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Don't be a sucker

Posted by allaroundstrength at 10:09 PM on January 15, 2009

If the 2009 fitness trend of working out at home remains true, and sales of fitness tapes, dvd's and the Wii stay high then the personal trainer industry will take a heavy hit. After spending about 15 minutes on netflix browsing through the 43 pages of fitness dvd's I noticed a pattern of what sells. First off what sells is a bunch of bullshit, pure and utter bullshit, and those who buy said bullshit are sheep begging to be eaten by the wolf. I have never seen so much bullshit put on dvd collection in one place before. I found a whipping 7 out of several hundred dvd's potentially worth watching, and 2 of them I had already owned. Why do people insist on really inventing the wheel, as is hip hop, latin dance, pilates, yoga, crunch, core class, and step aerobics weren't lame enough. They have done a great job integrating these classes into fooling you to believe they work, for instance you have pilates booty ballet, and ultimate cardio kick box core blaser. Fuckin please, seriously like Carlos Mencia said F.T.P. (or fuck those putos). Gutless money chasers waisting bandwidth trying to put their stupid worthless name on a big big map. I have to say that the fitness industry tries to cater to everyone and in doing so, has dropped it's standards below the Army's these days. It almost seems as if the industry is putting all more crap just to keep people ignorant and weak. Not that I'm terribly biased to just weightlifting, but come on how many fucking curl variations with 4 pound dumbells can you do in a 60 minute dvd? Those people should be hit for putting their stupid mugs on a cover trying to sell sugar coated nonsense and tom-foolery. Good thing this is just a blog and not a real article because I do feel a bit better now. If you are a home gym sort of person and you think you're going to save money by actually buying one of these crap videos, save your money and buy a brick to hit yourself with. It will accomplish the same thing, but you'll have some cool scars with an interesting story. If you want to buy something worth while head over to www.rosstraining.com and pick up his books, they're a great start in the right direction, chalk full of goodies, and you would be supporting an honest person who doesn't sell anything stupid like yoga pilates gyrotonics for better strip tease poll dancing workouts for gay men.

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