tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793843178253225736.post6996290017727564959..comments2018-11-10T21:01:45.757+11:00Comments on Rob's Gym Adventures: Balance of PowerRobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05555193721594426402noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1793843178253225736.post-91885767374086814102010-08-09T20:18:33.981+10:002010-08-09T20:18:33.981+10:00I think the test for anyone who wants a Power Bala...I think the test for anyone who wants a Power Balance Band should be the same as has been suggested for anyone who wants a licence to carry automatic weapons. "Would you like to carry automatic weapons?" If you answer "yes" then your licence is denied. If you fill out an order form for a Power Balance Band, you should not only be denied the supply of one, but should have any ACTUAL technology you own removed, because you are obviously too stupid to own it.<br />And this gets me back to personal trainers. I was probably a bit easy on them last time I made comment. (or if I was hip to the lingo the kids are using these days - my “last post”- which I thought was something played on a bugle at RSL clubs- anyway I digress even more than this blog, which I might point out, started out about rob and his efforts to exercise and have turned into, firstly a social experiment about an exercise hater doing regular exercise, then a commentary on the fitness industry, then something about music andhowthehelldid bob the builder get in there, and finally he has us watching today tonight. I was once told if you look anything like your passport photo your too sick to travel, I think if exercise makes you watch Today Tonight, then sit down for god’s sake before you kill your brain) where was I - that's right, trying not to digress, and bag personal trainers as well. There is not a personal trainer out there (and I am guessing with a fair bit of confidence) who had a choice of doing law at Melbourne uni, engineering at Monash or becoming a personal trainer, I am not saying they are stupid, but you don’t have to have a secure grasp of maths to say "3 and 2 and 1 and now switch legs” but we put these undertrained people of limited academic ability in charge of - wait for it - OUR BODIES. Yes that vehicle that we use to LIVE LIFE. We give them the power to inflict pain both short term (in robbs case) and often permanent actually damage (again in robb’s case) of our bits. I think the industry is turning away the people that need it and only really catering for those that don’t (if I’m wrong, tell me how many people in your local gym are overweight, surely most of them, cause isn’t that the point of being there, to GET fit, if you are already fit, then you shouldn’t have to uselessly lift bits of steel, you’d be using (and at the same time, maintaining) your gained fitness to actually achieve stuff like living life and playing with your kids and engaging in useful activity like building a billy cart, walking to the shops, or not spending 6 hours a week in an isolated sanctuary of self love like the GYM.AJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10909458693202194994noreply@blogger.com