So, a back squat with the bar in front of you?
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So, a back squat with the bar in front of you?
I bet they're bleeding like mine are.
Want to know worse? I train several people at this "trainer only" PT Studio (no general membership), and this guy trains people there every day. A lot of people. 5-6 a day. And then he goes and trains 4-5 more in the afternoon/evening elsewhere. He trains about 50 sessions per week. The most successful (business-wise) trainer I have ever seen. In addition to being incompetent, he's also loud, rude, and and incoherent. I am at a loss to explain.
He says recently bought a vacation house in San Diego (why not, he makes a TON of money training). I hope he goes there often.
In what way he is incompetent?
Tolstoy said of families, every happy family looks the same, every unhappy family is unhappy in their own way. It's the same with trainers: every competent trainer looks the same, every incompetent trainer is incompetent in their own way.
He is incompetent in every way, Kyle. I know that you know this by watching the video, but want more? Yesterday, he was having a 6'1", 200-ish lb man do 15lb 1-arm preacher curls on an incline bench. That's bad enough. Know what he said? He told the guy not to go all the way down and touch the dumbbell to the bench at the bottom "so you don't hyper extend your elbow!" If anyone can explain to me how you can hyperextend your elbow in a situation where you are physically prevented from even fully extending it gets a million dollars. Or, since I'm not as rich as that guy, a hundred. Anyway, best part is the guy just was like "Oh ya, definitely don't want that!" I want to know where he gets access to an unlimited supply of stupid people who somehow have lots of money.
Let me know if you want more examples. There's new ones every day.
It won't let me see the video, gives me an error message.
Sounds like an ordinary level of incompetence so far, millions of trainers like him.
I guess you've got to be there. You've read my blog, you know I've seen several hundred (probably close to 1000 now) trainers over the past 7+yrs I've been working in fitness full time, and this guy is the worst I've ever seen, hands down. Maybe I haven't fully conveyed that in words, but watching the video does help.
One more quickie from the other week: On Tuesday, he has a woman training deadlifts with her feet together, bar about a foot from her legs, and completely rounded thoracic and lumbar spine - like a rainbow. She comes in Thursday complaining to him of back pain (tell tale symptoms of disc herniation), and he starts trying to convince her it's because she's just not used to doing the deadlift, and they should do it again right then and there anyway. She (amazingly) stands firm and says no. So he goes "OK, I'll fix it up, I've got the Midas touch!" and lays her down on the ground and stretches her out to extreme ROMs - knee deep into chest, straight leg WAY up towards her face - that place her back further into flexion. Which, of course, is 99% chance of being the root of her problem (the loaded flexion causing a disc herniation). After 10 mins of this, she's not better (obviously). He doesn't recant on his "Midas Touch!" comment, just pretends he never said it, and says "Ok, we're just gonna do upper body today, real light!" What's the first thing he then has her do? Seated on a bench, medicine ball rotational throws - so she's rotating ONLY in the lumbar spine (because she's seated and so can't move/rotate her hips) while tossing a 10lb medicine ball.
It's literally as if he picked a version of every contraindicated movement for someone in her situation, and then had at it. While most trainers are not actually good, they do know that you avoid flexion and rotation of the lumbar spine under a load; and that if someone is complaining of back pain (after Deadlifting several sets of many reps) with a totally rounded back, you don't do activities that exacerbate that exact condition. I think this already qualifies as well above average incompetence, but like I said, there's a story every day, so I can go on...
Thanks, Jamie.