[quote]Xen Nova wrote:
I was doing Clean and Jerks… (205… not like olympic amounts)
The a-typical trainer walks up to me… hat with a pony tail sticking out the back… He has on combat boots and a fanny pack.
He has a huge upper body I’ll admit… but his legs were TINY and that was obvious even under his parachute pants (which he was apparently two legit to quit… wearing).
So I have the weight over head he stands really close to me… well i let it down and almost smash his head in…
He POKES me in the shoulder and approaches me like a puppy that pissed on the rug and told that
“Those won’t make you big or strong, they’re just a football exercise”
I refrain from eating his soul and look at my friend (who payed for my golds membership…good guy) and my friend is laughing his ass off.
So I just leave the bar on the ground and tell him
“fine you put that overhead…or just rack it… go ahead”
I lean against the rack…
He like snorts at me and tries to stiff leg deadlift/clean it from about 2 feet away and just ends up rolling it into his combat boots really hard.
[quote]Monopoly19 wrote:
I used to train with a buddy at 24 hour. He has always had a very weak inner chest, and this was prob a 18 months into lifting for him. He asked one of the trainers what he could do to grow his inner chest. Her reply? “Eat more carbs”. She could not explain or go into detail, but she stated it several times avoiding our questions as to why. It was pretty fucking funny.
Monopoly[/quote]
I was under the impression that there was a pectoralis major and minor, never heard of this “inner chest” you’re talking about.
[quote]NNNNate wrote:
Me: Watch out, that kid’s really rounding his back.
(He was doing a trap-bar deadlift)
Idiot Trainer: So what do you want me to do about it?
Me: Tell him to stop rounding his back.
Idiot Trainer (while walking away): That’s what the belt’s for. [/quote]
Man, that’s bad. Who rounds their back on a trap-bar DL? That’s hard to do.
I find these quotes and various PT anecdotes floating around the net to be interesting. I train at a big Gold’s Gym facility that isn’t exactly hardcore. They’ve got a training staff, and most of their clients aren’t exactly hardcore either. But I’ve never heard or seen the PT’s do anything particularly boneheaded. In fact, I just got my certification, and if I’m lucky, I’ll start working there myself in the near future. Some of the things I read I find really difficult to believe. Where are you people training?
[quote]cap’nsalty wrote:
wufwugy wrote:
pookie wrote:
Wreckless wrote:
danmaftei wrote:
I had a guy tell me a deadlift was like a squat with the weight in front of you.
And he was wrong?
Isn’t a squat with the weight in front a front squat?
yeah, and a squat with the weight in zercher of you is a zercher squat.
I have no idea why I found that so funny.
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you have no idea???
you found it funny because it is fucking hilarious
I went to join a new gym in Korea. As anyone here will tell you, you can’t find heavy d-bells anywhere. So I took a look around and a trainer approached me (who spoke a bit of English)-
Me: So how much is a membership?
Him: It’s $80/month.
Me: I wish you had some heavier dbs. Do you plan on getting anything over 20kg?
Him: What do you need them for?
Me: (looking at him blankly) uh, shoulder presses, benches, rows, etc…
Him: How much weight do you need?
Me: at least a max of 40kg.
Him: well, why don’t you use a 4kg db and imagine it’s a 40.
Me: (staring at him blankly again, trying to decide if it’s possible that I misunderstood him or if he’s really that retarded) ok, then I’ll give you $8/month and you can fucking imagine it’s $80… and left.
My track coach said something like “100m sprinters don’t keep up their max velocity the whole time in a race, so they should develop endurance by running 300s 400s and 500s” instead of focusing on shorter distances to develop acceleration and explosiveness out of the blocks (track season has just started and we haven’t been developing top-speed and general leg strength that much.
I wanted to say, “why not make us run 3000 meters to develop endurance for the 100?”
Hearing these stories make me appreciate how lucky I was. About 8 years ago, I decided to get more serious and hired a personal trainer. It was all heavy compound movements. Not a lot of talk; just do this and eat that. He never used the word periodization, but that’s what we were doing. The more I learn, the more I appreciate what he had me doing.
[quote]hankr wrote:
Mine has been doing them regularly for over 20 years and they work. Once when we had friends over I explained the exercise to them and, gesturing towards the wife, said “Now she can snap pencils with that thing!”
“Good thing for you.” she says. Not funny to me at the time, but…[/quote]
[quote]lesotho72 wrote:
The absolute worst training advice EVER was given by ME when I was in Lesotho–in the Peace Corps. It nearly caused an entire village to starve to death.
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[quote]Wu Gong Heng wrote:
My track coach said something like “100m sprinters don’t keep up their max velocity the whole time in a race, so they should develop endurance by running 300s 400s and 500s” instead of focusing on shorter distances to develop acceleration and explosiveness out of the blocks (track season has just started and we haven’t been developing top-speed and general leg strength that much.
I wanted to say, “why not make us run 3000 meters to develop endurance for the 100?”[/quote]
Umm… your coach is right when he said that 100m sprinters don’t maintain MaxV the entire race. Maybe he is trying a long-to-short approach, which is a method often used for unqualified sprinters. Of course, he could be a total jackass too. Alright, enough with the highjack.
Me and my friend were just at the gym today. I was doin my back and biceps and my friend was doing legs. He just finished doing squats and went on to do some leg presses. As he’s doing them some old fuckin anerexic bitch “trainer” rushes over to him in the middle of his set and tells him to stop. I walk over cuz i notice she stopped him and hear them talking…it went something like this.
Old Bitch: You shouldnt be doing them like that…you are going to hurt your knees.
Friend: How am i hurting my knees doing them?
Old Bitch: Points to his inner knee muscle and says they are very weak…and says this is way to heavy for you.
Me: How is that too heavy for him…he can do them with 6 plates on each side and hes only doing 2 right now to warm up.
Old Bitch: (looks pissed off) Thats not my point, hes doing them wrong. His knees are going inward. You dont need to use alot of weight to strengthen your inner knees…instead lower the weight and put a ball in between your knees as you do them.
Me and my friend smirked at eachother and I just walked away…my friend continuued to add weight right in front of her and proceed with his workout.
