January 8, 2022

Where is the respect!?

Yesterday I had finished up my clients and had approximately 15mins to get a quick HIIT workout in before I Jada to get my girls out of daycare and drop my oldest baby girl off to Pre-K. I am a pro at 10-15min workouts because I seldom get 45min-1hour of time to actually stop and work out. If I am going to Maintain ANY muscle tone or fitness I literally have to squeeze in what I able to squeeze in whenever I can. I take full advantage of my minutes every single day. M client had just left so I sanitized and put up a couple of tools and returned to the same machine I had set up for her, changed the weight and commenced to my routine. As I was literally working out, a man came up to the other side of this machine (a car machine with 2 pulley systems) and began taking my workout setup down. I said politely to this guest that I was in the middle of a circuit but would be done in 7 mins max. I literally was on a time schedule to pick my kids up.

Instead of being kind/respectful, this man turned to me a yelled “you are going to share!!” then continued to removed my equipment. There was banter back and forth for minute however I put my ear phones on and continued to workout and ignored this tiny many staring at me with his arms crossed. This man walked over to Me, grabbed the top of my arm to attempt to pull me away and screamed with anger “YOU are going to share!” After telling him to never touch me again in his life, I finished, removed/sanitized what I was working out on and explained to my boss this man was out of line.

My boss went to the guest and explained how we must respect the space of those working out, he yelled at her and he and his wife stormed out. The other gym members were apologizing to me for his behavior but I don’t need sympathy, I need respect. Respect is losing its’ place in the world right now because of the elongated pandemic and emotional fatigue. I do understand. We are all affected. I am a personal trainer and a health coach. For 18months I haven’t had ANY simulance to a consistent schedule because evedy week someone is exposed to someone with COVID and has to Quarantine. I respect the decision to be honest and not train to protect me and others however that doesn’t change the reality that some weeks I am down 12 clients which is easily $400. I have to adjust to this. December I was easily out $2k. My schedule was horrible and there was NOTHING I could do about it! I don’t have sick days or vacation days. I financially fuel my days off. I fuel my vacations, I fuel my retirement fund, I fuel my EVERYTHING. Yet, I still meditate daily and respect the Universe as well as the Universal laws. I operate in love and light every single day. I know the Universe will protect me, provide for me and my family and show me how and where to move next. I have spent my life frugal and living well below my means so we can survive on very little. I know my family is blessed❤

Please be kind to others as a way of life. We are all out here doing the best we can (I hope!) Be kind. Share smiles and love. We all have our battles. We all deserve love and kindness. Peace, love and light to all.