Just imagine though, if all the gym people you see would follow BFL. People would use the squat rack, not bench everyday, do something more than upper body, maybe even watch what they eat.
Something is better than nothing. Second of all, I could really care less what other people do for their workouts, they are in charge of their own lives.
I agree w/ Alex. I am a personal trainer and I would want to see my clients get results from my prgram design and not BFL. Grant it is a great starting point. And I tell people that can’t afford me to go and buy the book at a Barnes and Nobel. A client is paying you ex amount of dollars and as a trainer your are suppose to design a sound program that suites your client. I don’t agree w/ trainers using BLF progam.
I do believe that BLF is a great starting point for beginners, but not for trainers stealing other people’s methods for their own gain is compeltely wrong!
I agree that BFL is a good program, maybe my use of the word damn in front of it in my post implied that I didn’t like it. I have no problems with the program, the problem I have is with the trainer making money off of a program written entirely by someone else. I just don’t think it’s fair for him to charge these people money when he basically copied a program from a book. I hope those 40 people do well and eventually progress to reading T-Mag.
I also shouldn’t have said most people don’t listen to my advice, usually the eager high school/college student pays attention and picks up a pointer or two.
Sorry for the confusion.
Djwlfpack,
I agree that it's unethical for the personal trainer to make everyone read BLF and make him pay money. He should at least try to make a customized workout and diet for these people if he plans to charge money.
I'm quite sure that the people here didn't mean to flame you or attack you; but rather trying to understand the wisdom of ridiculing people for trying BFL. :)
I have to agree with 'pack. If he’s going to charge these people money, he should come up with his own program. If they’re like: we want advice on correctly performing the exercises in BFL, that’s one thing, but if he’s selling them on a prepackaged program, that’s totally different. Where’s their value added in?
That sounds very enterprising. How about a institute instead?? I’ve discussed this jokingly with some other T-Mag diciples. But I think it could work. Instead of chargeing people for a “workout”, training program, whatever, they pay tuition. You then actually teach them about health. Then make them understand all basic aspects of biology and its relationship to health. From there they could then choose the direction they want to go with their body- basic fitness, team sport oreinted athletics, BB athletics, etc. As they progress their medical knowledge of what they are getting into will also progress with these classes. If they master a certain aspect you send them out to work for you! A national fitness university! I’d have so many dam classes and degrees availible most people would shit their pants! There are so many aspects…(continues to bald further while brain fizzles)…