No. You first need to learn that it's a book and what that means, you need to learn the alphabet, the structure of language, punctuation, the meaning of the words, that in our language you read from left to right etc.

You get the point? You don't throw a copy of Great Expectations at a baby and expect it to understand.

As for your gym/trainer they may be right they may be wrong, successful gyms or those with good publicity will draw attention & students to it, maybe they're sucessful just because lots of people train there and they can pick out the talent.