Speaking of things I meant to say before…last Monday (!) I met up with a personal trainer at my gym for a “fitness orientation,” which is basically a trial personal training session. Going in, I mainly just wanted to get some advice and tips on things like form and strength training. How many reps, how many sets, how much variation, etc.
His name is Chris and I picked him out from his picture on the wall of trainers. Well, and he came recommended by their staff. I didn’t really want a hot girl trainer, and he looked nice.
It was just a 50 minute session, and we spent half of it talking about fitness and goals and diet. He raved about Weight Watchers. He was super encouraging and nonjudgmental. As you know, I’m always paranoid about getting “sold to” but if this was all him just pitching for a sale, he did it super well. He really talked about my goals and my plan like it’s something that I’m achieving now, rather than this brand new regime I have to undertake. He was very optimistic.
He said he likes to focus on “functional resistance training” (I might be making that up?) and said that before he throws someone in to lifting weights he has them work on being able to lift their own body weight. (That sounds gross and sad.) So we ended up doing a lot of planking, “bird dog,” bridges, one-legged bridges, and squats. All super sloooooow and controoooooolled. All things I’ve done before but it makes a huge difference having someone correct every tiny aspect of your form – I really felt the difference. (And then REALLY felt it the next day, and the next day.)
Being able to include a personal trainer in my budget is a major goal for me. Even if it’s only once a week. Or even less than that. I think being accountable to someone, and also having that support and help and guidance, would be awesome. So one more thing to add on to my list of 2011 resolutions…
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