start gym rant
So yesterday I'm doing squats in the squat rack and right next to me a guy and his gf are working out. Now mind you he is not training her, rather he is just helping her through the exercises and showing her a pointer or 2. Well the gym takes this as him training her and he isn't qualified to do so. Head trainer comes over and gives them a whole schpiel, and tells him that it seems like he's training her without any certifications and the gym is liable if she injures herself because of an exercise he showed her. Come to find out the girl isn't even a member, she came as a guest. So the trainer goes on to start selling her on joining and that she gets 2 free pt sessions. Takes down both their names, tells the guy he can lose his membership if he does this again.
I just about lost it when I heard/saw this all going down in front of me. First of all if all of this happened not because of money, but because the trainers actually cared if you used correct form I'd have no problem. The fact is they do this because they lose out on $90/hour pt rate. Plus if they're going to threaten my membership I would have told him to take me right now to cancel it because this is B.S. Luckily my gym is a franchise and I've only seen that happen at that particular location. I'm sure the other locations have the same policy but I've never seen it enforced in the 7 years I've been going there. But my issue is say you're spotting someone on a big lift and you tell them to go deeper or give them any advice, the gym can cancel your membership.
I was extremely fumed by this
end rant, I feel better.
And that motivated me to hit 405 on my squat (to parallel). Now if I could get my upper body to build like my lower body I'd be happening.