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Author | Wang Min, Li Qiuhan, Tang Yahua, Wanqi, Zou Shuai
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Spring has arrived, and it is the season of "no weight loss in March, sadness in June".
Some people have bought yoga clothes, sneakers, and quietly bought fitness equipment, and some people have stepped into Leke and Super Orangutan with their legs. 40 million fitness people, only recently put Keep into the queue to go public.
Whether it is for slimming and shaping, or for the sake of strengthening the body, in short, the concept of fitness has penetrated into the lives of many people. Migrant workers are increasingly aware that a healthy body is the biggest cost.
"Keep your mouth shut and step out of your legs" is easier said than done. How many people are equipped and ambitiously embark on the fitness road, only to be taught a lesson by reality.
Recently, Shen Yan chatted with several workers about their experience of burning money for fitness, but they could not escape failure.
Among them, some people in order to increase muscle, spent thirty or forty thousand to change 3 personal trainers, but two years passed, at most only gained 5 pounds, far from reaching the expected "type of man" figure; some people in order to quickly slim down after childbirth, urgently found a "master" in the valley, but because of hunger at work, had to give up; some people spent money to report online weight loss camp, the other party not only did not care, but also always wanted to poke and sell things.
There are also people because the fitness coach has no risk tips, riding a dynamic bicycle into the hospital, the medical cost is equivalent to throwing in a fitness card money, "ordinary people can think of riding a dynamic bicycle, you can also ride out of the internal injury"; there are also people who are fooled into doing card to buy classes after encountering gym closure, have to transfer the card to other gyms, but have to start again from the card to buy classes.
In general, after experiencing failure, the workers also know that the most important thing about fitness is to insist on their own, and the desire is not fast. Below, is their story.
I rode a spinning bike for 20 minutes and put myself in the hospital
Huang Hong | 31 years old new media practitioner
In November last year, a gym in the community engaged in activities, and the annual pass was only more than 3,000 in two years. I have never had the habit of fitness, because I am busy at work, I have been sedentary, I feel that I am not exercising enough, and this gym is close to home, so I have a card.
After I got my card, I would occasionally go for a run, but I felt bored and there was no activity. Until one run, I saw a classroom next to me, accompanied by very emotional music, the instructor led the students to do exercises while pedaling the spinning bike, and everyone was sweating. I was instantly attracted, and that was the effect I wanted.
So, after watching the group class arrangement, there was a spinning group class at 19:00 that Sunday, and I went. I was the first wave to enter the classroom, I went in and chose the bicycle in the middle of the second row, before the class, the coach asked, "Who is the first to come back to class", only I and another girl raised my hand, but the coach did not say anything, and directly started.
When the official start, only five or six minutes of stepping, I felt, "so tired", but look at the first row of people in front, can find the rhythm, keep up with the coach's movements, and I have two rows of people behind me watching, self-esteem, do not dare to stop, have to keep up.
By ten minutes, I had a hard time holding on, my legs were sore, but no one stopped, and I kept holding on.
After about twenty minutes of riding, the coach finally gave the halftime break. When I got off the spinning bike, I almost fell. Out of the classroom, I quickly sat down, rested for about ten minutes, felt a little relieved, and went home.
After going home, the next day, my legs were a little sore, and I thought it was like running too much, just rest for a few days. But by the third day, the situation was even more serious, and the legs had to be straightened, and if they were slightly bent, it would be very painful.
That afternoon, I hung up the number of the orthopedic department of a hospital, and the doctor asked me to have blood and urine tests. I was still wondering: "Isn't it orthopedics, why do you still have to do blood tests and urine tests?"
However, the results of the examination that should have been obtained the next day, the doctor also did an urgent, and the results were released in an hour, and the diagnosis was "rhabdomyolysis". The doctor explained that this disease is very common in people with excessive exercise, that is, after the rhabdomyolysis, some components enter the bloodstream and have to be excreted in large quantities through the kidneys, and many patients will urinate blood, and even acute renal failure.
As soon as I heard this, I panicked and quickly asked the doctor what to do. The doctor gave me more than 200 yuan of medicine, asked me to go home to recuperate, and told me that as soon as I felt that the situation was serious, I would immediately go to the hospital to hang up the emergency department.
After I went back, I felt that the situation was getting worse, and immediately hung up the emergency department of another large hospital and did a more comprehensive examination, and the results of the examination were the same, which was rhabdomyolysis. Their treatment is to infuse saline while drinking plenty of water to quickly drain dissolved substances. The doctor said that 5L-8L of water should be replenished every day, and at that time, next to my bed, there were 10 bottles of water, and the whole row was drunk all the time.
In this way, while transporting salt water, drinking a lot of water, the situation improved after 5 days. This time into the hospital, before and after spending more than 3,000 yuan, and then threw in a fitness card money.
Later, I searched on the Internet, and in the short term, there were many cases of excessive exercise, resulting in rhabdomyolysis, and the dynamic bicycle was a high incidence area. Ordinary people simply can't imagine that riding a dynamic bicycle can also ride out internal injuries. But the gym instructor did not carry out any risk warning when he knew that there were novices on the scene, and I felt that the gym was also responsible.
After that, I didn't go to the gym again for three months. But exercise is still necessary, but I definitely don't dare to force myself to exercise excessively, and I will definitely take it step by step and take it slowly.
Changed 3 personal trainers in two years, or failed to train into a "type man"
Zhang Tao | 26 years old, a practitioner in the aesthetic industry
My friend is 175cm tall, at first he weighed only a hundred and a few pounds, and then through fitness, he became a muscle man, very stylish, can be a clothing model, I am envious, let him take me to the gym.
It was my first exposure to the gym, a personal training studio run by a personal trainer. At that time, the studio may be sluggish, it is not easy to come to a student, my first physical fitness test, the coach gave me a sharp blow, resulting in arm muscle strain, a week can not be straightened. I also sighed, "Didn't you start, and the arm was ruined?" "Later, after recovering, I signed up for class. 280 yuan a lesson, signed up for 12 lessons, go 3 times a week.
Because I never saw the effect, I changed to a "well-known" coach in the middle.
He is a coach who specializes in rehabilitation training, it is said that he was a personal trainer in Chengdu before a star became famous, and now the customers in his hands are not rich or expensive, when I heard it, I was attracted, he gave me the first analysis, I feel very professional. But the fee is relatively high, the friendship price is 320 yuan a lesson, I paid more than 7,000 yuan at a time.
The training he prescribed to me was aerobic + anti-joint ligament training, which was particularly painful. What's more, his time is not fixed, I need to cooperate with his time for fitness, and many times, I have to take a taxi to train during the noon break. And he is very strict, as long as I am late, I have to brag for 3 minutes, or do squats, whether the physical strength can keep up, the time is not too late. At the same time, he does not chat during training, and must follow his rhythm throughout the whole process.
I persisted for two months and still didn't see a muscle gainer effect. So I changed it.
Because it was near home, this one I insisted on the longest, I went after work, four times a week, I insisted on it for a year. At the beginning, I also hired a coach, and then I also had some methods, and I began to practice on my own. This gym, with its own catering department, eats every day according to the fitness meals sent by the instructor.
3-5 eggs in the morning, a cup of skim milk, lunch and dinner are mainly beef, chicken, fish and some soybean foods, etc., and there is also a fixed amount of food per day. If you can't eat it, you have to eat, the coach means you can't make yourself feel hungry, I feel that food is stuffed into my throat every day. Even though I tried so hard, the muscle gain program failed, gaining only 5 pounds at most.
Intermittent fitness for two years, spent thirty or forty thousand, or no effect, I also went to the hospital to check the body, why it is difficult to increase muscle, the hospital said that some people are born thin, did not find out a so natural, even if it is.
Because of the epidemic, I didn't go to the gym again, and I didn't want to practice when I was alone at home. But in general, I don't regret it. The biggest comfort during the gym is that there are always coaches encouraging me in my ear, I am mentally satisfied, I have made friends in the gym, I have learned fitness skills, I know my body better, and my spirit is much better. Then the fitness plan will still be arranged, life is endless, and the exercise is not stopped.
It took more than 10,000 to change three gyms, and finally gained more than a dozen pounds
Jing Yi | 32 years old Internet practitioner
The first time I bought a fitness card was in 2015, when we opened a gym in the community opposite our unit, less than 2,000 yuan can do two years of card and send eight months, I thought I could fitness and bathe, then I lived where the water heater was not very good, I did the card.
Went to the gym and was fooled into buying a personal training class, 5400 yuan 24 lessons. This "flickering" process also makes people cry and laugh in retrospect, the coach made me stand still with my eyes closed, I walked and walked crookedly, and now I can't remember clearly where he said I had a problem, but it just so happened that I was eager to lose weight at the time, so I did the card. Later, I found that most people walk crooked when they close their eyes and step.
When I started the class, I found that their coach changed too often, and I didn't know whether the other party was professional or not, and it was useless to practice. At first, I bought a personal training class to shape, and then I took a few sessions, and the coach said that this low-end class could not achieve the effect I wanted, and needed more expensive lessons. He recommended a kind of plastic surgery class for the pelvic crotch, which cost more than 10,000 yuan, I did not report it, and I felt that it was useless to spend money.
And for me, who works overtime and stays up late, I can't get up in the morning, I have to work overtime at night, and I can't always take a personal training class.
Later, the two-and-a-half-year card expired, and the personal training class was not finished. In order to attend the class, I could only continue to apply for an annual pass, which cost more than 10,000 yuan before and after.
After the pandemic, the gym went out of business. At this time, another gym appeared, saying that it could receive our personal training classes for free, but the condition was to apply for a card first, 3,000 yuan a year, I ran another one. But left a heart eye on the contract to write a sentence, seven days after arriving at the store without a reason to refund.
At this time, another gym of the same brand as the closed gym said that it could also accept our old customers, so I went to ask again, and I wanted to turn the unfinished personal training class into a swimming class. But the other party asked to buy some more lessons to transfer, and I spent more than 1,000 yuan to buy 6 swimming lessons.
The coach said that he could turn the previous one around, but now for several months, he has been dragging his feet and not doing it for me, and I don't know if I have been fooled again. I felt like a fool in the face of gym sales, and I didn't ask for this transfer to be written on the contract, nor did I record it, and I was afraid that I would have to go to them next.
Thinking that since it was converted to swimming lessons, my previous 3,000 yuan annual pass could not be used, I went to refund, went three times in a row, the other party did not recognize the contract written, said that it had opened a card for me, wanted to refund the card to deduct the fee from the day of opening the card, I gave them a bad review on the Internet, they also threatened me that the bad review was useless, and the police was useless. I made a lot of trouble and finally got the money back to me.
When I finished swimming this time, I would never buy a class at any gym again. The class didn't last a few times, and the light was just ripping off there. And my weight has increased in recent years, and I have gained more than 10 pounds.
It is recommended that people who want to work out must be calm, even if they were fooled at the time, there is still a seven-day cooling off period. If the other party's promises are crazy, be sure to let him write on the contract, and now that the gym is a chicken thief, all verbal promises will be written in their contracts that are invalid. In addition, leaving the invoice evidence, I also asked me for a receipt contract many years ago.
In order to quickly slim down, he found a "valley master", and he was so hungry that he chose to give up
Zhou Li | Aged 32, Administrative Secretary
My figure is a bit pear-shaped, with a large crotch and a large waist and abdomen, especially after giving birth to my second child, I am 163cm tall and weigh more than 150 pounds. To be honest, this appearance still makes me a little inferior, in order to restore self-confidence in the workplace, but also in order to be able to better put into work, postpartum recovery is imminent.
After consulting with several moms, they all recommended me to try a postpartum yoga class. So, I found a good yoga studio around my home, and it is said that some Internet celebrities and actors are also exercising here. Because the coach is very professional, it is naturally difficult to meet. After an experiential class, I did not hesitate to create a 12,000 yuan course card, which was mixed with a personal training class and a small group class.
The course schedule is relatively relaxed, with two private lessons a week. After practicing for 2 months, I did feel my limbs stretched and my body and mind lightened a lot. However, because I did not diet, my weight did not drop, and I was still hovering around 150 pounds. I began to panic, thinking about whether to try something else.
Once, I inadvertently complained to my friends that it was too difficult to lose weight. A friend said that he knew a "master" who could quickly slim down.
The master was a Chinese medicine practitioner before retiring, and now he has opened a high-end private valley studio dedicated to one-on-one reception of guests, and the business is very hot. I made an appointment for two weeks before waiting for the face-to-face consultation. This is my first contact with the valley, personal feeling, the whole face-to-face experience is still very good, in the understanding of my weight loss anxiety, but also for me to carry out psychological counseling.
The early stage of the valley was particularly hard, three days without eating anything, only drinking water, really hanging physical fitness with one breath. Of course, the weight loss was noticeable, and in less than five days, I lost about ten pounds. To explain, I did this course, the master will give my body "points" every time to reduce hunger, the average person should not try casually.
By the second stage, to drop to 120+ pounds, the difficulty came.
After three days of digging the valley, you can eat some boiled vegetables. Soon, though, I was sent on a business trip to a car show. For the first two days, I was still insisting on eating boiled vegetables, and even if I ordered takeout, I would eat it with water. But the physical exertion of work is too large, during the day to stare at the site of the site, at night to stay up late to write a plan, plus in a different place can not go to the master's face consultation, the body began to eat. After about five days, I was dizzy at the auto show site, but fortunately, my colleagues took care of me so that there would be no accidents. After that, in order to maintain my strength, I still resumed eating three meals.
After the car show, the weight returned to 150+, and the weight loss in front of it was a failure. The whole course of treatment has been destroyed, and the master said that it needs to be restarted. I thought about it, and for the sake of good health, I decided to pause first.
I know that there are many ways to break the valley online, and some celebrities are advocating for the benefits of the valley. But after my experience, I found that in fact, its harm is also very large, if it is uncomfortable in the stomach, it will even cause gastritis. And long-term do not ingest carbs, the whole person is easy to be irritable, more and more impatient with others, and not adjusting emotions in time will affect life.
However, it is not that there is a problem in breaking the valley, but it is too much of a test of perseverance, and if ordinary people blindly cut the valley and there is no professional person to guide, it is easy to go astray. Now, I also want to open, weight loss this thing do not worry, physical health is the most important.
2800 yuan reported for an online weight loss camp, only in exchange for a few recipes available everywhere on the Internet
Jiang Jiang | 23-year-old teacher
I learned about a fitness blogger on Douyin, who usually posts weight loss knowledge videos, exercise videos, and so on. I reported his "three-to-one" customized online weight loss camp, 1400 yuan a month, and I paid two months of money, which happened to be during the summer vacation in July and August.
These three people are bloggers, nutritionists and coaches, and the four of us pulled a WeChat group, and the whole process was carried out in the WeChat group. Mainly eat + practice two parts, eating is the nutritionist sent me a few PDFs, let me take a picture, but also take a picture of the punch card, she will give me an evaluation according to what I eat. Practice, the coach sent me a link to the network disk, which contained a lot of sports videos, and asked me to record videos for him every day.
It may seem like an efficient small class, but it's not.
Let's start with the portion of the food. The promotion of this weight loss camp is "customization", the so-called customization, that is, before the start of the class, the nutritionist asked me about my height and weight, target weight, what taboos, etc., but when I got the recipe, it still planned what I said not to eat. In fact, it is a weight loss recipe that can be found everywhere on the Internet, and it is not a customized program at all. As for the practice part. Those videos are very basic sports, and you can find free copies on Keep.
If I eat right, the dietitian will only say, "I ate well today." "If I eat something that is suspected of being high in calories, the other party will say that it is not recommended to eat, and she does not care whether I eat it in a reasonable number of grams, anyway, it is the same set of words."
Dietitians give Jiang Jiang's recipes / courtesy of the interviewee
Throughout July I was very disciplined and clocked in on time. Although I found out that they didn't care about me at all, I thought that the money was spent, and the weight loss thing was originally on my own, so I insisted. It worked, I lost 5 pounds, but it had nothing to do with them.
However, this month my menstrual period was postponed for a long time. I asked the dietitian and she told me to eat normally during menstruation. But they don't inform you in advance and don't answer the question until I find it.
I had myopia surgery in August and couldn't exercise all month, so I postponed the course to September. But in September, I started school, and I couldn't eat so strictly at school, so the other party said to send me a month's worth of chicken breast, and as a result, I sent two boxes of meal replacement powder.
Speaking of which, they have indeed been poking and poking at me all the time. Meal replacements, chicken breasts, enzymes, are all brands that cannot be searched on the Internet, and they should be made by themselves.
I really can't lose weight, so I want to refund the remaining month's tuition. The other party did not let it, said that the two boxes of meal replacement powder for 1,000 yuan, I said that the remaining 400 yuan was returned to me, he also disagreed, and said that he would give him 500 yuan in turn when he quit halfway, which was not said before the camp. I went to Douyin to chat privately about the coach, just a second back, when I said that I had signed up for the class and now want to refund the fee, the other party did not return. Then I never played the card again, the other party did not care, two months later, the other party said in the group that the weight loss camp was over, and the group was dissolved.
I went to the comments section to remind everyone not to sign up for his class, I could send the PDF to everyone for free, and he blocked me. After losing a few pounds that time, I got fat again, and I plan to supervise my own weight loss in the future. I will never report to an online weight loss camp again, 1400 yuan a month is not cheap, spend money to buy a full self-help weight loss.
*The caption and illustration in the text are from pexels. At the request of the interviewees, Huang Hong, Zhang Tao, Jing Yi, Zhou Li, and Jiang Jiang are pseudonyms.
*The above interviewee experience does not constitute weight loss fitness advice.