alright despite the name of this post i just have to say it was mostly in humor. You see there was a young girl I used to train who I nicknamed “beefcake” not because she looked like an ogre or anything like that but just as a testament to her strength. When you look at this girl something about her tells you that she had been a college athlete (I pegged her as a soccer player and I was right). Nothing about her tells you that she may be a guy or overly big or anything like that. She simply looked like an athletic girl. One of the things that separated her from others is she genuinely enjoyed seeing what she is made of and she was very strong (which is why we nicknamed her beefcake). She developed 2 favorite exercises which if I had let people design there own programs it would have been her because her two favs were the turkish getup and the renegade row. Her turkish getup was very very impressive. She was able to put up 75lbs with her dominant side and 70lbs with her nondominant side. I tell you it was quite funny when she laughingly walked out of the training room telling the “boys” what she did which put some of them in a frenzy to try and show her up and others were essentially castrated from it.

Now what can ladies learn from this? Being strong is cool and if she can put up that much weight without magically transforming into an ogre then you have nothing to fear by putting up half of that. Be strong and be beautiful.

So today is my last day working in a corporate gym and I am relieved to finally go. Lets just say it isn’t my thing. With the exception of a few the people for the most part are unmotivated, stubborn, selfish and purposefully ignorant. I grow tired of answering the same old quetion “Which human size hamster wheel is better, the treadmill or the elliptical?” or “How do I use the gyno chair?” (). I tell ya some of the members are down right infuriating in how self centered they are. There is a sign in sheet where if you sign in enough times you get a free tshirt. Well one day a member was irate that the sign in sheet wasn’t there. So let me get his straight…you are mad because the free gym you are training in isn’t giving you the free sh!t you THINK you deserve??? Get the hell out of my site you greedy bastard. And there is the one guy that would come in 5 minutes before I would be able to close saying “I just want to get a good sweat.” It wouldn’t have been infuriating if he was using a productive workout protocol but instead he was doing useless crap. And if he really needs a good sweat run up and down the stairs a couple times and let me go home to do something productive instead of babysitting. Good riddance.

Ok so now that that rant is over I can go onto some of the things I enjoyed. I enjoyed working with the ones that were tough enough and open to my suggestions. The ones that preferred turkish getups to crunches and renegade rows to the ab chair. The ones that trained to get stronger and guess what??? They were actually achieving their goals. A girl I trained went from doing turkish getups with 10lbs to 45lbs. Strange things happen when you listen to me…fancy that. Well I feel good knowing that the ones I worked with were paying attention enough to be able to do it on their own and even show others how to do it too. The ones that didn’t pay attention are going to go with the rest of the sheep and not get the results they want because they train based on what is more enjoyable rather then what works. Oh well you can bring a horse to water but you can’ make it drink. I am on to bigger and better things. Just you wait and see what I have planned. Its going to be badass as hell.