Fat Trainers

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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been there and have lost the weight. bulking right now and feel heavier than i ever have. its all good. i know what im doing. and come springtime when i step on that stage... i will crush the competition!!!!!

I have lost a tremendous amount of weight and sacrificed a ton to get to where I am, Im sorry if I misspelled one word. Forgive me please. I never said that a pt who is overweight cant achieve fitness goals for his clients. I personal dont see how people can believe them. I have been overweight, but I kicked *kitten* and I am the man I am today. Mr. Neverstray according to your post earlier I am overweight since all that matters to you is BMI. Im sorry if I offended people, my question I guess was, would it be hard to take advice from someone who is overweight, maybe even more than yourself. As opposed to someone who has been there and lost the weight.

For me, while I rarely use the personal trainers at the gyms I go to, I will ask them a few questions to check their knowledge. If they seem to know more than I do, I will respect their opinions, and take their advice.

I agree, an extremely obese PT would probably lose my respect, but I have been thin, fat, thin, then fat, again, so I can understand how they could do it, too. The last few times I've gotten fat, I've had the knowledge about how to live fit, and healthy. I just didn't have to motivation to do it.

if they are fat because of an injury or some other legitimate excuse i could look past it. but i couldnt trust someone who never was able to get into shape themselves. why would i pay someone who has just read about what to do and hasnt done it when i can go online and read the same stuff? i want someone who has been there/done that so they can tell me what its like.

I agree that all law enforement and saftey personal should have to be within a certain healthy fat percentile and be able to pass a yearly physical or they get a desk job. As for a personal trainer..I need one and when i have the money for one..I will not look for one over weight because thats obviously why I need one. i dont want to look at one that is over weight and doubt that they can ever help me.. I want to see someone FIT!

I dont know, I feel the same way about overweight law enforcement agency. I absoulutley despise them!

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