Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Annoying Tom Personal trainer @ Asok WOW , Indian fortune tellers in Tops Supermarket and how to really smash your clients into submission

About a week ago I was Training in California WoW Asok when one of the TOM Personal trainers approached me while I was doing a set of straight arm lat pulldowns and starts ravelling off in Thai trying to correct my form , I assume she had never seen or understood the mechanics of this particular exercise and assumed I was doing a tricep exercise when I was actually focusing on my lats and rhomboids            








, I weigh 100kg by the way , been training for 25 years , Im built like a powerlifter because I was one and I still push 110 lb dumbells for reps in the db bench press. So I politely turned to her and said sorry I dont speak Thai , she rattled off something to the Korean hair styled PT next to her and walked away , I forgave her for interupting my set. Yesterday I was in  Asok WoW again just fininshing off my workout with some isolation exercises on tricep extension machine they have down stairs , I rarely do isolation work but I decided to chuck in a couple of exercises for variety , and again this silly dyke comes up and tries to correct my form , this time I was steaming looked her straight in the eye gave her my nastiest bad boy look and Said I told you I do not speak Thai , she promptly walked off complaining to her PT friend that I was farang & she doesnt speak english , I didnt let her know that I understood what she was saying .
Five tips for WoW Personal trainers
  1. Please actually educate yourselves about Weight training and conditioning before handing out advice to general population .
  2. Get some experience lifting weights yourself ( you must train yourself if you are a personal trainer).
  3. Dont get a korean style haircut & look at yourself in the mirror all day especially when you are supposed to be instructing your client.
  4. You are not really an elite trainer because you have managed to sell so many personal training packages to clients.
  5.  All of the above many times over. 
Korean Styled  haircuts should be banned

I guess there is a first for everything but I have never been approached by an indian fortune teller in a supermarket , until yesterday that is , he must have been very spiritual because he had a 3rd eye tatooed on his chest , so he approaches me and says u know u have a very interesting forehead , u are a very lucky man and u will have much good luck this year , but please sir I have something terrible to tell u , may I see your right thumb , I showed him , he said sir you are going to have a very long life but absolutely no success in your life , ummm ok I thought I was successful just making it to 41 and living in Bangkok , I apologised to him and said I couldnt hang around and listen to his fortune reading ie bullshit and I wondered at what stage he was going ask me for money , please go back to Bangladesh or sell nuts in NaNa plaza from now on .

Swami Sardar used to be a nut vendor in NaNa plaza

Tatch is my favourite client , she is a Thai lady educated In America and married to a French guy , she loves training and I can really push her to her limits , shes the perfect client , give me 10 clients with her attitude and Ill be the happiest trainer In Bangkok.
This is the workout I gave her this morning see if you can do it .
  • Warm up was 1 minute walk 1 minute sprint on the treadmill max speed 14.5 kmh for 7 minutes
  • We then got into the main workout first combo , 30 seconds skip , 30 second star jumps , 30 second prison squat , 20 reps dumbell squat and overhead press , 20 reps pushups ,shoulders were warmed up prior to this of course with some shoulder rotation and mobility exercises . This was repeated for three rounds no break in between sets but 2 minute break between rounds.
  • second combo was band resisted runs for 20 seconds , squating cable rows for 20 reps and kettlebell swings for 20 repetitions no rest between sets done for 3 rounds.
  • 3rd combo was Super slow deadlifts for ten reps , karate side kicks for 20 reps per leg and ab wheel rollouts for ten reps and hyperextensions 20 reps , I think we did this for two rounds as time was running out .
  • We finished with some planks and circular motion leg raises and then some static stretching .
She does this without any complaint and tries her hardest in every set , she hates squats but she does them to failure every time , thats what every trainer looks for in a client .
More training article to come

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