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Originally Posted by AcGold
Seems like only a fraction of trainers know much if anything, I've known several kinesiology students/trainers and none of them had any idea on the subject. Same with deadlifts, benchpress, injuries and impingement.
The information is fairly concise at this point in time but also hard to find as well. There should be charts by all the workout areas on the basic motions of each exercise and the potential injuries. The amount of people that benchpress properly is near 4-5%, squats even less. I remember seeing one guy the entire year actually squatting properly, it's so vastly misunderstood for such a simple movement. Deadlifts maybe even worse, in my life I've seen maybe 3 or 4 people deadlifting properly in person.
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Deadlifting is variable, as there are also sorts of styles, and some that even require you to do things like keep your legs straight.
I'd agree though, most trainers are awful, and most people you see working out at the gym have no idea what they are doing. The issue is that many trainers are just salespeople hired by the gyms.