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[–] Yo_how_r_u_man ago  (edited ago)

The only fat personal trainer I would ever listen to is Geoff Capes, a former WSM winner who injured his shoulder and obviously retired but didnt reduce his eating habits. Still a fat bastard, but at least at one point in time he knew what he was doing.

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[–] TattooedWife ago 

.... I think there is only one man working at my gym that may be fat. He's kind of short and stocky but I honestly can't tell if he is muscly under his shirt and honestly, I dont care that much. I go in, work out and leave.

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[–] tom-bombadil 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Oh my god I thought about this today, I was at Sprouts (a health food store chain with a massive selection of beautiful produce) buying groceries and literally every employee except one was overweight, and I counted four aisle-blocking planets. FOUR.

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[–] DessertFox 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

You should see my Midwest Collection, Volume 1. I'll post it when Slimgr can get back online, or whenever I make an account on Imgur. Grocery store fats are one of my specialties. It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

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[–] Carsandsarcasm 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Squats aren't bad for knees. Being fat is bad for knees.

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[–] ButtarGollum 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Yea... I walk out of gyms and health stores that employ fatties, I also switched family doctors when they started getting fat and when their stupid fat bitch nurse jabbed me a thousand times with a needle while trying to draw blood. Employing fatties in health related careers is the equivalent of the UN making Saudi Arabia head of the human rights related shit.

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[–] FattyHater 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Several years ago I ran out of protein powder while waiting for a new shipment to arrive in the mail. I went to a store and the fat guy working there (he had a lot of muscle but was still fucking fat) was trying to give me advice on which supplements to take. I just ignored him.

When I brought the protein powder I wanted to the counter, he said "I use this one everyday." I didn't say anything to his face, but in my mind I thought "maybe I should put this back then".

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[–] Blacklightning [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Yep, I learned how to squat from reading Mark Rippetoe's books and watching his videos.

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[–] Banterbury 0 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago 

Personal trainers aren't exactly a regulated(?) position, you just need a worthless kinesiology degree or something and you are "qualified", it's not like a physiotherapist or something where there are legit mandatory requirements.

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[–] hulkingmanbeast ago 

If by kinesiology degree you mean a two week online course... :)

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[–] Banterbury ago 

Maybe? Where I'm from Kin degrees are the "majored in push-ups" jokes that couldn't hack it in the real med degrees, like the women's and gender studies of the med world. It's obviously still a degree and takes effort to get, so just some banter.

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[–] Blacklightning [S] 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

It's not a regulated profession, and the qualifications of a personal trainer differ depending on the type of the certification(s) and education level.

There are certain types of weight training certs that require a physical demonstration of the lifts, e.g. USAW and Crossfit. And there's some that don't and only require rote memorization, like ACE, NASM, and NSCA (I have a NSCA CPT myself). And then there's the mack daddy of all certs, the NSCA CSCS, which requires a bachelor degree.

Regardless of whether he's fat or not, having a cert doesn't mean shit if the trainer doesn't know what the hell he's doing. He could be giving his clients terrible instruction on the lifts or put them on a wrong type of regimen which can potentially send them to the hospital. I've seen irresponsible trainers train the novice clients so rigorously to the point that they developed rhabdomylosis or some other injuries.

That said, seeing personal trainers that are both fat and irresponsible is doubly disturbing and abominable. It's a sight that should insult the sensibilities of fit, responsible personal trainers who genuinely care about their clients well-being and progress.

Anyway, I rambled too much.

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[–] WhipDisco 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, I have the NASM cert and it is really annoying to see people overwork or irresponsibly train their clients. Especially since in the books that's one of the things they stress NOT to do in almost every chapter( at least in NASMs' book).

edit: Now that I think about it, there is a lot of shit that is annoying about personal trainers who think that just because they have the cert they know everything. Also the ones that talk to other people in the gym while they are training a client and not paying attention to or spotting them.

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[–] I_Fart_Rainbows 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

I've worked with fat trainers before and been baffled to watch them tell a client how to do a push up and show by example only to have their ass way up in the air and barely able to even do one.

When I trained at a gym, we had one guy that competed in figure and a few fat trainers. Fatties would always rather the fat trainers because they make them feel more comfortable, they had maybe 1/5 the knowledge as the body builder but their doughy appearance made them more "relatable".

Its always baffled me that hair stylists have to pass board certified testing and go through more rigorous screening than personal trainers. I mean we literally work in an industry where one wrong lift can cripple someone for the rest of their lives, but someone can take on online, open book test, and suddenly tell people how to get in shape.

As a trainer that busts my ass eating clean, training hard and studying constantly to give my clients the best results and lead by example, I despise fat trainers. Fuck, now I'm ranting.

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