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Originally Posted by johnyc
A trainers appearance, that was hopefully attained to some degree by methods he/she uses with others, can be a good marketing tool. To all you trainers out there, what percentage of your clients, roughly, do you think come to you based largely on your physique? What percentage of your clients have main goals that are appearance based? Do you think there is a correlation between your client's goals and your physique?
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None. Maybe being fit helped attract clients to me, but there is no correlation between my appearance and my clients'.
What's really sad is someone trying to sell people on how they can attain a similar look when their training knowledge really had little or nothing to do with the way they look. This especially applies to body builders. Fitness models in general generally AREN'T experts on fitness. This is a mistake that people who want to look like them generally make.
The abs classes in every major chain gym in the US are overflowing with people who have done more crunches in a week than I have done in 5 years, and the only thing they all have in common is that they don't have a six pack.
People flock to those with abs as if they know how they got them. They usually get them in spite of themselves. Matt (who goes by PowermanDL in here) is one of the most knowledgeable contributors to this forum. He looks strong from his pics, but you wouldn't see him shirtless and tan on the cover of a magazine or one one of those little shows. Yet to dismiss him you would do yourself an extreme disservice.
This doesn't mean that every person who has a good physique just got it from good genetics or drugs... It just means that you really shouldn't make that correlation. If you want to find out what someone's training knowledge is, sit down and talk with them.
I had James Newman writing my workouts for a while over a year ago when I was really burned out. They were excellent programs. He even came up to Little Rock and ran me through a couple of them. James at the time was about 300 pounds at 5'6". He had already lost over 250 pounds applying his knowledge to himself, and he was seriously one of the most knowledgeable people in the field, but using that criteria he wouldn't have made the cut.