Free Personal Trainer Session

Last Monday Derek and I joined Gold's Gym.  Much to my apprehension of joining the gym that I had always thought was just for muscle-heads.  I was SO wrong and I so far love that we joined Gold's.  As a part of joining Gold's they offer you a free personal training session as a way to try selling you sessions obviously.  Who wouldn't take a free session with a trainer?!  When setting up my free session the training manager asked me, "Why now?  Why do you want to get into the gym now?"  Uh Hello!  Why not?!  I like living for one!  And I would like to do everything I can to protect myself from getting anything that can shorten my life.

This is too funny and so true!  I also love Google Search and the things you can find.

This morning was my free session and I went in really excited and with little apprehension since I talked to the trainer on the phone yesterday to confirm the appointment.  I think for anybody seeing a trainer for the first time can be a bit intimidating especially since Biggest Loser has been on NBC for twelve seasons now.  For those who are thinking about getting a trainer just know that each trainer trains in their own way. The Gold's Trainer manager assured me that they would find the right trainer for me and if I didn't connect with one we could try another until there is a good match.  Well, he did great for finding me a trainer!


My trainer is around the same age as me and is also a student which makes it easy to relate to her.  She knows about my back surgery and has assured me that she will be able to work around that for workouts. As with most trainers she had me start out with some cardio just to get my heart rate going before we get to the workout.  The first thing I did was with a kettlebell and I must say I might fall in love with kettlebell workouts, it was just fun and challenging.  She did a nice mixture switching between weights and cardio to keep my heart rate up throughout the workout.  This is something I have never experienced in workouts before but I welcomed the change.  I could definitely tell the my body isn't used to the type of workout she had me do as I had some difficulty and ended up getting light headed.  To be honest I had to cut it short by one final exercise because my leg muscles were spasming so much I could barely stand.  That was new.

Derek was working out with a coworker and watching me while I was with my trainer just to see how I was doing.  He told me that initially he thought that she was going really easy on me and then he saw the sweat going down my face!  Working out is not pretty!  In fact I learned that lifting gloves might be beneficial from possibly dropping weights out of your sweaty hands!  Anyway, she definitely did not go easy on me but I'm glad that she didn't.  I have a challenging workout set for this week before I see her again on Monday for a follow up!

The Kettlebell!

  That is all I have for today!