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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.

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[–] [email protected] 173 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Do fitness instructors really get sick of individuals in their class? Isn't it kind of their job to push all levels of fitness?

Could this even be... Dare I say... Fake?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago

I doubt a heroine user would have the motivation to post on 4chan. I'm counting this one as a "heroine users are skinny" joke

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago

I'd never worked out in my life. So, I visited many gyms, found a mom & pop, and hired the trainer free from corporate constraints.

My second session he said, "You might be better off doing bodyweight exercises at home for a few weeks."

I told him that there was absolutely no way I'd form this habit by myself. I needed him to hold me accountable. I needed a routine.

We did bodyweight exercises at the gym for a few weeks. We set goals of a certain number of push ups, (band assisted) pull ups, sit ups, and (I forgot the name of the hamstring exercise) to "earn" my way back to the machines and free weights.

I can definitely understand how a trainer could get frustrated with an individual. But, a trainer that sends a noob home simply sucks. They should at least provide a referral to another trainer.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

No, it's both green text and on Lemmy. Both of which are absolute indicators of it being real.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Fitness instructors are people, some can easily be like that - why not? There are people who suck at their job in every field. But given the heroin ending, hopefully this is fake.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Get tired? No, get a sense of sorrow in professional failure and apathy when someone's level of ability is fundamentally misaligned to the class.m, hell yes.

I'm an adult educator, so while not a fitness instructor, I teach adults life skills, including health and nutrition.

We aren't paid to be individual tutors, but the fact is that some learners need one on one training, or additional time, or a slower pace, or a totally customised syllabus and resource package for their needs.

There's nothing tiring about this.

But there's also nothing we can do. You learn quickly in this job to say "I recommend a more entry level class, or starting with a some home learning" or you burn out trying to juggle 25 different levels of need in a class of 25.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ahahahahhahah no. Their job is to spruik gym memberships

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I could see it happening if someone was struggling so much that it was causing issues for the group.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

For it to be fake it would have to be gay, which i doubt it is

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well, this is depressing. Hope 4chan person was able to get out of that. If you see a bigger person at the gym, don't ridicule them. Motivate them

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago

Motivate them

to do heroin

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Someone, who ridicules people for some characteristic while they are in the process of improving that characteristic, has understood so little about life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I can't believe you fell for a greentext joke

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Don't ridicule them. Motivate them to not fall for a greentext anymore.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

on heroin

start back at fitness class

Fake^andgay^

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Gay: anon lost weight riding dicks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Anon is a carnivore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hey, $20 is $20. Heroin isn't cheap either.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Too pricy. Good ol' depression is free and can overpower hunger signals if you languish long enough.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is why I wish I had a fortune teller to say exactly when I am going to die. If you knew you were going to go out on a certain date, you could abuse opiates for months before your body gets used to them and then avoid the eventual darkness of deep addiction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

And then it turns out you die from the overdose that you caused yourself

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Buy one depression and get a heroine for free

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Hey, as long it works

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Fake: anon loses weight

Gay: anon becomes a good boy of the trainer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The best weight loss diet is: Drugs and sleep for breakfast/supper

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

If it is stupid and it works, it ain't stupid.