The app was rubbish! Half the time it didnt work , and if anyone had to audacity to question why, the i love richie clan would be down on them like a tonne of bricks!
Yes and this was posted on the public page! Not within the private members page.
He thinks hes being clever!
I quite liked them in a way when they first started as they brought something a bit different and his manner was a bit shocking but it intrigued me and I thought he made good points. He just got progressively cruder and nastier, and has become a hypocrite as he’s worse than any diet club. I’ve seen/heard stories from people who left his group (staff and members) and he most definitely sounds like a horror in real life!
Must admit I am fairly anti diet as they have appalling outcomes for 95% of those who use them. Only a lucky 5% tend to maintain their loss beyond five years and they have usually found exercise in a big way.
horrible manipulative twatI assume Rich is the only guy out there who’s abs are still visible when his waistline increases to that extent, then
I wonder what her family think of him
I second this, I just joined last night, he is lovely.
I wish I never signed up to this. Your experience is awful :/I will say this much: long post coming.
So... I wanted to get fit, over lockdown, I’d put on a few pounds and thought I wanted a bit of help with it.
Team RH said they could help teach nutrition but you still eat real food. Fantastic! So I learned I definitely needed more protein to support the exercise I do, that’s good, more fibre, more water, more movement. Healthy. But then they teach you to ignore your body’s signals.
They don’t monitor if you’re taking it too far. Before Xmas I felt I got too thin, so I started eating more (off of their plan) I felt better for it. I messaged them and said so and they said I had to go back to tracking every calorie even if I wasn’t happy with it as that’s the only way it works, fair enough...
I said I’ve reached my goal, what now? They added me into a group with a load of women with their bones sticking out who are then instructed to get their partners to use callipers on them and pinch their body fat each week to see if they are gaining body fat. If they do, 100 cals down, if they don’t, 100 cals up. The only way to avoid the body fat going up, is to do weights and build muscle and if that doesn’t work, you’re not trying hard enough...
As a feminist it didn’t sit right with me at all!
The women are all very lost and stressed and constantly asking if they look fat / need to diet more. There is minimal official help as the owner (Richie) admits this is 5% of his client base so they invest in the people losing fat as a priority.
The women are told to bulk, there is one woman held as the poster child for bulking who is eating something like 3400 calories a day (up and down 100 a week) who is clearly just putting loads of weight on again who will then be expected to “cut” and reveal the muscle. But there is no instruction offered for anyone that doesn’t want to be a body builder. When I said I had had numerous panic attacks over using these callipers, especially as I have no training and it was telling me I was obese on the website you enter the data into, they (the coaches) just told me I need to practice more. How do you practice something you have no training in?! How can you say it’s safe for people who have prior disordered eating habits (I told them this from the start) to pinch bits of fat endlessly? I am really shocked and disgusted. I have reached out to others in the industry who have said that callipers work, if you want to be a body builder, but intuitive eating and learning about food is better mentally and unfortunately, in my option, team rh do not teach this outside of starve / bulk.
Team RH gave me their email when I wanted to cancel.
It comes to something when you have to do that because they won't listen to you. It's sheer bullying. If they can't even provide a legal contract then how do they expect to challenge you legallyYea I actually made up a medical excusenot very ethical I’m afraid and that got them off my case.
absolutely disgraceful they've gone down this road. There was no need of it.Aw bless you sweetie! I’m glad Mother Nature has come back to visit! Hopefully onwards and upwards for you now doll xxI’m working on it, my metabolism is trashed from starving down so much, I’ve gotten my period back finally though and am not freezing cold all the time, have put weight on faster than I’d like but I’ll balance out again like I usually do.
Well at least we know now he spits, not swallows.
Yes that was very weird- I see he’s now posting about how he’s overweight as this year has been so stressful...
I expect he’s got an hour long video “breaking it down for the stupid fuckers” or something that you’ll then have to invest your time into watching, until your brain leaks out of your ear...Aaagghh this kind of mis-nformation all round drives me insane (am a PT) if someone could explain to those people what actually happens then maybe they would be able to understand what is going on. But noooo gotta keep them slaving away and confused and dependant on paying you money to be shamed. It's an embarrassment to the industry
I mean he's *partially* right about the starvation mode thing and so many people use that term because that's what terms mainstream media, magazines and diet clubs use. If he could actually explain to them why it's incorrect and why the scale doesn't always move by 2lbs every week even if you are doing 20875477 steps a day, then people wouldn't be so damn confused and be able to accept non scale victories. But no he just calls them lazy fuckers.
It's infuriating to read & I just feel so bad for those women thinking it's them doing something wrong and also thinking every trainer is like that.
God it just gets worse! What a horrible person he is! Another bad review on trustpilot i see, he jumped on it pronto though!!
Join somewhere else, anywhere else 
Best of luck whatever you decide!