ignorant personal trainer

[wakefib]

my brother and i were in the gym the other day and we were doing PNF stretching. there was a personal trainer with a client and he started making fun of us to his client. i felt like making him look like an ass, and ask him if he even knows what PNF stretching is. what makes this guy look even more stupid was the way he was training his client. my brother and i noticed he had his client do around 6 sets of shoulders to failure and the same for back. i have never heard of a split program like that. i wish my brother wasn't getting a job there or i would have made him look stupid.

 

[sidney61199]

Was he fat? I don't know why but it bugs the sh*t out of me that there are so many fat personal trainers.

 

[wakefib]

he was bulky. had some good size on him, but he had a gut

 

[Introspective]

Say no to assclowns, if shit 4 brains wants to try and make fun of you for doing some good stretches that's his problem, don't pay no attention to it and it will get bored

 

[theprofessor]

but he had a gut

thats fat

 

[sidney61199]

I don't know the technical name for it but I have heard of the roid side effect called "bloat gut". Where the roids cause the intistines to become either inflamed or bloated which gives some of the heavier roid users this big gut type thing that makes them look six months pregnant. Am I on the right track? If so does that condition last after you get off the roids? I was just wondering cause that would explain why about 90% of personal trainers are have a bigger bulker build yet they always have this big beer gut. Thanks for any info.

 

[Ho0zie]

haha i got noo idea *bump* on that one lol

 

[curgeo]

Seriously, out of all the personal trainers I have ever seen, I would only trust maybe...MAYBE 2 of them.

 

[Sassy69]

Seriously, out of all the personal trainers I have ever seen, I would only trust maybe...MAYBE 2 of them.

Ditto that.

 

[Ho0zie]

ditto-ditto that if theres such a thing lol

 

[curgeo]

We have one at our gym who:

Tells people we are going to hurt our backs by doing goodmornings..
Has people who have never trained in their life try the Glute/Ham machine...
Has people and especially women use all closed-chain exercises in their leg training..
Tried to tell me to isolate my abs instead of doing standing abs.....I was actually TRYING to get my hip flexors involved, not take them out..
Helps people move the weight each and every rep.


Honestly, I could write a post that threads to be a hundred pages about stories of trainers that got their cert from ACE or whoever it is nowadays, and think they know everything but know absolutely zero about proper form, theory or function.

Sassy, I really have a hard time with nitwit trainers as I know you do.

 

[Sassy69]

I think that you can find good trainers, but so much depends on what you expect from them - especially the diet part is something that most trainers don't carry the credentials for and don't want the liability of it. There are also people who don't have training for anything more than your standard gym and couldn't possibly provide much of anything for a training request beyond "I"m fat, help!" And no it doen't look good if the trainer is a fatty too, but in a lot of cases that makes the trainer more approachable to the more intimidated of the non-hardcore audience.

But as in the case of this post, omg some of the shit I've seen just makes me want to either laugh or cry. I just don't say anything sometimes because it just gets silly. I'm comfortable enough in most gyms to not have a problem going head to head w/ someone who just really needs a slap upside the head, but there's such a wild little culture that exists in gyms that you really do have to be careful about how you comment to other people. Very strange. But it sure makes for entertainment the minute you step outside the door....

 

[curgeo]

Hmmm....This would actually be an amusing thread. "What have you seen stupid from a personal trainer?"

Naah! Too long. You are right about the unique gym culture. My friends and I won't say anything, but really laugh about it afterwords.

Last story:

I was doing some kneeling squats with my training partner. You don't see them everyday and people stopped to ask us what we were doing and why.

A guy came up to as and said, "I train elite athletes all over the world...I have been a trainer for 23 years....I work with only the best of the best......BLAH BLAH BLAH...What are you doing as I have never seen this before?"

I am a polite guy so I told him. He asked a couple more questions and then went to his workout.....

HE was doing bench presses.........lying on a swiss ball........under the smith machine!!!!

I shit you not. So the swiss ball makes the stabilizers work and the smith takes them out of the equation.

It doesn't get any better than that.

 

[wakefib]

A guy came up to as and said, "I train elite athletes all over the world...I have been a trainer for 23 years....I work with only the best of the best......BLAH BLAH BLAH...What are you doing as I have never seen this before?"

I am a polite guy so I told him. He asked a couple more questions and then went to his workout.....

HE was doing bench presses.........lying on a swiss ball........under the smith machine!!!!

I shit you not. So the swiss ball makes the stabilizers work and the smith takes them out of the equation.

It doesn't get any better than that.

thats awsome lol. what a fucking clown

 

[nelmsjer]

I shit you not. So the swiss ball makes the stabilizers work and the smith takes them out of the equation.

THAT...is absolutely classic. Unbelievable.

Pop over to my journal. I'm going to ask you to elaborate on kneeling squats, please. Thanks!

 

[Jim Ouini]

Hmmm....This would actually be an amusing thread. "What have you seen stupid from a personal trainer?"

Naah! Too long. You are right about the unique gym culture. My friends and I won't say anything, but really laugh about it afterwords.

Last story:

I was doing some kneeling squats with my training partner. You don't see them everyday and people stopped to ask us what we were doing and why.

A guy came up to as and said, "I train elite athletes all over the world...I have been a trainer for 23 years....I work with only the best of the best......BLAH BLAH BLAH...What are you doing as I have never seen this before?"

I am a polite guy so I told him. He asked a couple more questions and then went to his workout.....

HE was doing bench presses.........lying on a swiss ball........under the smith machine!!!!

I shit you not. So the swiss ball makes the stabilizers work and the smith takes them out of the equation.

It doesn't get any better than that.

Must've gone to the same functional training seminar as this PT

Today I was walking back to the locker room, and I glance over to the PT area. I see some lady lying on a bosu ball with her legs flying in the air trying to reach over her head as the PT is trying to hand her some resistance bands. I literally laughed out loud, it was such a ridiculous sight.

 

[Dposey]

The only personal trainer at my gym that seems to actually know a lot about training is this guy who helped me out when I was learning how to power clean. All the rest of the trainers are making their clients do crazy shit like db curls while lifting one leg or benching on a smith with their feet up on the bench. The workouts the trainers do themselves don't seem to be much better.

 

[Ho0zie]

rofl @ the benching with swissball/smiths machine hahaha that cracked me up... its 5am wtf am i doing up... im gonna be so sore tomo shiz.. g'night people lol

 

[MJM79]

Out of the 6trainers i see at my gym only one seems to know his shit..the rest are just a bunch of college kids who think they know shit

 

[Anthrax Invasion]

I'm so glad I train at home, alone in my basement with my Dark Soho thumping away at my drywall.

Seriously, for everyone who knows me here, it's pretty safe to say I'd wind up in jail after a few trips to the gym if I encountered any of those douche bags. I can't even laugh at stupidity like that. I just have to kill it.