fitone, I didn’t mean to imply that all trainers are dumb and retarded, just a lot of them. I’ve worked at gyms where they’ve told me they want me to get an ACE certification, AFTER I already had a CSCS!!! A few of my buddies asked me if I’d ever open my own gym, I told them no. When they asked why, I told them that simply put, the general public can’t differentiate between someone who knows their shit and someone who doesn’t know shit, hence it’d be hard to make a profit when you have weekend warriors like the ACE (most of them) people undercutting your fees.
Hyphnz obviously if you don’t have a power rack or cage you got to work with what you got and make it as safe as possible. But, if you do have access to a cage and are not using it just stuipidity.
DocT: I am the “dumb trainer”
Big Willy Style: I didn’t refer to your post I think you were right. I refered it to CDNSnapper not to u…
I get pissed off at trainers who stop learning. I get even more pissed off at the ones who thinks they know it all. I am always learning.
In Health,
Silas C.
Fitone you missed the point completely …the point was that there’s a “trainer” out there somewhere who asked for suggestions on what new equipment, if any, was required for the weight room. My buddy, a competetive powerlifter, suggested a proper cage for squats, after explaining what one looked like and why it was safer than the “A” frame rack we already had, the trainer’s conclusion was that we shouldn’t be squatting a weight that required something called a “safety cage” we were speechless. I wish someone like Goldberg was there.
The point is we don’t have a cage and we make do with what we have, but we could’ve had one if this guy had listened …the money was there.
I never said this guy was a dumb trainer …you can figure that one out for yourself.
a trainer once told me not to bench, because " girls don’t have pecs".
my wife was told the same thing …that and if she continued to sit back onto a box during squats she’d get a fat ass - that was why women shouldn’t squat!!!