Struggling to complete the last repetition, using all the might you have trying to push the bar away from you and hoping you might get some form of encouragement from your gym instructor, you look up and noticed that he is looking bored and eyeing a sweet young thing across the gym or staring at the floor and lost in his own world until you are done with your set.
Well, you not not alone. Welcome to the world of let-me-pay-you-to-look-good-standing-beside-me-while-I-struggle. Many fellow brethens have suffered the same.
Various times, I have observed this kind of unprofessional behaviour of the gym instructors in California Gym at Bugis. I am also very sure that gym instructors in other California Gym branches are the same. What is the point of paying them so that they can just stand beside members without offering much advise about their exercise routine? Most of the time, they looked bored at the job and unmotivated. I would not want anyone of them to do that to me. Then again, not everyone is as critical as me when it comes to demand service.
What then could be the problem? Is insufficient professional customer service training the reason? Do the instructors feel that their current job is beneath them? Oh, or are we, as members, a bother to them and they have more important things to do? Mission to accomplish? A calling to fulfil?
Gym instructors are humans afterall... they are entitled to feel and act the way they want to...
But I dun go for those... there are lots of other exercises that doesn't require their existence, yet getting the returns you want.