PS Sometimes you need to educate your clients on why the big lifts are important. The general public is so used to defining weight training as "selectorized machine training," that they don't even understand the benefits of the big lifts for the average person. They think they are just for muscleheads.
Just the other day, I was doing a box deadlift with 129 lbs (not my heaviest weight), and one of my 40-ish clients passed me by and shook her head, amazed, muttering there was no way SHE could do that. I asked her why not? I mean, she's a career nurse-midwife who routinely has to lift and transfer pregnant women weighing WAY more than that....why SHOULDN't she train heavy in the gym to help her out on the job? When put into that perspective, she had to agree that maybe she COULD do it....
What I'm saying is, if you can connect what you do in the gym with the clients' activities OUTSIDE the gym, it helps them to clarify, and own, their goals. When you get questioned by the gym owner, you can then come back to this and say, "it's what the CLIENT wants." See what I mean?
- J
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