We actually just got a new trainer who GASP looks like he lifts weights. It’s pretty cool. Never talked to him though.
The guy I signed up with looked like dude in OP’s avatar. He spent more time lifting than anyone. He was cool too. Funny bastard, and always in a good mood. He is at the shitty affiliate down the street were the dumbbells only go to 80lbs now…
The chick is busted, and the two other doods are weak and small. Never spoken with either of them.
“Once you master standing on the Bosu Ball, you will be able to lift weights while balancing on anything.”
[quote]BornAgain09 wrote:
I am a personal trainer and have never let such filth leave my mouth. I have my own business and change lives every day. I am college educated and never stop learning. I must say that when I worked at the YMCA I did hear this a lot from some of the other trainers they hired. To be a trainer at that Y all you had to do was a weekend certification class with ACE.[/quote]
Funny you say that. I work out at a Y.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
We actually just got a new trainer who GASP looks like he lifts weights. It’s pretty cool. Never talked to him though.
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One of the trainers is like that at my gym. He can put a lot of people on this site to shame for sure. I never see him do squats when he works out.
At my 24, there are actually a decent number of big trainers. I’ve seen a few of them repping 405 on squats and 315 on the bench. And a few of the females have some of the nicest bodies I’ve ever seen. (That doesn’t mean we don’t have guys on the other side of the spectrum… one of the female trainers looks like she weighs a good 95 lbs.)
I’ve never heard anything ridiculous from these trainers, but a lot of their exercise choices bother me.
A few examples:
-power cleans on bosu balls
-power cleans/deadlifts with absolutely shitty form (and the trainer doesn’t correct them)
-Step ups where you lift your knee up at the top
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
“Once you master standing on the Bosu Ball, you will be able to lift weights while balancing on anything.”[/quote]
like a floor?
-power cleans on bosu balls
This is a joke right. I mean I’ve seen some people “NOT Trainers” doing squats WITH A BAR.
“Good lift” (said to old man he’s teaching to clean and press with horrrrrrrible form)
[quote]four60 wrote:
-power cleans on bosu balls
This is a joke right. I mean I’ve seen some people “NOT Trainers” doing squats WITH A BAR. [/quote]
I shit you not. The times I’ve seen it, it’s been with light dumbbells or just the bar, so it’s not heavy weight by any means. And I guess one could interpret it as being reverse curls, but that’s only because the trainees have shit form.
You should not be clean to go that heavy on squat?
My favorite? “You shouldn’t be able to press more than you can curl.”
In regards to one of my friends trying to put 100 lb. dumbbells down lightly from a shoulder press. Screw that.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
“Once you master standing on the Bosu Ball, you will be able to lift weights while balancing on anything.”[/quote]
Facepalm
To my wife: “now this is a totally original and unique program we have designed for you”. Once she showed me the program i had her look through the other program cards to show what a sham their statement was.
To my rugby team mate who was front squatting: “you will find it easier if you put the bar on your back”
Wow, my favorites so far:
“you will find it easier if you put the bar on your back” He had to be joking. No One is that stupid.
“You shouldn’t be able to press more than you can curl.”
Said about the trap bar. “It’s a bar for doing shrugs…I think you can also deadlift with it”
I wear Chuck Taylors when training. Last month I put up 405 for 3 reps on squats with my wife spotting me. A trainer came up and told me my shoes would cause my feet to flatten out if I kept going heavy. Even asked me to make sure next time I had proper footwear the next time I come in to the gym!!!
Then he turns to my wife (5’4", 115lbs, 12%BF, max bench 135lbs) told her to stop lifting so heavy and stop the free weights as women who do this will end up looking like a man.
Dumbass!!!
Other than this dickhead the majority of the trainers are cool and in very good shape where I train.
[quote]TheBigV wrote:
My favorite? “You shouldn’t be able to press more than you can curl.”
In regards to one of my friends trying to put 100 lb. dumbbells down lightly from a shoulder press. Screw that.[/quote]
…what?
I’m a trainer, and I’m insulted by the ignorance that seems so rampant
K, So, The same PT who does weightless lunges, told me to quiet down while my partner for the day was doing a deadlift with only one plate, neither of us yelling nor banging the plate.
So, i told him Sorry and I wasn’t aware this was a library, chucked on a couple more plates and made it a set of intense grunts and weight slamming, he said was going to have me removed from the gym and left and i didn’t see him for the rest of my workout haha I told one of the other guys that work there selling memberships and he just laughed.
I absolutley HATE it when PT’s tell me to be quiet, its a gym and it’s not like i’m screaming my lungs off. It reminded me of that damn lunk alarm Planet fitness has. Fuck putting down a 405 deadlift lightly and slow.
[quote]MadDogBebee wrote:
I wear Chuck Taylors when training. Last month I put up 405 for 3 reps on squats with my wife spotting me. A trainer came up and told me my shoes would cause my feet to flatten out if I kept going heavy. Even asked me to make sure next time I had proper footwear the next time I come in to the gym!!![/quote]
I should have duck feet by now.
[quote]FightorFlight wrote:
one of the trainers at my gym tells everyone.
“when you bench dont touch your chest, you’ll cheat” and “dont lockout your reps it only uses your triceps”
so on any given day you will find people benching and coming withen 6-12 inches from there chest, while also staying 6-12 inchest from lockout. its this crazy limbo between speed reps and half bench that involves moving a bar 6 inches up and down in the middle of a rep.
“deep squatting will ruin your knees” “you should go to parallel”
unfortunately parallel to most of these guys is barelly a quarter squat[/quote]
unless you are a competing powerlifter in witch case a legal bench touches the chest below the nipple i always use a 90dgre angle to minimize shoulder pain and also to get a nice stretch in the pecks. i do side on the personal trainer only when i see these guys in the gum bouncing the bar off their chest to keep the momentum going.do-sent mater how you bench or grip that i know of you will always be engaging the tricpts.
[quote]ron-e wrote:
MadDogBebee wrote:
I wear Chuck Taylors when training. Last month I put up 405 for 3 reps on squats with my wife spotting me. A trainer came up and told me my shoes would cause my feet to flatten out if I kept going heavy. Even asked me to make sure next time I had proper footwear the next time I come in to the gym!!!
I should have duck feet by now.
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Whenever i do squats or deads i just take off my shoes and go in my socks.