Becoming a Health & Fitness Counselor

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Hello,

I am about venture into the fitness trend, becoming a health & fitness counselor for a California-based sports club. Has anyone had any success or horror stories about this position? Please contribute!
 
The horror story I usually hear is that someone who shouldn't be training athletes is training athletes.
 
I have a concern about the use of the the phrase "venture into the fitness trend".

Though I do hear the Prada is releasing a new squat rack.
 
Lmao. Be honest, rev. Have you been watching The Workout on Bravo?

Terrible show, btw. I don't even think they have a squat rack in that entire facility.
 
I caught it last night and I don't want to even talk about just HOW much wrong they do on that show. I can't believe someone gets paid 400 bucks an hour to let obese women do bad formed planks and tell them to eat 1350 calories a day.

That is fitness trend for you.
 
Seriously. They had a 5'6" 130 lb guy eating something like 3500 calories a day or some bull**** like that. The trainer was talking about how proud he was that his client put on 5 lbs in three weeks.
 
theleip said:
I can't believe someone gets paid 400 bucks an hour to let obese women do bad formed planks and tell them to eat 1350 calories a day.

That is fitness trend for you.
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The best is when they said they want each client eating 1300-1500 calories per day when just about all of them, that I've seen, have different stats. I really do like the concept of the show however there are somethings that I do not agree with, training/diet-wise, as well.

I'm hoping we only see a fraction of what really goes on there which I'm sure is the case, being that it's a TV show.
 
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That's true, they focus a lot on the "drama" of it all, and we all know hard work in the gym is a lot about shutting up and doing what we need to get done, so we probably don't see the real "hard workers" of that gym, if there are any there.
 
I'm a guilty viewer of the show, and watch it every week. :(

The episode where the trainers had their bodyfat tested amused me, because their percentages were obviously embellished for television. Doug (the old guy) clearly has less bodyfat than Brian, and if the girls' bodyfat were as low as 13%, they'd be aggressively shredded.
 
LeanBean said:
I'm a guilty viewer of the show, and watch it every week. :(

The episode where the trainers had their bodyfat tested amused me, because their percentages were obviously embellished for television. Doug (the old guy) clearly has less bodyfat than Brian, and if the girls' bodyfat were as low as 13%, they'd be aggressively shredded.
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Geez, like there's not enough confusion about bodyfat percentages already :rolleyes:

~Nicole
 
OF course that's what they do, It's all about ratings. I think the biggest loser is rediclous is many aspects, but really, how boring would it be to watch them train properly and not follow a script when someone is elimated, or build it up when they "get on those scales". As someone who knows about health and fitness, shows like this are annoying but you have to understand that the target audience is regular joe.
 
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