Who I train is my choice............

                I am asked frequently what I consider to be the single most important facet of 'fitness'? For me the answer is simple, 'mental strength', or any other description that you may choose to use, but without a doubt mental strength is fundamentally the single most important facet to achieving genuine physical fitness, the body is linked to the mind, without it the body is a shell.

"Mental strength is the ability to overcome mental resistance and cause things to happen."

Ian Abernethy: Mental Strength.

The outcome of your fitness success is dictated by your ability to overcome that barrier of physical pain and discomfort that must be overcome to achieve the incremental physical gain that each training session should bring. If this is not achieved, then any good intentions you have of improvement will never happen. The 'Brain' dictates success or failure in training/sport/combat/survival and all other areas of life, but of course I'm talking about the application of athletic ability in the context of training at 'The Box' for the gain of superior fitness. 

 The very nature of the website will undoubtedly weed out the mentally weak, (in the realm of fitness, not other areas of life of course) and that is the point of the bluntness, a sifting process that removes those people before we have any contact. And that very bluntness is my choice! I have no desire to deal with or associate with that type of person at 'The Box'. I can coach and train technique, movement and all other facets of fitness but I cannot give an individual the ability to keep pushing through a workout when the body is screaming stop, this is something you have inside yourself, you may find it at 'The Box'? And conversely you may think you have it, as many ego led individuals believe, but after one short session they find that they were sorely mistaken.

I will not allow the "I can't do that" attitude to contaminate 'The Box'!  One individual with that attitude can affect the many, and that will not be allowed, and if the need arises for me to ask an individual to leave then so be it, I have no concern about that. This is why 'The Box' is a semi-private environment, it is my choice, and if I allow the outside fitness worlds attitude to seep in, then the ability of 'The Box' to deliver superior fitness both physical and the mental to its members will be undermined.

The underlying connection that we all have at 'The Box' is a willingness to commit, and to give it all we have each time we train together. The athletes at 'The Box' know their fitness is earned, earned through utter commitment. The mental strength it takes to turn up knowing that whatever we do will cause ultimate discomfort, is in itself worthy of respect, and this 'The Box' members have from  me. But they also all know that if this commitment and drive was to diminish, then they would be asked to leave.

My methodology is unwelcome in the general fitness world and I offer no apologises to them as they repulse me, as do the many who knowingly swollow the obvious lies that they peddle, and that is why 'Who I train at The Box is my choice.'

Mark

Coach