im a trainer at a commercial gym and i must say its the worst job iv had,
[quote]davyboy wrote:
im a trainer at a commercial gym and i must say its the worst job iv had,
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Can you elaborate?
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[quote]MattyXL wrote:
It depends on their history, if he was an older lifter and accomplished, and accomplishments I can confirm, then yes. Kind of like fat football coaches.[/quote]
This.
I compare it to any couch really. Wisdom and all around knowledge will go further than someone who may just have been blessed with good genetics. [/quote]
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Would not use this couch, does not look like it’s comfortable and one of my goals while sitting is comfort. [/quote]
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Nope, making the playoffs in one of my goals, so still not in line with them 
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What the fuck is that thing? Is that a woman taking multiple grams of test daily, or one creepy guy?
I’m a trainer at an independent gym in the centre of London. I feel I’d be short changing myself financially if I didn’t practice what I preach. I’m terrible at promoting myself in orthodox ways (i,e. hard selling sessions) so I rely on potential clients approaching me while I’m either training myself or other members. This wouldn’t happen if I looked like shit or my clients didn’t show improvement.
[quote]Ripsaw3689 wrote:
[quote]davyboy wrote:
im a trainer at a commercial gym and i must say its the worst job iv had,
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Can you elaborate? [/quote]
one thing that comes to mind is people ask for your advice and do there own thing anyway and come and complain when it doesnt work,nobody wants to train legs…on the plus side -yoga pants
also when i did my certification i had been training for 10-12 years there where people who couldn’t do a sit up or didn’t know what a bicep curl was and i a few months they where qualified to train people,you can do a day course here in ireland which certifies u to teach the olimpic lifts.
think that the problem with the trainers is that they are being churned out by colleges way to fast,
Not my gym but at my friends gym…
My friend was doing RDL’s, the trainer came up to him and said you are doing deadlifts wrong, you will hurt your back.
My friend replied, ‘These are rdls for my hamstrings’
The trainer then said there is only one kinda of dead lift…
Same guy told him to eat zero fat if he wants to cut. FML
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[quote]MattyXL wrote:
It depends on their history, if he was an older lifter and accomplished, and accomplishments I can confirm, then yes. Kind of like fat football coaches.[/quote]
This.
I compare it to any couch really. Wisdom and all around knowledge will go further than someone who may just have been blessed with good genetics. [/quote]
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Would not use this couch, does not look like it’s comfortable and one of my goals while sitting is comfort. [/quote]
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Nope, making the playoffs in one of my goals, so still not in line with them [/quote]
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What the fuck is that thing? Is that a woman taking multiple grams of test daily, or one creepy guy?[/quote]
I’d appreciate it if you didn’t talk about me like that
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
I don’t think there are huge differences between naturals and non-naturals in terms of workouts themselves. At the very least, principles carry over. And I think any quality trainer, whether they’ve juiced or not, could adapt to his client’s abilities. If you’ve used steroids, there was problem a time when you didn’t use steroids, so you would have an awareness of the difference in work capacity.[/quote]
[quote]rds63799 wrote:
it’s not really that big a deal. Assisted and unassisted train pretty much identically[/quote]
I buy that, I guess I figured you have a guy using that wouldn’t understand recovery issues when natural. But if he/se is a good trainer I’m sure they’d adjust accordingly.
I have been a trainer for the last 7 years full time and before that I was training people part time of around 5-10 hrs a week for 5 years.
I have trained everyone from geriatrics to Olympic hopefuls.
Training in a big commercial gym for at least 2 years should be a rite of passage for trainers to see if they can handle the daily grind and learn how to approach people and market yourself.
I am natural (was on gear at 1 time) and I train both assisted and un-assisted weight lifters
But see the thing is most people who acquire PT’s are normal people just trying to get in shape/not become diabetic/lose 20 pds before marriage etc 99% of them are not BB’ers or Powerlifters with some years of training. Most people will never get beyond the basic beginner stages of weightlifting.
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Questions:
-Could you allow yourself to be trained by someone who was out of shape themselves?
-If you were a trainer in the gym, would you not try and stay in shape yourself?
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Sure if they had a good reason. One of the best trainers I know just got his second artificial hip. Given the fact that he has had a long-term physical disability he’s in excellent shape, but just looking at him he seems pretty average.
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I would. But I am my own hobby so I’m staying in shape no matter what.
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They all suck. I work at a university and the trainers are student-slave workers (dirty secret of universities is that grad students really are slave labor). Most of them are in pretty good shape since they’ve been athletes, but have zero idea about how any of it works.
Just one other aside, I was travelling a few months back and was at a Gold’s. One of the women there was in simply awesome shape and was obviously a high-level figure athlete. Had a pretty passable workout going too though now I am not sure she could have come up with it. One of the trainers brings an overweight client to talk to the athlete about losing weight.
The athlete promptly launched into the most bizarre New Age routine about “cleansing” and “balance” I’ve heard in years. Um, yeah this worked out to cutting before showing, so it practically delivered, but the overweight lady was getting zero useful advice on anything, but was eating it up since an obviously successful expert was telling her.
She needed a good lecture on insulin resistance and proper nutrition, not some macro-biotic purification ritual based on lunar cycles or some other such nonsense. It was really quite a singular experience…
Just saying that because they have found something that works for them, trainers still might not be able to give anything useful and might actually screw things up.
– jj
The trainers at my gym (bar one) are utter fucknuggets.
They have their clients performing endless woodchoppers, dancing on powerplates like they’re auditioning for a broadway show and induce mild depression via the medium of steady state cardio.
[quote]ChongLordUno wrote:
The trainers at my gym (bar one) are utter fucknuggets.
They have their clients performing endless woodchoppers, dancing on powerplates like they’re auditioning for a broadway show and induce mild depression via the medium of steady state cardio.
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Broadway dancing is super functional and is great for toning the core. You’re just one of those meathead haters! Booo!
But seriously that has to be a pretty fun way to do cardio.
PTs do it for the money. Why would they want to help someone to the best of their ability when they can milk it? Only people who have made a lot of money and do PT sessions for free do it to help others, money talks.
Why else would there be an industry behind all of it?
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The trainers at my gym are half insane.
There’s one that I see in the morning and he psyches himself up before 30lb DB bench with “Yeah! Come on! You can do it!” and it’s just me and him in the free weight area.
By the way, we’re in Taiwan and English is his second language so for him to say that in English means that he probably fancies me.
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…By the way, we’re in Taiwan and English is his second language so for him to say that in English means that he probably fancies me.[/quote]
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