Personal Trainer Week 4

I made it! I survived four weeks. At times I didn't think I would, at others I kind of hoped I wouldn't, but I did it.

This week just to make it that bit more thoroughly exhausting, Joe suggested I do his "Pads and Abs" Class on Monday. This making it three nights in a row. Stupidly I agreed that this did indeed sound like a good way to begin my week. Not such a good idea when abs exercises somehow were hurting my hamstring.

Suitable stretched and warmed up we continued to Tuesday's personal class. In which I did the dreaded rowing intervals.....twice. Plenty of kettlebells and weights. I left tired, hungry, aching and wondering how I would survive circuits the next day.

Wednesday circuits. My arms were heavy, my legs tired and my get up and go had got up and gone. It was an hour of sweat and pain. One hour later however, I stood triumphant.........well leaned triumphant......leaned and tried not to fall down.

Personal Trainer : Welcome to The Hurt Locker!

Its week three of my experiment with personal training. On the whole i'm really enjoying it, but boy does it hurt.

Every time I think I've got a hang of it Joe knocks it up several notches. This week he had me running up 4 flights of stairs, in pyramid sets. Followed by a 30 minute none stop weights workout. After which was a good 30 minutes deciding if i needed to go to the hospital or not. What's more Joe signed me up for his circuit training to. Which has left Wednesday nights and Thursday mornings, to be time spent in the Hurt Locker. Cath and Drill Sergeant Bailey have got the place nice, they've been coming here for sometime now. I hope to be able to walk soon, at the very least to be able to get to work in the next hour or so.

Wish me luck.

First Experience with a personal trainer.

Its Wednesday its 5 o'clock, and I ache. Not “oh I can feel my muscles after that work out”, I ache with the fire of a thousand suns and I ache in places I didn't know existed. The worst thing is I feel really good about it. The reason you ask, I stupidly signed up for 4 one hour sessions with Joe my gyms personal trainer.

Just a bit of background I've recently been taking my gym work to the next level, in the hope that I can reach my target weight by the time I'm 30 (in 14 months time.) I've been doing well but I felt I'd started to plateau a little. I added swimming in October and that really helped. That's when I decided I needed some more help to get the most out of my gym sessions. I put some Christmas money aside, and made an appointment with Joe.

Its Monday is 6 o'clock and Joe is starting me off with interval training on the rower..... Its now 6.30 I'm using kettle bells and I'm pretty sure I'm dying...Its 7 o'clock and I feel good, I can't lift my arms above my shoulders and I'm still not overly convinced I'll survive the night but I feel good.

Joe was very good he pushes enough, not like a drill Sergeant but just right (for me anyway.) I felt more tired after that hour than I ever have after my usual 2 hour sessions. Sucker for punishment that I am(i have done an hour and a half in the gym tonight.), I'm even looking forward to next week. If I stop aching by than, that is.