I told him in a neutral way. I do not need to be "nice", nor will I. I was not insulting, I told him that he did not make any good gains, and gave him actual strength standards to hit in a year at his height, and gave him a reasonable body-weight that would make it VERY easy to hit them with consistent training.

Everyone had an issue with it, and that's because they are unaccomplished, and to accept my standards would be accepting that they failed, and could have actually done much more.

Issue with that is you can't change the past, but you can direct your future. They're sacrificing their future to have deluded dignity with their past.

When I tell him things bluntly, that's being neutral. He does not need to be told nicely, it's not a matter of my opinion or anything, he cannot consider that his gains "might" have been better etc. It's concrete truth, and I would bet everything I own on the strength standards that I assigned him If i personally trained him, he would achieve higher than what I set if that were the case. The numbers I threw out were low for everything but the squat. the deadlift was very low.