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7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2002/12/23, 06:11 PM I just found out that a guy I worked with has landed a job with a local gym chain as a salesman/personal trainer. I am depressed cause the job I have is not stable and I could get fired at anytime. I am even more depressed and pissed off cause I was thinking about applying for that as well. What stopped me you ask? Well the fact that at 300 I do not look the part, and am afraid to go thru the embarresment of applying. After all who would you goto the guy tht looks like he spends all day working out or the the guy that looks like he eats chips and cookies all day. I know I could do the job and love it but would not get hired. That bumms me out see ya. ---------------------------- TO DEADLIFT, OR NOT TO DEADLIFT, THAT IS THE QUESTION!

rkahl Posts: 84 Joined: 2002/11/21	2002/12/23, 06:28 PM Powerlifters don't try to look like body builders. Maybe you are meant to be a power lifter type and not Arnold S. Why not be the best you can be with the genetics you have been given. It's like the old saying, " Preachers want to sing and singers want to preach." If I were training to be a power lifter I would hope a big guy like you were there to help me not some 3%bf body builder. Keep the faith man. Big shots are just little shots that keep on shootin. Dream big. I have read your posts and I know you have much to offer people. -------------- Randy Excuses are the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2002/12/23, 07:03 PM Keep your chin up Mutt...sometimes when it seems the worst, the besst thinga happen to you. Don't get down on yourself, I, too have read your posts many times, you have much to offer. The right thing will come to you. Best of luck to you and yours at this holiday season. -------------- The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary!
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2002/12/23, 07:04 PM Thanks..it is funny cause powerlifting is mostly how I train. I do add other strictly body buliding exercise, and I do not do a "real" powerlifitng routine. More of a marriage of the two. But thank you for the post it was grealty needed......LOL -------------- TO DEADLIFT, OR NOT TO DEADLIFT, THAT IS THE QUESTION!
jnellie Posts: 924 Joined: 2002/02/24	2002/12/23, 07:18 PM hang in there mutt i have learned many things from rading your posts and sure i will learn alot more when i get back at it..happy holidays....
effalunt Posts: 333 Joined: 2002/10/17	2002/12/23, 07:42 PM You know, most of the people that work in sales at my gym don't look like the "gym" type. People who are uncomfortable with themselves and looking to change don't want to go to someone who looks like a greek god for help. Someone who is approachable and knowledgable will go farther than someone who looks the 'part' but isn't helpful. Apply for the job. Even if you don't get the position, you're no worse off than if you didn't apply. You never know, they might be looking for exactly what you have to offer. -------------- Think you can or think you can't; either way you're right--Goethe
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2002/12/23, 09:47 PM Hey Mutt, I agree 100% with effalunt. Get your application in there. The new person might not work out (make it). Then you might get an interview at least. Don't give it up...turn it up! -------------- The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you are not in shape for it, it is too far to walk back! Franklin P. Jones Ivan Montreal Canada
Lumina20 Posts: 966 Joined: 2001/10/31	2002/12/26, 09:36 PM Many of the personal trainers at my gym don't "look" the part and they're still working and teaching classes and whatnot. So go on and apply! ;)