Personal trainers...

Awkward30

Anyone else find it obnoxious that they tell us what we want to hear instead of what we need to hear? I mean, looking at the recent thread here where a bunch of women were told by their trainers to do high reps with low weights and my own experience where I had thought I needed to use the adductor and abductor machines (I've since read it is silly to do so), so my trainer wrote them into the program. I get that the client is the one paying, but keep a bunch of photos of figure athletes and power lifters and show women that their bodies are desireable and only achievable by growing muscle and losing fat. That the "toned" look comes from getting body fat low enough that muscle is visible, and lastly, that a woman, especially one one in a calorie deficit is not going to put on appreciable muscle. Best case scenario: women may be able to lose weight without losing much muscle. Worst case scenario: you don't prove to your body that it needs to maintain its muscle and it gets rid of it (muscle is metabolically active, thus costly to maintain). While training for a half marathon, almost a fourth of the weight I lost was muscle. If I had maintained more of that, I'd almost be at my goal body fat % now

Awkward30

Bump because I can't be the only person that finds this annoying and maybe some reluctant cardio queens/kings will find this, look up bikini competition models and want to lift