this.
And that point is?
One thing you can be sure of is the moment you put yourself out there, some creepy degenerate will try their damndest to shove you back into what they have decided is your “place”.
On the fitness front, I’ve lost count of the times others have tried to sabotage my efforts. Be that the colleague who made pointed remarks and then had me hauled in front of HR for “bullying” after I politely declined to eat the ultra-processed slop that had been brought in for their birthday. Then there are the many so-called friends who stopped inviting me to stuff the second I had the temerity to prioritise my training regime over a binge drinking session.
They’ll talk behind your back, too.
Poor souls just can’t help themselves. It’s as if seeing someone striving to be happier, healthier, and just plain doing The Right Thing triggers some sort of irresistible drive to behave like a bratty teenage girl.
Or maybe that’s just who they really are under the veneer of maturity they present to the world.
Who knows?
I certainly don’t.
Frankly, I’d be lying if I was sure exactly what drives them, but experience tells me that they are out there, and there are many more of them than there are people like us.
Whatever.
Pay their name-calling no heed.
Better:
Let the thought of living an existence as pitiful as theirs give you a firm kick up the backside on the days you don’t much feel like doing the things you know you ought to do – like learning about sustainable approaches to getting strong and in shape.
And wouldn’t you know? I’ve got something to help you with that.
Specifically, a 13-page PDF on what I have called “The Systematic Method of Training” which talks a lot about why people train monstrously hard only to fall off the wagon and find themselves landing back at square one with a thump.
The primary purpose of the document is, of course, to sell you on the idea of becoming one of my Private Coaching clients. However, there’s still much to learn from it in any case.
If you want the PDF, email me (phil at philtyreman dot co dot uk), and I’ll fire it over.
Thank you,
Phil Tyreman