Standards in progs and technique slipping??

DangerMouse27

Hi Guys!

Ncef level 2 qualified here. I was pretty shocked to go to my local gym lately and see some shocking techniques being taught by qualified instructors. And as for program balance.. oh my god.

Il give one example of a girl i knew who was in there and working out on her own. Her prog was for fat loss and basically consisted of 3 sets of 20 reps of almost everything. It was almost as if she was on a grand tour of the place.

Im not a gym nazi or anything but sets of 20 seemed excessive and it wasnt just her. They were all on it!!
It also seemed that the guys who could lift heavy (incorrectly) were given free reign to do so. To prove this, they had a strongman comp in there where the winner benched with an arch on his back that looked like a bridge.

And this is a commercial gym? Any other old pros/trainers seeing this kind of thing as well?

cc87

Its the same in the majority of gyms around the place, nothing new or shocking really except it took me a while to figure out what a prog was.

Hanley

DangerMouse27 wrote: »

Hi Guys!

Ncef level 2 qualified here. I was pretty shocked to go to my local gym lately and see some shocking techniques being taught by qualified instructors. And as for program balance.. oh my god.

Il give one example of a girl i knew who was in there and working out on her own. Her prog was for fat loss and basically consisted of 3 sets of 20 reps of almost everything. It was almost as if she was on a grand tour of the place.

Im not a gym nazi or anything but sets of 20 seemed excessive and it wasnt just her. They were all on it!!
It also seemed that the guys who could lift heavy (incorrectly) were given free reign to do so. To prove this, they had a strongman comp in there where the winner benched with an arch on his back that looked like a bridge.

And this is a commercial gym? Any other old pros/trainers seeing this kind of thing as well?

You sound like one of the rare people who might have actually learned something on those courses

eoinob50

DangerMouse27 wrote: »

Hi Guys!

Ncef level 2 qualified here. I was pretty shocked to go to my local gym lately and see some shocking techniques being taught by qualified instructors. And as for program balance.. oh my god.

Il give one example of a girl i knew who was in there and working out on her own. Her prog was for fat loss and basically consisted of 3 sets of 20 reps of almost everything. It was almost as if she was on a grand tour of the place.

Im not a gym nazi or anything but sets of 20 seemed excessive and it wasnt just her. They were all on it!!
It also seemed that the guys who could lift heavy (incorrectly) were given free reign to do so. To prove this, they had a strongman comp in there where the winner benched with an arch on his back that looked like a bridge.

And this is a commercial gym? Any other old pros/trainers seeing this kind of thing as well?

agreed most people have shocking technique, but what is wrong with the guy arching his back as that is how powerlifters bench?

GASMANN

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Id say to avoid deadlifts unless you have a coach who can show you and get you to fix faults that unavoidably everyone has at the beginning of doing deadlifts.

The context for this, is i train with power sprinters and they are in bits from slightly poor deadlift form with excessive weight.

If you can, substitute hill runs or sand dunes if you have access.

Hanley

eoinob50 wrote: »

agreed most people have shocking technique, but what is wrong with the guy arching his back as that is how powerlifters bench?

I'd say it's fairly obvious that the majority of guys doing it aren't powerlifters, and arent arching correctly.

drdeadlift

I reckon the standard has always been ****te.If you aint going to study to become a pt go get a hardback book and learn a bit by yourself.
Council owned gyms along with Ben dun gyms have the worst staff of all,none of them give a fiddle about what they are meant to be doing apart maybe from the sales team.

DangerMouse27

I was just wondering, would any of you say anything to someone who you saw was lifting either incorrectly or dangerously?

Oh yes, these guys are not power lifters and in no way arching correctly.

eoinob50

DangerMouse27 wrote: »

I was just wondering, would any of you say anything to someone who you saw was lifting either incorrectly or dangerously?

Oh yes, these guys are not power lifters and in no way arching correctly.

ya granted most people don't have a clue of the proper technique.

and would i offer advice..depends as i find most people don't take advice too well so most of the time i just leave them at it and carry on with my workout, however if they are doing something completely dangerous i would say something alright and its up to them to listen or not.