Pissed Off Personal Trainer

Low Carb Fraud 2 – NuSI UPDATE: NuSI have redesigned their website so some links no longer work. Maybe they didn't like getting found out? In 2012 journalist Gary Taubes and doctor turned low carb activist Peter Attia founded the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). Their objectives can be found here  but the following extracts summarise the main elements: Almost 40 years ago the Dietary Goals for the United States was established for all Americans to follow. Inconclusive scientific data were the basis for the guidelines. DRAMATIC RISE IN OBESITY AND DIABETES RATES Dietary guidelines have rarely been supported by research, with most studies being inconclusive. With guidelines that remain largely unchanged and no direction to Americans, obesity and diabetes rates continue to climb. The need for additional nutrition and disease research is undeniable. NuSI wanted to ask some questions: And all of this is done within an overarching strategy that systematical

Low Carb Fraudsters – Part 1 It has become pretty clear that Low Carb has become more than just a method of restricting calories (although low carbers often deny that bit) in order to lose weight and is becoming a cult. Anyone on social media who questions the exaggerated claims or cherry picked nonsense from low carbers gets attacked by their followers. This often includes swearing, shamming, personal attacks and rarely includes anything factual. The problem is if people don’t call out the bullshit more and more people will fall for the hype and miss out on the reality that Low Carb is just a way of restricting calories and calorie restriction is what causes weight loss. Lets look at some of the craziness from the main low carbers My guess is whoever was on the till was either a, a drug dealer, or b offered her a Snickers because they though she might be a hungry Jimmy Krankie. A consistent trend in all things low carb is the conspiracy, the big, big conspiracy. Many, if

What is the Best?   Fitness Professionals are forever being asked question like:   What is the best way to lose fat? What is the best way to get a flat stomach? What is the best way to get big biceps? I urge all Fit Pros to not answer these questions because there is no 'best; for anything. We are all different and we all respond to things differently. Sadly the internet, paper media and social media is full of supposed 'best' ways. People need to stop reading these articles and instead think about the principles behind whatever they are trying to achieve .   Example 1 – Fatlos s   In order to get your body to burn stored body fat you need to create a sustained calorie deficit. You eat less than you burn. How you achieve that is down to the individual, all that matters is you actual create a calorific deficit and you sustain it.  You want to cut carbs, great it will work. You want to cut fat, great that will work. Want to cut out junk food and

Something a little bit different today. A day in the life of a PT Part 1. 10 Aug 2017 The gym is my home, it is my life and I get paid to do it. My client today is Susan, think of plumper Suzie Perry and you are not far off her. Is her name even Susan or do I just call her that because of her doppelganger? Never mind. As she does some dumbell bench presses I quickly check the mirror, I belong here. I belong in the weights room of a gym. I hear the sound Susan always makes on the last 2 reps and wait for the inevitable 'those last 2 felt heavy' yes, there it is. She always says that regardless. Today I wasn't paying attention when picking up the weights and gave her lighter ones than normal yet still I get the grunts and the 'those last 2 felt heavy' comment. The're only 8kg dumbells I shout in my head, you normally lift 12kgs! I don't want her to know I messed up because I thought I saw hot girls camel toe and gave her lighter weights through 'manstr

Let be blunt, people are fucking addicted to core training. For years this was based on the false premise of localised/spot fat reduction. This was a concept spread by liars, and still is. However, the majority of people now know that training your core does not burn belly fat. So why on earth do some people spend so much time on their cores? Many work on the 'I know it wont burn any fat, but it can't hurt' principle. Well that’s bollucks because it can: ...some believe that repeated spine flexion is a good method to train the flexors (the rectus abdominis and the abdominal wall). Interestingly, these muscles are rarely used in this way because they are more often used to brace while stopping motion. Thus, they more often act as stabilizers than flexors. Furthermore, repeated bending of the spinal discs is a potent injury mechanism– Stuart McGill PhD So it can actually physically hurt and the time wasted could be used to properly train those muscles or prepare some

Setting the Tone My industry is full of marketing, nonsense, broscience and plain old bullshit. I have had enough and have decided to do something about it. I have teamed up with Average PT, well he follows my around all the time, to take on this crap. In today's battle of wits between Pissed Of PT (POPT) and  Average PT  we cover the travesty of the completely made up process of toning. At this very second in a gym near you a potential new client is having a consultation with a Personal Trainer (PT). The vast majority of these consultations seem to start with a very similar scenario. PT: So what is your main goal in the gym? Client: I just wont to tone up a bit. Sounds like my kind of client, hand her over POPT. You will get your chance Average PT but any half decent PT should be invisibly rolling their eyes at this one, I bet your eyes are visually still and have the pound sign flashing in them. What the PT should say is something like this: While