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04-21-10, 11:10 AM | ||
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No one is going to look at everything the same as anyone else. All and all, there is much we do agree on. My opinions have as much to do with experience with other threads of this type that have "gone south" and not about you for starting the thread. I'm sorry if you felt personally attacked. I do agree, this has been an interesting thread. |
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04-21-10, 11:15 AM | |
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[QUOTE=Sue B;1541680]Jeri, you don't need to apologize or be chastened. When people disagree with you, they're not bashing or suppressing or trying to chase you out of here, they're just giving their point of view and that's what makes a conversation. I find this conversation very fascinating; thanks for starting it. (And I'm sorry about your dad.Thank you for the kind words, Sue!! This really HAS been interesting, hasn't it!!
Kimberly & snapfish: ITA about wanting to be a tough, wise, kickin' old bird & that's my goal!!! Jeri
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04-21-10, 11:24 AM | |
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I have said before the best fitness instructor I've ever had was a self-proclaimed 30-40 pounds overweight. She is phenomenally fit and energetic and a real inspiration. She never stops moving and can do just about any sport. Plus it was fun to watch people come to her spin class and get wiped out while she sang the songs and barely broke a sweat.
I'd love to look like Leslie or Squeeze-era Tracy! But I probably have to answer yes to the OP. I have ejected a Netflix (or should I say Regretflix?) before the workout ended because an instructor was very underweight. I think I wouldn't have minded too much about that except that the title of the workout included the phrase "...for weight loss," so they clearly wanted to promote this instructor as the ideal physique. I was that thin once when I was sick and it was not a good experience.
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04-21-10, 12:00 PM | |
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I think the idea is to link your business with a certain signature look. The instructors at the Lotte Berk studio definitely had a similar body type. It's like trademarking.
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04-21-10, 12:05 PM | ||
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I agree with that last paragraph especially. And really I admire anyone, regardless of age, who's more interested in what their bodies can do rather than how they look. Now if I could just get there myself. Do I have to be over 50? Oh well, just a couple more years.
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04-21-10, 12:06 PM | |
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Of COURSE! I think that is only natural. Though I have not read the rest of the posts and may find that I am all wrong in this. As a trainer I always try to maintain a physique that I feel is a 'tool' for selling my services, because I would 'think' that one would hesitate to use a trainer for whom the work seemed to do nothing.
That said, however, I also realize that this is misleading if you are judging the METHOD by the trainer's physique, because any GOOD trainer mixes it up, so it really usually is not any ONE technique that gets them their body. You could have a trainer who does a lot of weight work, put out a Pilates DVD and one would be wrong in assuming that Pilates gave her those muscles. BUT, if they are not SOME kind of fit, whether it is muscular, toned, strong, something, why would I waste my time and money on the DVD? I WOULD assume that THEIR way of working out must not be very good, more-so than the form itself, I would doubt the trainer. So, my answer to your question for me would be that the trainer's physique matters, but only so far as I have faith in THEM, not for the method they happen to be doing in the DVD.
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