Well mind games make more sense because at the root of all of it is domination and submission. Literally every "mental" kink is based on that. So the stuff closest to pure D/S makes more sense to me like punishment or cuck or spanking whereas other stuff is harder to connect like diapers or piss or some shit.
I have been working a lot more lately that's why less active. Planning to buy a car soon and also switch to using groceries instead of the schools cafeteria and there meal plan next year. The food is going to shit here and I want to gain weight again next year. So basically I know I'm gonna need more money and so I picked up 3 more clients so I gotta go to the gym and train people like twice a day plus my own workout and write a bunch of programs and diets and shit. I literally just had one client for a while there so 4 will require a lot more of my time. It's fun and I love my job but I will probably be less active on here :(
Dude look for an aldis. If your area has one go there you can buy a fuckton of groceries super cheap as long as you avoid the refreshments you can walk out with like 300 bucks worth of shit and only spent 80-150
Omg Love Aldi so much. Back home in the cities I get so much shit there. They don't have one near where I go to school though but they do have Sam's club and also Costco, both of which are never too expensive.
I remember when I was in HS and going to a gym owned by Bally's and would see personal trainers with clients. It seemed like the trainers would have to spend more time explaining exercises than anything. I thought, "THAT has to be pain staking for the trainer."
BTW, Bally was some chain of gyms similar to Planet Fatness except they had an actual weight room with real barbells, squat racks, power lifting platforms, etc. It wasn't just machines like PF.
It is sad cause PF isn't even a real gym, yet it put a lot of others like Gold's and Bally mostly out of business.
The best gyms though are the small, independently owned ones. Few or no machines, just iron, steel, sweat, noise, adrenaline, and pure power.
The food isn't terrible it's just that I have to walk 5 minutes there and back every meal. And they open later and close earlier than I want.
Being a personal trainer is fun man idk where your getting this idea from. Sure I think the science and stuff can be interesting but I'm not really about that. My clients don't save reps in the tank and do a bunch of stability and core shit. We squat, bench, deadlift, and overhead press heavy weights with good form, for lots of volume. I'm not training them to be "functional" they came to me wanting to be badass!
And most people at the campus wide gym I train at are about as strong as tinkerbell. Literally less than 5 people I have even seen deadlift 405 out of hundred and hundreds of soy boys who do cable arm excercises and stupid shit like that and make no gains.
As for what makes a good gym, I agree completely :)
My gym back home in the twin cities is much better. Less crowded as well by far.
If your clients are about as strong as tinkerbell, that is okay. Everyone has to start somewhere. Since they are doing those core lifts, they will get there. So long as they also understand that to make gains or to get in ANY kind of good shape, one must sweat like a whore in church. Honest squats will do that, for they are the hardest god damn lift there is. Even dead lifts come in second to squats.
For the people I saw at Bally's, I am not sure what their goals were, just that they were using these fancy computer controlled machines for what some would call "auxillary" lifts.
Ya its kinda been hard to find motivated clients with at least some training experience. That's why I wasn't doing much training for a while. I could have had more clients, they just wouldn't be the kind that I like to coach the most.
Like the one client that I have had this entire year actually has goals I can relate to. He hasn't even been lifting a year and it's not like hes Ronnie Coleman but he at least likes to train my style. He has a 325 deadlift, 290 squat and 210 bench press and these lifts were earlier this year. You don't have to be super strong for me to want to train you, you just have to WANT to be super strong.
I agree with you that effort is 100% required. Not just some, but like a lot. More and more the more advanced you get.
Using good form and training often will get you great results at first. And it can be easy to get from a 225 deadlift to a 315 deadlift without feeling like your spleen is about to burst. But try going from 585 to 675 doing that and you will literally not progress at all, barring amazing genetics and or PED use.
I do not agree that squats are the hardest though. Maybe it's because my leverages for them are better(relative short femurs compared to my height) but deadlifts take me longer to recover and leave me seeing stars more. I did a five rep max deadlift at 605 a few weeks ago and literally thought I was gonna die. Like not kind of, but literally. However I have gotten injured more from squats and I do have a buddy who deadlifts like a machine and barely gets tired doing huge ass weights but squats always get him. Idk man there is definently a discussion to be had.
I think ultimately that squats are more dangerous overall yet deadlifts could injure the lower back faster. One is more forced to keep good form and balance with squats.
I have not weight trained in many years but I do remember hating deadlifts more than squats.
325, 290 and 210 aren't shabby numbers, I don't think too many untrained folks could do those.
On a side note, if someone is maxing 210 on bench, there is huge motivation to get to 225. Of course only weight trainers understand exactly why that seemingly obscure figure is a milestone (TWO big plates on either side).
When you said, "they just wouldn't be the kind that I like to coach the most", it made me think of a commercial. I will post the link but if it doesn't work or you prefer to look it up on youtube, check out "Iron Sport Gym's Planet Fitness response". it is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwMXp0NV1I
I promise you will enjoy it.
Squats are more dangerous yeah. I will give you that definitely. But hardest is more of a toss up I would say, perhaps ultimately coming down to leverages.
I know right! Solid numbers! He is literally about where I was that far into my career and still has a lot of room to improve his technique especially on squat.
And yeah everyone I talk to at the gym agrees with you on the plate milestone shit. Bench 220, nobody cares. 225 your a bad man. Squat 395. Meh. 405? Your fucking good. It's part of what I love about the sport tbh, your always close to the next milestone.
Hes maxing again in 3 weeks on squat and bench. Probably not deadlift because hes been having some grip issues(which were working on!) Squat goal is 315 and bench 225.
In general I follow the 1-2-3-4 plate rule when someone says there strong. If you can overhead press 135, bench 225, squat 315 and deadlift 405 all "RAW" lifts with good form, then were getting somewhere. Late intermediate with balanced training!!!! If you only squats 245 but can deadlift 545, no balance. Total will still be shiiit.
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Well mind games make more sense because at the root of all of it is domination and submission. Literally every "mental" kink is based on that. So the stuff closest to pure D/S makes more sense to me like punishment or cuck or spanking whereas other stuff is harder to connect like diapers or piss or some shit.
I have been working a lot more lately that's why less active. Planning to buy a car soon and also switch to using groceries instead of the schools cafeteria and there meal plan next year. The food is going to shit here and I want to gain weight again next year. So basically I know I'm gonna need more money and so I picked up 3 more clients so I gotta go to the gym and train people like twice a day plus my own workout and write a bunch of programs and diets and shit. I literally just had one client for a while there so 4 will require a lot more of my time. It's fun and I love my job but I will probably be less active on here :(
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Dude look for an aldis. If your area has one go there you can buy a fuckton of groceries super cheap as long as you avoid the refreshments you can walk out with like 300 bucks worth of shit and only spent 80-150
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Omg Love Aldi so much. Back home in the cities I get so much shit there. They don't have one near where I go to school though but they do have Sam's club and also Costco, both of which are never too expensive.
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Dude that's awesome definitly go there. Fuck walmart
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Walmart has cheap stuff it's just not nearly as good. In a pinch I do get some stuff there though because it is the closest.
I can imagine school food isn't quite the best.
I remember when I was in HS and going to a gym owned by Bally's and would see personal trainers with clients. It seemed like the trainers would have to spend more time explaining exercises than anything. I thought, "THAT has to be pain staking for the trainer."
BTW, Bally was some chain of gyms similar to Planet Fatness except they had an actual weight room with real barbells, squat racks, power lifting platforms, etc. It wasn't just machines like PF.
It is sad cause PF isn't even a real gym, yet it put a lot of others like Gold's and Bally mostly out of business.
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The food isn't terrible it's just that I have to walk 5 minutes there and back every meal. And they open later and close earlier than I want.
Being a personal trainer is fun man idk where your getting this idea from. Sure I think the science and stuff can be interesting but I'm not really about that. My clients don't save reps in the tank and do a bunch of stability and core shit. We squat, bench, deadlift, and overhead press heavy weights with good form, for lots of volume. I'm not training them to be "functional" they came to me wanting to be badass!
And most people at the campus wide gym I train at are about as strong as tinkerbell. Literally less than 5 people I have even seen deadlift 405 out of hundred and hundreds of soy boys who do cable arm excercises and stupid shit like that and make no gains.
As for what makes a good gym, I agree completely :)
My gym back home in the twin cities is much better. Less crowded as well by far.
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If your clients are about as strong as tinkerbell, that is okay. Everyone has to start somewhere. Since they are doing those core lifts, they will get there. So long as they also understand that to make gains or to get in ANY kind of good shape, one must sweat like a whore in church. Honest squats will do that, for they are the hardest god damn lift there is. Even dead lifts come in second to squats.
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Ya its kinda been hard to find motivated clients with at least some training experience. That's why I wasn't doing much training for a while. I could have had more clients, they just wouldn't be the kind that I like to coach the most.
Like the one client that I have had this entire year actually has goals I can relate to. He hasn't even been lifting a year and it's not like hes Ronnie Coleman but he at least likes to train my style. He has a 325 deadlift, 290 squat and 210 bench press and these lifts were earlier this year. You don't have to be super strong for me to want to train you, you just have to WANT to be super strong.
I agree with you that effort is 100% required. Not just some, but like a lot. More and more the more advanced you get.
Using good form and training often will get you great results at first. And it can be easy to get from a 225 deadlift to a 315 deadlift without feeling like your spleen is about to burst. But try going from 585 to 675 doing that and you will literally not progress at all, barring amazing genetics and or PED use.
I do not agree that squats are the hardest though. Maybe it's because my leverages for them are better(relative short femurs compared to my height) but deadlifts take me longer to recover and leave me seeing stars more. I did a five rep max deadlift at 605 a few weeks ago and literally thought I was gonna die. Like not kind of, but literally. However I have gotten injured more from squats and I do have a buddy who deadlifts like a machine and barely gets tired doing huge ass weights but squats always get him. Idk man there is definently a discussion to be had.
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I think ultimately that squats are more dangerous overall yet deadlifts could injure the lower back faster. One is more forced to keep good form and balance with squats.
I have not weight trained in many years but I do remember hating deadlifts more than squats.
325, 290 and 210 aren't shabby numbers, I don't think too many untrained folks could do those.
On a side note, if someone is maxing 210 on bench, there is huge motivation to get to 225. Of course only weight trainers understand exactly why that seemingly obscure figure is a milestone (TWO big plates on either side).
When you said, "they just wouldn't be the kind that I like to coach the most", it made me think of a commercial. I will post the link but if it doesn't work or you prefer to look it up on youtube, check out "Iron Sport Gym's Planet Fitness response". it is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXwMXp0NV1I
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Squats are more dangerous yeah. I will give you that definitely. But hardest is more of a toss up I would say, perhaps ultimately coming down to leverages.
I know right! Solid numbers! He is literally about where I was that far into my career and still has a lot of room to improve his technique especially on squat.
And yeah everyone I talk to at the gym agrees with you on the plate milestone shit. Bench 220, nobody cares. 225 your a bad man. Squat 395. Meh. 405? Your fucking good. It's part of what I love about the sport tbh, your always close to the next milestone.
Hes maxing again in 3 weeks on squat and bench. Probably not deadlift because hes been having some grip issues(which were working on!) Squat goal is 315 and bench 225.
In general I follow the 1-2-3-4 plate rule when someone says there strong. If you can overhead press 135, bench 225, squat 315 and deadlift 405 all "RAW" lifts with good form, then were getting somewhere. Late intermediate with balanced training!!!! If you only squats 245 but can deadlift 545, no balance. Total will still be shiiit.