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Now I know I mentioned the other week that I’d stop blogging about my nephew.
But he keeps providing great content, so what can I do?
When we were away the other week he started asking me a question.
In retrospect his first sentence must have been “Have you seen Chadwick Boseman has died?”
But he mumbled it a bit and I didn’t catch what he said.
And, even if he did I’ve not seen the Black Panther films and wasn’t aware that was the name of the actor that portrayed him or that he had sadly died.
So I replied with “Sorry Sam – what did you say?”
“Chadwick Boseman”
“What?”
“Chadwick Boseman”
“I don’t know what you’re saying”
“Chadwick Boseman”
“I don’t know what that means”
“Chadwick Boseman”
“I haven’t got the slightest clue what you’re stalking about”
“Chadwick Boseman”
“Stop saying ‘Chadwick Boseman'”
In my defence it’s not mega clear that that is a person’s name if said fast and with no context.
I hadn’t got a clue what he was talking about.
And he assumed that I would know who that was as him and all his mates do.
It’s like if I’d been trying to talk to an ageing uncle in 1994 about how, I dunno, “Tom Cruise” had died.
People often assume that others have the same level of knowledge as they and there peers do.
Because they’ve known for a while, it’s in the stuff they read and / or watch, it’s a regular part of conversation amongst their peers and so on.
Us FitPros are particularly guilty of this.
Using technical lingo with members because we’ve forgotten it’s technical lingo.
Or just phrasing it in a different way that people will get but isn’t how they normally talk.
Maybe even kinda ‘correcting’ people for their (slightly at most) technically wrong use of terms.
Talking about “fat loss” when the rest of the world talks about “losing weight”.
Using technical cues like “flex through the knees and hips, keeping the torso upright and the core engaged then drive through the heels whilst contracting the glutes” rather than “imagine you’re trying to sit on a stool that’s just out of reach then stand back up”.
Or “externally rotate through the should girdle” where “imagine you’re putting your hand up to surrender” does the same thing.
Maybe expecting that everyone will already know how the figure out their calorie requirements and how to track what they’re currently having instead of actually explaining and demonstrating how to do this.
We try our best not to do the equivalent of just saying “Chadwick Boesman” over and over to you.
But if there’s still anything you’re not quite sure about, let us know?
If you’ve heard conflicting info and are still a bit confused, reach out to us?
Don’t know what we’re asking of you in a session, then ask us to put it a different way?
Not a member and doing sessions?
Then you need to check this out –> myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting.
Much love,
Jon ‘bari’ Hall
