Goodmorning you guys. Shot a 31 minute video over this which is linked right below. Feel free to listen or watch as I will generally be going over the same thing with in this blog post. The best thing I could think of for the time being is that if you’re an audio or visual person it’d be easiest for you to watch my video or hear me via pod cast. Which you can find my podcast as Personius Podcast on anchor, spotify and soon to be Apple podcast. But if you enjoy your reads by all means continue to check my content out here, Facebook, Instagram or twitter @stevenpersonius on all channels. Without further a due let me dive right in.
Currently it has been 4 weeks post contest and I am finally almost back to normal. Somehow I have managed to sleep for 10+ hours a night for the past 3 nights which have been amazing. I haven’t been able to sleep more than 5-6 a night even hiked up on sleep supplements. Regardless of that being my fault and needing such an excessive dose of not just sleep supplements to sleep during my contest period but also the excessive amounts of caffeine that I’d consume to function on a day to day. This had really taken a bigger tole on me that I expected and finally a month later I can feel somewhat like a normal individual. I’m still exhausted when I wake up but not as bad. Unfortunately I cannot go back to sleep regardless but it is a huge improvement. Which to add to that i got myself to consume upwards to 1,200 mg of caffeine per day. Finally I am down to 300 a day which makes me feel so much better about myself. Regardless of my calories being above maintenance my energy levels are just trash due to all the hell I gave myself the last 6 months. I have been trying to keep myself busy with all the extra free time I have now a days since my contest is over. The blogging and social media outlets have been a great extension to fill those time voids. Due to creating all of this I have really been thinking about what my actual message should be. As lately it has been on mental health and kind of just a journal for me lately. But ultimately I have been looking at it and wondering if I could actually help people with this message along with my journey as an individual. So that brings me to what my niche could so be.
The Niche Within
Basically where I want to go with all of this is within the same space I constantly talk about on a daily. Whether that’s with my friends, clients, or strangers that ask me questions. Which is the most simplest thing you can think of and that’s the basics. Not just the basics for the beginner but the basics for the beginner, novice, intermediate, and advanced individual in the fitness community. I feel as though we all tend to jumble ourselves together. The beginner thinking they’re the novice, or the novice thinking there the intermediate or the intermediate who thinks they’re the advanced. Now I tend to see this not just in the roles of lifting in the gym but also in the roles of social media and the concept of staying in your lane doesn’t seem to exist. Now there is a time to put yourself out there and claim your spot don’t get me wrong. But if you’re creating 5 minute ab protocols after lifting for a year please sit down the only people you are fooling are the newbies that will never watch your stuff again because they will realize how much a load of crap you are. This could also go for the intermediate lifter trying to lift the same as an advanced lifter potentially injuring themselves or over doing it so hard you’re really back tracking yourself. All these points cause friction among the community and a lot of people either quit part way through or they don’t start to begin with and in my opinion fitness should never be played as that game!! Fitness is a game of life where we are all in this together to benefit ourselves and help others. Not overstep, try to hurt people or put others down. If everyone knew who they were and where they stood there would be so much less friction for those who are actually trying in this community. That or friction in joining the community. Whatever happened to lifting to make gains and have comradeship to support each other?? What ever your flavor of fitness could be. Whether that be powerlifting, bodybuilding, crossfit, calisthenics, dancing, plyo you name it we all should be in this together to help out those individuals because we have been there before they have so lets help them instead of just focusing on us! My goal is to help those understand who they are and what helps them be the best version of themselves. I want to simply those terms for people since I have walked that path. I’ve been doing this for 7 years and I still don’t feel like I know enough yet. But I know enough to help those simplify and navigate the vast amount of BS that sits in this community. Whether we are talking training, supplementation or nutrition, all I want to do is help guide you in making the right choices for you so that you can flourish and feel confident in this community. Not belittled and feeling of inadequacy because someone else has better results or genetics as you or so happens to be an enhanced athlete that you wouldn’t be able to compete unless you took the same things they did.
Closing the Gap
I feel there’s a strong shift in social media that is leaning away from the BS the fitness community has created as a whole. People are starting to realize the bad and the good, the honest and the lies. For those people are the ones preaching the good finally. Which I finally feel like the average person is willing to consume. It may be a few more years or even a decade ontop of this but I see this as a high possibility and I want to be one of the people that pushes the positive over the BS in this community. I want others to understand who they are and how that can help others more than anything. Which I’ll leave it here for now as that was a rather long rant to begin with. Be on the look out for the next few posts! Peace
Steven Personius 