TeamRH

[Mancnet]

I’ve followed their plan in the past. I bought a year subscription and just didn’t renew. I think the premise is fine but once you know it you don’t need to keep paying. I’m still in the Facebook group though as I assume they don’t bother deleting people.

I found the people they had answering questions and doing “lives” very odd and I didn’t like that side (Where did they all go?!) but I do like Rachael and think she seems genuine and motivating.

They must be absolutely raking it in though and am disappointed to hear about the debt collection side

 

[flibble123]

Another happy member....NOT!!!

Urgh boke! I made the mistake of looking on his profile and he’s shared a video of one of his team talking about help with eating disorders. He bloody contributes to them! I feel sick now. I’ve permanently blocked him.

Question. Are their barbells cheap delboy shite?

I bought them, and they are just plastic, I have another set from Amazon which is much the same. Both made in China.

Long post, apologies.
Well I have had an interesting day reading these 45 pages. Have signed up so I could comment. I joined Team RH back in July 19 and to be fair the plan worked for me. I have lost 70lbs and am much more mobile and actually enjoy lifting weights at home which I never dreamt I would. I am no spring chicken, 57 this year. I quickly got to grips with the plan and threw myself into the community. That’s when it all started to go down hill. Love the calorie clubs they had then they were really helpful. But they were stopped with no consultation. I tried to challenge this by email and said it felt like a dictatorship, woah that hit a nerve. Was told it was his company and he would do what he liked. So I had a load of members from my calorie club message in despaire, and for a few months we had a private what’s app group. Moving on I saw lots of comments from people on the public page and replied trying to help them. Received a message from the man himself telling me members weren’t supposed to post on their as he paid his coaches on a commission basis and they weren’t earning as much because of it. Not a good business model in my view, it’s worse than car sales. So that left the members group in the pod and the odd posts team rh made. Again tried to help people with how to create a recipe and where to find things in the help centre. Was warned again that was coaching. Then the funniest thing was I posted a picture of one of the affiliates pages as someone asked what it was, this was a picture mind not a link and got a 3 day suspension from the page as I was in breach of rules as I had posted a link. I wouldn’t mind but it was to one of the ladies pages that gives her heart and soul to people. I did message her and told her and she actually said yeah it’s not allowed. There have quite a lot of people now with pages who in effect are promoting their business, some in an informal way and others are branded affiliates yet there is no one on anything to do with team rh that advertises these pages. It’s like a dirty secret you are not allowed to mention.
I more recently have had members messaging me via fb privately asking for help as they are too scared to ask the coaches or post in the group. Also had a couple of ladies from the reverse dieting/bulking group as they felt there was no support unless you wanted to pile on the weights and go to silly calories. I asked for support on this and was met with don’t know why you don’t want to bulk but you still need to do calliper measurements to reverse diet. I had no intention of doing that. A quick search of google gives you all you need.
So a few weeks back I contacted Peter at Preece via messenger to see what he could offer when my team rh ended as I would be wanting to stop dieting and maintain. What a pleasant surprise to get a series of voice messages all about it. So I though ok will stick it out till the end of June. They yesterday without any notification was suspended again from posting for a week this time. In the sin bin again. I had to email, to ask why and was told they didn’t like my posts. I said it wasn’t very professional for a million pound company to suspend their paying customers without even having the decency to tell me why until I asked. The initial reply was we have thousands of members and we will choose who to contact and let them know. Sounds like they are suspending an awful lot then if it’s too onerous a task to let people know. Bear in mind this is a company and I am a paying customer who has bought their product. They are now back tracking and saying I should have had something and will look into it.
So I found it fascinating to read this thread and all the comments of which I agree with. It is definitely a case of if you don’t play by their rules and praise him to the heights they will remove you. Some of their posts are very uncomfortable to be honest. I am a pretty level headed person and don’t have any issues mentally with any of this in fact I find their behaviour laughable. However on a more serious note, if I was not of the nature I am I could see how the approach and behaviour could seriously damage what could be some very vulnerable people. So I can no longer be a part of this cult and will be looking to give Preece a go to help me finish my journey. Anyway thanks for listening if you got this far.

Hiya! I know who you are, we’ve chatted. Well done for speaking up here.

 

[ChubClubThug]

They are persistent and hard up for 6.99
I’m just ignoring them now
You win some and you lose some

Just remember it's illegal for them to add charges, only a court of law can do that. Have a look on step change, they have some good advice for dealing with being hassled and legal rights with regards to "debts" They try and scare people by mentioning solicitors what a load of old shite!

 

[ChubClubThug]

I didn't know about the debt collection agency stuff! That's awful.

I did the diet about 3 years ago & was in the best shape I've ever been in pretty much! I was a bit taken aback at the start as its so confusing - YOU MUST WATCH ALL THE VIDEOS but its not clear where to start & in which order etc & there is SO MUCH waffle & repeating themselves. The videos could be a quarter of the length if concise (I used to do this for a job so was shocked it was so bad).

I'm not into the SW style 'hun' there-there stuff but the tough talk was a bit much as Richie seemed to go in on people who were merely asking for advice. If you train people up properly, they can do it themselves.

The affiliate thing annoyed me, that awful Brummie couple, my god the bloke could moan for England, who were they? Natalie and someone, can't remember the bloke's name, he had quite a pretty face.

The affiliate thing seemed to be going down the pan with the 'teacher's pet' ones now out of favour/ sacked & all sorts of rumours of bullying.

I agree and I can well believe the bullying part, they're very aggressive. I don't mind the diet plan I've learnt things from it for sure, but they are just not what they used to be. I've followed from the start too. It's very disappointing that they've turned into what they are today. All about the sales and have gone really greedy.

The reviews on trust pilot are interesting. Reviews being reported and Richie jumping on lesser reviews to argue with people. So professional eh!

 

[SpiceWeasel]

Exactly! You enjoy every second of it
There's no logic in starting some rigid plan when you know you're about to go off plan & end up feeling shit about yourself because of this idiot.
Yes Richie we were all born on "one f*king day" it's the one day we should forget all our problems & indulge in what makes us happy, guilt free.
It must be nice to only have to worry about how many calories you consume we can't all be so one dimensional.

If I was paying someone to help me get into shape & they put their energy into posting bitchy IG rants containing things like "your stinky, shitey, arsehole" I'd be putting my money elsewhere. Minger

He thinks he's the solution but directing negativity towards people who need help with their weight, he's becoming the problem. His execution is poor.

Thank you!! I will!

I know I thought the language on that one was revolting even for him

 

[Jossylovesmoss65]

I can guarantee it’s not just one of her friends that dislikes him.

Really big of him not to handpick her mates for her. Dick.

If i were her i would run for the hills and not look back! Is she even allowed friends? Not a healthy relationship by the sounds of it??

 

[MamaD]

Newbie on this thread, what’s the tea with Munro fitness and Fitness RH??

So glad I read here, I was going to sign up this weekend to Fitness RH.

From what I can remember, Munro was a part of RH Fitness and lost weight. He then set up an identical business. Now I don’t know the ins and outs but I have been members of both groups and I know when I received the ‘welcome’ bumf from Munro it was IDENTICAL to RH! From what I can gather, Munro has since gone and got himself a more in-depth education on all things nutrition and Ritchie is still talking about Betty and bumholes!

 

[flibble123]

I have so many things to say about team rh but am scared as I know he reads these forums and will know who I am.

 

[Jack0]

Let the dickheads join ... Good luck to them if they like being told to stop fingering their arseholes a lot and basically being called a thick, fat, lazy bastard for not doing 100,000 steps a day, they'll love it! I hope they get charged magic sums of £37.97 for missing a £6.99 payment too

it was the”sounds fake” that made me laugh the hardest. Clearly no idea what you signed up for love.

 

[theeyeroller]

I have a story that is alleged, take with a pinch of salt, however from what I know of him I personally can imagine this to have happened very easily, but again absolute disclaimer here lol. Also can not remember exact details but you very much get the overview.

A friend of mine was speaking out about him on Instagram and got messaged by someone in North East (probably Sunderland area), he concurred along the lines of him being awful. However before he came to that conclusion for himself, he actually recommended Team RH to a girl at his work rather than join Slimming World. She joined, had reasonable success/failure, kind of stopped following it after a month or so.
However she kept paying her monthly membership despite not following it, and was always one of these things she kept meaning to do, to cancel her membership.
Then one day she was edging forward to drive onto a main road, she started to pull out and should not have, so although not causing a crash or anything major, she still had pulled out a little onto a road. So a van had to move a few yards across a lane and then the car behind had stopped/slowed right down. The car behind had a man shouting really aggressively, throwing arms, obviously effing and jeffing. She then noticed he was with a blonde girl, and also clicked on it was Richie and Rachael. She was really quite shook (not sure if it was anger, being scared etc), but she went home that day and made sure to cancel her membership with them.

Not surprising, roid rage likely

 

[Jossylovesmoss65]

Definitely this ..

 

[Twinkle6]

As for Rach, I agree with previous comments, she’s so far down the garden path she’s trapped. His behaviour worries me, if this is what he’s like in public how is he behind closed doors?

 

[Jossylovesmoss65]

Yet being going on all year about not letting circumstance get in the way of your goals.
If he stood up straight, stopped pushing his belly out and tensed his muscles he’d look more like he normally does. Eejit!

ha ha who is he trying to kid???

 

[Jossylovesmoss65]

I never understood the 121 coaching?? Never saw any evidence of that??

 

[SpiceWeasel]

I’m so sorry you went through that. I haven’t suffered the way you have but as someone who has struggled with yoyoing in weight my whole life I definitely have elements of disordered eating, and I grew up with a mum who was very restrictive with her eating (she probably did have some sort of ED) so I have huge alarm bells when I see anything like this promoting disordered eating.

Aw thank you I was never hospitalised or anything like that, just grew up around the time when size 0 was in fashion, my step sister is naturally stick thin, we’d both eat the same and I was like why can’t I be like that, and similarly my mother is also very restrictive with food and constantly complains about her weight even though I don’t think she’s ever weighed more than 10 stone! The worst thing is because the BMI system is so f*cked up I was never officially ‘underweight’ even though I looked visibly gaunt and ill! I kind of just grew out of it and have yo yo’d since but never to that extreme. I don’t think I’ll ever have a completely healthy relationship with food I’m totally all or nothing when it comes to diet


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[MamaD]

Absolutely, I really struggle with protein as I’m not a huge meat eater and not a massive fan of dairy either. I felt so under pressure on RH being told “just buy and eat high protein foods” - it’s not as simple as that if the foods give you the boke!

Unless someone is bodybuilding they don’t need the high amounts of protein that’s being recommended. A balanced diet (all 3 macros) is best unless you have a health concern (epilepsy and have been advised to do a high fat, low carb diet). I found that people were adding scoops of protein powder to porridge, yogurt, having a protein shake, chicken wraps, protein bar, high protein tea followed by another shake. For someone wanting to lose weight, it’s not necessary. There are plenty of non meat protein sources but you’d have to eat bucket loads to hit the protein target set.

 

[Yvonne1988]

I put a post on my Instagram about how it's a con. It's about 50/50 people agreeing and then people defending them. Apparently I'm a failure for not getting my steps and don't like being called out on it by the angry man. I certainly don't feel like a failure for not dragging my kids out when it rains just to get a yellow star

 

[Sozabaryou]

I hope so because he IS the shitty arsehole he doesn't deserve any success. His attitude stinks like a protein fart. what the hell does rachel see in him

Agreed!
I also saw the track your kids post on FB using whatsapp and thought I wonder if that's how he keeps tabs on Rach?
He's all about control!

 

[flibble123]

The last time I looked on their page he was going on about ‘Lucy Long Nips’ or something, with a cartoon to go alongside. I mean

Always, always attacks on women’s appearances.

 

[ChubClubThug]

I swear he

Wouldn't trust him as far as i could throw him!!!

He is one little bitter bitch tits. Why does he even care! He's still got a barage of people rimming him