David Aguilera: Find Your Balance-The Professional Transitions Series S13E3

<p><span style="font-weight: 300;">CJ talks to David Aguilera, head of an academy, Barbell Academy student, and strength coach who has worked to grow his coaching practice and, in doing so, found the balance between his life, primary career, and coaching that is healthy and good for him and his family. Learn more about David and Iron Eagle here:</span> <a href= "http://www.iestrength.com"><span style= "font-weight: 300;">www.iestrength.com</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 300;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300;">David began training because he felt the diminishing abilities of middle ages creeping up on him and knew he needed to combat this with exercise.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300;">Coaching became a natural thing to do for him as he found the benefits of lifting and training and feels that helping others is his mission, in both his primary career and now coaching. He loves seeing not just the physical benefits but the mental and physical changes that occur when someone subjects themselves to difficult things and grows. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300;">Training for him became a routine--a practice--that made a better day, a better week, a better life for him. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300;">One thing he found he could NOT do was coach too much or train and coach at the same time. If he coached and trained alongside his lifters, one or both suffered. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300;">Once he decided to become a coach, he knew receiving high-quality coaching would help him become a better coach, so he signed up for BLOC. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300;">He also had an experience that doesn’t seem to be discussed as much with coaching but really is likely common, which is an anti-inspiration experience. He saw bad coaches and did not want to be one of those bad coaches. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 300;">Another thing CJ & David discuss is getting paid & the importance of this. It really makes a difference when a c