[quote]3IdSpetsnaz wrote:
Man Nom Prospect cracks me up. It’s hillarious to think somewere out there…this closet neo-nazi is having some soccer mom doing sit ups on benzu ball for 15 bux an hour, then after he gives her the typical encouraging advice. Goes home and prays to his Hitler Shrine, shortly after an aryan jelqing meditation.[/quote]
Yeah, I agree, that’s a pretty hilarious vision.
Not accurate, of course, but funny all the same.
If you’re going to poke fun at what [you assume] I do, let’s hear about your day job first. I’m sure the majority of the people who post here hold unglamorous blue collar occupations. So let’s hear about how you bust your ass shoveling shit and stacking lumber all day for $18-22/hr while I get to instruct middle class housewives to lie on their backs, bend over, spread their legs and other fun stuff.
I work in order to make as much money as possible in the least amount of time possible, so as to continually elevate my status and accumulate power.
Personal training is probably the single most lucrative field that I or anyone in similar circumstances could get into. Yes, far and away better than any professional field such as law, medicine or engineering. I could go on at length about the reasons why this is so, but I’ll try to summarize:
- Extremely low barrier to entry. Spend $200 on a month course and bam, you’re a trainer. By comparison, want to be a lawyer? That will take 150k and 7 years of education. Does that mean trainers are necessarily incompetent? No, and certainly not in my case. I’m self taught in my field and extremely good at what I do.
I can assure you that there are just as many mediocre lawyers and doctors as there are mediocre trainers. Professional degrees and certifications are a racket designed to benefit the state-sanctioned cartels who administrate them (AmericanBarAssoc. & AmerMedAssoc for example). Higher education is largely a joke and anyone who is stuck in graduate school or pursuing liberal arts degrees at a time like this has to be an idiot. Just look at the economy and the hell do you morons think you’re doing? You’re going to be dirt poor and in debt until you’re 40.
- No upper limit on how much you can charge and what you can make. PT’s, like other professionals who sell their skills and their knowledge rather than any tangible product, can charge basically as much as people are willing to pay. Unlike a retail store, you are not dealing with a complicated supply chain with razor-thin margins that can plummet if anything goes wrong at any one of hundreds of places within the chain. The buck stops with you, the individual trainer.
If you want to market yourself to wealthy clients and charge people $100/Hr, then you bear the full responsibility for justifying the price of your own service. It’s a fantastic scheme for ambitious, intelligent, creative and motivated individuals who would rather die than get stuck working for someone else in the 9-5 grind.
In this industry, there are many business/pricing models that “work”. Some trainers like to follow the aforesaid example and get as many rich clients as possible, charging high hourly rates. Other trainers recognize the relative scarcity of high-end clients and prefer instead to go after the middle class with lower rates and high volume. And then you’ve got group training vs 1on1 training, two separate camps, each of which has its own adherents (I’m part of the former, I think 1on1 training is an outdated model).
- Trainers get to set their own hours to some extent. Now, in a commercial gym setting those hours can be awful, such as coming in to meet clients at 5 AM and then coming back at 5 PM. But that’s why I don’t work for other people at a commercial gym, and neither does any other successful trainer. I work for myself.
Finally, on matters of Nazism and similar views, there are plenty of people all over the world who quietly (and some not so quietly) adhere to ideologies that are outside the political mainstream. A comparable analogy can be made with homosexuality: For instance, do you believe that all gays dress up queer and march in those parades? No, of course not. They are your “respectable” doctors, pastors, husbands, lawyers, executives, teachers, friends, etc…
Any white person you come across could conceivably harbor Nazi sympathies, just like any minority could be part of a separatist/supremacist group like the Black Panthers. People believe all sorts of things, dontcha know?
Two more things:
Bosu balls are pretty worthless, as are any other “functional BS” implements designed to give people the illusion of exercising without lifting any real weight or breaking down muscle.
There are only two legitimate ways to train:
Either you are an athlete with performance and strength-related goals, in which case you are going to be trained with mostly free weights, compound movements, progressive overload and other well established principles of strength ala Poliquin, Westside, Russian-schools, etc…
OR
You are the average person with purely aesthetic, non-athletic goals, in which case you are going to be trained using principles taken from the world of professional bodybuilding, since there is no one on earth who knows more about body recomposition and does it more successfully and frequently than do pro BB’ers.
Here the focus will be on machines, isolation, time-under-tension, body-part splits, intensity and developing mind-muscle connection, as well as a major emphasis on high protein, high fat, low carb nutrition for fat fucks who need to lose weight.
THAT’S how I train people. You’ll notice, there’s no Bosu BS. Just real world training principles taken from top athletes in their respective sports and applied to normal people.
Last thing:
I have no college degree, no credit cards, zero debt, am smarter than you and currently charge $50/hr as an independent trainer. And that amount will increase whenever I consider it justifiable to give myself a raise.
[quote]Stronghold wrote:
Dude has some SERIOUS gyno going on there. Damn.[/quote]
I assume you’re referring to the guy on the right. In which case, I would say no, he just has a fat man’s chest. That’s what “heavyweight” guys look like who don’t do a lot of weight training.
When regular people say, “After you stop lifting, all your muscle will turn to fat”, that is the look they are referring to. Just a big framed guy with loose skin.
