To love your job

Love it always
Although I bitch a lot
I really do LOVE LOVE LOVE this industry

I am at 2 Gyms now... One, if you read a few posts, you will see is full of yuckie ass employees.. although the members are FANFKNTASTIC!

The other is a boxing club, I don't train one on one there.... But I do group!
I love it
I love dang near everything about it

Let me start with the staff.. all teach, or train.... even the "front desk" staff. MOST are current or former boxers/kickboxers/mma peeps BUT THEY ARE NOT ASSHOLES. They are amazing human beings with a love of what they do and a desire to make others love it too!!!

I wish I could work there full time, it would be so awesome

The "pro's" as I call them, are so very encouraging and nice and helpful to me with form and combos and encouragement and then THEY ASK ME for help with running a group!

They workout together, come to each others classes and are just genuinely good people!

The owners are amazing as well... SMART business owners who know that you have to make money with a business, but that the community you serve will serve you. So for November (our current month) they are doing 2 separate FREE promotions to keep you coming in!!! The first is simple: just come in... that's right, you show up and the one that shows up the most each week gets SWAG and the one with the most for the month GETS A MONTH FREE..

Think about that, YOU as a consumer... come in and work out one a day 6 days a week and do a 2 a day on Tuesday and BAM, you win swag for the week. And you come in the most for the month and you get rewarded with MONEY!!
Look at it like this: you come get healthy, loose fat, gain strength, and then we will give you stuff!!! THIS IS HOW COMMUNITY IS BUILT!!!

The second FREE activity is a plank challenge: In every class your instructor leads a plank time, which increases with each passing day.... at the end of the month you are able to 6 min.. THEN there is a contest... the person who holds the plank the longest on "X" day wins a free month as well.

SO again you get a reward by showing up and working out... And a pretty good reward too... I mean a free month of membership is pretty good deal ESPECIALLY WHEN THE MONEY IS COMING IN DECEMBER!!!!

How wonderful it is to work in a club that builds community
The contenders are amazing and encouraging, they welcome new peeps and encourage them to return.
The staff is amazeballs and I am very happy to be part of this group!!

Later :)

Lies your ignorant car-salesman-of-a-trainer said

I am not a sales person
I do not "Sell" you me
I do not train you in such a way that you are dependent on me

If I were a salesman (or person whatever) then I would be financially secure.
And I would hate myself everyday

I am not inspired by the wolf of wall street or all the cool shit he had.

OMFG I hate personal trainer sales people

So here is what I hear from other more "successful" trainers

"TURN FAT INTO MUSCLE"
YOU CANNOT TURN FAT INTO MUSCLE
THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
FAT
MUSCLE

and this: work out no more than 15 min doing cardio at a low heart rate. You will burn more fat that way; and then when we train you get muscle and muscle WEIGHS MORE THAN FAT and YOU WILL LOSE MORE WEIGHT WITH LIFTING THAN CARDIO (a pound of fat weighs the same as a pound of feathers and a pound of muscle and a pound of bread) It is volume that they are referencing. 

fk you looser trainer..... you are wrong(ish) and an ass and omg go play in traffic!

The "burn more fat at a lower intensity" is the closest thing to truth that they tell you.... and really all it is is a skew on math.

stupid asses

Let's be simple... weight loss at it's simplest (and it can get confusing) is calories used are greater than calories consumed.

So you eat 5000 calories today? burn 6000

That is very exaggerated... but you get the point.

Now weight loss is more detailed and what you eat matters and blah blah blah, but we are talking basics....
so basics eat less, move more.

now the "burning fat thing"

the easier you work (low intensity) the higher percentage of "fat as fuel" is used.
HOW THE FK EVER, if you work harder you will use more fuel and you will burn more total calories and thus BURN MORE FAT CALORIES.
Check this out:
pick a person...anyone... you, your best friend, your enemy... just pick someone..

Activity	Calories Burned	Fat Percentage	Calories from Fat
Watching TV for 20 minutes	40 calories	60 percent	24 calories
Walking for 20 minutes	100 calories	65 percent	65 calories
Jogging & sprinting for 20 minutes	250 calories	40 percent	100 calories

OMGOODNESS
so If I jog for 20 min I will burn 100 calories of fat vs. only 65 by wlaking?
YEP... I mean technically, you burn a higher percentage of calories siting on your ass watching tv than jogging... but you BURN MORE CALORIES TOTAL by moving!

Kills me. The reason your used car salesman of a trainer is telling you to work less on your own with cardio is so that when they train you, the workout is that much tougher. 
So that when they train you (and keep your heart rate up at a rate IT SHOULD BE WHEN YOU DO CARDIO) you see results.

And if you are doing cardio they will tell you STRAIGHT TO YOUR FACE that you are doing TOO MUCH CARDIO.

Have you ever seen any athlete that has a lot of cardio in their sport (soccer, basketball, tennis, baseball even) with gross bodies?

NO
YOU
HAVE
NOT

ThanksBleacherreport, it's their pic

Does the Wide Receiver of your Football team look like a fat ass with all that cardio he has to do?

NO


The Center, on the other hand.......
I am just saying






Now, do they lift? UMM DUH YEAH... But they get their dang cardio in as well.

So quit listening to your salesman trainer and go do your damn cardio and for TBJ's sake.. WORK HARD