Get a trainer!

**jasone** · 10-04-2005, 03:14 AM

A lot of beginners here are looking for the quick fix with steroid use, espicially those under 30 years of age. Save the money kids and invest in a good trainer. A good trainer can teach you how to train yourself. Education is far more potent than drugs. There is no doubt that the gains made by use of a personal trainer during the first five years of weightlifting would exceed those of an untrained beginner on steroids.
I am not a trainer, but after overcoming a long standing plateau with one I realized the importance of education for breaking barriers.
Just thought this might help.

**BigDyl** · 10-04-2005, 05:50 AM

Originally Posted by jasone

A lot of beginners here are looking for the quick fix with steroid use, espicially those under 30 years of age. Save the money kids and invest in a good trainer. A good trainer can teach you how to train yourself. Education is far more potent than drugs. There is no doubt that the gains made by use of a personal trainer during the first five years of weightlifting would exceed those of an untrained beginner on steroids.
I am not a trainer, but after overcoming a long standing plateau with one I realized the importance of education for breaking barriers.
Just thought this might help.

Ok, I think you convinced me...

I'm gettin' some roids!

**TJ Cline** · 10-04-2005, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by jasone

A lot of beginners here are looking for the quick fix with steroid use, espicially those under 30 years of age. Save the money kids and invest in a good trainer. A good trainer can teach you how to train yourself. Education is far more potent than drugs. There is no doubt that the gains made by use of a personal trainer during the first five years of weightlifting would exceed those of an untrained beginner on steroids.
I am not a trainer, but after overcoming a long standing plateau with one I realized the importance of education for breaking barriers.
Just thought this might help.

Good post....vert true
But more like people 18-25....with less than a years training..

**AnnaDTX** · 10-05-2005, 06:19 AM

Right now I am not liking trainers, this one, Mike, weirded me out, actually he pissed my off, he was talking to me like I didn't know what I was doing? I told him that I didn't need a trainer and if I need anything answered I know where to go for info. (IM) Then he started grilling me about my heart rate, HIIT, and my diet. And I told him I know exactly what I need to do to get my results. And he said that wasn't good enough. DAMN! what a jerk.

**TJ Cline** · 10-05-2005, 06:22 AM

Tell the owner/manager of the gym about him...
nothing worse than a pushy trainer at the gym.....esp when its not your trainer.

**ponyboy** · 10-05-2005, 08:00 AM

Originally Posted by AnnaDTX

Right now I am not liking trainers, this one, Mike, weirded me out, actually he pissed my off, he was talking to me like I didn't know what I was doing? I told him that I didn't need a trainer and if I need anything answered I know where to go for info. (IM) Then he started grilling me about my heart rate, HIIT, and my diet. And I told him I know exactly what I need to do to get my results. And he said that wasn't good enough. DAMN! what a jerk.

That's a salesman. Not a trainer.

**jasone** · 10-05-2005, 03:55 PM

You will have to find a trainer. The good ones are to busy to find you.

**Squaggleboggin** · 10-05-2005, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by jasone

You will have to find a trainer. The good ones are to busy to find you.

Very true.

I also couldn't agree more about the value of education. Even at a young age, there are certain things I've learned that have made me a lot of money. Education is by far the most important thing in my life, and it will always be. This also applies to weightlifting since it's all about science. Knowing someone who knows what s/he's talking about helps, and reading obsessively about it helps too.

**BritChick** · 10-05-2005, 06:30 PM

Originally Posted by ponyboy

That's a salesman. Not a trainer.

Bingo... a desperate one at that!

**durk** · 10-05-2005, 06:47 PM

watch a trainer workout before you hire him. I saw this one trainer at a small town ymca that was throwing weights around that were three times too heavy for him doing sloppy as hell partials in the powerrack so he tells everyone in the gym that the bottom quarter of the bench press is useless and everyone else lissens to him. personally I think he just does that so when he literally drops the weight it crashes on the rack and not him.

**squanto** · 10-05-2005, 09:12 PM

Originally Posted by durk

watch a trainer workout before you hire him. I saw this one trainer at a small town ymca that was throwing weights around that were three times too heavy for him doing sloppy as hell partials in the powerrack so he tells everyone in the gym that the bottom quarter of the bench press is useless and everyone else lissens to him. personally I think he just does that so when he literally drops the weight it crashes on the rack and not him.

LOL.

**gr81** · 10-05-2005, 09:58 PM

PTrainers for the most part are nuthin but clowns. do some research for yourself and learn what you can. You've got to question the fact that if you have to depend on others to format your training how bad do you actually want to achieve your goals. show some initiative and desire and learn for yourself, its the only way!

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