Monster
05-14-2004, 07:35 AM
Ok, I needed to share this with all of you! http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif
This is for anyone who has watched a stupid personal trainer hand out bad advice and just generally not train their clients very well...
Yesterday Curious George and I were finishing leg day up. Box Squats and other such things and were winding down with some standing ab work (it is not just for abs, but to work the lower torso as a whole for a better strength base).
This trainer comes over and says "You shouldnt do that. You should isolate your abs for better results."
Now this person is someone we have both watched with disgust many a time... she competed some time in the past and feels that that in combination with her being of eastern bloc descent makes her somehow "in the know". She is always quoting Pumping Iron and using things they did in the movie as the basis for her training ideas.
The few people in the gym who train with any seriousness know shes a fool, everyone else thinks she is the "She-Arnold"!
So anyway... I was ready to blow it off and ignore her (for a change) but CG wasnt. It took all of 10 seconds of him tearing into her to prime me to jump in too.
I took her idea of isolating a muscle for better growth and compared it to doing leg extensions as opposed to squatting because it isolates the quads better... we had her on the ropes quickly.
She tried to turn it back to abs. She tried the old "working the lower abs more than the upper abs" bullshit which CG pounced on like me pouncing on a pie left unattended on a window sill...
He reminded her (as if she knew) that an emg of abdominal work clearly displays that there is no way of isolating any particular abdominal "section".
To spare you the blow by blow of the argument, we pretty well pummeled her into submission and drove her to fall back on her past bodybuilding accomplishments. As if that somehow made her mistaken views more legitamate.
At this point people were starting to stop and smile delightedly... even some of the people we had previously thought were her "fans".
In the end she didnt really know what to say and changed the heart of the topic around as quickly as possible to make it seem like we were talking about something more "generic" and not debating what she said.
We took that as a victory and made our way out...
It was a good day.
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Monsterland Is (NOT)Open Again!!! (http://68.43.66.69:66/monsterland.htm) (dont say you werent warned...)
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
http://www.bodo.com/simpsons/zhomerb.gif "Well, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is... never try."
This is for anyone who has watched a stupid personal trainer hand out bad advice and just generally not train their clients very well...
Yesterday Curious George and I were finishing leg day up. Box Squats and other such things and were winding down with some standing ab work (it is not just for abs, but to work the lower torso as a whole for a better strength base).
This trainer comes over and says "You shouldnt do that. You should isolate your abs for better results."
Now this person is someone we have both watched with disgust many a time... she competed some time in the past and feels that that in combination with her being of eastern bloc descent makes her somehow "in the know". She is always quoting Pumping Iron and using things they did in the movie as the basis for her training ideas.
The few people in the gym who train with any seriousness know shes a fool, everyone else thinks she is the "She-Arnold"!
So anyway... I was ready to blow it off and ignore her (for a change) but CG wasnt. It took all of 10 seconds of him tearing into her to prime me to jump in too.
I took her idea of isolating a muscle for better growth and compared it to doing leg extensions as opposed to squatting because it isolates the quads better... we had her on the ropes quickly.
She tried to turn it back to abs. She tried the old "working the lower abs more than the upper abs" bullshit which CG pounced on like me pouncing on a pie left unattended on a window sill...
He reminded her (as if she knew) that an emg of abdominal work clearly displays that there is no way of isolating any particular abdominal "section".
To spare you the blow by blow of the argument, we pretty well pummeled her into submission and drove her to fall back on her past bodybuilding accomplishments. As if that somehow made her mistaken views more legitamate.
At this point people were starting to stop and smile delightedly... even some of the people we had previously thought were her "fans".
In the end she didnt really know what to say and changed the heart of the topic around as quickly as possible to make it seem like we were talking about something more "generic" and not debating what she said.
We took that as a victory and made our way out...
It was a good day.
http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
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Monsterland Is (NOT)Open Again!!! (http://68.43.66.69:66/monsterland.htm) (dont say you werent warned...)
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
http://www.bodo.com/simpsons/zhomerb.gif "Well, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is... never try."