Personal Trainer Day!!!

First of all, I’m sorry I missed posting yesterday.  It was kind of a crazy day, and I didn’t get my workout in until almost 3 in the afternoon, and then I came home to a house full of kids, so I got a bit sidetracked.  Anyway, it wasn’t that much to blog about.  I did 30 minutes on the treadmill, not overly intense.  I knew today was going to be beyond intense, so I wanted to give myself a chance.

So, today I signed up for a personal trainer.  I had mentioned how much I wanted it, but that it was a bit of a stretch with my budget.  Well, today I was pleasantly surprised when Chris (the training sales guy) offered me a deal on the training.  It fit much more easily into my budget, and I couldn’t have been happier.

I’ve often repeated the idea that when you want something badly enough, the universe bends to help you get it.  That was how it felt today.  Once the paperwork was done, we got in a great workout, similar to the last one, but different as well.

We started out with a ten minute warm-up, then moved into the weight room.  He had me doing sets of bench press with 15 reps at a low weight (not sure how much) followed by squats with the ball.  The first one was a squat and hold, the second set 5 squats, hold, 5 more, then the last was 10 squats, each with a bench press in between.

Then we went back to the stairs, and with the ball he had me take two steps at a time (he wanted three, but my short legs just couldn’t reach) up and down three times, followed by shoulder work.  First set was 10 lateral raises followed by 10 front raises, second set was a raise and hold for both, and the third was 10 and 10 again.

We then moved deeper into the fitness room where he handed me two 20 lbs dumbbells and had me do what he termed the “farmer’s walk.”  I simply walked with one in each hand down at my side the length of the room, then at the far end he had me hold a curl position, back across and hold a shoulder press.  We did that twice.  Then came abs.

I don’t think I’ve ever pushed my ab workouts that hard.  We started with the ball held straight up, straight legs together, doing crunches.  Then bend the legs for 10 more, lift the legs for 10, then legs straight up for 10 more (well, as straight up as I could get them at that point ).  Then a second set without the ball, and skipping the straight up.  He then sent me to do what he termed the “worst mile.”

That was a treadmill workout in which I started at an incline of 1, and increased the incline by one each minute up to incline 15.  After a minute at 15 I dropped by 2 each minute until I was back to one, then finished out for 25 minutes.  I felt like a train wreck when I was done, but it was really good.

I can’t remember if I’m supposed to be recording everything I eat between now and Tuesday, when I meet my trainer for the first time.  I think I am supposed to, so I need to start that journal right away, since I’ve already had a snack since I got home.  Tuesday I think will be a measurement and set-up day, going over nutrition and such.  I’m not sure if I’ll get a workout in with him that day, but I assume I will.

There is still a lot of prep I need to do for June’s hike, but getting this moving was the most important.  Now it’s time to make the other dominoes fall.

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