…what will you do next?
This was the bottom of his row. Every rep.
Sorry it’s a shitty picture, but it’s all I could at the time.
I just wish I could have also gotten the trainer eating a subway sandwich while watching his client do lat pulldowns. These people are hilarious, in a bad way.
I work out at the LA Fitness in La Habra, California, and it seems there’s a trend of bad trainers across these public gyms.
Why do you care? Rather than worry about your own training you’re secretly snapping camera phone pics of someone else?
Nice troll…shhh…shhh…calm down now. Go back to your cave.
[quote]robo1 wrote:
Why do you care? Rather than worry about your own training you’re secretly snapping camera phone pics of someone else?[/quote]
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Poor guy probably wonders why his back hurts.
What is LA Fitness like? There is one coming to my area. It sounds lame, but the equipment in that picture looks decent.
[quote]BigBen72 wrote:
Poor guy probably wonders why his back hurts.
What is LA Fitness like? There is one coming to my area. It sounds lame, but the equipment in that picture looks decent. [/quote]
At peak hours it sucks, but equipment wise they got power racks, a nice set of db’s usually up to 125, and pretty much anything you can think of minus glute ham raise. No area for olympic lifts or deads, but I do them right in front of the open power racks and no one has ever said anything at either of the two locations I go to.
The LA Fitness I work out at has a mix in terms of trainers. They actually have a few decent ones (and few of the female ones are more than a little easy on the eyes), but what amazes me more is the extent to which some of them take cell phone calls while training someone. I cannot imagine paying someone for an hour of their time and “expertise” and that time being cut into by their taking calls on their damn phone.
[quote]daltron wrote:
BigBen72 wrote:
Poor guy probably wonders why his back hurts.
What is LA Fitness like? There is one coming to my area. It sounds lame, but the equipment in that picture looks decent.
At peak hours it sucks, but equipment wise they got power racks, a nice set of db’s usually up to 125, and pretty much anything you can think of minus glute ham raise. No area for olympic lifts or deads, but I do them right in front of the open power racks and no one has ever said anything at either of the two locations I go to.
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Thanks for the input.
I have an exercise science degree, and I can tell you that it definitely doesn’t prepare you for a career as a trainer. It gives you the science behinde exercise, but you really need to mentor under someone who knows what they are doing. Otherwise the average trainer is really no better at teaching strength training exercises than the average gym rat. The one at my gym spends most of his time staring at his workout card while his clients do everything wrong. It pisses me off, but his clients don’t seem to understand that they are being ripped off.
A big part of the problem is many of these trainers have never had any teaching experience, and many have never really worked out, they are just doing it for the money. The teaching/gym experience is crucial. I want a mechanic who has worked on cars for 20 years, not someone who has read a lot of books about it.