So he did CrossFit?
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
So he did CrossFit? [/quote]
lol
I’ve known plenty of guys who could just handle a sh-t ton of physical punishment and just keep digging down and pressing on. Didn’t mean they had any clue as to intelligent nutrition, programing, or any of the other stuff that actual “accredited” (whatever that may mean to you) certification programs cover in order for you to instruct and guide others en route to reaching their own individual physique goals.
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[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
So he did CrossFit? [/quote]
lol
I’ve known plenty of guys who could just handle a sh-t ton of physical punishment and just keep digging down and pressing on. Didn’t mean they had any clue as to intelligent nutrition, programing, or any of the other stuff that actual “accredited” (whatever that may mean to you) certification programs cover in order for you to instruct and guide others en route to reaching their own individual physique goals.
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Stu you been reading my log havnt you? 
[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
I’m disappointed prof x - an avid fanboy -didn’t turn up wheezing in the background.[/quote]
HATER!
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Went to the gym before work today and a kid there brought up Fletcher in casual conversation. Not this specifically, just some of his training ideas. The guy’s obviously fairly well known and is trying to milk his 15 minutes. In a year or two he’ll be a forgotten YouTube hero so he might as well cash in while he can. You also gotta understand his target audience is 15-24 year old morons with more (of daddy’s) dollars than sense.[/quote]
He’s already been around for the past 20 years, and he has been on the internet for the past 4 years.
I can’t fuckin stand CT Fletcher. With that said 2500 is ridiculous. I went to a seminar with Stan Efferding about a month ago that was 3 hours long and even got to pull with him for 50 bucks and I learned some stuff. 2,500… What a joke.
[quote]BroLac wrote:
I can’t fuckin stand CT Fletcher. With that said 2500 is ridiculous. I went to a seminar with Stan Efferding about a month ago that was 3 hours long and even got to pull with him for 50 bucks and I learned some stuff. 2,500… What a joke.[/quote]
Efferding is actually going to be at Gaglione Strength in NY if anyone’s intersted. Always nice when a respected professional spends time passing on actual knowledge (at a reasonable rate, of course -lol)
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[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Went to the gym before work today and a kid there brought up Fletcher in casual conversation. Not this specifically, just some of his training ideas. The guy’s obviously fairly well known and is trying to milk his 15 minutes. In a year or two he’ll be a forgotten YouTube hero so he might as well cash in while he can. You also gotta understand his target audience is 15-24 year old morons with more (of daddy’s) dollars than sense.[/quote]
He’s already been around for the past 20 years, and he has been on the internet for the past 4 years.[/quote]
And no one knew who he was until a year or two ago when he posted the “Strongest person you’ve never heard of” vid. Notice how he’s gotten progressively more animated and obnoxious?
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
[quote]WhiteFlash wrote:
Went to the gym before work today and a kid there brought up Fletcher in casual conversation. Not this specifically, just some of his training ideas. The guy’s obviously fairly well known and is trying to milk his 15 minutes. In a year or two he’ll be a forgotten YouTube hero so he might as well cash in while he can. You also gotta understand his target audience is 15-24 year old morons with more (of daddy’s) dollars than sense.[/quote]
He’s already been around for the past 20 years, and he has been on the internet for the past 4 years.[/quote]
And no one knew who he was until a year or two ago when he posted the “Strongest person you’ve never heard of” vid. Notice how he’s gotten progressively more animated and obnoxious? [/quote]
yaaa but…
CT addressed this in one of his videos. He said that in the early vids he was told to tone it down. He said that what you see now is his REAL personality that came from growing up in compoton.
It’s all a show if you ask me, like come on dude, that shit would get awful tiring to keep up that screaming and shit all the time.
[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
When I say quarter squat , I mean loading the bar with weight that the person can’t even get anywhere close to where you’re going in your reps. CT literally just bends his knees slightly. Which is fine, but he calls that a squat and all his clients and people in his videos do the same. So I assume they must watch him and do that. In my experience, I’ve gotten much stronger and mobile from learning to do squats with more ROM. But, everything is goal specific, I compete in powerlifting, so I always try to get full ROM. Wasn’t trying to offend anyone.[/quote]
video.
[quote]carbiduis wrote:
watching CT’s videos is very similar to eating jelly beans…you get sick of them after like the 2nd or 3rd one
I couldn’t imagine spending an extended amount of time with the guy
funny how the camera conveniently doesn’t show the squatters body below their chest/shoulders…OMG LOOK HOW MUCH WEIGHT(they can quarter squat)[/quote]
Shows a lot of the lower body.
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Does this certification encompass the following?
first aid and safety
fitness business management and marketing
injuries and respective contraindications
nutrition and supplementation
drugs and respective exercise contraindications (eg, beta bloker, diuretic, insulin)
kinesiology, biomechanics
motor learning
exercise progression (eg, proper exercise progression for someone who can’t even do lunge or squat without problems))
legal issues (eg, scope of practice, insurance matters, negligence
[quote]BrickHead wrote:
Does this certification encompass the following?
first aid and safety
fitness business management and marketing
injuries and respective contraindications
nutrition and supplementation
drugs and respective exercise contraindications (eg, beta bloker, diuretic, insulin)
kinesiology, biomechanics
motor learning
exercise progression (eg, proper exercise progression for someone who can’t even do lunge or squat without problems))
legal issues (eg, scope of practice, insurance matters, negligence
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There’s footage on youtube of the cert… It’s actually not a cert at all I don’t think. It’s guys pulling trucks and flipping tires and doing 135 on bench to failure. Which is all fine, I just have no idea why you would pay 2500 dollars to go through that when you could do it for free. I’ll pull up the video.
[quote]SirTroyRobert wrote:
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I guess if they value the certification it is worth it to them.
When I think of certifications, I think of them in strictly a professional perspective, like, think to myself, “Would that help someone get a job or expand his or her services? Do the major gyms like TSI, Lifetime, Bally’s, Equinox, Xsports, and UFC accept it for employment? Do independent gym owners who require nationally recognized certs for insurance purposes care about the cert?”
From that video, all I see are people going through grueling workouts.
Not all certs cover what I went over in my previous post, but in a video I saw, CT was poking fun at general national certs. Example: “A cert I took by taking a pencil-and-paper test over a muddafuggin weekend dat some muddafugga who doesn’t know what he’s doing made up,” or some nonsense like that, which shows he has no idea what he speaks of.
Like Stu said earlier, this isn’t a “certification” in such a literal sense. This was an adventure weekend for guys who wanted to say they trained under CT Fletcher’s hardcore instruction. Good for them. I don’t think anyone with a nickel’s worth of sense will take this “certification” literally, although some of y’all do make a good point that this could be pitched as a legitimate “certification” to naive people who don’t know better, and I suppose that is somewhat disturbing.
mmmm dat lateral raise form.
The difference in quality of coaching and exercise execution between this ‘certification’ and the 2011 Indigo bootcamp is shocking.
[quote]The Mighty Stu wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
So he did CrossFit? [/quote]
lol
I’ve known plenty of guys who could just handle a sh-t ton of physical punishment and just keep digging down and pressing on. Didn’t mean they had any clue as to intelligent nutrition, programing, or any of the other stuff that actual “accredited” (whatever that may mean to you) certification programs cover in order for you to instruct and guide others en route to reaching their own individual physique goals.
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Accredited is just a way of saying “worth a sh–” and that some governing body takes them seriously because there are competent professionals putting out useful, valid, tested, true, and safe information.
It’s like Dave Palumbo’s S.M.A.R.T. certification. Obviously any form of certification is only as good as the program design and reputation of the ‘name’ behind it. Dave may be respected by a good number of folks in bodybuilding circles, but how many actual gyms (especially large chains) are going to risk legal issues with some program they’ve never (nor their insurance carriers) heard of?
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