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[TheUrbanMyth]

Just to take this thread in another direction (temporarily) who hates gym trainers? (My rant for the day).

I just joined a new gym in town. My first day was okay, I did a leg workout and went home.

Today, I was there to train chest, and triceps. I was settling into the shoulder machine to do some warmups. I hadn't even set the weight for my first set when this big Korean guy steps in front of me and introduces himself as the gym trainer. He tells me before I workout I have to warmup. (usually I warmup with weights and a bit of stretching between warmup sets). Anyway he wanted me to either warmup with the treadmill or the bike. I figured okay, I'd play along and maybe he would get bored and forget about me. No such luck. After about ten minutes on the bike, he came along and started showing me how to do stretches. Most of them I could do okay, some I just couldn't get. But total flexibility is not my goal. Being more flexible than the average person is fine and that is where I am at.

After wasting half-an-hour of my time with this nonsense, I insisted that we weight lift. He wanted to do abs, but I told him it was my chest day. So we started doing chest (with machines) I wanted to barbell bench press. It was then that he asked me my goals. I told him that I wanted to be strong and that I used the bench, deadlift and squat. Apparently he misunderstood me, because he got this "Let's humour the crazy person" smile on his face and told me that in his opinion my body was not ready for the squat, deadlift and bench. I should start slow and work up to these lifts. We argued about this for a while, until it finally dawned on me that he thought (based on my performance in the stretches). So I told him I wanted to deadlift.

Giving in we walked over to the power rack and I set the pins about two inchs below my knees. (I choose to do partial deads for this demonstration). I then put on a pair of 15 kilo plates and did an set of warm-up's. Then a set of twenty's. All the while the trainer and his buddies watched with a look that said "When this guy can't lift what we can maybe then he'll admit we were right."
I got up to about 130 kilos for 5 reps. The trainer looked at me. Then he looked at the weight on the bar. "Uh, well if you need me, I'm at the counter." Then he walked away, and I was left alone to train chest. Finally!

Just had to get that off my chest (sorry for the pun)

[tsgarp]

Your mistake was humoring him in the first place. I would've just gone through my routine and told him "gajuseyo!" Go away please!

[Mr. Pink]

I hope I don't get that bull when I join a new gym this weekend.

I am going for 1 month memberships. If I join a gym where I get harassed, BOOM time to check out another place.

[Juggertha]

lmao for some reason i've heard tons of these stories about "personal trainers" in gyms. Both here and back home, for some reason these ppl seem to want to prove their worth.

I've never had one come up to me (ever) so i'm not really sure how i'd handle it. Both of the guys at my gym watched me and eventually asked if I could train them for abit (both were alot bigger than me actually).

I htink ya did fine though man. You could have told him to bugger off. You could have got in his face.. but why bother. Ya let him feel that he was doing his job and in the end he most likely realized you really didn't need his help.

who knows, if he can speak decent English you might have made yourself an eventual training partner?

[Juggertha]

My gym used to be better for that but for some unexplained reason the manager got rid of alot fo the free weights.

Still one set at 80lbs so not too bad off.

[Gideon]

I am new on here and was looking for some good places to work out. I just arrived here in Seoul a couple of weeks ago. And i am dying to get back into the gym. I am also looking for a partner who can be dedicated to working out at least 5 days a week. Anyone here up to the challenge please let me know. Thanks...

[Gideon]

Anyone know of some good supplement stores i can get some whey protien and other stuff???

[Juggertha]

[tokki]

[prairieboy]

[Juggertha]

I htink its about 50k for a big tup of protein or a med size tub of cell tech.

[rawiri]

how about creatine?, i live out of seoul but if i knew where to score some i would make a trip specifically for. any ideas gents?

[animalbirdfish]

[oldfort]

If you guys don't mind my butting in with endurance blather: I ran the half-marathon close to two hours yesterday. I think my time was 2:04, but a friend says that it was actually under, considering the time I spent after the start trying to get to the start line with the rest of the crowd. It's a sort of slow time, but okay for a first time, I guess. I didn't stop except for a few seconds to chug water/gatorade, and that made me happy because I haven't been eating properly the past week and a half because of stomach problems and so wasn't sure if I could run the whole thing, and finish it properly with a solid sprint at the end. But I did.

Anyway, I just had to say that--I felt good about the thing and now wish to tackle a full marathon. Best of luck with your own endeavours, and greatest fitness vibes to y'all/////////////////////////.

[Keepongoing]

Just joined a fitness center for 150,000 for 3 months. It has Buffalo equipment and free weights, all new. Anyway it has been years since I lifted. I was always taught that you exercised differebt muscles each day, giving at least a day of rest for each group? Well I was told by another teacher that I need to give each muscle group 3 days of rest? That seems like a lot of resting. I am not interested in bulk. I am interested in tone. I was going to do my shoulders, back, chest one day and my arms, legs and stomach the next, switching every other day.

Any advice?