Meeting number one today: Back to ‘career partner’, which I guess is the lingo for someone who markets you, takes your money up front, gets you hired, and then gets you your money back via signing bonus. Nice enough people, but I ain’t got that kinda cash laying around. At least for their top end services. Also got lots of great self-marketing ideas that I can implement myself. So meeting ends, tell him I will take their resume service (very reasonably priced) and so on, and he and I start talking lifting. He is a former competitive bber, who also did some PLing back then. Currently has a complete home gym with, at his estimate, 4k in plates. He trained with some fairly big regional names, so don’t think he was BSing.
Second meeting: Monster interview, i.e. one that originates from somebody seeing your resume on Monster. Damn near anyone who ever puts their resume on Monster will eventually get a call from an insurance company of some sort. I got that call yesterday, saying I was an ideal candidate for the regional sales manager position. blah blah blah. I thought to myself, no, not a job for you, but good practise interview. You won’t even care.
Drove downtown today to interview. Just as I thought by the address, they share a building with the second crappiest strip club in the city. I walk in and there were a couple of kids in pants down to their knees waiting for an interview. I start laughing to myself. Office is sparcely furnished. Give the gal behind the counter my info and wait. Eventually a young dude in a cheep suit brings me back into his office. Starts bragging how he works smart, delegates, etc, and that sorry for the wait, but he is way behind today. Then the interview starts. Says he is interviewing for sales positions. I state I was called for the sales manager position. He then for the first time pretends to look down at my resume. He then says “well, I can see you have extensive sales in your background, are you still willing to work those long hours or do you want something with 8 to 5 days?” Little shit just provided two insults: A) my resume has no sales experience on it (operations, project management, running call centers even, no sales) and B) I am pretty sure he just judged me on age. He then stated he had a group overview of the company and how they work to present right then, (sorry to cut the interview short) but would I like to join them? Fuck no. I said something about no, it was almost my bedtime, and he provided me with his personal cell number to call him at if I wanted to set up a follow up.
Good place for his card will be the recycling bin.
Have you ever thought of interviewing for a sales job at a good commercial gym ? Or a fitness manager position (like a pt sales position). The clubs in my area like Xsport/lifetime/la fitness pay very well for these positions. ie I was offered a position as a Pt sales manager for la fitness and the pay started out @ 30k + commision per sale, + bonus, + residuals that stack up real quick. I have 2 friends who work for them and they are in the 80k-110k range after 2 years. First year was like 60k.
I probaly will do this job once my youngest is in school full time or I can get my own gym off the ground.
They have operations managers @ the big clubs they pay pretty well also 50k-70k.
[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
Thatsa alotta lifting for a deload.
Have you ever thought of interviewing for a sales job at a good commercial gym ? Or a fitness manager position (like a pt sales position). The clubs in my area like Xsport/lifetime/la fitness pay very well for these positions. ie I was offered a position as a Pt sales manager for la fitness and the pay started out @ 30k + commision per sale, + bonus, + residuals that stack up real quick. I have 2 friends who work for them and they are in the 80k-110k range after 2 years. First year was like 60k.
I probaly will do this job once my youngest is in school full time or I can get my own gym off the ground.
They have operations managers @ the big clubs they pay pretty well also 50k-70k.
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yeah… but then you have to work with… people. that sucks.
I always say that teaching is awesome except for parents.
Deload lasted two sessions, lol. Typically when I do actually deload I either deload the ME days or the DE days.
30 minutes elliptical this a.m.
Feeling damn good.
Fischer, I have been considering one of those positions as back up. I have ten years behind me in the corporate telecom world, I kinda want to see a little more of what I can play with that to get me into a nice position.
Meat, at a bar I worked at in Chicago we had a saying we used often: “People Suck”. We even had it put on Tshirts.
Feeling damn good turned into feeling tight and crappy as soon as I started squatting. I think it is very seasonal, my hips tighten up and my mobility turns to shit as soon as it gets below 20 degrees. This is what I did:
Reverse band box squats to low box 425 x 8 sets of 2, 30 seconds rest. The last two were faster then any of the previous six.
Speed pulls 5 x 1 w/385, 10 seconds rest
RDLs 3 x 8 w/335
Leg press worked up to 24 plates for 15 reps
weighted back extensions/shrugs/ab wheel 4 sets 15-20 each
standing calve 1 x 100 rp w/210 (up 10lbs from last week).
I just got caught up on your thread. Amazed you’re keeping up on the workouts. Way to stick with it. Good luck with the interviews. There’s a country song says, “God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy”. Kinda sums it all up.
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
a real man would do the r/p for 200 reps:)
seriously though… you still got your work in and for most folks that would be a ME day full of PR’s. [/quote]
After the squats everything felt pretty good. I just hate when ‘light weight’ suddenly feels tough, and not because of strength issues, but because I am so old and inflexible. I kinda know what I need to do… now just to do it.
Thanks Steve. Best way to phrase it is I feel like I have to leg curl myself and the bar down to the box to get there, just opening up the hips and pushing out the knees isn’t working.
[quote]PeteS wrote:
Feeling damn good turned into feeling tight and crappy as soon as I started squatting. I think it is very seasonal, my hips tighten up and my mobility turns to shit as soon as it gets below 20 degrees. This is what I did:
Reverse band box squats to low box 425 x 8 sets of 2, 30 seconds rest. The last two were faster then any of the previous six.
Speed pulls 5 x 1 w/385, 10 seconds rest
RDLs 3 x 8 w/335
Leg press worked up to 24 plates for 15 reps
weighted back extensions/shrugs/ab wheel 4 sets 15-20 each
standing calve 1 x 100 rp w/210 (up 10lbs from last week). [/quote]
Why Jack… um, that makes me a little uncomfortable, that and the pics you have been IMing me. don’t worry, you will be working soon enough, this is just a phase brought on by all the free time you have…
Took the kid swimming, and this time I actually swam. I really need to add in a) foam rolling b) swimming c) stretching and d) fuckmaster 5000.
Mobility, mobility, mobility.
That and for the temperature to get up into the 40s again, at least.
I can track where my squat kicks ass summer and fall, and in the death of winter goes in the crapper. But can’t change local, so I need to find a way to work around this.
horseshit training day today. normal place was ‘closed’ (dude’s house, dude out of town) so we hit up a new place with a power room. It is where the meet will be held. The ‘competition bench’ they have felt like a knock off. All of the bigger benchers were having trouble keeping stability. That and some alterations I had done to my shirt left the day in the shitter.
Warm ups bar x 40, 135 x 20, 225 x 10, 275 x 3, 315 x 5, 3 board 405 x 3
shirt 3 board 545 x 3, 2 board 605 x 2, last one lost stability, dipped to the left on the last one at lock out. So tried again. 605 x 0. at the bottom my shirt is so tight it pinched a nerve in my right shoulder. shoulder buckled and left arm nearly flew away from the bar. Hard to explain, but I called it a day there.
Not real happy. Will make changes to shirt and not do another session at that gym:)
[quote]PeteS wrote:
horseshit training day today. normal place was ‘closed’ (dude’s house, dude out of town) so we hit up a new place with a power room. It is where the meet will be held. The ‘competition bench’ they have felt like a knock off. All of the bigger benchers were having trouble keeping stability. That and some alterations I had done to my shirt left the day in the shitter.
Warm ups bar x 40, 135 x 20, 225 x 10, 275 x 3, 315 x 5, 3 board 405 x 3
shirt 3 board 545 x 3, 2 board 605 x 2, last one lost stability, dipped to the left on the last one at lock out. So tried again. 605 x 0. at the bottom my shirt is so tight it pinched a nerve in my right shoulder. shoulder buckled and left arm nearly flew away from the bar. Hard to explain, but I called it a day there.
Not real happy. Will make changes to shirt and not do another session at that gym:) [/quote]
i can totally relate Hoss… I was bench’n the other day and on the way down, my favorite Superman T-shirt ripped in the pit area. the arm on that side totally gave and i almost dropped 135lbs on my chest… it was a close call.
seriously though, that’s what scares me about gear. in the back of my mind i would always be worrying about something tearing. I guess that’s where you have to trust those 15 guys spotting you:)
[quote]maraudermeat wrote:
i can totally relate Hoss… I was bench’n the other day and on the way down, my favorite Superman T-shirt ripped in the pit area. the arm on that side totally gave and i almost dropped 135lbs on my chest… it was a close call.
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One of the gyms I go to (The “Y”) considered implementing a “must have spotter” rule with dumbbells after someone dropped one on their face while pressing— a 30 pounder…