LauraMax
Cathlete
w/a personal trainer. So bizarre. I had lunch w/a friend who's going to this guy's dinky little two room storefront gym. I seriously have almost as much equipment in my basement as he has in his "gym." We stopped in so she could say hello & naturally started talking about fitness. He told me I should have a free session w/him & he'd put me thru the w/o of my life. I was like OK, I'm always open to broadening my fitness horizons. Then he said something to the effect that there was no other PT in the world he'd trust b/c no one has his knowledge. He kept mentioning his NSAM certification. LOL! So I was asking him have you tried this, have you tried that, & he said no, I don't have to b/c I know there isn't anything any other fitness instructor in the world can teach me that I don't already know.
I asked him if he'd tried crossfit, he'd never even heard of it.
I told him there was a local crossfit gym & he should try it. He said he wouldn't b/c he was sure there was nothing useful he could learn from it. I asked him if he'd ever heard of Cathe Friedrich, who's internationally recognized as one of the cutting edge premier fitness instructors, & that she had a gym in NJ. He said he'd never heard of her, & he's sure her knowledge base doesn't even come close to his. At this point I'm just trying to end the conversation in a nice way out of respect for my friend, & I said that's OK, if you don't want to check it out I certainly won't try to force you, but for some reason he's getting super pissed that I won't acknowledge he's the best damn PT ever.
So after his 5th or 6th mention of his NSAM cert & how it's the highest level cert & there was nothing he could learn beyond it, I said actually it's NASM, not NSAM. This totally sets him off, & he literally starts yelling at me out in the parking lot & got rather insulting. He's "spent the last 20 years studying fitness, you don't know anything about it, blah blah blah." The last thing I heard out of his mouth was "you just keep driving around & doing your little Cathe Friedrich workouts........." There was more but I just tuned him out, got in my car & left.
Why is it that men cannot respect women's knowledge of fitness? I mean, he wasn't even in very good shape--he was muscular but from the chest down all you could see was a big ol' fat belly. I'm in much better shape than he is, but the very idea that I might know something about fitness that he doesn't really made him angry. What is up w/that?
Needless to say, I will not be taking him up on his offer of a free session.
I asked him if he'd tried crossfit, he'd never even heard of it.
I told him there was a local crossfit gym & he should try it. He said he wouldn't b/c he was sure there was nothing useful he could learn from it. I asked him if he'd ever heard of Cathe Friedrich, who's internationally recognized as one of the cutting edge premier fitness instructors, & that she had a gym in NJ. He said he'd never heard of her, & he's sure her knowledge base doesn't even come close to his. At this point I'm just trying to end the conversation in a nice way out of respect for my friend, & I said that's OK, if you don't want to check it out I certainly won't try to force you, but for some reason he's getting super pissed that I won't acknowledge he's the best damn PT ever.So after his 5th or 6th mention of his NSAM cert & how it's the highest level cert & there was nothing he could learn beyond it, I said actually it's NASM, not NSAM.
This totally sets him off, & he literally starts yelling at me out in the parking lot & got rather insulting. He's "spent the last 20 years studying fitness, you don't know anything about it, blah blah blah." The last thing I heard out of his mouth was "you just keep driving around & doing your little Cathe Friedrich workouts........." There was more but I just tuned him out, got in my car & left.Why is it that men cannot respect women's knowledge of fitness? I mean, he wasn't even in very good shape--he was muscular but from the chest down all you could see was a big ol' fat belly. I'm in much better shape than he is, but the very idea that I might know something about fitness that he doesn't really made him angry. What is up w/that?
Needless to say, I will not be taking him up on his offer of a free session.
