Fat Trainers

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The coach only needs to know how to motivate you and get you to play the game. They don't have to play it.

Grow up.

I understand where you and other people are coming from. I personally would want a trainer who is already in shape. I would feel like why should i take advice from him if he doesn't look like he took his own advice..... BUUUT that doesn't always mean he doesn't know what to do and others might also feel more comfortable with someone who is in the same boat with them....

I totally know what you mean!! My dietician is very overweight and it really puts me off going to her, she sits across her desk giving out if I didn't lose a pound that week but to be honest I find it very off putting without sounding rude but here she is saying calling me overweight (I know I am which is why I am paying for the help) when she clearly could use a mirror to look into herself and point a finger back at her! I have noticed two personal trainers at the gym that I go to that could clearly drop some pounds and when the one that I have leaves for Auz next year I haven't a clue what I will do as he has been marvelous!

Only thing worse is a fat nutritionist

agreed.

I see your point but I have a different point of view.

I tend to compare it to coaching - look at the NFL - Mike Tomlin was not an NFL superstar but he is an excellent coach. Same goes for Bill Belichick from New England.

Look at baseball - Jim Leyland was not an excellent player but is regarded as a great manager.

Other than that, maybe some of the individuals have health issues (thyroid, etc..).

Just a different perspective....

Meh, I'm sort of neutral on this. There could be some legit reason for their weight gain. and it they may have substantial knowledge. More likely though, that's not true. What I'm 100% sure of, is I would choose a fat, smart trainer over a greek-god broctor.

What I don't get is why high-level athletics coaches aren't pinned to this standard the way PT's are.

I don't judge a person's knowledge by the way their body is shaped.

I see your point, but I don't agree with it. Someone may have a lot of knowledge but very little willpower.

uhh....


Don't care about what they look like, care about what they know and how they teach.

I have went to school for a long time, I am still going to college now to finish my degree. I can not stand fat personal trainers. I have been a trainer for 2 years and I will graduate in a year with my degree in Bio-mechanics. I specialize in extreme transformations. I can not stand going to the gym and seeing a pure overweight personal trainer. How is the people you are going to train, able to have any respect for you when you are in terrible shape. You even see it on the MFP boards and Im sorry I was reading one forum post and I saw one of the people I was talking about and it got me cranked up. What do you all think about it?

Whew...Bio-mechanics. I thought for a second there you were going to say English.

I spent most of my adolescence and even my 20's worried about people like you. The one's who "can't stand" or "despise" overweight people that dared to enter a physical activity. I walked onto many a rugby pitch feeling I had to prove myself to guys like that, and I did.

30 people could tell me how good I looked, or congratulate me on a game, but one guy like you looking at me with that look of disgust would just confirm everything that I thought was true about myself. The only person that despised me more than them, was me.

Not sure why any confident person would ever look at someone else and be reviled by them and desperately want them to feel inferior, but for some reason you guys exist.

Trainers are coaches. Don't like fat trainers, don't hire one.

When I was in uni, I had two friends that were qualified PTs, one was overweight (PT1) and the other used to be overweight but worked her butt off and lost it all (PT2). I felt bad about it but when our PT1 friend complained about not being hired anywhere, I couldn't really sympathise and same went for my PT2 friend. I would much rather a PT who has gone through the hardship and made it out on top, rather than one that hasn't made that transformation yet. I want to be able to look at my trainer and see inspiration, someone I can aspire to be, rather than looking at them thinking "If they can't do it how can I?" It didn't help that when we all went to lunch together PT2 would be having a salad or something equally healthy, whereas PT1 was eating chips or something else deep-fried, like she wasn't even trying to help her cause. I can't exactly preach because I'm not a saint, but then again I'm not the one who's a PT.

I spent most of my adolescence and even my 20's worried about people like you. The one's who "can't stand" or "despise" overweight people that dared to enter a physical activity. I walked onto many a rugby pitch feeling I had to prove myself to guys like that, and I did.

30 people could tell me how good I looked, or congratulate me on a game, but one guy like you looking at me with that look of disgust would just confirm everything that I thought was true about myself. The only person that despised me more than them, was me.

Not sure why any confident person would ever look at someone else and be reviled by them and desperately want them to feel inferior, but for some reason you guys exist.

Trainers are coaches. Don't like fat trainers, don't hire one.

Amen Hoss.

I have went to school for a long time, I am still going to college now to finish my degree. I can not stand fat personal trainers. I have been a trainer for 2 years and I will graduate in a year with my degree in Bio-mechanics. I specialize in extreme transformations. I can not stand going to the gym and seeing a pure overweight personal trainer. How is the people you are going to train, able to have any respect for you when you are in terrible shape. You even see it on the MFP boards and Im sorry I was reading one forum post and I saw one of the people I was talking about and it got me cranked up. What do you all think about it?

Whew...Bio-mechanics. I thought for a second there you were going to say English.

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