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  1. Kyle Aaron

    harassment/cyberstalking

    I feel I must have missed something. But perhaps I'm not missing anything.
  2. Kyle Aaron

    Best place to buy sports clothes

    You will be squatting. You will need something stretchy to accommodate both squatting and its results.
  3. Kyle Aaron

    Beneath the fake tan and muscles lurks the dangerous world of fitness competitions

    For too many, bodybuilding is like a self-diagnosed "food intolerance", it's just a socially-acceptable eating disorder.
  4. Kyle Aaron

    Suggestions/Info needed

    Did you learn to sing by yourself without a teacher? I'm not spruiking for business, I wouldn't train you. Too much questioning, not enough lifting. But someone should train you.
  5. Kyle Aaron

    Routine Critique Please!

    You mentioned being inconsistent due to time constraints. So your routine has to allow for that. An okay routine you do regularly works better than a great one you do now and then. I would go for something shorter and simpler, like one day squat and press, the other day bench and deadlift, edge...
  6. Kyle Aaron

    Suggestions/Info needed

    Coaching, G-man. Don't be a tightarse.
  7. Kyle Aaron

    Suggestions/Info needed

    G-man, just go to a gym with a competent trainer. You don't need options right now, you just need to start and go on with it. It works best with an instructor, believe me. Glance over some old threads here, then see how few people ever come back to report on their success.
  8. Kyle Aaron

    Suggestions/Info needed

    I had forgotten that, Fadi, it being more than five years ago. It's actually not bad. Someone coming to train with me I'd have them progress faster, but nothing awful would happen to a person if they did all that on their own, it would be a not bad foundation.
  9. Kyle Aaron

    Suggestions/Info needed

    It's true that most people will do better with competent instruction than doing everything on their own. You'll know this from your singing: there are a rare few who developed their ability by themselves, but most had some instruction. You don't need to pay $150ph for a competent trainer. I've...
  10. Kyle Aaron

    Fuck your body positivity voice, and fuck your millennial heroes

    He seems kind of emotional. But he did mention being on a cut.
  11. Kyle Aaron

    Education

    I talked a bit about strength standards here, taking them as a percentage of world records. Most people would do very well if they got to 50% of an (age-matched) world record in strength or cardio - it'd totally change their lives. Past that won't improve their lives much and is really only...
  12. Kyle Aaron

    Education

    2/3 of new gym members do not take the "free" (actually paid for by joining fee) initial appointments offered. Of those who do, 2/3 do not do the programme given more than once. So 8/9 of gym members are not doing a routine given them by a trainer working there. A very few will have programming...
  13. Kyle Aaron

    Education

    Quals don't determine session fees, it's location. PT at Fitness First Melbourne Central will cost more than FF Shepparton. And half your income goes to facility rent (commercial gyms) or as a straight percentage (community gyms). The real income limit to PT is hours. Fitness is basically a...
  14. Kyle Aaron

    Education

    For 4 years I worked at the Y, which had none of us on its websites. And virtually nobody in a mainstream gym knows who Rip is. Or Dan John, or Pavel Tstatsouline, or anyone like that. That's shit that (sometimes, but usually not) impresses people who are either trainers (who as I said, rarely...
  15. Kyle Aaron

    Education

    As I said, over 100 people trained, nobody asked. Dave Tate - who used to be a PT - explains it. "When you drop your car off at the Quickie Lube, do you demand to see the mechanic/technician’s credentials, ask him how long he’s been changing oil, or quiz him on his knowledge of the internal...
  16. Kyle Aaron

    Education

    So you got unlucky. It happens, unfortunately. As I said, these are unusual things, which is what makes the person top 10%. And the first 3 are entirely the trainer/coach's decision, only the 4th requires knowing something. Well, maybe the 3rd a bit, too, but... Anyway, though it makes you top...
  17. Kyle Aaron

    Education

    Here you are asking people who have never been nor hired a trainer. It's like asking your vegan friends a recipe for steak and kidney pud, futile. Potential clients don't care about qualifications, since they have no idea what's required. Other trainers desperately care, but trainers don't hire...
  18. Kyle Aaron

    Squat as a unit

    So technical a toddler and a 6yo can do it. "This thing I think is important is really complicated. This other less important thing is really simple." Or maybe, it's neither, it's just difficult enough that you do actually need a method, but not so difficult that, given a method of some sort...
  19. Kyle Aaron

    Squat as a unit

    Unfortunately, many newbies do not know how to move their body as a unit, so they do need relatively detailed instruction. I was always puzzled by weightlifting coaches who'd tell me it takes about two years to learn to snatch properly, but when they coached the squat, said, "Well, just go...
  20. Kyle Aaron

    US woman cuts off Husbands Penis!

    I thought this thread was going to be about Grunta.
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