No matter who you were working with (healthy athletes, injured athletes, teenagers, elderly, disabled, etc.) you probably have encountered many different types of people with many different needs. For each person you were expected to (among other things) write individualized programs that could deliver certain results in a safe and efficient way. My question is this.. did you pretty much already know what you were doing from the start (from a school education, being around it a lot, etc.) or did you have to "warm up" to it?
If you had to warm up to it, how long did it take? I don't expect an exact number of days
but did it take a couple months to really figure out what you were doing? A couple years? A decade?
*I know part of the job is continuing to educate yourself and learn new techniques, I'm only wondering how long it took to really be comfortable with the decisions you make while creating programs for your clients
How did you go about improving yourself? Trial and error? Did you just read as much as you could about your field and put it to use? Work with other people in the industry and kind of 'follow' them, like a mentor?
Did you make [m]any mistakes along the way?
I get curious about the oddest things.
Thanks for any responses.