Bad day at the gym

[rkold]

So I went to the gym today, was feeling good cause I burned 420 calories on the ArcTrainer plus I moved my Tokyo Delight last night and this morning instead of looking all sad and droopy it looked perky! I decided to do some weights cause I feel like it really helps and when I skip weights I don't see as much improvement in my overall shape. I did the bench press, one of the knee things kosquarepelli showed me and then moved onto the Lat Press. Originally, the first trainer I had showed me one way to do the lat pull down. It was OK and didn't do that much. Then another trainer showed me a slightly different way which involved tilting your torso and instead of just feeling it in my arms and shoulders, I got a lovely stretch in my abs. I've been doing it ever since then like that and have been rather pleased. Today trainer #3 stops by and is all, no no no you have to do it ANOTHER WAY. He assures me that he knows and the other trainers don't WTF is the gym hiring crap trainers? o_O So I do a few of his new fangled ones for him, not feeling anything in my abs, which he claims is because I'm tightening them, but ummm well even if I tighten them I just don't feel anything, nope, sorry. He's all smilie and being all friendly and I'm feeling more like I just want to leave. He then is asking me about my gym goal, which is of course to be a size 8, at least on the bottom, and now I am getting his nutritional lecture. Now call me crazy, but I thought the goal was to find an eating plan one can live with for good, rather than just temporarily changing your diet just to hit a goal? Then he is going on about the need to eat protein, and all I can think is great, he's one of those Protein diet people. ~.~ I explain nicely I am a vegetarian, and don't eat meat, for which I get asked do I eat fish or poultry. ~.~ Do I now need to tell people I don't eat animals? I don't eat anything someone might consider a pet? ~.~ He starts recommending protein shakes which immediately has me wanting to leave. So now I feel like I can't use the lat pulldown which I really liked cause I want to go back to using it the wrong way since I felt like I was getting results that way. Or the wrong way according to him. I hate that now I feel like I need to make sure to do weights when no trainer is around so I can do what I want. Sighs.