I am a fitness trainer..

I am a fitness trainer.
My practice is more than just a job; it is my passion. My clients are my top priority and their successes are my life’s work—I am a professional.
On the surface, my job is to shepherd my athletes (I view all my clients as athletes regardless of their age or ability) toward physical prowess, but I recognize a purpose to my efforts and an impact on my athletes that transcends the physical. I view training as a physical metaphor for habits and attitudes that foster success in all arenas. I stress that point to all who train with me and I know I’ve been successful only after they bring back concrete examples.
The lessons learned through physical training are unavoidable. The character traits required and developed through physical training are universally applicable to all endeavors. Perseverance, industry, sacrifice, self-control, integrity, honesty, and commitment are best and easiest learned in the gym. Even clients who have found spectacular success in business, sport, war, or love find their most important values buttressed, refined, and nourished in rigorous training.
Being a professional, I believe that my competency is solely determined by my efficacy. My methods must be second to none. Accordingly, fitness trends and fashions are distractions, not attractions. To the extent that my methods are often unconventional, unaccepted, or unique, they reflect the margins by which I dominate my industry, and I take those margins to the bank. A trainer who lusts for popular approval is chasing mediocrity or worse.
Committed to unrivaled efficacy, I’ve often had to develop new tools and methods. This cannot be done without study and experimentation; consequently, a lot of my work is done not in the gym but in books and scientific literature and in communication with other trainers and coaches.
My competency is determined by my efficacy, which is ultimately determined by my athletes’ performance.
-Greg Glassman

got handstands..?

Private and semi-private instruction available for those who want to develop their handstand abilities and to harness the functional strength gained from mastering inversions and body control.

Help me get to Circus Camp!

I have always felt that, without this great community, I am nothing. It is with a humble heart and much respect that I am making a call out to my communuity. I have a goal to attend a Circus Camp called Big Horse Productions towards the end of March. They specialize in Equestrian Acrobatics and general circus skills. For those of you who know me well, you know about my dreams and goals. I am at my happiest when I am upsidedown on parallettes, performing partner balance acts, equestrain gymnastics, free running, and crossfitting hard!
Here's where you all come in. I am offering great deals on personal training sessions.I specalize Crossfit proficiency of the 10 general physical skills, parkour, parallettes, handstands, kettlebells, and partner balance. I will not make it to Big Horse without your help.
I NEED you to start booking your sessions with me before the circus takes me away...
I am a fountain of knowledge and have dedicated several years developing a deep understanding of human mechanics on my quest of becmoming the Practitioner of Movement that I am today. Let me give back to you so that I might be able to rise to the next level.
I am open to any and all ideas and offerings of help on this quest to get me closer to my dreams. (I have set up a donation button dedicated solely to this cause on the upper right hand side of this blog page for any benevolent souls who wish to help.) I can be reached at 512-921-7563 or randalsetzler@crossfitcentral.com
I thank you all in advance.

-Randal



I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. ~George Bernard Shaw

Hand Balance

For those of you who have handstands and/or parallettes on their "to do in '09" list but are not on the way yet... Come see me- 512-921-7563 Let's get it started!

Trading Places..

No, I'm not referencing the 80's movie with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphey. Instead I'm referencing a post Big Mike made where he stated that he wants to put some focus on improving gymnastic skills. After reading his post and seeing his latest video of him push jerking 215lbs. I realize (as I have known for a while) that Strength IS my weakness. Lifting heavy has never been my forte. So, in the footsteps that Mike has set, I will in return put a "heavier" focus on Strength and will start putting more bumper plates on my bar. Thanks Mike. Now check out his latest vid..