Things that make you go GRRRRR.... (Part 2)

i parked in a somewhat sketchy area near me over night, and someone tried to steal my wheel.

i would have never found out if it werent for the fact that they broke a lugnut leaving my wheel to loosen itself. i was on the highway and my car started trying to kill me.

i spent today alternating between school work and riding a very old, rusty, single speed bicycle back and to my local car shop (about 5 miles of hilly terrane away). nobody around to drop me off and pick me up.
 
I have some strange habits develop over the last month with my TBI. When my head is feeling funny I have found myself clenching my teeth extremely hard. I don't become conscious of it until the muscles hurt. I can relax the muscles on will but as soon as my mind wanders to something else they clench again.

I also tighten my facial muscles by the forehead/ears, as well as my throat. Yesterday I had too much caffeine and I tightened these muscles so much I strained something in my throat. I've been walking around all day with that feeling that you're going to throw up from being sick, but I'm not sick and I don't have to throw up. Joy.
 
So...got to karate yesterday for the first time in months. Straight into fighter prep because one of the guys is competing in a couple of weeks.
Nearly vommed. I might run occasionally and do weights now but I'm still way out of condition.
Then on literally the last technique of the night my partner put everything into a spinning hook kick, landed high on the thai pads, I misjudged and back-knuckled myself in the left temple.
Then I woke up in the night feeling sick, vommed this time, bad case of the "thrupenny bits" and needed a sick day. Got the stomach bug my daughter brought back from school this week.
After a day without food I rustled up a nice and simple tuna pasta bake. Couldn't put my finger on whar was wrong with until I noticed I'd forgotten the damn tuna!
Derp.
Good couple of days in all.
 
So potential client has been messaging me for about a week now, after 3 personal training sessions a week and a full diet plan. More than obliging I've invited him into the gym for a consultation a number of times, to which he asks "can't I come round to your house" ever wary of false accusations of misconduct (there are more than enough horror stories floating around the PT industry) I've declined and invited him once again to the gym.

His later message was:

"I think you have the wrong end of the stick, all I want is 3 hours of training a week and an easy to follow diet plan that you will modify for me, I'm not interested in being recruited into your gym which will no doubt have other fees attached?
I'm asking for a simple service, for you to accompany me to my gym and coach me I can't see how this will cost more than ten pounds per week"

I've paraphrased, but what in the hell kind of buisness does he think I'm running here? £10 for 3 hours of coaching plus a weekly diet? Wonder if he'd work for 3.33 an hour? Less when you consider my (not insignificant) overheads?


I want to hurt people now.
 
Lol wut? "I'm ignorant to things related to health and fitness, too lazy to do my own research and application, and want you as a professional to leave your professional environment where you do business to cater to me for dirt cheap. I don't care that you had to put in numerous hours of educational training and application as well as pay attention to your own body while maintaining constant discipline because I don't acknowledge your line of work as a respectable trade. You're no different then say . . . . a laborer, but you work out instead."


Are you allowed as a PT to make a diet plan? You're not supposed to do that here in the states as a PT, you can only point them in the direction of tools/research for dietary needs and explain the basics. Very limited over here in the states when it comes to diet, you have to be an RD to do it legally.
 
That's the point though, most people either don't think or don't care enough to take that into consideration.

@ Steve: Could you not make up some shenanigans about having "insurance tied in to the premises" or something random like that?

I don't blame you for wanting to hurt people though. There are words for people like that, none of which I can use here.
 
I know in the states PT outline of what they can and cannot do as a PT he can make insurance and scope of practice claims without making anything up. A PT is a profession, not your buddy who trains in your garage with you. Hell, they have college courses designed for PT professions in the states now, ******s need to pay for business
 
People flat out don't appreciate time and what goes into providing a service.
They'll pay out £40 for night out or 100+ for the plumber to clear a drain but won't spend £120 on one of my pet portraits that takes me days to complete and will last a lifetime.
People are stupid.
 
Well the gym I work out of dosen't charge me a floor fee, savings that I immediately pass onto my clients, my rates are pretty damned reasonable if I may say so too.

@ero I've other qualifications that allow me to write a diet, funnily enough my degree qualifies me in the eyes of the law, while we studied nutrients and their metabolic paths we never went that deep into actual diet plans.

I have an arrangement with an outdoor venue for those wanting a cheap 1 on 1 'bootcamp' style workout too, working on getting a bunch of tyres for it, still won't be 3.33 an hour cheap.

Also ggrrrr just drove 25 miles for an Olympic lifting workshop today, I've been looking forward to it too, it was cancelled. No one felt the need to inform me..
 
Hell yes! If you were down in the south west you'd probably find me banging on your door



That's fair enough, but that would be pretty mental



That gets me more wound up than almost anything else actually, people who fail to stick to arranged agreements on fair terms without good reason. It's common courtesy to let people know if you're a no-show...
 
People are.

Do you have a website?

I may employ your services around the xmass period, only of you admit Zoe is the best puppy EVER.
 
Grrrrrrrrr fitness and flexibility. I know I haven't done any karate since Easter 2012 and any MA at all since February but I still run around like a prat at work every night. I remembered about a karate class that trains on a Wednesday and decided to have a gentle walk through Heian Shodan while I was waiting for a brew. Jeebus my legs don't like zenkutsu-datchi any more! I think I'll give it a few weeks of getting back into the swing of things before I even attempt a class.
 
I hear this a lot from people and it almost ends up with those people making one excuse after another for not going back until they just...don't.

Best way to get used to the stances is to just get stuck in and do them again
 
Difference - most people haven't been trying to figure out how to get back into MA since they were forced out by work. I went through the rest of the Heians earlier on and, judging by how my hip reacted, this is going to be one fun shift tonight
 
That's awesome steve, if you happen to find out if he exists or not, it might be worth a share



Ah, that's fairly different then.

Have you taken some nurofen or something similar?

Take it slow and easy, start by trying a slightly higher, shallower stance and moving slowly to begin with. Spend a couple of weeks doing that and then take the plunge

Most people try and fit in extra practice by trying to move into some of the stances to pick stuff up off the floor/going to the kitchen/etc.
 
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