Ohhhh, gotcha.

So I just rambled away for nothing.

Meh, such is life.

nope wasn't wasted rambling - i was listening - and paying attention -and taking a class l ike you mentioned would be good for me... jsut need to find the right one...

Nooooo.....

I meant if you did become a competent PT (and still operating under my assumption of what I thought you meant by basic concepts) you could teach a adult class or something of the like.

this made m e giggle -
I'm pretty certain there is no more stubborn person on the planet than myself... However, I can be reached with the right technique... and I know what works with me... so i'd just need a group of people like me - andif we didn't kill each other oh god more than one person on the planet like me- that's too scary..

interesting -i guess i wasn't paying attention... that'd be kinda cool actually - and combine it with my love of cooking nutrition.... ooh...

Hahahaha, that's just it though. Being serious, chances of finding people like you are slim to none. You're wise. These people are more like the 'noobs' (for lack of a better term and b/c I know you hate it) that come to this forum.

Completely ignorant and wanting magic.

Exactly.......

Or do something like healthy cooking classes and have a twist of fitness in there.

As a team building event for the office here, we did a cooking class. It was soooo much fun.

I'm not sure I always was wise...

and I often think that I wished I knew 22 months ago - what I know now -i'd be a lot further ahead than i am now... (I doubt weight wise, but fitness wise) this time, I didn't expect magic... and didn't know a whole lot when I started out -I just spent a lot of time googling and reading and experimenting...

I would think if a person takes the step into a gym looking for help -a small portion have that 'ready" light turned on and will make it work.. .the rest -well they can always try again antoher day..

Of course you weren't always wise. Neither was I. Wisdom is built from experience.

there's a cooking show on PBS that is just that -she cooks healthy -she goes to the grocery store and does some educating on what's good and what's not so good and throws in some exercise as well...

On that same token, Gordy actually takes his clients to the supermaket and 'teaches' them how to shop.

there was a thread on spark that I was absolutely appalled at - it amazes me that people trying to lose weight - do not have the sense to read labels... and only are concerned with the number of calories and that's it -and don't often get serving size either... I've seen it here too and it just amazes me...

It's a good thing that gordy does that...

Meathead question here, Steve-O.

I'll admit that it might make me sound pretty stupid, but I was never able to find any real reads on it except a blurb or two here and there, and what I found was usually surrounded by that "bro-science."

So, I started weightlifting when I was young. At that point, when I trained, I thought I was training hard. As time went on, and I worked out with different people, and then college strength coaches, I learned what a real killer workout was, and how to push your body in ways your brain says are impossible.

When I started to take those sessions up to a higher level, after most sessions where I went balls out, I noticed something. An inflated sensation in my muscles, and an almost tingly feeling associated with it, and I felt good. I saw "Pumping Iron" for the first time a bit ago, where Arnold kinda describes what I am talking about, and calls it "the pump." I didn't want to necessarily use that term, 'cause calling it that makes me feel like a juicing frat boy that fake-tans.

I've read that the inflated sensation is from either increased bloodflow, or blood pooling, but it doesn't seem like I'd get any sort of good feeling from that, or why it's a boolean sort of thing. I never get a "kinda" pump. It's either there, or it is not.

Had a big push day last night, and had it happen, and I was askin those questions to myself, and decided to put 'em to the king of physiology.

It is amazing.

Gord does it for free. His take is, I'm not going to invest all this time training this client if they're going to eat like shit the 90% of the time they're away from me.

damn, not only is he cute, and friend of yours -but he's pretty smart too