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I was in a local bookstore the other day since being in the business I am in I have to read up to stay current. Anyways this particular bookstore is the one where I stumbled into Enter the Kettlebell and was my intro to “the party”. Well when I get a bit of time to kill I can either play ps3, or I can try to be half way productive and read up. The 2 books I have been reading lately are the new rules of lifting by Lou Schuler and Alwyn Cosgrove and the Female Body Breakthrough by Rachel Cosgrove. If you are new to my evil ways Alwyn Cosgrove is one of the fitness professionals I look up to. Many of the motto’s he preaches I have taken as my own personal slogan’s because it makes me better at what I do and I would like to be the best possible.

Now when I am reading these books I am never able to read them through in one sitting, so I leave my business card as a bookmark in those pages. When I come back if someone hasn’t bought my book I’ll be able to pick up where I left off. If someone buys my book, well maybe they’ll find my business card, realize I stay current with proper training knowledge and hey maybe I’ll get a new client.

Well as I am reading the Female Body Breakthrough by Rachel Cosgrove (a book I think all women NEED to read) I place my business card/bookmark on the arm of the chair plainly visible by anyone who is anywhere near me. So I am reading, and learning and learning and reading when a severely overweight gentlemen waddles over breathing heavy and sits down next to me. As he sits down next to me breathing heavy because of how out of shape he was I start planning his training program in my head on autopilot because that’s kind of how my brain operates.

Now if you don’t really know me and the majority of you don’t, as loudmouthed as I am, I am not the guy who tells everyone he knows that they need to start exercising. If you haven’t read my post about the birds of a feather flocking together then let me just tell you I don’t normally hang out with all fitness people. I normally only hang out with them at seminars when I see them but that’s normally it. Well anyways I am not the type to go pushing my methods on someone that isn’t going to be willing to receive them (kind of like religion). If you come to me for advice that’s different, but if you are there minding your own business I am not going to stick my business in your face.

So anyways I am sitting there minding my own business and he is sitting there minding his own business. I started thinking about the different things I would do to try and help him out but since I don’t want to go pushing my $hit on anybody I kept my mouth shut. When I got home I actually had regrets about it.

“If I said something, would that possibly have changed or saved his life?” chances are no but what if I did? Is it my responsibility to help those who need help whether they know I am the guy to do it or not?

so the question is…should I have said something?

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