niggel
Level 1 Valued Member
G'day StrongFirst community,
First let me start by letting you know i am not in anyway an elite athlete , powerlifting guru accomplished martial artist, military service-men or fitness instructor of any kind. I'm just an everyday average bloke who's into everyday average bloke things. However I wanna do those things better than the other everyday average blokes and that includes being stronger than my mates and beating all challengers down at the local pub when we're all drunk and decide to have an arm wrestling comp.
Anyway I've been in and out of strength training and combat sports for the last 14 years. I was also fortunate enough to learn that training for strength and bodybuilding/toning/sculpting. Were not the same thing. So when i discovered Pavel and certain others I knew i was onto a good thing. however I have also seen many things that agitate me and causes me to despise the fitness industry.
I shall now list some of my gripes.
1) While walking past a well known personal training training studio I seen a woman doing bench-presses using probably a quarter of her weight with her feet on the bench arms splayed out wide while being supervised/spotted by her trainer.
2) Walked into a gym and seen a guy in wearing shoes with at least an inch of air in the soles flashy gloves with the fingers cut off them doing what could be called mini range deadlifts with a trap bar for multiple reps with maybe 30kg , and a line up of maybe 5-6 people waiting to do bicep curls.
3) An outdoor session with an out-of-shape middle aged lady doing wobbly walking lunges, hunched over struggling to hold the dumbells as her mid 20's aged personal trainer shoutd at her to keep going "push through it doesn't hurt thats the burn its good for you" ,yes believe it or not thats what was said.
5)At a martial arts class during warmup doing certain dynamic movements with students showing horribly poor form with no correction. Potentially warming up nothing but a future injury.
4) Even my own friends have said . "I love doing squats" then proceeded to do a power clean that resembled a reverse curl and held the bar in his hands a did maybe quarter squats with 30kgs (he weighed 92kg at the time)
Now as i said i am not a fitness insrtuctor but have been lucky to train with/learn under some great guys and am intelligent enough that through pavels books that i read /reread/studied /reread again. I have learnt to successfully employ many of the methods and principles to great effect. And I do hope earn my SFG cert. My problem is with this information known how is it that within the fitness industry supposed proffesionals can take peoples money while knowingly or unknowingly allowing the to workout ineffectivelly or potentially endager them.
Pavel and team that is why we need StrongFirst. I will do my best to spread the message .
All the best mate (do i have to say comrade i fee weird saying it can i say mate instead.)
First let me start by letting you know i am not in anyway an elite athlete , powerlifting guru accomplished martial artist, military service-men or fitness instructor of any kind. I'm just an everyday average bloke who's into everyday average bloke things. However I wanna do those things better than the other everyday average blokes and that includes being stronger than my mates and beating all challengers down at the local pub when we're all drunk and decide to have an arm wrestling comp.
Anyway I've been in and out of strength training and combat sports for the last 14 years. I was also fortunate enough to learn that training for strength and bodybuilding/toning/sculpting. Were not the same thing. So when i discovered Pavel and certain others I knew i was onto a good thing. however I have also seen many things that agitate me and causes me to despise the fitness industry.
I shall now list some of my gripes.
1) While walking past a well known personal training training studio I seen a woman doing bench-presses using probably a quarter of her weight with her feet on the bench arms splayed out wide while being supervised/spotted by her trainer.
2) Walked into a gym and seen a guy in wearing shoes with at least an inch of air in the soles flashy gloves with the fingers cut off them doing what could be called mini range deadlifts with a trap bar for multiple reps with maybe 30kg , and a line up of maybe 5-6 people waiting to do bicep curls.
3) An outdoor session with an out-of-shape middle aged lady doing wobbly walking lunges, hunched over struggling to hold the dumbells as her mid 20's aged personal trainer shoutd at her to keep going "push through it doesn't hurt thats the burn its good for you" ,yes believe it or not thats what was said.
5)At a martial arts class during warmup doing certain dynamic movements with students showing horribly poor form with no correction. Potentially warming up nothing but a future injury.
4) Even my own friends have said . "I love doing squats" then proceeded to do a power clean that resembled a reverse curl and held the bar in his hands a did maybe quarter squats with 30kgs (he weighed 92kg at the time)
Now as i said i am not a fitness insrtuctor but have been lucky to train with/learn under some great guys and am intelligent enough that through pavels books that i read /reread/studied /reread again. I have learnt to successfully employ many of the methods and principles to great effect. And I do hope earn my SFG cert. My problem is with this information known how is it that within the fitness industry supposed proffesionals can take peoples money while knowingly or unknowingly allowing the to workout ineffectivelly or potentially endager them.
Pavel and team that is why we need StrongFirst. I will do my best to spread the message .
All the best mate (do i have to say comrade i fee weird saying it can i say mate instead.)