Tuesday, January 27, 2009

"High Five!"

What is it with gym trainers and high fives?  When I went to the gym today I was hunted down and offered a "free" session with a trainer.  But seriously, I can't even count how many times he put his hand up for a high five.  I considered leaving him hanging every time.  Is that part of the training to be a trainer?  "Now when you're training, be sure to give them LOTS of high fives. It will help motivate your client.  And don't worry about doing it 2, 3 or 20 times a session.  The more high fives the better."


Anyway, just say no to a free session.  It's not worth the amount of high fives you'll receive.


7 comments:

Kendra Meyers said...

I LOVE it. That's hilarious, Allison. I guess there's one advantage to enduring those hard classes we do--no pressure to do a personal training session. :)

Mari said...

Ha ha! Well maybe he just got back from a mission in Korea 'cause I swear when my brother got home from there he couldn't get through a full sentence without giving you a high five. Ridiculous.

As for the trainer, I would have left him hangin'.

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Melissa Tiek said...

That's hilarious! And my philosophy is that now that I'm married a session with a trainer isn't worth it. When I was single and he was hot however...

Allison Tiek said...

This trainer was definitely not hot...so that was definitely not my motivation.

lindsay said...

Ha! That was a very entertaining entry. I can just picture some doofy trainer doing that. There's nothing worse than giving high-fives to some foreign sweaty hand!