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There's some new stuff coming out saying that rounding is ok for low weight high rep training. I still won't risk it but maybe in 5 years the standard advice will change.
If you're doing low weight exercises with bad form, it's probably not a huge deal since you'd just be training different muscle groups that you intended to, but I don't think it'll be much harm. If however you start to go heavy, and your form sucks, and you don't know it, the possibility of the injury raises significantly. So I'd say for personal trainer it's probably bad sign not to teach the proper form, but if I saw somebody who knows on their own what they are doing with a form that looks questionable to me, I'd think maybe they are just doing something I don't know about. That's like grammar - one should be taught proper grammar, but if you're e e cummings, go wild.
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