Thanks man.

So the doctor at the gym took me through some workouts/evaluated me and came to the conlclusion I'm lacking core strength, my lower back is weak, and my legs are garbage. My foundation can't support my upper body apparently (I started going to the gym a couple months ago and my upper body got ripped but my lower body trailed behind). This is pretty much all my fault from 1) half assing my core routine 2) ignoring dead lifts 3) being a pussy when doing squats/leg press.

So he tried to sell me a private trainer, which is like $55 an hour...yeah right like I'm dumping that kind of money for someone to babysit me when I workout. I'm lucky I have my brother who is going to be there to keep me motivated and get me doing the right exercises, otherwise I may have been forced to go with a trainer. I know what I need to do to start seeing gains again, I need to focus my routine around my weaknesses while just doing enough to maintain my strengths. The process is pretty simliar to learning poker, and I think I can figure it out without dumping more money into the gym services.

As for poker I took a cruise through my database yesterday and realized that one of my weaknesses is paying off bad players on the river by calling their river raises too often. Perhaps a good aggressive regular will bluff raise or make a thinner value bet, but against really passive bad players, you often just need to bet/fold.