Lol driving almost 4 hours to take my son to see Thomas the Train with countless other parents and children,being recognized as “the mighty Stu” was the very last thing on my mind!
Always cool to meet people you “know” from online, but admittedly my brain was pretty much mush by that point, so I’m sure I was certainly less eloquent than I perceive myself to typically be 
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Minor details!
@SkyzykS busted. Good thing it’s the flame free thread 
On a related-note: I HATE Thomas and his whole posse. What an ass. So pompous. The stories go nowhere. Tidmouth sheds is in deplorable shape.
End rant.
Edited to add: Bulstrode is alright.
Thomas and friends are all assholes! Had to sit through that with my 3 year old.
“You’re not a very useful engine. You’re going to the scrap yard!”
Only thing that made it bearable was George Carlin narrating.
When you get old enough, you accept just about every industry is a scam… or at least when it getd to the client facing side.
There is definitely value to be made in the personal training market. Obviously if you are just handing out programs from a rubber stamp you may not be doing that, but there are certainly ways to tailor programs to different people. But some people like the direction they get, like being held accountable, and like the “assurance” of someone making sure they aren’t wasting their time (assuming the person knows what theyre doing).
Many people struggle with that “I just can’t charge that much” mentality. I have found one way of getting over that is to simply set your rates at the market price. If a personal trainer makes $60/hr in your area, and you feel you are a good trainer, then there is no reason you shouldn’t be making the market rate for that service. This removes the personal element and simply makes it more like a “job” in that you are just getting paid what other people in your field get paid, as opposed to personally charging someone.
I can not get over the fact that some people will base the quality of their workout based solely on if they are sore the next day.
Well, i can understand the reasoning, even if it is faulty
Yeah, I still like having some amount of soreness after a hypertrophy oriented workout. I know it doesn’t mean for sure that I trained correctly, but its at least an indicator that I did a good amount of work to the right area.
Not talking about soreness after a layoff or something, but if you train week in and week out and can get a bit of soreness in the right area I still like that.
Well, it was a random occurrence, but people have different levels of exposure that they prefer, so out of respect for that I didn’t go into any detail.
I will proudly admit that I am totally a Thomas fan and can lay out a mean trackmaster circuit.
One of these days me and @ActivitiesGuy are going to have to get together on a build.
Mine too, and parched to the bone. My kiddo chugging the orange pop pretty much told the tale. That was a hot and dusty train ride, but we had a great time.
I don’t know why but for some reason when someone mentions their total reps performed it never looks as good as a set/rep scheme.
5 sets of 10 sounds like plenty of work… 50 Reps sounds like a good start.
Personally, I love this stuff.
I like to imagine someone pumping out 50 straight reps of a 350lbs squat haha
But it also tells me the person isn’t concerned about whether it was 5x10 or 10x5 or just a bunch of sets until it was done - which is usually cool when it’s lat raises or whatever accessory.
Yeah its weird because I like it in practice, but for some reason seeing it written out makes it look like almost no work at all.
Canned programs no matter the client, their experience level or their strength/weaknesses, and charging more for said program(s) than most coaches charge as their monthly rate.
I’m sorry, but I’ll say it again, it’s not rocket science and every decent coach is working with the same available science.
At the end of the day, I have an Idea how much time each week I dedicate to any specific client, and when I break it down, I’m probably selling myself short, but still, it just boggles my mind that so many people can blindly fall for such crap when most basic information (which is all at least 90% of gym goers need to reach their goals) is readily available to anyone these days.
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This might help you with your Thomas issues…
Yer I tried that with my old man as a teenager… it didn’t go well !!
Didn’t want to let this go too long…
Some fodder for the Confession Thread:
I’m a 31-year-old homeowner that recently inherited my set(s) of wooden Brio trains from my childhood, and lately to relax a little bit after work, I’ve been breaking out some of them and building little layouts on the living room floor. There’s something wonderfully nostalgic about it, and very relaxing.
I almost wept looking at the pictures on the box, thinking of the memories as well as the great old-school simplicity of the train set. They just don’t make toys like that any more. Now 4 year old kids want to play with iPads. What a shame.
Did not end well for him either
I can’t remember how old she was, but one xmas I asked my niece what she wanted from Santa. She said “clip-clop shoes” which was her absolutely adorable way of asking for tap dancing shoes. Pretty much the cutest thing imaginable.
The year after, I asked her the same question and she said “an ipod touch.”
Considerably less adorable.
I saw a beautiful, wooden fire engine which I rushed to grab until I saw the $250 price tag. I wouldn’t mind all the plastic or digital crap if it didn’t in turn drive the price of these nice wooden pieces through the roof.