"Personal trainers".....OMG

[Dr Dutch]

I train in 2 gyms, doing my own thing.

But what I pick up from these "personal trainers" is utter horrible.......they really don't know shit about anatomy let alone training. ...
They are just so stupid.....well I keep my mouth shut unles it concerns a minor...

Is this just here (Holland/Europe) or is this an international horror.....

[dan18]

I train in 2 gyms, doing my own thing.

But what I pick up from these "personal trainers" is utter horrible.......they really don't know shit about anatomy let alone training. ...
They are just so stupid.....well I keep my mouth shut unles it concerns a minor...

Is this just here (Holland/Europe) or is this an international horror.....

Its been this way for awhile they are trained for just low impact fitness

[Powerlift66]

Its a new age of clueless industry "leaders".
At a new gym I go to at lunch near my work, I see the trainers showing people to use the bench press to deadlift (or simulate rack-pulls) and bent over barbell rows (Off the bench).

 
 
Comical stuff. Good things there are like 8 benches, otherwise it would be annoying as fukk (or more so).

[IRON CROSS]

Nope, in Australia U can study fitness for years or get PT certificate in 8 weeks 

[oldtimer1]

It's insanity. I see the top personal trainer in my gym do the same thing with every client. About six exercises chosen at random for a single set sometimes two while he counts reps. Never ever gives them tips on form so they hit the muscle they intend to target. I see some crazy form. I saw one who turned a traditional tricep pushdown into half a bent arm row and half a tricep press down.  Another had about a six inch range of motion in the seated lat pulley row. He never says anything and never demonstrates any exercise. These guys get their certificate on the internet after a week of school then think they are the most knowledgeable person on earth regarding training.

[Thin Lizzy]

Pretty funny to listen to all the strength and conditioning coaches trying to show how smart they are on Twitter. Every day it’s a different kind of squat: from goblet squats to Bulgarian split squats to Ukrainian whistleblower squats.  It never ends.

[oldtimer1]

Pretty funny to listen to all the strength and conditioning coaches trying to show how smart they are on Twitter. Every day it’s a different kind of squat: from goblet squats to Bulgarian split squats to Ukrainian whistleblower squats.  It never ends.

They try to make a name for them self by making up an exercise.

[SOMEPARTS]

Being a guru level trainer consists of nothing more than keeping appts and telling clients to do something different than they've been doing.

[Primemuscle]

Being a guru level trainer consists of nothing more than keeping appts and telling clients to do something different than they've been doing.

I imagine some trainers are just there to stroke their clients' egos, keep them company and collect their fees..

[harmankardon1]

Nope, in Australia U can study fitness for years or get PT certificate in 8 weeks 

Yep they know fuck all.... It's a qualification that attracts morons too.

[wes]

Lots of people doing some weird fucking made up exercises in "gyms" today.

[che]

Lots of people doing some weird fucking made up exercises in "gyms" today.

This is the worse I've ever seen , there is a gym by my house that are teaching this shit 

[IRON CROSS]

Yep they know fuck all.... It's a qualification that attracts morons too.

Fitness 1st 

[TTfit]

Why would anyone hire a personal trainer when you get advice for free from a youtube "fitness influencer". 

[Humble Narcissist]

Who hires a personal trainer anyway?  It's not like weight training is some super complex thing that takes years to learn.  At 12 years old I learned all the basic lifts and put together a program in an hour.  Most of the consultants, trainers, financial experts, investment gurus, etc, are feeding you information that you can learn online in minutes or hours.  It's one of the few problems with capitalism is that everyone needs a career or job to survive so people make these jobs and careers up so they can make money.

[Powerlift66]

I imagine some trainers are just there to stroke their clients' egos, keep them company and collect their fees..

I went back to a gym after like 5 years of being away from it.
The same trainer had the same client (older woman) doing the same lame/slow workout, and just babble back & forth.

Some people need the companionship I think or they wont go.