Low Standards in the Fitness Industry

i love that you're filling that gap and i think you're doing the industry a great service uh by helping trainers improve their standard because the standard is pretty fucking low in the industry generally i would say real fucking low i mean it's a very low barrier to entry thing like anyone can go get their training certification it's the cert three four so basic your grave your grandmother decided tomorrow that she wanted to train she could be a trainer within six weeks and she's never fucking lifted a weight in her life it's even worse in america where you can do a two-day course you can do a weekend course and be a trainer oh my god oh my god worse than that some people don't even need to do the little shitty course to call themselves a trainer because like there's not a lot of uh what's the word i'm looking for there's not a lot of um the barrier for entry is really low but you can just call yourself a trainer and someone's going to be like i'll hire you they're not going to ask you they're going to assume that you're qualified and you know what you're talking about I mean you see it in every segment of our industry too I remember you you you I like I started powerlifting when I was like 14 And I powerlifted for a long time And I got to what would be considered a pretty pretty probably the nowadays the lower end of what would be considered elite level powerlifting And it took me, you know, 13, 14, 15 years to get there. And so for me, everybody, I became a personal trainer when it wasn't cool to be a personal trainer. Like nobody was a personal trainer. That was my mom even said to me when I decided to become one, she goes, this is just going to be a hobby. You'll never make a career out of this. Right. And so like, that's how kind of taboo it was to teach people how to exercise. And there wasn't a big market for it. So then when everybody started doing it, I decided, you know what, well, I do strongman and I do powerlifting. And I've done that since I was 14. I'm going to call myself an S&C coach, because that's kind of what I do really. And I don't want to be a personal trainer. So then everybody started calling themselves an S&C coach. So you would get guys that were 65 a kilo soaking wet who couldn't fucking bench press the body weight they couldn't even squat their body weight and they would call themselves a strength and conditioning coach i'm like what kind of fuck it are you a strength and conditioning coach for toddlers because i don't understand like you're not fucking strong and you've never been strong like if you've never had if you've never had say 310 on your back trying to do a deep squat you can't possibly understand the difference between that and 150 like there's a massive difference between that being able to breathe being able to move like the mechanics completely changed so you know where you would like you and i all do now with the with like bodybuilding and stuff which i'm trying i'm like kind of getting away from that i can't i just can't do it anymore man i can't deal with all the mommy daddy issues and all that other shit um but like you'll get somebody who decided to do a show and they'll do a show in like fucking miles where there's like three contestants and they'll place because there were only three contestants so they'll be like oh i placed i placed third in my first show now i'm a competition coach and you're like you were the least shitty looking person on stage there was only three people there like you'll see people get there that you'll get your pro card by default because you were the best out of two like just it's just us our industry so it's so wacky man because you can basically do whatever the fuck you want to do. And unless you hurt someone, no one's ever going to do anything about it. Even if you do, we know plenty of people that have injured and harmed their clients in many ways. And what are the repercussions? Like most of the time there's not. There was a Sydney trainer that had a squat problem go viral. I can't remember who it is. But they basically had a dude back squatting outside of a safety cage in the middle of a fucking fitness first floor. He could barely stand with the weight on his back. And he's like, go on then. you can do this and he's he's personal trainers like spotting him and he crumbles forward drops the bar and then the personal trainer goes over his back like a jockey because he's getting pulled by the bar it went that motherfucker is still training people because i didn't realize who it was until like maybe like a year ago i saw him pop back up i was like oh he's still in the industry that's interesting like there's plenty of trainers trainers we shouldn't give them that title plenty of people that uh try and coach people um in federations that are untested and gear them to the fucking gills and their health and they do it with nutrition as well and girls just don't have their period for years on end or there's all these negative consequences that they didn't foresee happening and wouldn't have agreed to if they knew um and these these people just continue on like you wanted to do a competition you know