Weight Loss

Weight loss is not very fun to write about. In order to successfully write about weight loss you must try to put yourself in other people’s shoes. I just wrote my weeks top 5 list. When I was thinking about it in my head it seemed like it would be easy and quick. It turned out to take around 2 or 3 hours and I’m pretty satisfied with it.

Top 5 Award Winning Weight Loss Strategies

It is really about lifestyle choice not a “secret” which I’m trying to sell people. If anybody likes it, please DIGG it!

I think those strategies will help most normal people who work 9-5 or salary jobs. I try to write for those people who I want to be my audience for my AskTheTrainer.com

Some people who visit my site just don’t get it. I give a hard time to bodybuilders simply because I don’t believe anybody who isn’t a bodybuilder them self should listen to the advice of most bodybuilders.

I know this from experience. I would consider myself in the past before I was a full time personal trainer in San Francisco to be more a of bodybuilder. Now that I’m old I consider myself more of a fitness enthusiast who is just trying to stay in decent athletic shape while I sit on my butt 10 hours a day to create this ENORMOUS website by myself.

When I was more of a bodybuilder I know that personally I didn’t know 1/1000th of what I know now about training normal people. It doesn’t matter how many Mr. Olympias or how many times somebody has been in the gym over their lifetime, if they’ve never personal trained clients who are unlike themselves, they are most likely offer very little valid advice for the average Joe who hasn’t worked out in 10 years.

I know now that weight loss is 10x more difficult for a 40 year old salary man than it is for a 22 year old bodybuilder. There is so many lessons over the last few years I’ve learned.

That is the general scope of my website which I tried to express on the home page but evidentially some people don’t understand that. I recently got a rude response from some pathetic loser with some anonymous hotmail email address commenting on one of my client’s form for chest flies.

That person obviously wasn’t a personal trainer because if he/she was, they would know that everybody’s body is put together differently and everybody cannot perform a given exercise in textbook manner.

This makes me want to bring up one more thing. Speaking of weight loss I want to talk about the fat personal trainer. I have heard from many people the infamous line, “Why would I train with him/her? He/she’s not even in good shape, if they can’t get them self in good shape, how are they going to get me in good shape?”

I totally disagree with this. The shape of the fat personal trainer means nothing. Just because my rocket scientist math teacher in college was good at calculus didn’t mean he was a good teacher… He sucked, I failed.

If experience and education are there I would choose the fat personal trainer over a bodybuilder or ex athlete any day of the week.

The motivation factor is most important. If a client wants a trainer who they look up to physically or are sexual attracted to a fat trainer would not be good.

If the prospective client is interested in instruction, direction and results, the qualified fat personal trainer would be the better choice as long as their personality is compatible with the client.

Weight loss is the #1 goal of a large percentage of people who enter the gym. Maybe the fat personal trainer would have more knowledge of weight loss because of their own body’s shape?

Well, I’m now sick of talking about the fat personal trainer and weight loss and I’m now wondering why I even brought up the fat personal trainer in the first place.