Dear Strength Coach and personal Trainer,

Last week I told you about a customer who was frustrated with our planning and programming sheets.

The customer found that the sheets were “useless”.

That is interesting, because it is the exact same sheets that I have used for more than 10 years, to plan and create long-term training programs for world class and Olympic athletes.

The only difference in the sheets we are selling and the sheets I personally use, is that each column is carefully explained in the version that we sell.

(I love the comment boxes in the Excel worksheets!)

I am interested to know how much time this customer spent trying to “get to know” these sheets.

5 minutes? 30 minutes? 1 hour? 2 hours?

I compare creating a long-term training program to walking to the mall. There are many steps, but you can take only ONE STEP at a time. And if you take a wrong turn, you can walk back and resume in the right direction.

Don’t expect to learn to properly create a long-term program in 1-hour.

Don’t expect things to be simpler than they are.

And here is the lesson from Einstein:

MAKE IT AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE,
YET AS COMPLEX AS NECESSARY.

What does this statement mean to you?

To Your Success,
Karsten

PS: In next week’s blogs, I write about ONE THING that in my opinion distinguishes smarter coaches and trainers from “not-as-smart” coaches and trainers.

Dear Strength Coach/Personal Trainer,

Today I want to share another “vacation report” from Denmark.

What I share on this video is something that I do EVERY DAY, often TWICE a day to relax and reload.

You can do it to perform at peak levels.

And so can all your clients and athletes (olympic champions included).

To Your Success,
Karsten

Dear Strength Coach/Personal Trainer,

This month I want to share with you a collection of the most effective training strategies that I wrote about in the first half of 2009.

Here is part 1

Notice how many exercise variations can be created from making small changes to essentially the same exercise. This is “the same but different” - principle in action.

Any comments or questions on how to put the information in this blog to use are welcomed!

Karsten