When I got a job at the gym, I always wondered: what's next? You work as a trainer, you have a good relationship with the supervisor/manager, you work at the gym for a couple of years, you get a raise, maybe a senior trainer, you add a couple of group classes, you fulfill the plan (sometimes overfulfilling), you get a percentage increase in your salary, everything seems good. However, what's next?
Working at the gym, every time I came to the gym, I tried to find something new. Why this machine is in a given place, what track breaks down faster, how much dust could accumulate on the dumbbells + 50 kg, what bars are more common, how to change the initial performance of exercises at not standard height, what happens to this particular barbell / machine if you hang on it/him +200 kg and so on. There is one more big, BUT. I always pay attention to who and how trains a person. How he communicates with the client (I am concerned about the working moment), uses a certain algorithm, what he gives from the exercises, corrects, which schemes he uses in the training process and so on.
We were not waiting for the coronavirus (thanks to it, I was able to make a breakthrough), but by this period of time I had accumulated a lot of material, which I was saving up. I wrote down why it was better to do it this way, how to change it, why at this stage it was not necessary to do it, etc. With something I experimented in practice (I do not want to be a sofa theorist), but I realized that the work can go on a stream or individually. To decide certain aspects for myself, I also experimented with different training processes, on different contingents of people. From age and gender, to psychological state and discipline, to financial situation. For this reason I even changed gyms, from a large fitness club or a typical basement to a large gym, with a small shade of fitness, but there was a regular gym
Over a certain period of time of practice, which began in 2014, I realized that most people do not have a clear vision and algorithm. If we take the fitness industry, both clients and instructors are to blame. I want to draw your attention to the word instructor, not trainer. Today there are many instructors, but few trainers. And why is this so?
Because of social media, most people begin their training in this profession incorrectly. They start at the very end: which exercises to do and find a miracle program that will promote their progress. However, this is a mistake. You have to understand what happens to your body during a certain process, how this exercise will affect you, how to recover from it, and whether you can do it, the list goes on. However, when we see the result, we don't hesitate to do it again. The worst thing, the instructor, finds a miracle scheme and starts to run a certain type of his charges through it. A kind of propaganda begins. Now we are going to go step by step, where you start and what you end up with. You can apply this algorithm when you are looking for a trainer.
Task number one: Understand the basics of physiology. Why? Have you heard about the opinion of 6 repetitions for strength, up to 8-12 for mass, over 12 for relief? And why is a sports nutrition seller aggressively trying to shove you creatine in addition to protein? What is the difference between growth hormone and steroids? Why someone is concentrated and silent before a lift, and the other one flies under the bar with swearwords? Why shouldn't I go to a gym that doesn't have a air extractors machine? Why does someone drink water in an unusual color when you don't need it? And most importantly: why you should not put pharmaceutical shots in the toilet, and it's not in unsanitary conditions, but in the heating of the oil and the risk of embolism. The list goes on. But before you go to the gym, you have to understand how and what works. How the whole thing will affect you. Elementary the adaptation process of the program, which for some people it can go faster, and they can do 15-20 sets for one muscle group and prove that the split system is our everything, while for others 5-6 working sets are enough, and still in fullbody style for six months. Until you discover the basics of physiology, you will not find the correct answers to your questions and you will continue to follow strange prescriptions.
To be continued, there are at least four more important aspects
