 Question is from Sean and bolt 84. What are some easy ways to spot a bad personal trainer? Hmm. I'll tell you an easy one eating on the floor. Oh Crossfit shirt, how funny Good dick. That's a big one. You know what dude? It's funny. You have to say that Adam But yeah eating on the freakin common dude I see it all the time and it like just drives me ever fire trainer for that bro hundred percent Yeah, that was that was like a no I get mad at the coffee cups like And that was a pushback I used to get from trainers like I'm like it just looks fucking lazy I'm all poured in a sport cup. I'm all so it looks like a water that you're drinking I don't I'm not gonna tell you what you can and can't drink on the floor because I get you need to be hydrated But drinking a fucking Starbucks coffee while you're leaning against the machine while while she's doing reps It's just a fucking bad. Look dude. I had a trainer who was eating potato chips while training While training a client on the workout floor just crumbling then when I bring him aside and ask him Like what are you doing, bro? You're eating potato chips on the fucking you know where he says to me goes I bro. I got a six pack. I know what my calories and my macros are. I'm gonna fuck what you look like Yeah, you're training a client is trying to lose weight and you're eating potato chips while they're doing I used to get into on my trainers that would come in because we had you know, you have we had a break room, right? And you know fucking go to McDonald's or Taco Bell hide the thrush it outside I know and then they come in I'm like listen I'm not gonna tell you what you can and can't eat everyone teach their own But come on man, you know, and they would say the same thing too. Hey, man, I know my macros look at my abs Look how great I look. I'm like yeah, but it's not what it's what you're the message You're sending to everybody else and not only that I can you bring in that smell when you come in McDonald french fries smell amazing Clients working out hard. Oh, I know what I'm doing after that psychological phenomenon as you get hard If you get tired you start to smell the food. So that's your first thing is if they're if they're drinking or eating on the floor I think that's just it. I'll tell you an easy one Are if is the trainer doing plio metrics with the client and having them get super tired doing the playoffs That's a bad trainer. So the the jumpbox is a part of a circuit Or any kind of exercise that's explosive, but that's not treated as an explosive movement, but rather as a fatigue Building movement that is a bad trainer and unfortunately you see that quite common Yeah, I mean if they're always like constantly kind of being their cheerleader is like push through it push through it like The intensity is always being highlighted all the time Yes, I'm steer clear of that for sure Well, that one could be a little bit harder The one that you guys just named right now because if you have the right athlete with good mechanics and there's it There's a there's a there's a purpose for their application of that that's hard But you know what I'm talking about. Oh, no hundred percent. I know and I think that it Regular person coming the gym may not have a trained eye to see the The poor mechanics now trainer a trainer will know another bad trainer who's doing this that's got the jump box They've got the jump rope They've got the you know overhead press or squat thrusters and they're running through the circuit And you can see when she's doing the jump box her knees are caving in You know, she's thumping down on the ground time. She does it like her back's all rounded like bad posture bad form But yet still getting pushed through a circuit like that's a really bad trainer I mean, but you if you see like someone doing something explosive and in a circuit But they look like if they look like a gazelle and they have great form and they look like an athlete There could be an application for what they're doing. I think it's the you know The overweight middle-aged male or female client that doesn't look like your athlete And that's usually who's doing that right right so that to me Yeah, I think you to make that distinction case by case Yeah, I think a trainer if you can watch trainers train their clients and are they paying attention? Close attention to their client right So are they walking around the client while the clients perform in the exercise? Are they careful to spot the client? So if something happens, they're there to catch the weight Or catch the clients. They don't fall. Are they watching them head to toe? Are they critiquing their form? I mean really that's the value of a trainer The true value of a trainer is the application the proper application of exercise from an exercise standpoint I should say because there's a lot of value to train that has nothing to do with exercise but from the workout standpoint is the trainer really paying attention to the form Oh tuck your elbows tighten up lift here control your rep You know walking around like you can tell when somebody's if you're really good if you're a really good trainer to me I feel like I'll see you during your your client will be doing a set of something could be anything right and While the client is doing the reps the trainer is constantly moving checking all am checking checking from the side Checking from behind checking in front. Maybe even talking giving little feedback You know open up slow down head up like they're giving these cues why they're going through and then when they're done with the set you'll see the trainer normally get in and Actually perform it and show the example of whatever he or she was speaking to during that rep like you know Notice how your elbows were rocking like this I want you to retract like this and hold back and they're demonstrating it again like they're showing the movement They just did they're showing it with better form They're critiquing it then they're putting them back in and doing it like there should be a lot of movement and engagement Happening between a trainer and a client if you have a really good trainer Yeah, I think I mean if you want to boil it down to two main attributes Is how much if you can tell that they really sincerely care and they're paying a lot of close attention They're communicating well With their client. I mean those things are you know paramount to make a good trainer You know the rest of it you can kind of tell on your own if like their experience level because I know I Sucked in the very beginning like I was doing some shit wrong and wasn't like too aware But I definitely cared deeply about like you know getting better and then also helping my client gets where they want to get You can also watch the clients do the clients look like they're enjoying Their workout and I know a lot of people thinking you're thinking oh, I mean enjoy your workout supposed to be hard and whatever Yeah, you can still see if somebody Enjoys the workout or if they don't now why is that important well? You're planning if you're planning on higher train hiring a trainer It's probably because you want to establish a good practice a good relationship with exercise And if you don't enjoy your workout sessions if you're writing them because your trainer is Whatever mean boring whatever You're not gonna have a good start so watch the client does the client look like They're enjoying their session is a look like they respect the trainer and then the presentation of the trainer This is a big one. I don't have to say this I don't think I don't really think I have to say this But if the trainers look sloppy like they're not really taking their job seriously because can you see this sometimes with trainers? They're probably not going to take the actual training portion seriously So I like the train that looks like they got dressed for the job Oh, I mean like shirt tucked in nice looking, you know clean clothes, you know ready to train their client hair combed Does that directly, you know? Communicate to the training skill and all stuff. No, but it does tell you that they kind of took it seriously Yeah, it's just professionalism any other job how you do anything is how you do everything