CheekiBreekiFitness wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 6:23 amDo people really go to the gym to train 30 minutes ? That sounds like so little time to train.
It is. This is why you'll see PTs giving people circuits. For example, you could have a single 10kg dumbbell and a flat moveable bench.
Do the following, no breaks in between.
Goblet squat 10kg x10
DB one-armed bench press 10kg x10, once each side
DB one-armed row 10kg x10, once each side
DB one-legged deadlift 10kg x10, once each side
DB suitcase carry lap of the gym, once each side
Allowing one minute for each set or side, and a minute's rest after the full runthrough, and you get 1 minute for squats plus 4x2' for the others plus 1' rest and that's 10'. Do that for 3 rounds and it's a full-body workout. You can progress this over time, for example the person might start with sets of 8, work up to 12s, then grab the 12.5kg dumbbell instead and go back to 8.
But even the above, if the person can do that then they'd have no trouble starting with squatting, pressing, rowing the empty bar, and deadlifting 40kg. And you could work on them from there. Bear in mind that if you can press it you can bench it, and if you can squat if you can deadlift it, so if they just press and squat a couple of times a week and then do some other stuff they should be sorted. That approach certainly won't take them beyond the typical SS novice linear progression results of (for men) 120-140kg squat etc, but a glance at the SS training log forums will show you that most people never go beyond that level anyway.
"We are not training the 600lb squatter, we are training his mother." - Ole Rip.
At this rate those people would be better off buying some simple equipment at home and train there.
Yes. But would they do it? After all, most health departments worldwide recommend a 30'-60' brisk walk daily, and walking is completely free, but how many people actually walk? So even 2x30' pw can have value for people. Hop onto your local secondhand stuff website and see how many people are selling old weights they never used.
That's not to say the 2x30' is ideal or preferable, of course it's not. It's just a natural development of the whole 1:1 thing, and the fact that PTs need to make a living, and at the same time people have only so much money to spend on training. As well, the nature of having a trainer is that you don't know its value until you've had it, and even then it takes about 3 months to be sure either way, this makes people tentative about plonking money down on it.
That's why I train people in small group sessions, up to 6 at once. They need me to watch their lifts, they don't need me to talk shit to them while they're sitting around in between lifts, that's what the other lifters are for. So it spreads the cost among 3-6 people, I get paid the same but they get more time. I started that towards the end of my time at the globogym, the managers didn't like it, we had 6 people clunking heavy weights, it bothered the office workers reading magazines on the ellipticals.