How To Spot A Fake Gym Trainer

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    • Publish Date: Jan 20 2019 4:32PM
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    • Updated Date: Jan 20 2019 4:32PM
How To Spot A Fake Gym Trainer

 1) He oversells soreness

Every time a gym-goer tells me how their trainer had made them believe that soreness is an indicator of an effective workout, I start to feel bad for the poor client. The reason is simple - instead of chasing strength or technique, the poor client starts chasing soreness. Due to this misconception, some trainers literally make them go through torture, not a workout. Hundreds of bicep curls, push-ups and poor form squats and what not. If they ever tell you, ‘no pain no gain’ in the literal sense, you are better off doing away with him. Remember, progress towards your goal – general health, fat loss, 
better body or strength are signs of a good workout, not soreness.

2) Disregards your schedule
Some trainers really push the ‘exercise regularly’ too far. They start preaching living in the extremes like ‘oh you are wasting time if not coming to the gym every day’. ‘Morning cardio and evening weights’ and things like that. And if you show your inability to be in the gym that frequently, he tells you not to expect any results. A training plan is always designed based on the sessions a person can perform weekly. That can range anywhere from 3-4 days a week for most.


3) He is mostly on the phone while you’re training 
Well, this wasn’t true for bad trainers back in the 90s or early 2000s. But this is true in this smartphone-obsessed generation we are living in. I see it all the time on the floor. Trainers put the members on a machine and get glued to their phone, completely turning a blind eye on how the client is performing the exercise. You need to be 100% there with the people while training them, giving them more cues to lift better, correcting their form if wrong or simply for the sake of pushing them harder.


4) He body shames you
The negative way to make you take action is never the way out. It only shatters the learner’s confidence and makes him feel guilty even if he’s putting in work. As a result, they simply quit and start thinking ‘maybe the trainer is correct’. Or in other cases, they start hating the trainer. I personally had a female trainee who changed her trainer as she was always body shamed in every session.


 

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