It’s understandably hard to not have the same mindset as everything else on social media when consuming fitness “education” on it: we want impactful, novel, dramatic information ASAP 🤯 - 🥄 We want to be spoon fed rules to follow, so we can pick an ethos and stance to believe in. It’s much easier to push ourselves hard if we’re training with assured passion for how we’re doing so. - As coaches we look for the shortcut of protocols, as opposed to thinking about the client in front of us when coaching. I get it: it means way more efficient energy expenditure per hour. - But whether it’s a lack of ability to remove their own biases, the fact that they’ve barely actually trained anybody in person recently, or just their pathetic pandering to the effectiveness of click bait, we MUST question any supposed experts who state anything is “the best” or “the worst” X for Y 🤔 - Anyone who says “never” or “always” just screams of being a researcher or content producer who hasn’t actually worked with people outside of the bell curve of the population. Sure, everything works if one’s only clientele are the genetically gifted, experienced demographic of competitive athletes, but a closed mind will come up short when presented with old, injured, uncoordinated or obese populations. - 📑 Studies serve as interesting sources of information to consider, but they tell you sweet fuck all about yourself or the person you’re coaching. They’re carried out on specific demographics and cannot possibly control all the variables each individual’s situation presents. - Be discerning of anyone making blanket statements 🧐 All aspects of exercise - from movements, to ranges of motion, to intensities - hold benefit : cost ratios, but do how those relate to people of different structure, ages, tolerances etc? The list is endless and impossible to place rules upon. - ☝🏽Don’t rule anything out, and certainly don’t do so because someone online says it’s “bullshit”, “it causes instability at joint Z” or is “the leading cause of injury”. - 🧠 A knowledgable yet open mind, that questions even it’s own views, is the one that is most likely to find a solution to the most confounding puzzles 🧩

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧🧚🏻‍♀️🧜🏻‍♀️ -- Caption had me thinking about the legend of the Melusine - which we talk about in our @thesingaporemermaidschool syllabus. Man breaks his oath to his wife to always give her privacy on Saturdays. Man peers through the peephole, sees his beautiful wife lounging in her true form: the scaled, finned, rather monstrous form of the Fairy Melusine. Man recoils and renounces her. The Melusine, betrayed, cries a scream of anguish, spreads her mighty wings, and flees the castle - never to be seen again. .. Aren't we all just walking around as Melusines? "do not look at my true form" we cry, clutching the mournful tatters of our social masks and ig filters around ourselves. "go away, I am too monstrous to be loved" But - be monstrous, my friends. Be monstrous and magical. Be something this world cannot contain. No more hiding behind lock and key, no more pandering to a prince to keep your place in his castle. So. You spread those wings. You ripple every gleaming scale of your @finfolkproductions Syrena's Song tail like chainmail, right down to your very toes. You land on the highest turret of that castle. You stake your claim. And you ROAR. -- 📸: @thejoshfather, who loves me in all my melusiney forms and ways. Taken with @leicastoresg @leica_galerie_sg @leica_camera 🧜🏻‍♀️: LAST DAY to get the @finfolkproductions Syrena's Song before she shimmers away forever! 👑: @hellofaerie 👁️: @diownbeauty -- While I'm at it - #EnchantedAsianDay as created by @tornandpolished @bellakotak @lillianliuphotography is on 12 June. Such a fantastic & magickal initiative to raise Asian awareness. Get in on it, my fellow AAPI fae baes! @enchantedasianday 🧚🏽‍♀️💜

「你不用對我好。只要你對自己好，我便會愛上你。」 We are so fooled that love is about pandering to another’s needs, when there is not a single need in love. “You never need to be nice to me. But when you care for yourself, I will naturally fall in love with you.” . . . #aspecialday #truth #love #selfcare #selflove #neverholdback #愛不是你所想像的 #女生們快學起來 #活著不是為了取悅誰