Bait and Switch
My gym fired the PT’s who were working for them and hired out a company who provides gyms with their PT’s.
The first day they were there, I was so rudely interrupted by a trainer whom I’ve dubbed "Jillian" because she looks just like her and she’s FIRED UP like her too. Very intense.
I politely said I have someone who provides me with my workouts…thank you very much.
After another round of recruiting, I went as far as showing her the workout I had to do that day and since then, she’s left me alone except to tell my workout partner and I that she watches what we do and that we really inspire her.
She said this while she was with a client as she pointed us out and told the woman how hard we work.
A couple of women we know who workout regularly decided to take the PT’s offer of a free session and told us about their sell.
You have to sign a 1 year contract for $180 per month which gets you 5 sessions per month.
Considering I pay $15 per month in membership fees I say pisha! to that.
One of the women I’m friendly with at the gym had a free session with a male PT who is a hottie.
I was kidding around with her while the PT stepped away as she was curling 5 lb weights.
I told her she has to go heavy. The PT came over and asked her what I said and then introduced himself. We shook hands!! Teehehe.
Finally, there is a PT who looks like Grandpa Lou Pickles. He doesn’t believe in doing the leg press. I heard him say this while I was doing the leg press.
So, my workout partner and I were kidding around saying that the hottie is the one who makes you bite, then when you sign on, they give you Jillian or Lou Pickles.
I’m not falling for that scheme!
October 28, 2009 at 5:56 am
$180 per month?! That’s ridiculous.
October 28, 2009 at 6:06 am
Grandpa Lou the trainer. For $180 a month, you should get the hottie.
We’ve got twenty or so PT’s at my gym and only one seems to really TRAIN. The rest are hired companions for fat, lazy, upper middle class women who really just want someone to walk around the gym with them and tell then what a great job they are doing.
The Jillian thing, I’m jacked up enough in the gym on my own, I don’t need a pissed off Bitter Woman yelling at me about anything. Just my two cents.
October 28, 2009 at 6:06 am
AH HA Lou Pickles, he was a Man’s Man!
October 28, 2009 at 6:11 am
He’s built like a brick port-a-potty.
October 28, 2009 at 7:04 am
I have to agree. With the exception of one trainer at my gym, the rest seem like workout companions. Lou Pickles rocks.
October 28, 2009 at 7:25 am
For $180 a month, I want a new body.
October 28, 2009 at 8:26 am
WOW…that IS expensive…I could get all "uppity" and list many a’ reasons I won’t spend that much money on a PT, until I humbled myself and realized that I guess it’s better for people to spend their $180 a month on that, then Mcdonalds….LOL…but until I hit the jackpot, it’s me on my own….
I agree, should DEFINATLY get the hot one for that much money…LOL
October 28, 2009 at 8:50 am
$180 for eye candy and some chick yelling at me…humm only if i get to touch and yell back :0)
October 28, 2009 at 9:19 am
Once you break down the numbers, $36 a session isn’t a bad deal. But what can you do with five sessions a month? Sounds like a way for the facility to lock members into two contracts - the PT contract essentially securing the membership contract. Also the PT company doesn’t have to create comprehensive exercise programs for the clients, they can just have their trainers follow people around once a week and occasionally correct form. No thank you. Potential clients would get better results with a three session a week, five month contract, at the same price.
Hopefully Grandpa Lou Pickles (thanks for the Rugrats reference) wasn’t with a client when he said he doesn’t believe in leg presses. They’d only have to look at your legs to know something is off with that statement.
October 28, 2009 at 9:33 am
I think hiring a PT is well worth it if you are new to weightlifting or aren’t sure about your form or don’t want to take the time to put together your own workouts (or in my case don’t have someone AWESOME who does them for you!). But to hold someone to a year long contract is absurd!
I think you should take a picture of the hottie and post him in your gallery so we can all see him
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October 28, 2009 at 11:03 am
I could never be a PT. Because my workouts for the hot women would look like this…
"Ok, today we are working on your ass" (repeat for every session) And that will be no charge today
And for the fat people
"Ok, go get on the cardio and until the fat comes off" (repeat for every session). And that will be $100
October 28, 2009 at 11:15 am
Broadstance, I over heard Grandpa Pickles make the leg press comment to a client.
Janthony, you’d be a rich man because there are a lot of women who need the cardio.
October 28, 2009 at 11:40 am
Smart woman. They could all learn from just watching what you do and using that. For $180 a month I want them to do the workouts and me reap the benefits.
October 28, 2009 at 11:53 am
While I love the idea of going to a gym and seeing what some built guys would be doing to get so built, I’d still miss out on what they eat, or if they do anything else outside the gym (like cardio or non-workout exercise).
But hey, if a person can afford a trainer, and IF the trainer helps them push harder than they would on their own, it might be worth it. I can’t see blowing $180 a month on one though.
October 28, 2009 at 12:53 pm
HA! I just had the Maya and the blackstreet version of Rugrats played for my cousin last night at the bar too! Thats a lot of money too, but PT’s gotta make their income as well to feed their mini mes. Funny how they use that guy for bait though…
October 29, 2009 at 8:07 am
That’s almost as bad as the trainer at Fitness Together, the private gym guys. He wanted $900 for 18 sessions and then he’ll throw in the last 2 sessions for free… Of course this over a 7 week period at 3 workouts a week. Go figure. And no he wasn’t hot.
October 29, 2009 at 8:13 am
personal trainers are like lawyers - very high opinions of themselves and their putative knowledge, very few that actually know wtf they are talking about.