Let’s say you go to the gym, go to your trainer and ask him what to do about your ‘weight’ loss goals. He lectures you about your diet and tells you to do some cardio. For cardio, he asks you to do a 1000 crunches, a 1000 leg raises, 500 side bends each side and 500 twisters. Then, he asks you to do some weight training. And the same cycle goes on every day; same exercises, same reps, same weights. You experience weight loss for the first couple of months but a year later, you regain that lost weight. Then, you are not able to lose weight with the same old workout that the trainer has told you to do. The trainer keeps blaming your diet, but you are following your diet strictly; no rotis, no fried food, no rice, only boiled vegetables, boiled meat, boiled daal (pulses) and raw paneer (cottage cheese). If this is you, there is a good chance that you are being ripped off by a bodybuilder claiming to be a trainer.
First and foremost, the pre-requisite for anyone to call themselves a trainer is a certification. If your trainer is a bodybuilder or a ‘guruji’ as they are often called in local gyms, chances are that he only knows bodybuilding at best and nothing else. He will sell you unnecessary supplements like fat burners or even steroids without telling you why you need them. In some cases, they sell steroids even to 15-year-old boys. Is he really a trainer? No way!
Now, let me come back to the situation I explained before. All these exercises are not ‘cardio’. You would have to do 20000 reps of each exercise for them to qualify as cardio. The leg raises and the crunches are for strengthening and conditioning your rectus abdominis muscle or your six pack, which is of no use if you have a stubborn layer of belly fat. And the other two exercises are barely just moving around, at the most I would call them dynamic stretching. Either way, these exercises will not help you reach your fitness goals.
Two simple pieces of advice you need to follow to avoid getting ripped off by a guruji or a google-search expert,
(1) Ask for his certification and ensure that he is certified by a good brand such as Reebok, ACE, ACSM, NSCA, NASM, K11 to name a few. Even a certified physiotherapist can be a good trainer.
(2) Ask questions frequently. If your trainer tells you to just follow his instructions without answering your queries, something is definitely wrong there.
(1) Ask for his certification and ensure that he is certified by a good brand such as Reebok, ACE, ACSM, NSCA, NASM, K11 to name a few. Even a certified physiotherapist can be a good trainer.
(2) Ask questions frequently. If your trainer tells you to just follow his instructions without answering your queries, something is definitely wrong there.
If you follow this advice, 9 times out of 10, you can avoid such fake trainers who are smearing our good name. Another thing I would like to mention is, if your trainer is providing you with nutritional advice, please ask for a certification which clearly states that your trainer is a certified nutritionist. DO NOT follow, I repeat, do not follow any trainer without a certification. Renowned dieticians can also not be relied upon since they simply suggest fad diets which lead you to negative results.
Kshitij Vashisth
Fitविज्ञान
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