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Nice. I don't believe for a second that he talks to his male clients that way. If he does, he's probably going to get a weight plate in the face one of these days. I've trained some guys who may not be as strong as me but I damn sure wouldn't speak to them that way lest I ended up with a barbell sticking up my ass before I could say, "but I kid you".

I hate this tough guy rhetoric so much, I can't tell you. You can not help a person while judging them. You can't. You certainly will not get too far by chewing them out and calling them fat in 20 different ways.

People say things based on what they want to believe, their wrong perceptions, etc. that sound silly. But hitting them over the hand with tough guy rhetoric will not change their way of thinking, it will just put them on the defensive and make it that much tougher to penetrate past these misconceptions. However, I don't claim to be able to get any female to 12 pull ups in 12 weeks so I may not be qualified to make such statements. The pullup is not the French omelet of strength training.

There has been a conception created by certain TV shows and by some internet famous personal trainers about how personal training, for strength, fitness, fat loss, what have you, is done and this image of the abusive drill sergeant type guy is the central one called to people's minds. I'm here to tell you, that ain't how it's done. Anybody who got away with acting like that would simply be holding on to those trainees who were easily bullied and victimized. Most people will tell you where to stick it and walk away, if not worse. The people who will react to it in the way you want them to, you've actually made things worse for them because you have reinforced the very perceptions about themselves that made it possible for you to bully them in the first place.

Omg…what a terrible way to treat people.

I don't think any trainer who talks like that(or for that matter anyone working with a client) will have a client for long. LOL, he'll be out of a job in the time that it takes to utter such nonsense. Though, you have to admire Poliquin's marketing savvy. I think he should train other fitness people on how to "market" themselves. That might be his true calling.

Btw, did anyone catch this gem in there? :

2. Cardio training on electronic equipment increases the risk of developing diabetes. Cardio training done on electric equipment such as electronic bikes has been shown to accelerate insulin resistance because of the exposure to dirty electricity. (Havas, 2008).

So the key to success is to take people that need help, take their money, and then verbally berate them.

There is a better way to handle stupid comments but I don't necessarily think they are stupid. The person may have lost 7kg, it may have been 7kg when they weighted themselves last and don't understand weight fluctuates. Or may have weighed themselves at inconsistent times or with different scales. A person may THINK they are eating well because they do not know much about nutrition. The last comment is totally ridiculous, you ask anybody off the street, trained or untrained, how to lose weight and I bet you they will say cardio. Maybe instead of berating he should be educating.

But it's good to know that electronic equipment will give me diabetes…Good post brahski.

Btw, did anyone catch this gem in there?

Yep, but I didn't want to point everything out, lol, ruins the surprise.

But it's good to know that electronic equipment will give me diabetes…

That's ridiculous. Everybody knows that diabetes has nothing to do with dirty electricity; it is caused by a vibration that electronic equipment induces in the body's water molecules, thus rendering their energy's incompatible with other water's resonant frequency, and so depleting the water's chemical memory manifesting in insulin resistance and diabetes.

That was rude.

How on earth does any one say such things to their client.

That's ridiculous. Everybody knows that diabetes has nothing to do with dirty electricity; it is caused by a vibration that electronic equipment induces in the body's water molecules, thus rendering their energy's incompatible with other water's resonant frequency, and so depleting the water's chemical memory manifesting in insulin resistance and diabetes.

Please, don't give the homeopaths ideas. : P

How on earth does any one say such things to their client.

When they are really drunk or high. : P

^^^ Look at Dev recognizing the homeopathy reference!

Please, don't give the homeopaths ideas. : P

They don't need my help; they have far richer imaginations than I do.

That's ridiculous. Everybody knows that diabetes has nothing to do with dirty electricity; it is caused by a vibration that electronic equipment induces in the body's water molecules, thus rendering their energy's incompatible with other water's resonant frequency, and so depleting the water's chemical memory manifesting in insulin resistance and diabetes.

Thanks for clearing this up for me! I've been hung up on the dirty electricity hypothesis for a long time, now, so it's good to know how things really work.

Can diabetes be treated by drinking superoxygenated water?

^^^ Only if the water is run through a magnetized filter.

Speaking of which: Oxygenated water