I see the same people working out with "Trainers" (loose description of a person who got an online degree from university of fitness) at the gym a fair amount.

None of them (and I mean NONE) ever seems to struggle, push or exert...ever...

Once in a while I will see a "client" a little sweaty but for the most part they are bench pressing 95lbs or they do 50lbs on the leg machines, etc...... I could see if that was their first appointment but this is months and months of the same shit...?

Maybe they use the trainer like a buddy to bullshit with while half heartidly working out?

Then getting to see all the shriveled up fat guys walking around naked in the locker room is just some icing on the cake.... Like a button on a fur coat!!!

 

You are half right. I used to have a personal trainer, (coolest guy ive ever known) and he would push me pretty hard for an hour so I cant say that I never sweat. I guess it depends on the trainer and the client, its probably a 50/50 shoot. But I always thought that the main purpose of the personal trainer was to get all those fatasses actually to the gym, as they would never go alone. Hell lotsa times the only reason I used to go to the gym was because my trainer was there waiting for me.

I dont know about shriveled up fat guys as Im one of those types thats not to keen on showering with a bunch of random old fat dudes, but yeah i guess i see your pain.

Anyway i dont know why im ranting, probly just because i had such a good experience with my trainer. He really was a super cool guy (Michael Harrison anyone know him?) that knew everything when it came to working out (he was 50 something and had the nicest-really-the nicest body ive ever seen) AND NO IM NOT GAY (not that theres anything wrong w that) and for a 50 year old to have a great body is really saying something. He is a very big part of the reason that i want to get in shape and stay in shape all my life, as he looked a decade younger than he really was. And for the record, as far as girls go-he could have ANYONE.

anyway i just wasted a couple minutes, good day

 

look for another gym, serious.

 

i don't use the trainers..... it is at LA Fitness which is in a perfect location for me..... I just think it is funny to watch people piss away $30-$40-$50 an hour to basically have someone to bullshit with.....

they could just take me to lunch and I will listen to them blabber on about their miserable lives...

 

i refer to those people as "suckers"

 

well the problem is u cant push fat people too hard. they could easily have a heart attack and die.

 

forget that. they signed a waiver, work em till they drop!

 

but these people have been "working out" for several months... they can surely push at this point...... they are just being "suckers" ......

 

It is probably more of the client rather than the fitness trainer. Some people don't respond well to being pushed hard (wonder why they are fat in the first place).

The best is for a trainer to show the proper way to use the equipment as well as form. It isn't about how much weight you can press but how you can press it correctly. I can't count how many times I have seen someone doing pull downs behind their head.

My workout partner is a trainer, but we powerlift together (compete in APA and WPA). He work each other like dogs but that is because we compete. He also has a bachlor's and master's degree from Auburn Univeristy in Exercise Physiology. Not all trainers are the online degree ones.

If it works for them why not. At least they are off there ass doing something about it.

 

I've never had a personal trainer up until a month ago. That's when I started my ankle rehab. And even then, the only things that I work on with them are specific to my ankle. Anything else that I do, I do on my own.