Agree I was a PT for many years it can be really fun sometimes. But I started to dislike many clients.
Tons of them looking obese and saying things like:" I hate working out, I would never do it,
but I have a wedding in 3months and I want to lose30lbs so I can look better in front of everybody.
After the wedding I will never work out again, working out is horrible."
So many unmotivated lazy and crazy people.
Some small and fat midget with a thick goldchain, saying:"I lifted weights for 10years
just had a 3week layoff lost some strength, I know everything about working out.
Just so you know I don't warm up, its not my style....
"
I tell him politely to be quiet and just answer my questions.
It takes 2hours to refine and make a complete workout plan according to his needs and prior experience.
then I have to scrap everything when he cant do a single movement correctly, nothing! he cant even stand still
when moving his arms fuck!!! .
He just paid me for 2hours and got nothing since we had to throw away the entire program.
Only money is not enough reward for wasting my time.
Or another client who said:"I only want to have huge pecs and train abs, lets skip all the other bodyparts
they are not important.
How huge can my pecs be if we train them 4times/week for 4months?"
So many that I felt did not deserve my time and help.
I don't want to dislike anyone.
PT ing regular people can be rather frustrating sometimes.
in most of the gyms i went to, trainers were mostly self centered assholes, wether they are men or women, who basically spent their whole time there chating with their coleagues and misled everytime they could absolutely every single customer.
I remember when there were young skinny newbies using machines with no clue, atrocious form and almost killing themselves, with a trainer 5 feet away discussing his hair gel with another trainer, not eve aware of what was going on.
Another sad thing i saw was a poor ederly woman hanging in the gym trying to use some machines with absolutely no help or support from any trainers there (againt hey were chating ) . I really thought these people had absolutely no will or clue about how to really help people get serious about lifting weights and discovering new healthy habits.
And i'm not even going to talk about the biggest classic; the trainer who shows a puny newcommer wether he's 40 or 20 years old how to perform stupid looking and uterly inefective and ridiculous exercises with an exercise ball.
Another thing; there are nowadays so many juice users with bloated physiques and not a single cut that going to the gym has become a joke; it's almost exactly the oposite of what it should promotes; health , hard work and dedication.
Its especially patehtic and wrong when the steroid users are... STAFF MEMBERS...
I feel for the all the newcommers who got disgusted in their approach of weight lifting by incompetent , narcisistic and self centered assholes trainers who are suposed to be here to actually HELP people, and not blatantly misled em until they go away after they paid.
If you can't get people to do what they have to do, you lack the charisma, the leadership or the will and psychological knowledges to do this job.
Too many trainers just standing there doing nothing worthwile for the others and only caring about their own appearence instead of sharing anything they know with people who truly need it and paid for it.
I also like the "certified trainers" who are ridiculed by natural weight lifters with physiques tentimes better than theirs, or the trainers who dont really want the customers to learn anything fearing they might end looking better than them ...
The gym is not what it pretends to be, and the gym staffs are 9 times out of 10 insecure losers whow eren't smart enough to do anything else.
Again the best way to get into weight lifting is to know someone who s really serious about it and who would teach you the basics and how to get started at home, and eventually join a gym later, but newcommers shouldnt go to the gym without any clue about how things work there.