Don’t Take What Some Trainers Say As Gospel
Sure, trainers at your local gym might look jacked, but they very well might not know jack. It’s unfortunate these days that many trainers found in gyms and health clubs simply aren’t educated to do their job properly. They are people who enjoy working out, got a quick certification (some don’t even do that), and are now asking you to open up your wallet for training sessions. Everyone works to make money, but some people do it in a sleazy way.
Trainers: Shut up and give me your money
Recently I got an email from someone who was referred to me. She mentioned that her trainer at her local gym was a buff guy who said he competed in bodybuilding shows. Her issue with this trainer was that he continually pushed her to buy products from him which she knew nothing about—specifically, Shakeology shakes. It turns out that her trainer was a Beachbody coach and therefore wanted her to buy the shakes so that he could make a commission off of the sale. I asked her if he was certified to be one of their trainers or as a dietician/nutritionist. She didn’t believe so from what others in the gym say about him and when she asked he danced around the question. She has since stopped working with him.
In the lengthy email I received from her, she mentioned that he would tell her everything she was doing in the past was the wrong way to do it—mind you, she is a triathlete who trains for endurance, not for bodybuilding. He changed her program to lift heavy, and everything was 6-8 reps. He also told her she was eating too many carbs—something endurance athletes obviously need. So he told her to make sure she was getting 1g of protein for each pound of bodyweight and to cut her carbs in half. Needless to say, she found her endurance training for triathlons suffered—this ultimately was the nail in the coffin for her working with trainers at her location.
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