Jun. 12, 2012
Things Personal Trainers Do That Piss Me Off
I’ve been in the Fitness Industry for over 10 years and have seen plenty of Personal Trainers do things right and wrong.
Some of these “things” simply piss me off, just ask my staff.
I’ve put together a list of “Things Personal Trainers Do That Piss Me Off”. I stopped the list at 70 but could have continued for a while!
Feel free to add any I missed below in a comment.
70 Things Personal Trainers Do That Piss Me Off
1. Put their hands in their pocket
2. Cross their arms
3. Talk about random shit during a training session
4. Use their cell phone during a session
5. Perform exercises off to the side while in a training session
6. Choose to “Shit where they eat” (figure it out)
7. Male trainers only talking to young females
8. Say “it’s not my fault” when they fuck up
9. Miss deadlines
10. Never studying
11. Thinking reading a blog is studying
12. Never reading books
13. Thinking their job is to “deliver a workout”
14. Needing to take a break every 2 hours to eat
15. Needing to take a break because you worked a 4 hour shift
16. Using the bathroom every 30 minutes
17. Choosing never to evolve their training system
18. Thinking they know it all
19. Feeling entitled to more (especially when they don’t do that much)
20. Thinking their job is really that hard
21. Complaining that they are tired
22. Working a 4 hour shift and then taking a nap
23. Eating while training a client
24. Checking their watch during a training session
25. Yelling across the training floor at a client who is doing something wrong
26. Constantly repeating the same coaching cue to a client when the client has NO IDEA what they are doing wrong
27. Wearing cut off sleeves on the training floor
28. Checking themselves out in the mirror
29. Talking to other trainers when one or both are in the middle of a client’s session
30. Talking about their problems in the gym
31. Talking about their personal problems to a client
32. Thinking a client actually gives a shit about your problems
33. Complaining about how sore they are
34. Complaining about life (no one cares)
35. Talking to a client about your workout
36. Flirting with clients
37. Arriving late for a training session
38. Calling out sick with a head cold
39. Calling out sick because you’re tired
40. Working 40 hours and thinking you worked a lot
41. Working 15 hours straight and thinking you worked a lot
42. Asking to make more money than their skills are worth
43. Bitching about spending money on continuing education
44. Believing that hiring a coach is “overpriced”
45. Demoing or prescribing exercises they can’t even perform themselves
46. Following what everyone else is doing
47. Jumping on the latest fad or bandwagon
48. Learning a new movement and then thinking you should use it with every client
49. Always looking to progress when a client needs regression
50. Ignoring corrective exercise
51. Using too much corrective exercise
52. Treating too many client sessions like a physical therapy session
53. Afraid to go against the grain
54. Overspecializing a young athlete’s program
55. Training kids like they are “little adults”
56. Implementing methods you yourself have never tested
57. Thinking the only type of training a client needs is functional
58. Prescribing way too much volume to a new client
59. Telling a client too much protein is a bad thing
60. Telling a client carbohydrates are bad
61. Telling a client deep squats are bad for their knees
62. Avoiding an initial assessment
63. Not prescribing deadlifts because a client has a bad back
64. Beating the shit out of client the first session
65. Having a client perform every exercise imaginable – while on the BOSU
66. Then on an upside BOSU
67. Thinking a bad shoulder only needs external and internal rotation
68. Believing because you have a degree in “the field” you are a better trainer than they guy who doesn’t
69. Being everything to everyone
70. Never spend the time and money to get better at their craft
There you have it – a list of 70. Be sure to add those I missed below by leaving a comment!
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Work Hard, Train Hard, Get Better,
Tyler
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