Former big boy wants to be a trainer.

tkdman · 10-29-2009, 02:30 PM

Well, to make a long story short, I use to be a big guy...in High School I maxed out at around 235, and I am around 5'9 with a medium build. My weight was a concern for me, and especially my parents. But since then I have lost all of the "extra" weight. My lowest has been 158. The problem is the flab of course. Getting my weight down required some exercise, but it was only moderate, not fitness oriented. So now my weight is healthy, and I have been training for about 5 1/2 weeks with a trainer, plus I am studying martial arts. I REALLY want to be a trainer, and enrolled in the NASM about a month ago. Things are going good. But I definitely don't look like the other trainers in the gym, and it discourages me. My trainer (who happens to be the training manager at my gym) has expressed interest in possibly hiring me after I finish my certification course, but I just wonder if I am the right mold. I want to help people, for real. And I am not lazy. I enjoy working out and try to find new ways to challenge myself every day. I am all in it. I guess I just got started a little later in life.

I am just looking for some encouragement I suppose, or insight. Anything would be helpful.

Thanks!

CloveApple · 10-30-2009, 09:58 AM

Not all the trainers I've seen at my gym have a stereotypically ripped or built "trainer look." So I know it can be done.

Aoife · 10-30-2009, 10:32 AM

We're all a work in progress, some of us are just further along. So what if you start training people and you feel you don't "look the part" big whoop. If you keep on with your diet and training, you will, and in the mean time you can manage 2 things people who are already ript can't: Inspire people who aren't perfect and help them understand that people have to work for it, it isn't natural, and therefore they too can attain their goals; and provide an alternative to the perfectly ript person who some trainees may find intimidating and/or think wouldn't understand what it's like to be fat and out of shape. There's more of those people than you may think.

AskTheTrainer · 11-02-2009, 12:42 AM

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Originally Posted by tkdman

Well, to make a long story short, I use to be a big guy...in High School I maxed out at around 235, and I am around 5'9 with a medium build. My weight was a concern for me, and especially my parents. But since then I have lost all of the "extra" weight. My lowest has been 158. The problem is the flab of course. Getting my weight down required some exercise, but it was only moderate, not fitness oriented. So now my weight is healthy, and I have been training for about 5 1/2 weeks with a trainer, plus I am studying martial arts. I REALLY want to be a trainer, and enrolled in the NASM about a month ago. Things are going good. But I definitely don't look like the other trainers in the gym, and it discourages me. My trainer (who happens to be the training manager at my gym) has expressed interest in possibly hiring me after I finish my certification course, but I just wonder if I am the right mold. I want to help people, for real. And I am not lazy. I enjoy working out and try to find new ways to challenge myself every day. I am all in it. I guess I just got started a little later in life.

I am just looking for some encouragement I suppose, or insight. Anything would be helpful.

Thanks!

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