Seriously? If you're a man taking online advice from a woman on how to
build a man's body, then you're beyond hopeless.
I give advice. So why "should" you listen to me—to what I've got to say? First off, I never tell anyone they “should” anything. I never use the word "should" because I have no idea what you should do; I will however advise that you try something and see if it fits.
Do I think I’m right about what I advise? Everybody thinks they’re right about what they advise. I may have a LOT of experience to draw from after a lifetime of working out and decades of being a personal trainer, but in the end what works for me or feels right to me might not to you. All we can do when faced with something new is try it out and see if we like it, or if it works for us.
My advice to those clients who question my direction by what-abouting, “yeah, but my previous trainer said the opposite” or “I read someplace online that doing things the writer’s way was better” is to go back to their previous trainer. Paying me to train them and then questioning my methods tells me I need a different client, and they need a different trainer. Either respect and believe in me and the results I've achieved for myself and others—or not—and if not, then they need to keep looking to find someone who they can believe and trust.
There’s no shortage of Bros and Bullies and overbearing Know-It-Alls who know not of what they speak, yet engage in the fitness business regardless, and usually in a very loud voice. The problem is, the uninitiated have no way of knowing when training advice is poor, counterproductive or even injurious. We don’t know what we don’t know. However, we do have eyes, if not common sense, and automatically adopting advice from some faceless / bodyless online hack or a self-professed “trainer” who looks like they’ve never set foot in a gym in their life indicates a reckless follower personality. When have you ever seen an online fitness article in GQ, Esquire, Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Journal, etc., etc., that was accompanied by a shirts-off photo of the author as an indication that the writer is qualified to advise you? The answer is: never. And don’t get me started on women writers for men’s magazines giving authoritative directives to men on how to work out to build a man’s body.
95% of the population are followers. They want—need—to be told what to do. And primally so, these people are most receptive to alpha personalities—the bros, the bullies and the know-it-alls. That’s just human nature, sadly enough. And despite a lifetime of poor choices with poor outcomes they will still fail to learn any lesson from this habit, simply because they are programmed to be followers. It's their nature.
So, the first step in whether to take anyone’s advice regarding fitness is to consider what they look like. Oprah Winfrey has cursed our world by elevating fakes and charlatans by the dozen upon her cult followers. She spawned Dr. Phil, who has the breathtaking hubris as a fat man to "write" diet and fitness books (actually they are ghost-written by others) that millions of morons have actually paid money for. Equally laughable among the faculty of Oprah U. was her personal trainer Bob Green, he with the pencil arms and obvious absence of any muscle tone.
Look at him. Look at her. Enough said.
Bob Green and Oprah
Dr. Phil's qualifications as a fitness guru are on full display here.
When you're lying down and your fat roll STILL hangs over your belt,
your need to get out of the fitness-advice business.
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