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**anabolic** · 27-03-2010 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by stronglikewood

If I had a camera phone I would loved to have taken a picture of what I saw in a gym I went to yesterday with a friend. The PT had the guy doing box squats to a bench... on 3 wobble boards! One for each foot and then a wobble board on the bench. It looked like a flipping joke. The PT looked reasonably developed so I bet he had never trained himself that way in his life.

lmao, I wish I could have seen that!! That's so ridiculous, how can any person, let alone a PT, think that is an effective way of training?!?

**Luffers** · 27-03-2010 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Dman

That exam/qualification really surprises me too, so after you pass the exam its really down to the individual to choose the teaching methods they use with customers ?

Yep!

Once you have the qualification, most clubs let you teach how you want.

Some people on my course had never weight trained in their life!

**Luffers** · 27-03-2010 02:53 PM

Something like this SLW?

**stronglikewood** · 27-03-2010 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Luffers

Something like this SLW?

The strain on his ankles was certainly something like this! Cringe!

**Bakez** · 27-03-2010 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by khris

If a P.T isnt big and buff or have an impressive feature which I want to work on or want advice on, I wont take any advice of them whatsoever. The way I look at it is if you want a big squat, talk to someone who already has one and not some guy who has chop sticks for legs

thats like usain bolt telling his coach hes going to sack him because he cant run 100m under 10 seconds himself..

**Bakez** · 27-03-2010 05:18 PM

or michael phelps sacking bob bowman because he never swam internationally

**samtrials** · 27-03-2010 05:19 PM

one of the trainers in my gym tried telling me squats and deadlifts are useless

i laughed so hard a bit of wee came out

**Dman** · 27-03-2010 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Luffers

Yep!

Once you have the qualification, most clubs let you teach how you want.

Some people on my course had never weight trained in their life!

That is unbelievable, I might as well give it a go myself ! Think I (or anyone on the forum for that fact) would do better than that bloke.

**khris** · 27-03-2010 05:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Bakez

thats like usain bolt telling his coach hes going to sack him because he cant run 100m under 10 seconds himself..

true but in most cases, unless the person is renowed (not meaning reps qualifications lol) and or looks the part I wouldnt listen to a word they say in regards to anything fitness

**roadz** · 27-03-2010 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by khris

true but in most cases, unless the person is renowed (not meaning reps qualifications lol) and or looks the part I wouldnt listen to a word they say in regards to anything fitness

Yeah. I wouldn't listen to a word a trainer has to say... UNLESS they had a flashy website with photoshopped before and after pics... But other than that, no never!