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...

There are many, many fitness professionals who are very limited in the way they operate. It is not just about the exercises used, the rep ranges and the style of training. For many FitPros it is just difficult for them to see that not everyone is the same as them. Thsat people are motivated by different things, that people respond to different methods. For others it is dogmatic belief in a training system or just pure bullshit marketing (Fasted Cardio anyone?). If we ignore specific exercises and look at  some workout structures you can soon see simple changes that can benefit clients and class members. Get It Done Method Some people really respond well to formats that allow them to just get the job done. If they push hard the exercise is over. So a simple format would be setting cardio intervals based on distance, not on time. For example: 5 x 200m Sprints on a Concept 2 Rower, 40 seconds rest instead of 5 x Sprints on a Concept 2 40 seconds work, 40 seconds rest. The ac...

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: ...