Training Partner

Deamoness

Hi,

I am looking for some one to help me work out three times a week, Wed, Sunday and other day is Negotaible. I need to be fit as the soliders are fit. I am very unfit at the minute and wantto get back to what I was.

At the minute I am in the northside region but am willing to travel.

If you think you can help me please contact me by email below

Thank You

D

Cliodhna.ocallaghan@hotmail.com

Hanley

Deamoness wrote:

I am very unfit at the minute and wantto get back to what I was.

What did you do to get where you "were"?

Why do people always want to get back to where they "were"? You'd swear everyone grew up fit, slim, strong and good looking!

Deamoness

Hanley wrote:

What did you do to get where you "were"?

Why do people always want to get back to where they "were"? You'd swear everyone grew up fit, slim, strong and good looking!

I was in the army for three years but I don't seem to have the motifation that I used to have hense the whole training partner. ow if your done insulting me leave this thread for people who want to help me.

Hanley

"Hi this is my first post. I've contributed nothing to this board and now I want somebody to bend over backwards to help me because I'm too lazy to read up and learn myself".

That is what your first post basically said.

My comment was not directed specifically at you, more at the general populous.

Deamoness

Hanley wrote:

"Hi this is my first post. I've contributed nothing to this board and now I want somebody to bend over backwards to help me because I'm too lazy to read up and learn myself".

That is what your first post basically said.

My comment was not directed specifically at you, more at the general populous.

Where the hell do you get off? Just stop replying or I will report you

Deamoness

oh and don't take your anger out on me because you are annoyed at other people

HardyEustace

Deamoness, I'm not picking on you but I really feel that I had to reply to this. While its always admirable that people have decided to make a change for the better, I'd have to agree somewhat with Hanley.

I know that it's difficult when you receive a reply that may not seem exactly what you anticipated, take a minute and re-read your post. When I read it first, it seemed to say to me
I want to make a change - (good, great, brilliant)
However instead of asking what changes you should start to make or maybe showing people what changes you have made, you instead phrase it

Deamoness wrote:

Hi,
I am looking for some one to help me work out three times a week, Wed, Sunday and other day is Negotaible. I need to be fit as the soliders are fit. I am very unfit at the minute and wantto get back to what I was.

At the minute I am in the northside region but am willing to travel.

If you think you can help me please contact me by email below

Thank You

D

Cliodhna.ocallaghan@hotmail.com

I know it's only a small point but instead of asking people if there would be anyone willing to train with you and maybe give you a bit of advice as to how to go about things, all I can read is "help me, help me, help me" without showing any information as to how you've helped yourself in the first place.

I'm only a beginner to this whole fitness thing myself but I have to say that I've found boards a great source of information and support. And Hanley has provided replies to some of the threads that I've posted asking for information/advice (thanks Hanley).

I'm only posting this as 1. this forum is a great tool in the changes needed to get fit, 2. maybe it'll help you realise how your original post was interpreted by some people, 3. Hanley is a regular poster to this forum and I think that your reply was a bit OTT, mind you, I think it was probably mis-interpretation and a little bit of defensiveness on your part.

The reason I think that you might have found the reply a bit terse is also due to the fact that people often rock onto the forum, don't bother to read the stickies or previous mails and then proceed to ask questions that people could often find the answer to by a little bit of searching in the first place-mind you, in fairness to the regulars on this forum, they never seem to tire of answering what's more or less the same question over and over again.

Hope this helps but remember you've to show a bit of initiative first. Your mail(correctly or incorrectly) gives the impression that you seem to want someone to be your (unpaid) personal trainer.....

daveirl

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walt0r

a/s/l, pix pls thx

Jak

There is absolutely nothing wrong with somebody posting and asking for a training partner. It was a fairly straight forward request.

Hanley your response seemed more for yourself than the poster - if it adds nothing and is likely to offend - please don't bother replying.

Waltor it wasn't funny 10 years ago either.

This is not a 'club board' and post count doesn't matter a damn.

JAK.

thirtyfoot

It depends what you are after but you could join a running club and you will have a multitude of training partners - Raheny & Clonliffe would be the northside's best bets - but this won't help you if its a gym based training partner you are after.

PS: Was coached by an army guy briefly in my teens, he was a legend and although in his 40's used to hammer the bejaysus out of us younger lads in training. His tales of endurance tests in the mountains etc were impressive.

Hail 2 Da Chimp

You could also join a martial arts club...

justsomebloke

stay on the look out from posts by Colm_OReilly as he is helping set up crossfit Ireland which is probably the type of workout that you will be looking for