Thread: PT's and stupid exercise

I'm use to seeing trainers wrongly advise their clients, but this was a new low.

The trainer at my gym got her 20 year old male client to do pin weight leg press whilst holding a medicine ball above his head.

It's got to be the silliest thing I'd ever seen from a trainer.

Anyone got PT examples to top it?

yesterday a new PT told a regular bodybuilding competitor at the gym that he was doing his chins wrong
then proceeded to ask the assistant manager chick she was doing here T Bar rows wrong (she was using a T Bar Row machine). I'm not sure he knew who she was. Funny as fuck tho

No specific event but I don't get the PT's who are quite chubby/overweight,
you'd think being in the profession would help but there are at least 3 at our FF... Not great credibility IMO.

yeh i dont get the people at sports stores telling me about cardio etc when i was looking at buying a treadmill, he was fat as, like looked so out of shape etc. and here he was telling me how to do cardio etc. practice what you preach buddy.

the other one i dislike is the pervy old man in our gym who seems to flirt with all the guys there, especially when he gets training, he acts like a complete bimbo and all girly while he getting his PT, i swear he is only there to check out all the young men. makes me sick.

Originally Posted by Andypoo

No specific event but I don't get the PT's who are quite chubby/overweight,
you'd think being in the profession would help but there are at least 3 at our FF... Not great credibility IMO.

minor eating disorders perhaps or just terrible diets? Or maybe squats on bosu balls aren't quite the "physique transformer" than some PT's think.

But yes the best advertisement for a trainer is to look like ben cousins basically.

Originally Posted by mondo

yeh i dont get the people at sports stores telling me about cardio etc when i was looking at buying a treadmill, he was fat as, like looked so out of shape etc. and here he was telling me how to do cardio etc. practice what you preach buddy.

the other one i dislike is the pervy old man in our gym who seems to flirt with all the guys there, especially when he gets training, he acts like a complete bimbo and all girly while he getting his PT, i swear he is only there to check out all the young men. makes me sick.

are you upset he is not flirting with you mondo but it sounds like you know all his moves.................perv

lol squats on bosu balls... just like DB Squats with a swiss ball while leaning against the wall... cause that will build huge quads... peh! i remember when i was first trying to build legs and this trainer i knew was telling me to do them, i was like uh i am fine doing BB squats, but he insisted i try this way, which i did, felt like a dick holding 8Kg dumbells and rolling myself up and down with my back against a swiss ball... never again.

Originally Posted by tl1kr

are you upset he is not flirting with you mondo but it sounds like you know all his moves.................perv

ahahaha no way! what else do you look at while doing 40 minutes of cardio... and the only chick in the gym weighs about 110Kg lol.

Originally Posted by mondo

lol squats on bosu balls... just like DB Squats with a swiss ball while leaning against the wall... cause that will build huge quads... peh! i remember when i was first trying to build legs and this trainer i knew was telling me to do them, i was like uh i am fine doing BB squats, but he insisted i try this way, which i did, felt like a dick holding 8Kg dumbells and rolling myself up and down with my back against a swiss ball... never again.

lol

Rear humping a swiss ball is pretty pointless - perhaps it has value for someone with injuries, but its absurd when a trainer teachers a young, able person pointless versions of squats as opposed to the real thing which does more for the core obviously.

yeh sim... i was like uh man... this is gay... i didnt even feel it in my quads or no where to be honest. i got more work just getting up off the floor if i was sitting down.

the other thing i love is all the TAFE trained PTs who are like 19, come into a gym and tell the older and clearly well experienced guys how to train etc... IMO if people want advice they will ask... not need it forced onto them.

you know what annoys me...

The people that watch the PT's...criticising what they do when they have no idea themselves :D

P.S not having a stab at anyone here.

Is it just me or are the places like AIF handing out the same damn bosu ball training programs to every PT?

A few weeks ago I watched a PT giving a brand new 20ish female client an exercise that looked like a "grapevine" movement with a lunge and a bicep curl at each end. It was so complicated that they spent the whole session trying to get it right. She would've been far better off doing a set of lunges, then a set of curls, then moving onto something else, rather than doing an exercise that was complicated just for the sake of it....

Tim

Originally Posted by union

you know what annoys me...

The people that watch the PT's...criticising what they do when they have no idea themselves :D

P.S not having a stab at anyone here.

yeah right man clearly you were aiming that at me.

anyway, i agree with big tim here too. why do they make people do these exercises that are near impossible when something much more simple can achieve the same thing?? if it took a whole training session to explain it clearly it wont be something that will be done correctly for a long long time, if ever.

one other thing i hate is the trainers who are "too good" to train some clients. that happened a lot at the gym i was at while at uni. If you were over weight or needed help or a noob, they basically snobbed you off, but if you were early 20s, buff, already fit and looked "hot" they were all over you and willing to please and then brag about their success with these particular clients.

Originally Posted by mondo

yeah right man clearly you were aiming that at me.
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Mate, are you truly that paranoid?

As for the topic: Thankfully the PTs at my gym seem to be reasonable blokes; fit and in good shape, and they seem to have left the Swiss Balls in their other suits.