[quote]spar4tee wrote:
don’t get too strong or you won’t be able to have kids[/quote]
[quote]bignate wrote:
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
don’t get too strong or you won’t be able to have kids[/quote]
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[quote]therajraj wrote:
If you sit on your hand until it goes numb, it will feel like another person’s hand when you masturbate with it.
I now have nerve damage in my left hand and a broken penis. [/quote]
[quote]Schwarzfahrer wrote:
A famous german coach who established quite the franchise wrote in his shitty book that you have to deadlift “wrong” (rounded back) to do it “right”.
I’m not kidding.
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Makes sense
Show someone the wrong way to do something so they can feel when the danger zone is approaching…
One of the PTs at my gym has this one client who looks like he’s about 6’2’', 130lbs. I’ve heard him say he wants to put on some serious muscle. The trainer has him doing all three machine variations of calf raises during his hour of paid time to workout with him. Absolutely asinine.
[quote]hanban wrote:
squat to build big arms[/quote]
That is an old time myth that is total crap.
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
So I asked him. He engaged a personal trainer to get him stronger and said he wanted to deadlift.[/quote]
Dude’s dedicated. Getting married to get stronger? commitment.
[quote]fisch wrote:
[quote]jj-dude wrote:
So I asked him. He engaged a personal trainer to get him stronger and said he wanted to deadlift.[/quote]
Dude’s dedicated. Getting married to get stronger? commitment.[/quote]
So stupid, love it.
[quote]roguevampire wrote:
[quote]hanban wrote:
squat to build big arms[/quote]
That is an old time myth that is total crap. [/quote]
Uh, yeah… which is why Hanban posted that in this thread titled “Worst Advice I Ever Saw”.
lol
[quote]Triceptaurus wrote:
You need carbs to grow muscle. (Tell that to the Comanches and the Inuit.)
[/quote]
How many Comanches and Inuits have won an Olympia?
Lift with your back in an awkward twisting jerking motion, has to be the worst.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Triceptaurus wrote:
You need carbs to grow muscle. (Tell that to the Comanches and the Inuit.)
[/quote]
How many Comanches and Inuits have won an Olympia?[/quote]
For all we know they may all have been
Can you prove they weren’t?
tbh carbs aren’t necessary to build muscle, but also tbh, they frigging help a lot with recovery, which then allows you to build MORE muscle.
I’m pretty sure pre-agro-paleo-man spent a lot of time running, a little bit of time lifting heavy shit, probably did a lot of fighting, but wasn’t really a regular lifter and probably didn’t squat 500+ pounds.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Triceptaurus wrote:
You need carbs to grow muscle. (Tell that to the Comanches and the Inuit.)
[/quote]
How many Comanches and Inuits have won an Olympia?[/quote]
For all we know they may all have been
Can you prove they weren’t? [/quote]
I don’t know about the Inuits but their dogs look a little husky.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]Triceptaurus wrote:
You need carbs to grow muscle. (Tell that to the Comanches and the Inuit.)
[/quote]
How many Comanches and Inuits have won an Olympia?[/quote]
For all we know they may all have been
Can you prove they weren’t? [/quote]
I don’t know about the Inuits but their dogs look a little husky.[/quote]
I lol’d!
[quote]tareila wrote:
One of the PTs at my gym has this one client who looks like he’s about 6’2’', 130lbs. I’ve heard him say he wants to put on some serious muscle. The trainer has him doing all three machine variations of calf raises during his hour of paid time to workout with him. Absolutely asinine. [/quote]
Another one I saw just last week while on travel was a trainer with a client who was probably 80 – no joke. The old guy was stooped forward so bad he shuffled only on the balls of his feet. The usual stupidities ensued. Like he totally needs to sit on a stability ball and do overhead presses – which were actually behind his back as badly as he was bent. And for the Grand Finale, the trainer put him on a treadmill! The old guy was a trooper and tried it, but was very close to falling down (which is pretty lethal at his age) and had to hang onto the handrails like it was the walker from Hell. Saving grace is that I’m pretty sure the trainer lost the client because of that. Unreal…
Course there was that other time a few years back when I saw a trainer who had his 50-ish out of shape female client doing plyo box jumps with dumbbells. First night too. She also never came back to the gym and probably wasn’t able to anyway after that.
Trainers who send in their $1.98 and two cereal boxtops for certification should not be allowed to train anyone over 20.
– jj
There need to be better standards to meet to become a PT. Maybe also have to get re-certified every 3-5 years at least. Just to make sure you’re still learning all the latest stuff out there and haven’t forgotten anything.
[quote]Grimlorn wrote:
There need to be better standards to meet to become a PT. Maybe also have to get re-certified every 3-5 years at least. Just to make sure you’re still learning all the latest stuff out there and haven’t forgotten anything.[/quote]
It’s not cheap to test. Retesting will be pointless assuming you passed in the first place anyway. Latest stuff??? That’s kinda part of the problem. People trying to be revolutionary when they’re barely competent in the basics.
[quote]Samir wrote:
tbh carbs aren’t necessary to build muscle, but also tbh, they frigging help a lot with recovery, which then allows you to build MORE muscle.
I’m pretty sure pre-agro-paleo-man spent a lot of time running, a little bit of time lifting heavy shit, probably did a lot of fighting, but wasn’t really a regular lifter and probably didn’t squat 500+ pounds.[/quote]
Probably could squat quite a bit I think, good body type for squats/deads before we evolved longer legs to be more mobile.
[quote]Grimlorn wrote:
There need to be better standards to meet to become a PT. Maybe also have to get re-certified every 3-5 years at least. Just to make sure you’re still learning all the latest stuff out there and haven’t forgotten anything.[/quote]
A couple of the top cert orgs do require continuing education and retesting. NSCA and ACSM
Thyre have awesome resources for all their trainers.
Problem is…no gym wants trainers…they want salesman who may have a small grasp on training
And that’s why they prefer ACE or similar…
I’ve known great trainers who worked for themselves but the lure of higher income turned them into the shitty trainers everyone hates…
Its not uncommon to see a trainer deliver some results. To uninformed and deconditioned clients over 10 sessions…minimal results by using shitty methods and string them along for 10 more sessions and a new contract
Deliver small results that seem huge to the norma, couch potato and they’ll keep coming back with thei bank accounts
That’s why I will never work for another gym again