Growing Into You

When I first started this website, my vision with what I wanted to do was hazy. I knew that I wanted to create a website where I could help people improve their lives. That is the one thing I have been focusing on with each article I have written so far. After that, I was not sure what else I wanted to do with the website.

With my college graduation quickly approaching, my goal for the past year has been to start my own business. I have never been exactly sure as to what kind of business I wanted to open; the only thing I knew of was I wanted it to involve physical training and improving the body physically.

As I have briefly mentioned in previous articles, throughout my baseball career, I was constantly researching how the muscles worked. My research included how to eat right, how to put workouts together to effectively reach my goals, and how to supplement my workouts and diet in order to reach maximum gains. Since I was a freshman in high school, I have been putting workouts together in order to help me reach new heights in my baseball career. As I wrote more programs, I began to understand what exercises needed to be linked together in order to get the most out of my workouts. Along with my research, I have had the opportunity to have trained under some of the best weight-lifting coaches in the country.

Kerry Rosenboom at Wichita State University is highly regarded as one of the most knowledgeable fitness instructors in the nation. He has trained many All-Americans, NBA players, and MLB stars. When I transferred to Indiana University, I had the opportunity to train under their weight training staff. They were also very knowledgeable, producing some of the best athletes in the country year in and year out. The difference between the two coaches varied greatly. Kerry was very focused on getting his athletes as big and strong as possible, while IU was more focused on becoming lean, flexible, and explosive. These differences has allowed me to further understand how to create a very effective workout.

I would like to give a brief outline as to where I would like to go with my website. The reason I am publishing this before I begin the creation part is to get feedback from you. While you read this, I would like you to think if this is something you would be interested in. Also, I would like you to tell me if there were other services I could add to be more effective.

As I have been thinking, I have come to the conclusion that I would like to expand my website. First, I would like to add a homepage where you can choose where you would like to go. From the homepage, you could go a few different directions. First, will be my blog. I have thoroughly enjoyed writing this blog. I continuously have ideas to talk about, not just pertaining to the physical training aspect of self-improvement. This will be the place where I can continue to talk about general self-development.

Next, I would like to add a “resistance training” part to my website. This part will be my actual business. I will add different services at different prices. The first level of service will include creating a personal workout for you based on your goals. I can create a workout to meet any need (weight loss, bulking up, becoming lean, etc.) Each workout will be 12 weeks long. However, you can purchase workouts in increments (4 weeks) or for the whole period (12 weeks). This gives many people the advantage of being able to “test” out my workout to see if it is for them.

The second level of my service will be to serve as your personal coach. With this service, you will be able to correspond with me via e-mail and, if needed, via phone. Personal coaching will serve a few purposes. First, it will allow you to contact me directly in case of any questions. Secondly, I can serve as a motivator/partner for you. Getting yourself motivated to exercise is a very difficult path to go down on your own.

The third part of my website will include an “articles” section. These articles will be ones that I have discovered in my research of physical development. There are many great articles out there that you should read to help you understand how to reach your goal. This will just be a convenient place for you to find them instead of having to search the web yourself. This section will obviously be free.

As you can tell, this is just a concept of what I would like my website to include. I have been constantly thinking about how to implement these different items to their fullest effect. Again, if you have any extra ideas, tips on how to change my website from it’s current state to my vision, or just any other comments you would like to make, please feel free to share them with me. You can either leave a comment or e-mail me at tad@growingintoyou.com. I appreciate EVERYBODY’S input. With your help, my business will be up and running and on it’s way to success in no time.

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