Pissed Off Personal Trainer

In Part 1 I gave a theory of Genetic Potential (GP) and Part 2 a theory for Natural Potential (NP) but life is never so simple as to evoke one theory at a time. So what if you have an individual with high GP and high NP BUT that individual due to environmental, and other factors, is not maximizing either. So you have got an overweight 19 year old who spends their days sat down, watching Netflix playing computer games etc and has a terrible diet. The environment changes and the individual chooses diet XXXX and starts doing basic exercise (walking etc) but predominately less sitting. 3 months later that individual has lost a good load of weight and is now singing the praises of diet XXXX. Well we see this all the time. Every single diet has someone who lost loads of weight 'just' by following that diet. A percentage of followers of every single diet then use these super responders as justification of the miracle of their diet (and to the determent of every other diet). Yet th...

Many elements of the fitness industry seem to spend a disproportionate amount of time convincing people, especially women, that they are weak. How often to you see fitness equipment for sale that is supposed to make things easier? Or tiny little dumbells and kettlbells that aren't even heavy enough to hold a door open? The image to the left has a half kilo dumbell! Unless you are recovering from an injury or have a serious injury I can not think of a single exercise were that weight would be appropriate. So if a weight isn't heavy enough to hold a door open yet you are perfectly capable of pushing or pulling that door open then logically you are strong enough to lift a heavier weight. This is the crux of the matter as even people who haven't ever lifted a dumbell before still move heavy items multiple times a day. It may be opening a door, shopping bags, children or even just moving themselves. I have lost count of how many times I have, for example, s...

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: ...