[quote]elano wrote:
Fine college girls work at my gym. I have seen a weak puny trainer who had trouble benching 185 for partial reps. Also the manager was doing 1/2 squats the other day with 155. I guess I can’t complain too much because he was actually squatting but these folks are supposed to be setting an example.[/quote]
the old head manager of my gym (thank god he left) had wicked skinny extremities but looked like he still had a gut.
most the trainers are tiny. theres one guy who does TBT functional sit with kettleballs and crap but hes a cool guy.
there was this boxing coach Ylr or something, idk hes from Bosnia or one of thos old USSR countries. ive never seen him lift but he looks pretty solid with a shirt on, although some peples bodies just look that way.
a couple of my buddies who do sales there in good shape, better shape than the trainers and we all talk about how the PTs there are a joke.
you know, i should specify, the MALE trainers look like shit. the FEMALE trainers are all in good shape, they have the most amazing asses ive ever seen. i dont know what holds me back from running up and slapping it tackling them like a lion does a gazelle. no…its probaly the jail time as a result.
[quote]elano wrote:
but these folks are supposed to be setting an example.[/quote]
i go in there to set the example.
you can either train to look like the small guys, or train to look like the big guys.
or you can be a dumbass and train like a small guy while taking steroids and not know wtf youre doing…but hey people can learn the hardway and im done shelling out my 2 cents.
[quote]MikeyHDDS wrote:
Do you guys notice that a lot of gyms hire people who 1) Don’t even workout 2) are fat and out of shape, 3) Not only are they are out shape but they are unhealthy. For example, at my old gym there was this dude who would do nothing but eat cookies all day…and no he was not in shape.
Or is it just me? I always figured, if you are going to sell something shouldn’t you convince the customer your product is worth selling? And also shouldn’t the workers reflect the image that the company is trying to produce?
It’s like having an old man selling bras to young women.[/quote]
I’ll agree that they do seem to represent the majority of gym workers…but, on the other hand the majority of the population is fat at this point
Everyone needs a job, and the majority of them are more than likely there ‘BECAUSE THEY NEED A JOB’ and not because they had some life long ambition to work at whatever gym, and since they’re working (most likely) minimum wage jobs they probably only have their high school education (if that) and dont have many options for employment
No problems at my gym. The owner is a short 230+ monster who can deadlift over 600 lbs.
I remember visiting Life Time Fitness and and seeing some fat black chic PT(who weighed more then the trainee) training another white overweight guy how to bench press with horrible form LOL. I couldn’t help but laugh…the whole day.
I don’t know. Maybe the gym feels sorry for the person? Hires them hoping they will change for a the better? lol who knows. Funny little world we all live in.
My gym fell prey to the “more marketable area” thing, we had a few pretty solid trainers, but they all got moved to a new center that opened up. Nobody still there is overweight, which I guess is somewhat of a plus, but aside from 1 female trainer none of them look like they do much in the gym themselves.
We do have 2 smoking hot physical therapy girls though.
Surprisingly though despite what would seem like a terrible atmosphere there are quite a few solid athletes that I see often, no big BB/PL types but at least there’s dudes in there lifting like it means something.
[quote]LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Thomas Gabriel wrote:
It’s not just about marketing for the gym. The MAJORITY of girls taking kinesiology are overweight.
i wasnt aware a degree in kinesiology landed you a front desk job.
if you take that class im guessing most the girls in it are doing as nursing req not to be a s&c coach.[/quote]
A kinesiology degree by itself does not get you far. A lot of people are also under the misconception it is a good degree to use for pre-med. It is in fact probably one of the worst degrees for this.
Nursing is a completely separate degree from kinesiology.
It seemed like a lot of the overweight females in kinesiology wished they were star male athletes (I’m not joking). The majority think they are going to go on to PT school.
Unrelated, but I’ve met a lot of physical therapists that let treating a pro athlete, even if no one has ever heard of the athlete, go to their head. Most wish they were some type of surgeon. My PT actually told me she wished she was a surgeon.
Switching to business was the best decision I’ve ever made in college.
[quote]Kreal7 wrote:
It seemed like a lot of the overweight females in kinesiology wished they were star male athletes (I’m not joking). The majority think they are going to go on to PT school.
Unrelated, but I’ve met a lot of physical therapists that let treating a pro athlete, even if no one has ever heard of the athlete, go to their head. Most wish they were some type of surgeon. My PT actually told me she wished she was a surgeon.
Switching to business was the best decision I’ve ever made in college. [/quote]
That’s pretty funny.
A few years back, after I dropped 25lbs, I had a CSCS certified trainer to come to my house and make some recommendations for training, with the specific goal of gaining muscle and continuing to drop BF.
The girl that showed up was very nice, but at least 40lbs overweight. Her suggested program included wall squats and tricep kickbacks, which was pretty much the same lame program they gave me at the gym. Cost me 100$ for her “evaluation” and I was some pissed off.
Switching to oly lifting was the best and easiest decision I ever made.
My new gym is more of a commercial fitness gym, but my old college gym was pretty fucking decent.
First of all, the weight room was in the basement of a [beautiful] building, so that set the tone perfectly. Almost all of the male trainers could bench 315+ and were my age, and the female trainers were simply hot as hell.
[quote]Kreal7 wrote:
LiveFromThe781 wrote:
Thomas Gabriel wrote:
It’s not just about marketing for the gym. The MAJORITY of girls taking kinesiology are overweight.
i wasnt aware a degree in kinesiology landed you a front desk job.
if you take that class im guessing most the girls in it are doing as nursing req not to be a s&c coach.
A kinesiology degree by itself does not get you far. A lot of people are also under the misconception it is a good degree to use for pre-med. It is in fact probably one of the worst degrees for this.
Nursing is a completely separate degree from kinesiology.
It seemed like a lot of the overweight females in kinesiology wished they were star male athletes (I’m not joking). The majority think they are going to go on to PT school.
Unrelated, but I’ve met a lot of physical therapists that let treating a pro athlete, even if no one has ever heard of the athlete, go to their head. Most wish they were some type of surgeon. My PT actually told me she wished she was a surgeon.
Switching to business was the best decision I’ve ever made in college. [/quote]
i feel like business is the most overrated college degree. everyone i meet who isnt in college is like oh i want to take business. im like, what kind? and then theyre just a little dumbfunded. its the same with people in school too, its like they think you graduate with a business degree and are simotaneously awarded a million dollars.
When my brother received his DPT degree, he was amazed at how many of his fellow doctoral candidates asked him for advice on training with weights. Apparently all the classes they’d taken in exercise science, and kineseology and whatnot didn’t tranlate the tiniest bit to the gym.
[quote]pinkponyz wrote:
The trainers at my current gym are all lean/skinny, and not visibly trained. I really don’t care though, as they do nothing for me else than move the weight plates around is somebody placed them at a strange place, and open/close the gym in the morning and evening.
Of course, they should have had an experienced bodybuilder or powerlifter that could show people proper technique and set up good programs, but I can’t expect that for $100 per year.[/quote]
You have a membership for 100 bucks! I would pay someone 100 a year to work out in their basement if they had all the equipment.
My gym isn’t too bad, I’d say everybody who works there stays in shape, even if they only do loads of cardio. However, a couple of weeks back I was chatting to a friend of a friend in the local drinking establishment. Now I wouldn’t say she was fat, but she’s definately not what I’d consider to be ‘in shape’.
Anyway we were chatting away and she happened to mention that she was in Uni studying sports fitness. Now, given the fact that this was the one thing I didn’t expect her to say and added to the quantity of beer I had previousy consumed this resulted in me spraying a mouthful of beer across the bar and bursting into hysterical laughter! Funnily enough she didn’t talk to me after that!!
Everyone that works at my gym is in good shape. I do agree with what some have wrote in that working at a gym is in some ways a retail position these days. Most make a flat hourly rate. When I worked at a gym years ago, I got paid hourly + commission. Selling myself and looking the part was the difference between making $8hr. and $20hr.
i feel like business is the most overrated college degree. everyone i meet who isnt in college is like oh i want to take business. im like, what kind? and then theyre just a little dumbfunded. its the same with people in school too, its like they think you graduate with a business degree and are simotaneously awarded a million dollars.[/quote]
I used the term “business degree” too loosely. There are many misconceptions about business school.
Those are the same people who won’t make it through business school. They are the people who choose degrees like management, marketing, or supply chain management: mostly useless degrees. My friend’s brother graduated with an English degree and several companies wanted him to come do marketing for them.
Accounting and Finance are the two most valuable business degrees by far and not overrated. I’m in accounting because that is the best knowledge to have in the business world. It’s no coincidence that is the hardest section of the school to get accepted.
Economics is a highly regarded degree by schools, but I really do not know why. Then again making that many assumptions about markets is hard to do with a straight face… A lot of people who choose econ go into law school.
I think there are other worthy degrees such as engineering for a four year degree. If you look at all the science degrees offered you really have to do graduate school to get anywhere and this is assuming you get in.
A girl I worked with graduated with a biology degree and did not get into any graduate programs. She graduated with like a 3.8 and worked all four years.