What do Fitness Trainers know?

[edmond]

Not much, they all come with a piece of paper and look like crap.

 

[Gradstudent78]

Originally Posted by edmond

Not much, they all come with a piece of paper and look like crap.

That's pretty harsh. Like anything else there are good and bad trainers, you just have to shop around and know what to look for.

 

[Goblin]

I generally don't take advice from anyone I wouldn't want to emulate in the area being discussed. So I don't take strength training advice from weak people, I don't take weight loss advice from fat people, I don't take financial advice from poor people, I don't take advice about my personal life from miserable people, and so on.

There are obviously exceptions in the coaching and training arena, but when I'm deciding whether to take someone's advice, there's an unavoidable ad hominem component to the decision -- e.g., "if you know so much, why are you a [pencilneck/lardass/deadbeat/loser]?"