#41: 5 Ways To Know Your Trainer Is Full of Sh*t

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Special Report #41

Part of the

“I see you to succeeding"

series.

5 Ways To Know Your Trainer Is Full  of Sh*t

1. "Calories in calories out": 

 

a.k.a. "To lose weight you must reduce your calories". 

One of the most common B.S. routines unskilled trainers spew is that in order to successfully and consistently burn fat and gain health you have to reduced calories..(each pound of fat is 3,500 calories right?). If you want to lose "weight" reduce your calories by 500 /day and you'll surely lose a pound a week!

This is called bass-ackwards, stinkin' thinkin'.

The newbie trainer... or the "slo-learner" trainer who promotes this nonsense also loses clients too often and too quickly to realize what they're saying is complete B.S. 

And they also think those last 15 pounds of fat their clients never lose are flukes and "unexplainable" (the metabolism bottoms out when calories are reduced this way). 

Effective trainers teach that you have to have courage to feed the muscle / lean mass (basis of efficient metabolism), and that the only healthy way to burn fat is through fat burning cardio that takes your resting heart rate and age into account (Karvonen Method), (low intensity cardio 60%-70% of your max heart rate for brief, one minute sessions interspersed throughout a 20 minute cardio session 3 x / week).

(When you train at higher intensity, you actually use lean mass for energy which means the more consistent you do your cardio the slower your metabolism gets!)

 

There are cases where potential clients are consuming bazillions of excessive calories, but first the trainer has to calculate each persons calories as if they are going to gain a pound of lean mass a weak. And in reality, any trainer should know that 2,000 calories of healthy food are not the same as 2,000 calories of SADCRAP...they simply don't behave the same in the body. So, if you hear a trainer saying, "Calories in calories out", run! Those trainers are simply distracted by you losing weight (lean mass And fat) within the first three months...after that, you'll hit a plateau and start gaining fat back even though you're restricting calories and increasing how much you work out. Duh! Run!

If you have enough nutrition density in your daily routine via whole-food, functional-foods and supplements you should be eating more but burning more fat. Inexperienced trainers don't know how to pull this off...and worse yet, they try to have you outrun poor nutrition with excessive exercise which ultimately makes you tired, unmotivated and burned out...oh, yay and more fat!

*So funny, as I'm writing this I'm watching a physician (Dr. Tasneem Bhatia) on the TV show live with Kelly & Michael (NBC) 1/22/2016 isting that calories-in / calories-out is valid.

2. The trainer isn't accountable to themselves: 

 

In other words, trainers who don't know if what they are instructing you is accurate since they don't use current science to [measure the results] they say you "should" get. It's common for trainers who are full of poop to say, "You just have to give it time"....after all, time is money!

 

Inexperienced trainers who either lack experience in the field or don't take the time to identify what works and what is antiquated theory will talk as though how fast you gain or lose weight is by chance. Experienced, seasoned trainers know the science, how to measure and interpret progress and what to do / change if the client isn't getting results as fast as they "should". 

 

If your nutrition and training routine are dialed in, you should be losing at least 12 pounds of fat per month, measurable via body composition testing. There is responsibility on you as the client. You have to double check to make sure you're doing the right things at the right times.If you aren't to won't burn fat no matter how much money you are throwing at your trainer.

3. "Stop eating early in the evening / fast at night": 

 

The theory that people should stop eating early in the evening to avoid gaining more fat is outdated rubbish. When you hear trainers say this kind of stuff you can bet that they have been reading stuff from the 1970's or 1980's..(or their gym trainer-manager is feeding them mis-information, for reasons I'll cover in point #5 below). 

 

In other words, it's outdated and you're not getting value for the money you invested in personal training. It also means that the trainer isn't holding himself accountable to his "pet theories"...the ones the trainer keeps saying but they never worked in the first place. 

 

Its not uncommon for trainers to insist you copy them or their pet model but as you get to know them you find out they are fighting fatigue, anemia, high cholesterol, and have a host of health symptoms which solid nutrition (whole foods, functional-foods and good supplements would clear up). etc. 

 

Much of the time when trainers suggest a type of supplement, they are simply looking at how much they are going to profit from each purchase. They know that most clients drop out during the first three months, so "get what you can from them" is a popular mantra. 

 

90% of supplement companies are [marketing] (advertising) companies, not health-building companies. You can know where the company's values are by where they put their money: If they spend money on TV advertising they are a [marketing company not a health building company]. The more they are on TV, the more they are concerned with short-term sales vs health, since real nutrition companies take that money and put it into research and locating pure raw materials to assure a consistent product which amounts to healthy blood chemistry.  

 

Advertising and pure raw materials are direct competitors, so you won't get both...Do you want to be associated with glitzy advertising or awesome body composition and healthy blood chemistry...your choice.

 

Experienced trainers know that in order to gain lean mass and burn fat you have to feed the muscle and lean mass and burn the fat off with age adjusted and resting heart rate adjusted fat burning cardio. You have to calculate total calories and spread them out through the day right up until bedtime (you'll get better sleep too, which amounts to lower cortisol levels and more fat burned WHILE YOU ARE SLEEPING). 

 

The more hours you go without calories the more it interrupts fat burning metabolism. Experienced trainers know to double check their work by checking body composition every 30 days and adjust calories according to gains and losses in lean mass and fat during those 30 days accordingly. Anything less is B.S. and laziness on the trainer's part.

There's a difference between putting irrelevant, outdated, useless, counterproductive information out there to draw attention to yourself as a  trainer and putting relevant, current, useful, valuable, productive information out there that helps people regardless if people hire them as a trainer or not. If you're a trainer  and you're confident in your clients' ability to make a decision that is right for them, give them information that helps them and you'll have a friend for life. If you withhold accurate information...well, ...lame.

It's your job as an informed consumer to know the difference and make choices by discerning a trainer who is B.S.ing you BEFORE you pay them. 

4.  "All supplements are basically the same":

There was a published, peer-reviewed study done a few years back at Children's Hospital in Seattle which demonstrated that practitioners who had successfully used alternative modalities (like dietary supplements), were more likely to successfully share the information with their patients / clients as well as monitor and guide their patient to help assure similar results. 

As a side note, the majority of trainers aren't earning enough money to consistently consume quality supplements....(can't tell you how many trainers I have known who can't buy lunch or buy gas to get to the gym). In order to validate THEIR personal choices they in turn tell their clients to use what they are using, which often are substandard supplements.

The trainer doesn't get remarkable results from their SADCRAP,  synthetic supplements and so it doesn't surprise them when their clients don't get very much in the way of noticeable results or have side effects like digestive disturbances from the supplements themselves.

 (The trainer doesn't know what they don't know... and neither does their client).

Too bad, they don't know what they missed out on because they don't have a quality experience to measure other experiences by. No one can tell the difference between good supplements and poor quality ones until the consistently use good ones.

5. "It's a secret":

The best trainers out there train their clients to think for themselves... (to learn a solid, reliable, replicable system to consistently get good results throughout life).

Dumbass trainers will run clients through a "workout" but they don't write anything down because they fear that if they teach you what they know you won't come back. (They don't want to be accountable to what didn't work). D.A. trainers cut their own throat because since they don't "teach" their clients anything, their clients feel confused and like they're in the dark so they don't continue training and they don't get results...the client doesn't come back or re-book sessions with the trainer...the trainer has to keep acquiring new clients to make up for losing clients faster than he/she gains them. 

 

Now, remember...even if a trainer writes stuff down, unless the nutrition program (whole food, functional-foods & supplements) is up to snuff, no matter how good the work out is, 80% of the results you miss out on are related to these three nutrition factors.

Ultimately the trainer drops out of the industry before they ever learn what it was that they didn't know, wondering why it didn't "work" for them. Gyms love this because gyms make money by "selling" trainers to members, but know that most members won't stick with training if the trainer they joined with leaves the gym... The gym keeps the training fees and doesn't pay anything out to the trainer either...Ching-Ching! 

That's why you see so much turnover of trainers at the corporate chain-gyms...they make more money by hiring inexperienced trainers, keeping them in the dark, teaching the trainer to do the same to the clients... both quit and the gym keeps the cash...repeat.

There's a huge difference in the education and field experience personal trainers have. If you are actually living a healthy lifestyle and you aren't losing at least 12 pounds a month of fat while simultaneously gaining lean mass and improving your blood chemistry numbers (cholesterol, iron level, A1c, triglycerides, etc.), either you aren't doing what your trainer suggests or your supplements suck..(.they aren't doing what they are proported to do).

 

80% of the results you do get...or miss out on is related to the quality & timing of you nutrition.

 

"Do it now, do it consistently".

 

I see you succeeding.