You know you're a personal trainer when...

[Mr.ILL]

haha I have stopped giving serious thought into people's questions they ask me. Last one a friend asked me how to lose weight quickly. My reply "Meth." If I get asked a serious question I'll give a serious answer.

[trance__dreamer]

I don't know if male butt model would work for you???

LOL. of course not. female model, silly.

[Keltron]

When your proffesion scores you points with the ladies. And I'm talking non work related laides. Women love trainers.....

lawl. this is slowly starting to annoy me. =/

yup. So I change my profession when I'm not in the mood to answer 100,000 fitness quesitons.

I was a male butt model this past weekend. It was so far from the norm that the person didn't ask details...it was refreshing lol.

oh hell yea I hate telling people I am a PT. As much as I enjyo helping people, when I am socialising/at a party/bbq I dont really want to be having to give people the whole "1000 crunches wont give you a tones midsection" or "there is no exercise that will make you JUST lose fat from your arms". Its hard enough dealing withthat when you are getting paid

I acutally dont call myself of or my staff PT's anymore. I call us Wellness coaches.

do you guys ever have it when they ask you questions or advice and then they start disagreeing w/you?

[Mr_Kinney]

do you guys ever have it when they ask you questions or advice and then they start disagreeing w/you?

All the time!!!

It starts out with them asking, me telling, and them responding with "really? because on my yahoo home page(/insert unreliable source here) they had an article that said..."

I just think to myself "since you're such an authority why don't I just hire you to do the up-trainings with my trainers every week and I can stop doing my CEU's, pouring over medical journals, and looking at new case studies all day".

[jules_d1]

do you guys ever have it when they ask you questions or advice and then they start disagreeing w/you?

Sometimes. I really dont waste too much time on it. If people are a little too stubborn and stuck it there own ways I'll just let it go. Theres no need to argue as they wont change with mind.

Not that I like playing the " my body is better so i know more" card as I don't believe that someones body is a direct correlation to ones fitness knowledge but when im with friends and they try and argue about fitness or muscle building with me I play it.

I just tell people, "nope, that won't work, if you want to know what will work, hire me," and smile. They get a little annoyed and put off but I wasn't going to have an interesting conversation with them anyway.

"Wellness coach" sounds awful, so American.

I'm a little confused as to why you would ever want to annoy someone who is seeking advice from you. As you've stated, you annoy them by saying that and no doubt you would come off as a bit of a douchebag. You don't really know this person and for all you know is that they are legitimately looking for a PT. Not only that, you dont know how many people that person may have referred to you. Now you are the last person they will refer too.

As for Wellness Coach sounding awful, thanks for the input. I dont think I have read you saying a positive thing about someone else on here before.

[KyleAaron]

I'm a little confused as to why you would ever want to annoy someone who is seeking advice from you.

They're not seeking advice, they're just making conversation at a party. That's the scenario I was responding to. Different scenarios get different responses. I used to be a chef, and they'd talk about how much they loved food, doesn't mean they wanted to pay me to cook them dinner. Conversation.

You don't really know this person and for all you know is that they are legitimately looking for a PT. Not only that, you dont know how many people that person may have referred to you. Now you are the last person they will refer too.

Again, it depends on the scenario. If someone is genuinely interested in a conversation about the topic, great. But usually not. And usually my comment comes after half an hour of free advice. "It's not that difficult to get medically fit, just walk to work and stuff," etc.

I will happily share my experiences and knowledge. But it's not the only thing I'm interested in talking about. And as we see so often on the forums, people don't value what they don't pay for, so all that free advice they asked for, they ignore anyway.

Try going to a party with a doctor and see what happens when people ask for free medical advice, or a lawyer, etc. Like me, at best they'll have a conversation on the subject for half an hour and then will have had enough.

Everyone has to draw the line somewhere. I guess this leads to another one...

You know you're a personal trainer when... you never socialise, only network for more clients.

[Rap_Rocky]

when you wear shorts and sneakers to work, and nobody cares.

[Keltron]

"Wellness coach" sounds awful, so American.

Why don't you go eat a vegomite sandwich? lol just kidding!

when you wear shorts and sneakers to work, and nobody cares.

When converse should start giving you checks because you've got everyone wearing chuck taylors!

[Dwalcott]

do you guys ever have it when they ask you questions or advice and then they start disagreeing w/you?

As trainers, our jobs require a lot more than exercise prescription and analysis of movement. If my client has a different opinion and argues with me about how to tackle their health problems, fitness needs etc, I will go try and prove that my point is valid. They are paying for my service.

But if some random person is completely disagreeing with me I will just drop the topic or walk away. No point of heating yourself up over someone who isn't really interested in what you have to say.

[Mr_Kinney]

When you can look back in the PT section and remember when it didn't resemble the misc.

[Mr.ILL]

Why don't you go eat a vegomite sandwich? lol just kidding!


When converse should start giving you checks because you've got everyone wearing chuck taylors!

Haha I was teaching a client how to squat today and told him to get some chucks.

[E-PRO]

advice freely given is normally bad advice.

Agreed. The first time from a pt on my dl form. Told me to put my ass lower when starting so it's like parallel to the ground. God that set me back a few.

Then a guy told me to not go too fast (by adding too much weight every workout and limit it to 5lbs a month) on dl. He started saying how he used to be able to do 315. Now of course when I first started a couple months back I though 315 was like a lot of weight lol. Now I limit myself to 5lbs every workout. Don't know why, but I don't have a workout partner, so I don't want to go too high on some of those lifts where I'd need a spotter in case I fail.

[Mr.ILL]

When a stop watch is an extension of your body.

[(no radnes)]

when you're a *******

[ViktorM]

Is it hard to become a personal trainer?

Maybe just at a gym while getting through college etc.?

[Mr.ILL]

When you're sick of people asking how to become a personal trainer.

[jules_d1]

When you're sick of people asking how to become a personal trainer.

When your sick of seeing "what is the best cert" threads

[Keltron]

When your sick of seeing "what is the best cert" threads when there is already a sticky

fixed!

[Keltron]

when you scoff at people who eat egg whites and throw out the yolk... or people that eat granola and yogurt instead of eggs for breakfast and think they're healthier than you

[balkan4]

When everyone you know asks for discounts..

[5more]

When people hide from you in the grocery store because they don't want you to see what they are eating.

[5more]

When your Dr asks YOU how they can drop a few pounds!? ( also a good time to get a new Dr.)

[fitmodeltrainer]

When you're so used to giving "orders" that you're no longer employable.

[trance__dreamer]

When people hide from you in the grocery store because they don't want you to see what they are eating.

aaaahahahahahaha. SO TRUE. xD

when you scoff at people who eat egg whites and throw out the yolk... or people that eat granola and yogurt instead of eggs for breakfast and think they're healthier than you

/agreed. fully.

[rushki]

agree with a lot of these

[5more]

Real talk. I see fat people all the time and think...there's no way you should be walking around without the direction of a trainer.

I laughed out loud! I too have thought that.

[eekrodg]

You tell someone that they are working their biceps femoris and they give that off the wall stare as to what your talking about. LOL

[sophfball]

when you see fat people as dollar signs

^ This

[Muratovic]

*When someone walks by and you think "How can i fix that?"

[PerFit]

when people act like you're the antichrist if they see you with an alcoholic drink or hamburger

when you are at a bbq/party/wedding and people act differently or feel guilty about what they are eating/drinking when they find out your a pt.

people feel the need to sell you about the INSERT STUPID FAD DIET that their uncles cousins twice removed mother did and lost lots of weight in an attempt to discredit your knowledge