A friend who owns a gym hired young trainer and he sent the kid(23yrs old) to me to mentor him with training. he says he's been training 3yrs and want to compete bodybuilding/powerlifting. Since gym owner is a good friend of mine, i offered first session for free. Then i see this real fat kid 30 min late, says he wants to improve his back/delts. i test his movements, poor muscle connection and can't even finish a set due to aerobic fatigue. i said to myself, this isn't gonna be good....
He talks about reps in reserve, stimulus vs fatigue and he doesn't like hard reps as he fatigues too much.... i stayed more than an hr(1hr 45 min), making sure he gets the info he needs and he says he's gonna stay and do chest/back today because he missed chest day yesterday... see what's wrong with all these..?
i told him, what he needs is high effort training and he'll need to do that for about 6yrs to build impressive physique. he didn;t seem thrilled with the idea... plus he says he is 235lbs, I'd say he's about 260, another red flag.
then he sends me about 5 videos a day asking me about his form, i make corrections, well that i can deal with.. I even gave him 3 options for splits. he says he'll do Dorain yates 4days split. It's only been 5 days and he asks if he should add extra ''touch up day for back and delts" I know where this is gonna go if i don't address this now, i'll be like Alexa answering his questions without making a dime on my time. when someone asks training related questions, I give long answers and usually give more than what they asked for. this is starting to waste a lot of my time.
i told the kid to buy this book(anatomy of strength training, a must have) and told him to hold off anymore questions until we meet next time. I think his feelings are hurt, but i can't keep wasting my time with every little stupid questions for some who may or may not commit as a client. I believe his motive was absorb as much free information as he can without paying for my time.
He talks about reps in reserve, stimulus vs fatigue and he doesn't like hard reps as he fatigues too much.... i stayed more than an hr(1hr 45 min), making sure he gets the info he needs and he says he's gonna stay and do chest/back today because he missed chest day yesterday... see what's wrong with all these..?
i told him, what he needs is high effort training and he'll need to do that for about 6yrs to build impressive physique. he didn;t seem thrilled with the idea... plus he says he is 235lbs, I'd say he's about 260, another red flag.
then he sends me about 5 videos a day asking me about his form, i make corrections, well that i can deal with.. I even gave him 3 options for splits. he says he'll do Dorain yates 4days split. It's only been 5 days and he asks if he should add extra ''touch up day for back and delts" I know where this is gonna go if i don't address this now, i'll be like Alexa answering his questions without making a dime on my time. when someone asks training related questions, I give long answers and usually give more than what they asked for. this is starting to waste a lot of my time.
i told the kid to buy this book(anatomy of strength training, a must have) and told him to hold off anymore questions until we meet next time. I think his feelings are hurt, but i can't keep wasting my time with every little stupid questions for some who may or may not commit as a client. I believe his motive was absorb as much free information as he can without paying for my time.
