Saw a personal trainer today

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Just wanted a session to make sure my form was correct in my shoulder and back routine. I know, I know, I could have asked someone in the gym, but there is a chance that person could have been wrong, so I wanted to hire a professional. Someone trained in fitness.

Unfortunately, this lady didn't impress me too much. She wanted me to go right into the barbell military presses without even warming up! These are my shoulders for crying out loud. I told her that I usually take a real light weight for a particular exercise and do about 15-20 light reps to warm up before going full force.

Also, she recommended that I do full body workouts. In other words, for example, on Monday I would do chest, triceps, biceps, shoulder and back (not necessary in that order), Tuesday legs, and Wednesday repeat Monday, and Thursday legs again. I told her that I had a problem with that because by the time I got to the last muscle groups on those days, I would be too weak to really work them hard and tough. I also told her that in my research, I have learned that most people prefer training each muscle group once per week. She said that really wasn't enough to bulk up. Okay.......

Anyways, I have learned more here then she could ever teach me. You guys are the best, and from now on I will just ask the folks in the gym if I have any questions. Sometimes though the gym is very quiet and nobody is in there. That is okay, I will be fine once I get my original routine in order.

So that was my experience today with the fitness trainer

 

[bignate73]

take what you heard from her....and what you read here with a grain of salt. she is right....for a while, what you read here will be right also....for a while. as for you not being strong enough at the end of your workout, well, if you are truly doing an upper/lower split you will be fine. you wont be spent because the goal is not annihilation of the muscle groups, its stimulation and then training them again 72 hrs later. thats a different style of training vs. the standard once a week, one part a day scheme. the workload is not high enough to wipe you out in an hour (for each body part). keep that in mind. what you may be thinking is applying the same workload you would use for a single bodypart a day routine and mashing all those parts into your upper body workout. not the case.

keep reading different methods of training and program design. one way is not the only way.

 

[Lord_Suston]

I would have looke at her and said does your insurance cover torn ligament and rotator cuffs, since you don't want me to warm up. I really have a grudge against personal trainers, when i played football in the offseason the coaches got a few personal trainers to help us kids learn how to lift right and get strong. So the had us do this circuit crap and other types of bullshit that just doesn't work for athletes, maybe fat couchpotatoes... So I went back to doing squats military press deads and just basic compound movement, all the kids who went to them didn't get any stronger, very few did . Since then my animosity for them has been growing.....