Well, do you? Can you be overweight, unathletic, uncoordinated, etc, and still coach athletes to success? We're talking real success here, not just some stupid personal trainer BS. We're talking significant gains in performance over the course of say an athlete's college career, high school career, pro career, olympic career, etc.

Inquiring minds want to know!

I would take advice from a nerdy trainer that is weaker than me..If that advice/workout was really good

The thing is, even though this person is unathletic, they should be working out and training hard.  I have taken alot of advice from strong football players(never followed) that is not worth anything at all.

there are many nba,nfl, and other pro's who are beast  in the weight room and on the field but don't have any better workout than one i could make up in 10min.

my point is, I don't care as to the level of the guy training me. I just want somebody knowledgable who actually "takes his own medicine."

 I actually don't even care about this part, and neither should anybody else. I would take advice from a quadriplegic if I had reason to believe that person's advice was sound.

Great logic lol

Great basketball coach (on the left there):



Great football coach (in the front there):



Great nutrition and training guru on whose nuts I swing (with the glasses there):



Q.E.D.

what exactly do you do Damien?

Oh whoa, that's pretty cool..I was thinking about starting parkour sometime soon..but that looks =ly cool

I say no, but understand both perspectives.  Even tho some don't/won't consider me a coach, I take a lot of pride in considering myself a coach.  That being said I've never had over a 24" vertical jump and ever since college I've been overweight, losing and gaining a lot of weight multiple times since then.  As a kid I bought jumpsoles and did depth jumps for over a half hour 5 days a week, on top of that not doing hardly any weights and playing basketball during the seasons, the only result of that was jumpers knee.

I wish I knew back then what I know now because chances are I wouldn't be sitting here with a bum ankle (torn cartildge/"osteochondritis dissesans") and I'd probably be much closer to my goals.  I can talk nutrition with the best of them, but it doesn't mean I follow it myself.  I've worked with professional golfers and I myself shoot in the 80s (played Varsity HS golf and could've played at college level).

All that being said I've always struggled to sell Personal Training working in commercial gyms, because people see a "fat kid" and don't think I am capable of giving good advice.  Meanwhile I've worked with trainers who are in good shape, and have had the worst workouts and ideas for workouts ever.  I mean seeing a client a half hour a week, but still trying to focus on 1 specific bodypart that workout.  Even tho I know that that's not what we're talking about here (coaching vs personal training).  Just my thoughts tho.