Any personal trainers here? How do you manage catering to a client who doesn't want to push themselves? On one hand, I don't like having to prescribe easy workouts with meme exercises because I feel like it hurts my credibility, but I also don't want to risk losing a paying customer.

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>>76354025 (OP)
You put them on the lat pulll down machine and leg extension machine and let them "lift" the "whole" stack (20lbs) and call them a good big boy. You just guide them through the motion and take their money. Pin a star in their booklet and send them off to afternoon school.
These people are like retarded children with autism, one task too much and they throw a tantrum so you give them the scissors with edge protection and pre cut paper.
Same with the medical system, you play daycare for adults with an IQ of 90.

Physical Therapist/Personal Trainer here. I'll share my philosophy because I get people like this regularly. Remember at the end of the day, they came to seek YOU for guidance, not the other way around. You need to educate them and put your foot down, you may be surprised how they change their mind. If you just cave in from the start, they will start trying to run the show. If they still do not want to listen then, do what >>76354060 said. Have them to baby exercises and just collect their money. If they are unhappy with their progress, then give them the reality check otherwise keep taking their money. Best thing anyone ever told me was to not care more than the client. If they do not want to trust your knowledge, then you should not care to go the extra mile for them.

If you do want to try changing their perspective, don't be confrontational, be inquisitive:
>Why don't you want to do X?
>What don't you like about X?
Once you know their answer, then you have something to address. Don't go on an autistic rant about why its good for them without addressing their concerns.

Welcome to working with people. Some days its like running a daycare for grown ass adults, but when you do get good clients it feels rewarding.

I fucking hate boomers who spent 80 years of their lives being sedentary as fuck and then choosing to make a difference at the end of their lives and then bitching about why they are always hurting and how exercise doesn't seem to help them

>>76354134
Nobody asked

>>76354025 (OP)
Have you tried yelling business as usual and then blasting out a set of incline bench violently grunting through every rep?

>>76354145
I asked, I understand how anon feels and agree it's pitiable

>>76354134
Everyone I know that hates boomers turns out to be a lib cuck

>>76354872
Everyone I know who thinks he hates boomers has poor reading comprehension.

>>76354872
Everyone I know who thinks he hates boomers has poor reading comprehension.

>>76354912
wtf do you mean nigga?

>>76354916
It double posted because of a connection error, not because I found it so important as to immediately restate it, not that I don't stand by it I just think all of the posts itt are just as good or better, and I wouldn't restate it if I did think it was the best post anyway because that would be trying too hard.

>>76354924
He hates specific people who happen to be boomers. Not boomers in general. It's all there in writing. It's okay to read it slowly and multiple times and think about it for a minute my nigger.

>>76354933
>>76354950
youre autistic as fuck

>>76354955
I'm also right.

>>76354025 (OP)
You aren't training someone that wants to train. You are training someone that wants to feel that they are training. Do a lot of exercises, lotta meme shit, make up routines on the fly, the more prepared you are the more they will hate you.