You mentioned that anybody could purchase a certification and then mentioned you know well accredited people who do not know what they are talking about so what would your solution to your problem be?
Power in classic lifts and variants is built with 30-70%. You never want to completely eliminate heavy work though just not RPE 9-10s and Lower volume.
You never want to completely eliminate heavy work though just not RPE 9-10s and Lower volume.
It only doesn't make sense because you do not want it to make sense. It in fact makes perfect sense.
Look up Seles adaptation syndrome. If you do not train to get stronger your top end strength with eventually regress. I said you shouldn't eliminate heavy lifting. I said that you should still lift heavy but tone down the intensity and volume and put more of the focus on speed/power/conditioning. Doing RPE 9-10s is too fatiguing when your focus shifts from gaining max strength. Training with the goal of maintenance doesn't really work over the long term.
Tough one, it's a complicated mix of societal problems like greed and dishonesty right from the start, fuck if I know how to fix those.
I am not saying anything about eliminating heavy lifting. 2.5 x your bodyweight is heavy lifting for most of the population.
With the advent of the internet in 1983 there really isn't a good solution. That is why in history class they teach you that you dont have to know history all you have to know is how to look it up. We pretty much have all of the same information right at our fingertips. Employers or clients just want to see that you have made a legitimate effort on the subject. In all reality nobody really needs a trainer at all these days but rather just know how to program and maybe a form check. I wasn't prodding for anything. I am just wondering what your thoughts were. The science of training has more or less been figured out. People used to say that training was an art but it really isn't but rather applied science.
The art is in dealing with the human factors of emotions, motivation and technique. I pretty much quit doing online training since covid, market got saturated with all kinds of clowns with copy/paste knowledge and undercutting pricing. The art is also in knowing what science to apply in each situation and for different goals. Being that I'm all about hypertrophy and strength the goal is most often about putting weight on people and developing work ethic, a lot of folks are not working as hard as they think they are.
Emotions dont even really matter IMO. If you actually care to reach your goal then that is what makes one do the work. If you dont care you simply wont do the work. Who gets more benefit the guy that sits on his couch and watches wheel of fortune but is happy to be doing it or the guy that goes out for a 2 mile run but absolutely hates exercise?
It's dealt with by requiring regular requalifications. It's the idea behind fitness certs for personal trainers. They are required to do a certain numbers of units a year where i am. Same with other health professions.
Although the answer to your question is very obvious I guess we have a wildly different way of looking at a coaches role, folks that don't need any mental help are extremely rare. AI isn't close yet in a lot of ways, it can't sense when someone needs some feedback be that positive or negative. It can't tell you whether someone has another rep or set in them. It can't tell if a guy is distracted cause his wife is fucking around or his dad just died.
The current AI available on the internet and these apps is just consolidating all the highest viewed/rated search results into a semi coherent output.
Assuming the info is good requalifying is great but garbage in, garbage out. Everything I said does not apply to well run programs, I'm asserting that those are far too uncommon. And most importantly my point is that FACTS are what matters, the output of the person with all the certs in the world is garbage if they are pumping out bullshit, having a piece of paper doesn't mean you are always right.
Have you seen the new AI programs? The pre workout questionnaires and post workout questionnaires are basically capable of being a psychologist. Honest answers to the question tells you exactly how many sets and reps to do. Bar speed devices are also a thing now to tell you when to stop. It is kind of like baseball where umpires aren't even actually necessary anymore because of technology. Why should anyone trust a PT to have the answers to these questions when technology has the answer to your questions and issues when they could just as easily be blinded by something in their decision making?
Not really it isn't. What coach has the time to program for enough people to make a great living while also having to answer detailed questions about every aspect of ones lifestyle? AI is the only thing that makes any sense unless you yourself are a robot and are going to stay up all night every night configuring the calculations for thousands of trainees at one time.
A good example is if you go on twitter or something and their is a pic or video and someone asks Grok or whatever AI "what's happening here" or "what is this" some of the interpretations are insanely inaccurate
Yeah that's where you need to educate yourself i guess. I will be honest I can find some pretty awesome stuff from reputable sources on Instagram these days. Then i go and find some recent studies that support it and then I find some that don't.
No they aren't. People can't be honest with themselves, your RPE 10 might actually only be your RPE 8 when your coach says you have more in you. Plenty of time I thought I hit my max for that exercise, was told to make a big jump next week and hit another PR for that lift. Bar speed devices are ok, but that's only for specific types of sessions. A coach can do the same thing in session. AI can't tell i am flat because I slept poorly, had a car accident on the way to the session and just got a huge bill.
