EDIT: Hey @samul - you got trained by PC right? What was your impression of him? Here’s mine, haha.
Turns out, Paul Carter is one of the biggest clown dicks I’ve ever interacted with.
My mom’s struggled to lose weight for a couple of years. She started walking, lifting weights, cleaned up her diet, etc. Felt better and got stronger, but didn’t lose weight. Like a single pound. She has a thyroid condition, which doesn’t make it impossible, but does make it harder/take longer. Also has some type of ovary condition which interferes with weight loss.
I don’t know everything about it, but I do know that she’s hard working, not an excuse maker, and did all of the things that most people lose at least a little weight with, except she didn’t. Her doctor had no ideas. So I hired an online nutritionist for Christmas. Thought a personalized, one-on-one plan would help. The nutritionist ended up being PC’s girlfriend (actually, I think maybe ex-gf. I think they may have broken up).
So, I also ended up hiring Paul to train her. I disliked the way he’d been acting in some threads a while back, but I knew he knew what he was doing, and I thought his low volume approach would maybe work well for a mom in her 30’s with a lot of outside stress to deal with. Figured while she was getting the nutritional help, she might as well get the training help. I’m no expert on any of these things, especially for someone who’s not a young, healthy dude (do 5/3/1 or something, haha), and there was a Christmas special, so I hoped it would be a great way to start off her year.
Anyway, we’re just about done with the diet and training program. My mom’s followed it to a T, really proud of her, and she hadn’t heard from the girl or Paul in over a month. She emailed them both this weekend, just to say, hey, almost done, what should I do? There was no complaining or blaming or anything, it was literally just asking what should I do now since there’s been zero communication lately?
Paul flipped the f*ck out. Holy shit. He got so mean, so aggressive and angry, and said some really rude, hurtful things to my mom. I was shocked…like, all she asked was what to do now (you know, cause that’s his job as a trainer?). I was really disappointed, not even in the money I spent, that’s not even a big deal to me, but just in how he acted as a person. It was really crappy and mean. If he has training advice in the future I’ll listen to it, but all of his growth and personal responsibility crap on his IG page means nothing to me now, after seeing this other, private side of his.
I’ll get over this (as will my mom) in a day or two, I’m just bummed in how crappy of a person/trainer he turned out to be.
Anywho… @liftangryordie500 - sorry dude, meant to get back to you earlier. Sounds like things aren’t great, but at least not a whole lot worse? Didn’t you say you’d had a girlfriend or at least a girl friend a little while back? Is that still on?
I suppose it doesn’t sound great, but at least your health issues have an end in sight. You’ve made it this far. It’ll end.
I don’t think anything I’m saying is gonna make you feel better, but I just wanted to reach out. I care about you. Stay safe.