First consultation with a personal trainer!
I am in week three of going to the gym on a regular basis, and I can already see a change! It's not necessarily an obvious change in my body but it's a change in general - I have more energy, my depression isn't as bad, and my motivation is better.
So, today I had my first consult with a personal trainer and I was surprised at how open and honest I was with him about what I want to accomplish with my physical fitness. I told him about the various injuries I have had over the years and how those injuries made me afraid to do much exercise, and he agreed to help me deal with that fear and show me techniques and forms to use to mitigate the stress on those injury sites.
I also set some goals to hit in the next year (or a little later for one of them), all of them realistic and doable so long as I do not re-injure myself at some point along the way.
The most surprising goal is that I intend to do the Tely 10 in 2020. Considering just how out of shape I am, this is one heck of a lofty goal. The Tely 10 is a ten mile race held here in Newfoundland, Canada and it starts in the Town of Paradise, goes through the City of Mount Pearl, and ends in St. John's. I do not have to run the entire race so I know that I can slow down to a walk when and if I need to, but I am fairly confident that I can complete the track.
Considering that I am a forty-six year old woman who has spent entirely too many years being overweight and out of shape, it surprises me that I am finally pushing myself to get my physical health better and working on getting into shape once again. It's hard to believe sometimes that I used to be rather athletic back when I was a teenager - I played basketball and volleyball, and did a load of track and field events. And I have had asthma all my life too, even at my most active! But being accident prone and ordered not to ride my bike when I got pregnant for fear that I'd have yet another bike accident really did a number on my physical activity level. And as I got larger, old injuries started acting up a lot more.
Well, I don't want to live with that pain forever, and do that I need to start getting physical again to lose some of the excess weight that I have packing around for way too long. And I know that proper exercise and diet will also aid in keeping my diabetes in check. And it is already doing wonders for my mental health too - I am doing more towards beating the Depression Monster that has been a part of my life for entirely too long. Yes, I am diagnosed with Bi-Polar II and it will never completely go away, but being able to have more good days than bad is worth the money I'm paying for my gym membership...thank goodness for corporate plans that have no sign-up fees and I can leave at any time!
But I don't see myself leaving any time soon - I feel a LOT better about myself than I have in entirely too long.
Oh! The personal trainer I was working with today suggested that in the future that I should consider becoming a personal trainer as well, that I've got the right attitude for it, and that with everything I've got going on that I would be a great inspiration to others. I know that my regular FB gym updates has already inspired some of my friends to start going to the gym too, and that makes me feel pretty damn good <3
So, today I had my first consult with a personal trainer and I was surprised at how open and honest I was with him about what I want to accomplish with my physical fitness. I told him about the various injuries I have had over the years and how those injuries made me afraid to do much exercise, and he agreed to help me deal with that fear and show me techniques and forms to use to mitigate the stress on those injury sites.
I also set some goals to hit in the next year (or a little later for one of them), all of them realistic and doable so long as I do not re-injure myself at some point along the way.
The most surprising goal is that I intend to do the Tely 10 in 2020. Considering just how out of shape I am, this is one heck of a lofty goal. The Tely 10 is a ten mile race held here in Newfoundland, Canada and it starts in the Town of Paradise, goes through the City of Mount Pearl, and ends in St. John's. I do not have to run the entire race so I know that I can slow down to a walk when and if I need to, but I am fairly confident that I can complete the track.
Considering that I am a forty-six year old woman who has spent entirely too many years being overweight and out of shape, it surprises me that I am finally pushing myself to get my physical health better and working on getting into shape once again. It's hard to believe sometimes that I used to be rather athletic back when I was a teenager - I played basketball and volleyball, and did a load of track and field events. And I have had asthma all my life too, even at my most active! But being accident prone and ordered not to ride my bike when I got pregnant for fear that I'd have yet another bike accident really did a number on my physical activity level. And as I got larger, old injuries started acting up a lot more.
Well, I don't want to live with that pain forever, and do that I need to start getting physical again to lose some of the excess weight that I have packing around for way too long. And I know that proper exercise and diet will also aid in keeping my diabetes in check. And it is already doing wonders for my mental health too - I am doing more towards beating the Depression Monster that has been a part of my life for entirely too long. Yes, I am diagnosed with Bi-Polar II and it will never completely go away, but being able to have more good days than bad is worth the money I'm paying for my gym membership...thank goodness for corporate plans that have no sign-up fees and I can leave at any time!
But I don't see myself leaving any time soon - I feel a LOT better about myself than I have in entirely too long.
Oh! The personal trainer I was working with today suggested that in the future that I should consider becoming a personal trainer as well, that I've got the right attitude for it, and that with everything I've got going on that I would be a great inspiration to others. I know that my regular FB gym updates has already inspired some of my friends to start going to the gym too, and that makes me feel pretty damn good <3
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