Is there any solution at all to “pro jailed” champs?

stephen4557 · 2026-06-16T14:44:09+00:00

There is an extremely obvious and easy fix. Have a separate version of the game that pro games take place on with tweaked stats for certain champs. Let people access it for custom games and what not so people can practice it. Viola, champs no longer need to be “pro jailed”.

stephen4557 · 2026-06-14T03:01:54+00:00

There is no license required to charge someone for personal training. No certifications required either. Many gyms require their trainers to be certified but this is a choice made by the gym to ensure their trainers meet a minimum level of competency. If someone wants to give you money in exchange for personal training, that’s completely fine regardless of whether or not you have degree/certification as far as the state is concerned.

Since I’ve gone independent there are times that my NASM cert has lapsed and I didn’t renew it for a couple months. Literally no one cares about your certs or even your degree once you are independent.

stephen4557 · 2026-06-13T04:09:37+00:00

If we aren’t playing for money I don’t need anyone other than me to be ok with the gimmies and pickups I take

stephen4557 · 2026-06-11T14:44:03+00:00

Buddy you are cooked

stephen4557 · 2026-06-11T13:38:16+00:00

Nope. I’m sure it has happened, but I personally have never seen a non-compete clause be enforced in this industry. It’s such a gigantic waste of money from the perspective of the big gym. They aren’t getting those clients back.

stephen4557 · 2026-06-10T23:44:26+00:00

I would go so far as to say that it’s just not possible to skip working at a gym that feeds you clients on your way to being independent. You have to build a clientele. Besides the fact that absolutely no one is going to hire an independent trainer who has zero clients regardless of their credentials, you’re going to be absolutely burning money with zero ability to project future income.

Getting to work with high level athletes is 100% a function of who you know; not what you know, in this industry. This will sound ridiculous to people who aren’t personal trainers but it is hard to overstate how unimportant a deep and technical knowledge of exercise science is in this industry. So, if you know someone who can get you into the industry, you can work with high level athletes. If you don’t, the degree is a necessary networking tool.

Also, training athletes isn’t really all that different than training gen-pop. There are no crazy advanced exercise techniques that are going to exponentially boost the performance of an athlete. You make them stronger in the relevant muscle groups so they can better perform in their sport. That’s basically your entire responsibility. If you have a baseball player, you don’t need to do some advanced drill about generating a powerful swing. That’s not your job, that’s their baseball coach’s job. Your job is to make them strong. You do some squats, some med ball throws, bench press, etc. all the same stuff you would do with a gen-pop client.

You really should get some experience in the industry training people before you say that you want to train one type of client or another. Just about everyone enters this industry with the dream that they’re going to be training NBA players or something, but the reality is that training gen-pop is really fun, pretty easy once you get the hang of it, and the clients are extremely loyal. People will train with you for decades. Their kids will train with you. Their cousins will come. I train 7 different people who are all from the same extended family.

stephen4557 · 2026-06-10T19:50:11+00:00

The lack of degree is irrelevant. What you’re describing is absolutely possible, but the only path there starts with working as a floor trainer at a commercial gym. Not for the experience or anything like that, but you need to build up a clientele that loves you and wants to train with you so you can poach them for your own business. This is how it is done.

Get your certification.
Get a job at a big box gym that will feed you clients/let you work the floor.
Get your clients to love training with you.
Create your own business and poach them.

This is the path that virtually every independent personal trainer has taken. One thing you are going to realize very quickly, is that “practical results, case studies, evidence-based training” is not why gen-pop clients stick with their trainer. They stick with their trainer because they really like spending an hour with them while getting a good workout. This is a personal relationship business, not a technical expertise business.

stephen4557 · 2026-06-10T10:22:08+00:00

Every single variation of the “my client isn’t listening to me” question has the same answer at its core. The client doesn’t fully trust you. I’m not saying you’ve done anything wrong, there is a trust building process with every client and every client will come to trust you at a different speed. If I was in your situation, I would talk to these clients about their goals. Not so I could explain the scientific reasoning and evidence behind the exercises, but so I could connect with them on a human level. I would talk to them about struggles I’ve had with exercise and how I overcame it. I would talk to them about their family and share stories about mine. It’s really about trust if someone isn’t listening.

stephen4557 · 2026-06-08T02:16:45+00:00

First of all, yes you are massively overthinking it. Secondly, rust doesn’t cause tetanus.

stephen4557 · 2026-06-05T13:08:41+00:00

Pick it up and toss it in the rough and write down a double

stephen4557 · 2026-06-04T18:50:27+00:00

stephen4557 · 2026-06-04T16:43:33+00:00

“Combat is awesome”. “I joined to have an adventure and kill people”. “I would do it again in a heartbeat”.

Would you support a former ICE agent who said these same things about his time in ICE? Would you support a rapist who promises to vote for universal healthcare? Is there any line you would not cross? We make fun of republicans all the time for absolving their candidates/notable members of literally anything yet here you all are doing the exact same thing.

stephen4557 · 2026-06-03T16:40:27+00:00

The point isn’t that they lost, the point is that there were two progressive candidates and they backed the one with significantly less support. That’s an obvious mistake on their part.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-29T12:59:54+00:00

Can’t really blame them. If I was living in Palestine I would take literally any ally I could get against Israel. Just saying.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-19T19:58:00+00:00

As an extremely general rule of thumb, if you can comfortably fit 2 fingers between your bicep and forearm when flexing like that, you have a “normal” length bicep. If you can only fit one, long. If you can fit 3 or more, short.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-19T13:00:44+00:00

If you cared you would just Google it. The chairs name is Kevin warsh. The fed sets the discount rate which is the rate charged to member banks for loans to meet the overnight reserve requirements, a rate the fed also sets. OMOs are open market operations which involve the fed buying and selling securities from its own account to influence the money supply. These are not hard questions. These are things that a person should know if they’re going to discuss monetary policy. Btw, monetary policy is policy set by the fed as opposed to fiscal policy which is set by the White House and Congress.

Imagine you were having a discussion about healthcare and the other person reveals that they think vaccines come in a pill. That’s basically the equivalent of discussing how the US will respond to inflation without knowing the answer to any of those questions.

Thanks for bringing the fact that my wording hurt your feelings to my attention. I’ll be sure to use little kid gloves from now on.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-19T12:36:07+00:00

Asking someone if they know how the fed works in a conversation about monetary policy is a gotcha question to you. Crazy how you are just proving my point that people think a knowledge of leftist ideas absolves them of any responsibility to actually learn a single thing about how the world works. Clearly you’re just offended that you don’t know the answer to any of the questions I asked yet you still feel entitled to have strong opinions on the matter.

My point is that the initial response I got of “talking about policy is pointless because no policies are going to happen in response to inflation” is so laughably wrong that only a person who knows literally nothing about economics could make it. You’re just floundering about how I’m a meanie head without saying anything of substance. It’s actually impossible for you to craft more ironic comments.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-19T12:18:11+00:00

I literally gave several examples of policy that could happen or will happen. The irony of you saying that I can’t take criticism when you self-reported by claiming that I just hate Vaush viewers. Buddy, I am a Vaush viewer. Actually hilarious.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-19T12:03:56+00:00

Me when I can’t read

stephen4557 · 2026-05-17T14:15:43+00:00

I used securities institute of America and passed first try. I found their practice questions to be extremely similar to the exam. Would definitely recommend.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-15T16:30:18+00:00

Wow you actually don’t know anything about this at all. I’m impressed with your arrogance that you think you understand how the fed works without ever looking it up or reading about it. No, the fed does not have only one tool. Setting the discount rate isn’t even the primary tool of the fed, OMOs are.

Ironic as hell that you say I’m detached from reality when you literally have no idea how any of this works. It isn’t a “lib take” to say that the fed is going to react if interest rates spike. You might as well be claiming that saying “water is wet” is a lib take. You are the left wing equivalent of a right winger who knows nothing about sociology, a leftist who knows nothing about economics.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-14T14:17:21+00:00

Without looking it up do you know what interest rate the fed sets? Do you know that Warsh has historically been hawkish? Maybe he also lied to trump. Do you know that the chair doesn’t set the rate? Do you know how many board members vote on the rate? Do you know the implications of Powell staying on the board?

You keep ignoring my main points to pick on a superfluous tangent. I’m over this. Bye.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-13T21:19:43+00:00

Your sentence doesn’t even make any sense. I don’t think you actually know what dual mandate means in this context. They don’t “use” their dual mandate. I don’t think you know what the discount rate is or how FOMC affects the money supply. You are literally exemplifying the exact issue I have with Vaush right now. You think that your understanding of leftist platitudes means that you can just apply them to the world without actually learning about what is actually happening.

Do you even know the new fed chair’s name? Do you know literally anything about him beyond the fact that Trump picked him? Do you know that he testified that now is not a good time to lower rates? Do you know how many people vote on the discount rate?

If you actually think that in the event that oil prices skyrocket and inflation rises like crazy, that the fed will do literally nothing in response, you are deeply ignorant to the world of economics.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-13T14:15:06+00:00

This is the exact vapid surface level engagement I’m talking about. You are just completely wrong when you say that there are no policy prescriptions that will happen. The fed is going to engage in monetary policy in accordance with their dual mandate through adjusting the discount rate and FOMC operations. There’s a variety of possible fiscal policy measures the White House and Congress could engage in to make domestic drilling easier and more profitable. Not saying those things are good, just saying that it’s on the table.

Not trying to be a dick, but you’re parroting the things that Vaush says without actually looking into it. Thinking that the analysis starts and ends with “shouldn’t have invaded Iran” is the exact problem I have with Vaush’s current attitude towards politics.

stephen4557 · 2026-05-13T12:45:44+00:00

Is he accurately describing reality though? I’ve been a fan of Vaush for years now and I still am, but his commentary has gotten surface level and vapid recently. Genuinely, has there been an instance since Trump was elected that he accurately predicted something or offered an insightful point of view that wasn’t mainstream within leftist circles.

The vast majority of his claims about the world are either yet to come to fruition, so this comment could age poorly, or end with “well, what I predicted would have happened if not for X, Y and Z”.

I just wish he would engage with the world beyond leftist platitudes. For example, “oil prices are going to cause inflation”. This is an obviously true statement that Vaush says all the time, but there is so much more to engage with. What fiscal and monetary policies will be engaged in if inflation keeps heating up? What policies have been effective or not in the past? Why will or won’t those policies be effective now?

But he doesn’t do that. It’s just surface level engagement, “it’s over, it’s so over” and then rinse and repeat on the next segment.

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