Just started at the gym, had an induction last week where I expressed my interest in the strength machines (weights machines, rather than free weights), and was offered a free personalised training schedule.
Turn up today and the chap had me doing cardio as I need to improve on that first before I go on to use the strength machines, apparently, and then he went on to talk to me about eating an alkaline diet. So plant-based (fair enough, I could do with upping my veg intake), no red meat, little dairy, with lots of alkaline water which I can also use as a moisturiser as it's so hydrating.
I just ended up nodding and smiling at him, but surely water is hydrating enough as it is, otherwise the human race has been pondering round dehydrated forever. He also told me that it helps prevent cancer as cancer can't survive in an alkaline environment, and he's got a special tap at home on his kitchen sink that can make his water as alkaline or acidic as he liked, so he uses pH level 1 acidic water to clean his house with as it doesn't need cleaning product.
He's talking nonsense, isn't he?