I Am Pissed...

Yesterday, I was training in my commercial gym near my house, and I was pissed off. Truthfully, it was a good thing since I was squatting and I have no problem with some additional, extrinsic motivation when lifting. 

But, I was pissed, because as I looked around that shiny, sparkly gym, I saw scores and scores of people, for all intents and purposes, wasting their time. Whether it was the guy doing 12 lb. lateral raises or the woman doing sets of 100 on birddogs (glute activation is good, but this might be taking it a little too far), it made me mad. 

It made me mad, because these people were willing to spend time in the gym to better themselves, but they either A) didn't know how to actually better themselves B) are too lazy to do what's necessary.  

I understand A, but I certainly don't accept it. I don't know why people think they know how to train themselves. You wouldn't perform surgery on yourself, right? So what makes you think you can train yourself?  What makes you think you know what you're doing in a gym?

Now I'm not saying training and surgery are equally difficult, but if training was so easy then, why are there so many damn fat and weak people in every gym across America? 

The point is you likely have no idea what you're doing in the gym. Get an intelligent trainer to either train you or help you out. Find someone knowledgeable online and ask them for some guidance. Read any of the gazillion articles there are online about training. The answers are there, you just have to find them.

As for point B, I definitely don't accept it, nor do I understand it. If you really want something (in this case, more muscle, fat loss, etc.), then you should already know that you have to do whatever it takes to attain it. So, if you know you should be lifting heavy weights and running sprints if you want to drop some fat, but are too lazy to do so and instead do a bunch of curls and the elliptical for 20 minutes, what does that make you? A lazy person who doesn't actually want to lose any fat. You just like saying it.