Posted on 09/13/2019 9:34:02 PM PDT by simpson96
Lisa Parratt, 33, was mortified when workout instructor Gary Randall, who goes by the moniker “Buffmaster,” told her that she was “just too big” for his boot camp program at UK-based gym Slimming World, which Parratt joined earlier this year.
The response over Facebook Messenger was devastating to Parratt, who has fought to lose 35 pounds since January. When she noted that to Randall, he replied that she still has “at least six months” more before qualifying for his course.(snip)
“I’m sorry to say I won’t be able to help you at bootcamp,” wrote Randall. “Your way to heavy now.”
Parratt then asked the obvious: If he’s a personal trainer, can’t he “help people lose weight?” He responded, “Yes I do but you gone to far.” He then added, “Focus on the gym for at least six months then let’s see where your at.”
Not buying it, Parratt asked again for his “reasoning.”
“Your just to big for my bootcamp that’s all,” he said. “If you lose about five stone of fat [70 pounds] [I’ll] be able to help you achieve your goals.”
Parratt, who has anxiety and an emotional support dog to help her, told The Sun, “I don’t hide from my weight but I do expect a professional [person] delivering a professional service to give a better response than that. Why didn’t he come over and have a quiet word with me when he saw me?”
After spending a “night in tears” over the embarrassment, she ultimately decided to post the exchange on Facebook to “raise awareness.”
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Randall also talked to The Sun: “She is a very silly woman. She is the one making herself look a fool.”
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Grow up, lady.
At least her grammar is better than that of this trainer.
The truth hurts.
She needs to fix her diet first. You cannot out-train a bad diet.
Your right. :)
"Where's my emotional support dog!?!??"
I like that she’s not too heavy ....she’s waaaayyyy too heavy.
Why is this news? No cats stuck in trees?
I think the guy’s a bit of a jerk for the way he handled the situation. He might looking for someone to date from among their students. So even if she could, she should think twice about going through a program with that particular instructor.
She should consult a doctor to issue her a medical profile that includes what sort of physical training activity she can engage in. Then a nutritionist to help with putting together a diet. Then, if she still thinks she needs one, a more professional physical trainer.
She has every right to post it. If his camp is only for certain people others should know so they don’t waste their time signing up.
How is this an issue?
Dentist and eye doctor question my high blood pressure and dont want to treat me for non-stress non invasive procedures
BakeTheCake
Five minutes on the treadmill does not cancel out the six Twinkies you shoved in your maw afterwards, Petunia. Try a bucket of hay instead. And get that damned stud out of your lip, you look like you had a fight with a box of upholstery tacks and lost.
You all are disgusting. I honestly can’t recognize FR anymore. Mean. Period. And you all know nothing about fitness while you sit at your computers probably hanging over in folds of flab. Too mean to say? Maybe. But take a listen to yourselves. Ugly. I know fitness extremely well. Everyone deserves help. Smh
I get that even the armed forces require a certain level of fitness in recruits before one is even permitted to attempt basic training. That should have been this guy’s approach in determining whether she should be in the class or not.
“The boot camp program requires a minimum level of fitness of its enrollees before they can participate. I’m not a medical professional so I don’t know your fitness level. Could I ask you to first present your doctor’s approval before joining us? Here’s what participants will be expected to do in the first week of the course to help guide their decision...”
See the difference?
There’s finite probability that he knows that, at her overweight, the exercises the rest of his clients are doing would probably be injurious to her. (Bones, muscles, and ligaments are limited in the stress they can withstand...)
Mean. So mean. Fr changed so much. We were never mean to fat people or stupid storytellers. Disgusting what fr has become. You should seriously think about why you are posting in such a bad place.
I like to think that fat people are responsible for their being fat, no one else, and stupid people are responsible for their being stupid. no one else, but really, the people who enable them are also responsible — for example those on this thread who are jumping to their defense.
She ain’t heavy…she’s my sister.
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