Our online service is turning five years old in a couple of weeks. 

We sat on the fence for the longest time when it came to online coaching. Call it inertia. Or just a reluctance to figure out how to coach online. 

Covid forced us to get our crap together and coach online. Or the gym would die. And it saved us. And then some. 

I try to treat my online service just like the in-person service. I coach just as i would in-person. We request a couple of different angles to capture as much detail as possible. And our exercise selection emphasises single leg squatting, lots of rotation of the hips and shoulders and pushing. 

The obvious constraint is equipment. We have many more toys and weight in our gym than one could have at home. We manage our way around this.

But clients have been upping the game by putting together compact yet beefy home gyms. 

The pic below is a client in Gurgaon. He picked up a t-bell. And he’s been slowly picking up more weight to load up. 

Yesterday he pulled 90 kgs from 7 inches off the floor for a deadlift. For 8 reps. It was spectacular to watch. And it’s been a pleasure coaching him. 

I really do not think venue is a constraint to get stronger. Too many people fall into the trap of waiting to find something that they will enjoy (never to find it) instead of doing something for long enough to find joy in it. 

And this really holds true for training. Most Indian houses will not have room for a gym. And many of us will never enjoy going to a conventional gym. The solution is find the will and footprint to train when and where we can.