Rant about "Professional" trainers at gyms

[Kaizen]

Okay...now I'm not perfect I don't always get it right...but check this out...this really large (and I'm not talking off-season eating to bulk large here)male trainer at a local gym is watching my friend who is a 5'4" woman bodybuilder doing squats with plates under her heels...Now, he's "training" a client as he looks over and yells across the gym to her that she's doing it wrong and the plates should be under her toes! Mind you she is also a trainer at this gym... arrrrrggghhh

[archive_FitnessChick]

UHHHHH---I could go on all day about this-------I was watching a trainer watch a client "benchpress", if thats what you want to call it.....he was literally dropping it to his chest,bouncing it up, and locking out his elbows at the top of the motion to the point where they looked almost hyperextended-----now mind you this is a guy who has 20+ yrs of experience, not some highschool kid--even scarier!!!!!!

[riptchick]

What's even better is when one of those "trainers" try to push their methods on you--and they look like hammered horse poop to begin with.

[Blackhaus1]

This topic is seriously one of my pet peeves. There is a trainer at my gym who is just an absolute slob and has no clue how to train.

[archive_Bjaarki]

Hey gals, I was juts thinking much the same thing. I normally train at a University gym where there are no trainers, but on Sundays that gym opens very late, so I go to my local "Y." The trainers there obviously think everyone is a total candy-ass. They get fairly young guy clients - say, guys in their 30's, no BB's or anything, but not complete slobs - and the weights they give them to work with are ridiculous. 45# ezbars for curls, 25# bells for shrugs. Yeah. No shit. Last Sunday, I was doing behind-the-back shrugs with 315, and in walks this guy with his trainer, who hands him 25# dumbbells, and the guy does maybe 8 reps with that. I couldn't believe it!

Bjaarki

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[This message was edited by Blackhaus1 on 01-03-2001 at 01:44 PM.]

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[Kaizen]

Have you guys seen teh courses they have on the web so you can become a certified trainer!?!?! A couple of gyms I belong to actually have trainers with those certs up! Granted, you can know your shit and it's only a piece of paper but strangely enough the one's with the paper are the most anorexic or the most obese or the least knowledgable trainers on the team.... and people hire them because they are "certified"

[Fitnessbarbie]

A "professional" trainer at my gym wanted to start training me for "free"....he said he had this new workout that would be great and that all the Fitness Competitors were using it....he wanted me to train every body part every day....does this make sense?? I would be in the gym for hours!!! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_eek.gif[/img]