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    From my observation of the rise of this and that guru over the years, it seems the flow of new ideas and refinement of things slows as the coach or trainer is less and less involved with ongoing training of people.

    Giving weekend seminars make them very good at coaching 3-6 basic movements. But ongoing training of people makes them good at adjusting things, and programming, and questioning whether those 3-6 movements are the optimal ones.

    As well, weekend seminars makes you orient your approach to what will impress trainers, whereas ongoing training of people makes you think of what will work for athletes or the general public. Unfortunately, these are different things.

    It's like the PT school teacher I had who when we arrived in the morning we found him training clients, and at lunch he trained some more - he was a better teacher of personal training than the ones who just taught trainers.

    There are many gurus for us trainers to follow. But consider each critically: how long is it since they made their living training members of the general public? If you have been training people for 5 years, and they trained people for 5 years 15 years ago and just did seminars and wrote books since, you may actually know more about training members of the general public than they do.

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    Originally Posted by KyleAaron View Post
    From my observation of the rise of this and that guru over the years, it seems the flow of new ideas and refinement of things slows as the coach or trainer is less and less involved with ongoing training of people.

    Giving weekend seminars make them very good at coaching 3-6 basic movements. But ongoing training of people makes them good at adjusting things, and programming, and questioning whether those 3-6 movements are the optimal ones.

    As well, weekend seminars makes you orient your approach to what will impress trainers, whereas ongoing training of people makes you think of what will work for athletes or the general public. Unfortunately, these are different things.

    It's like the PT school teacher I had who when we arrived in the morning we found him training clients, and at lunch he trained some more - he was a better teacher of personal training than the ones who just taught trainers.

    There are many gurus for us trainers to follow. But consider each critically: how long is it since they made their living training members of the general public? If you have been training people for 5 years, and they trained people for 5 years 15 years ago and just did seminars and wrote books since, you may actually know more about training members of the general public than they do.

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    Personal training is a field where it is necessary to continue to expand your knowledge and there are always changes that need to be made to a clients workout program. Even when structuring what you planned for the specific day for the client changes are sometimes needed to improvise. You have to be able to adapt to how the client felt between the last session and how they recovered.
    Its always necessary to make changes to the clients training volume,intensity,etc. Sometimes there is movement patterns which a client has difficulty with or cant do. Regardless I think its always good to continue to grow your career as a personal trainer and to continue to help the general public, athletes, bodybuilders, etc. There is usually always new information to learn from professionals in the field and even some less experienced trainers can have insight.
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