Umm….aren’t personal trainers supposed to be fit and trim? Isn’t that the whole point of going to the gym? Then “Y” does a certain gym in Halifax have clumpy, mis-shapen personal trainers teaching classes? I don’t want to exercise to become a ‘shape,’ I want to be fit, thin, and lean. Are you a reminder of what potato chips and cola will do to a 40 year old?
—“Y” are you teaching?
This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2009.
The “Y”s are non-profit orgs, and being woefully underfunded, they probably can’t afford “real” PTs.
Having said *that*, maybe the “clumpy, mis-shapen personal trainers” used to weigh 300+ lbs, and want to help motivate people by showing them what can be done…
Physical fitness – as in strength and cardiovascular fitness – does not necessarily mean you’re thin. The world needs to stop thinking about fitness in term of “if you’re fat, you’re not fit, and if you’re fit, you must be thin” because it’s simply not true. I know many athletic, fit people who have a couple extra pounds.
yea that true – maybe so – but atleast their doing something – but if the manage to get YOU in shape and lose weight – gain muscle – whatever who cares how fat their ass is – they helped you – i suggest instead of bitching – get them granny panties off your face and back on your ass and scarf down somemore double big macs and remember to get the diet coke eh?
I once knew a rather large nutritionist.
OXY ALERT
I once had a music teacher who couldn’t play herself out of a wet paper bag, if you know what I mean? It had ZERO bearing and what she had to teach me. OP, pick up a Vogue magazine to read on the way to and from the gym. 100 pages of anorexic models all photoShop’d to “perfection” ought to be enough to make you feel like a piece of shit. Your plump fitness instructor should provide relief and encouragement to live in the skin you’re in.
models, the thinnest bitches on the planet, are not in-shape.
think about that, OP.
You must be one of those assholes that refuses to eat at a restaurant with a skinny chef.
What a bitch!
1. i agree with kay, ability to teach and ability to do arent always the same.
2. did you think the gym should reject applicants based on their physical appearance?
WOW – I don’t think I’ve ever read a more ignorant post in my life. Shocking. Thin-ness rarely exemplifies health. Being that I used to weigh 320 pounds and now weigh 200 and am at the gym every freakin day to maintain what I have, I think I have every right to say to you… SHUT THE EFF UP and mark your words with action… why don’t you go and have a conversation with the trainer instead of being a pussy and posting it on the Bitch??? I’m sure she would be SUPER happy to hear from you! Or better yet, why not start a “skinny bitches only” class at the gym and post “no fatso’s allowed” when you’re working out.
First, kudos to the clever use of “Y”…I was stumped until I thought of Yold’s Gym, of course!
But the OP does have a point here. I can see fatties teaching say, fitness for other fatties, or even beginner classes…just like an average guitar player is OK to teach “intro to guitar”…
But, at a higher level, one would expect at least a “non-obese” instructor at the gym, and a guitar teacher that can at least play Stairway!
“”OXY ALERT””
Why, got some?
You don’t have to be fit to be an excellent personal trainer. I had one help me get back in shape after a particularly long recovery from surgery and he wasn’t in shape at all, but boy did he know his stuff. He was patient, encouraging, and could carry on a conversation.
But by all means OP, if you want a juiced up beefcake ask for one specifically. They’ll either assume you’re an ignorant ass or that you just want something to oogle at while you’re pumping iron.
“”did you think the gym should reject applicants based on their physical appearance?”‘
Well, would you pay to take a business seminar from a penniless wino?
Maybe take motivational training from a guy who lives in a van, down by the river?
It’s the same exact thing, but people are too fucking politically correct when it comes to fat people. Oh sure, smokers are losers that are killing themselves…but the big-ass fat fuck that has a heart attack while driving the bus full of orphans…that’s fine, innit?
I didn’t take OP’s “plump” description to mean fat. There’s plenty of people who are “mis-shapen” or “clumpy” who are not fat. You can’t just lump people into two categories; fat and fit. Doesn’t make sense. Of course fat personal trainers (if they even exist) aren’t doing what their teaching and obviously that would damage their credibility. But OP is bitching about personal trainers who are not “fit” and “trim” not personal trainers who are fat.
I understand where this is coming from. i took a fitness class once, and the woman running the class was 60lbs over weight, easy.. its very discouraging to think, u know, this woman does this class every day, obviously.. its not working.. why should i keep doing it? i already look better than the teacher..
i doubt anybody here would go to a dentist who had a snaggle tooth epidemic coming out of their face every time they talked to you. or go to a hair dresser who looked like they hadnt looked in a mirror in 2 months.
sailorswife – fitness and “looking good” are not synonymous. again, look at stick-thin models who live on a diet of champagne and blow compared to even a sumo who is bigger than kay.
You know, the level of debate on here has hit a new high, it really has…
“.. its very discouraging to think, u know, this woman does this class every day, obviously.. its not working..
huh?
“”There’s plenty of people who are “mis-shapen” or “clumpy” who are not fat.””
WTF!?!? Yes they are.
Seriously, this is just aout the dumbestm group of posters I’ve ever seen.
Hear Hear Gidget! Good’n!
If your Obese your Obese…if your idea of getting fit is walking to the store to get more Kentucky fried , you’re still friggen fat…Hate to burst the bubble folks, but obese people are NOT fit…Holy, someone grab a Brain…