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Trainers Should Never Count

Posted May 27 2009 10:52pm

I've heard it time and time again...

Lance, you can't count!

Lance, did you pass 1st grade math?

Lance, why don't you use your fingers?


You know what, I'm sick of it!

Everyone knows that no population is more mathematically challenged than personal trainers.

And my clients know, I am no exception to that rule.

I flat out suck at counting. 

I suck like a vacuum, and I'm damn proud of it too.

Cause you don't pay me to count!

You pay me to get results, get healthy, get skinny...

NOT to get between the 1st and 10th repetition in the shortest time possible or most accurately.

Hell if I screw up the count and you do more reps - you get a better workout!

Counting correctly to 10, 12, 15, or 25  is the LEAST important thing a trainer should being doing.

I even think if a trainer is that good at counting, they aren't that good at training.

Yes, there is the occasional ADD moment where I am distracted by the hottie in spandex or the scary Grunting Guy.

But I'm screwing up your count because I am...
  • Correcting your technique

No personal trainer should be expected to count reps, that's the client's job.

So from now on, I vow to never count another repetition for a client again.

Put a fork in my counting...I'm done!


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