I’m glad to hear your investment in personal training was worth it.
I know I could just look at YouTube or get a gym membership but I don’t think I’d get the right form or motivation from those avenues. I surprise my personal trainer every session with my complete and utter lack of knowledge about exercise. This week I learnt about burpees, mountain climbers and dumbbell thrusters. I hope I can experience the benefits years later, the way you are.
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Aren’t burpees fun? 
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You and I have something in common. Once I started feeling better, I wanted to keep learning. I am not an athletic person by nature so a gym environment was not the place for me.
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I was a member of several gyms in the late 90s and early 2000s, then at one gym with locations across Canada from Sept 2009- Nov 2020. I was turned off by how the gym owner wasn’t taking some public health matters seriously in 2020.
I really enjoyed a Ballet Boot Camp class that I took through a dance studio, where I paid per class, or for a series of classes, as well as some Bollywood dance classes taught at the National Ballet School.
I have 5 personal training sessions this spring through a wellness clinic.
We will see how that goes. I don’t want to weight train because of an underlying condition, and the personal trainers these days seem to lack imagination. It’s almost all weight training or weight training labeled as something else. LOL
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Hmmmm. I’m yet to feel the love…
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My teenage son is a gym-goer. I asked if he’d be happy for me to tag along and the answer was an emphatic “NO!”
So I’m glad to have found the personal trainer who operates out of a very small gym based in a physiotherapy office.
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It’s sad to hear how some fitness instructors aren’t public health aware. A couple of my colleagues go to a trainer who is openly anti-vax - I don’t think I could do that. My trainer seems pretty on board with mainstream health views as far as I can tell. A close family member of hers who is a fitness instructor themselves but with an underlying serious health condition nearly died of Covid a couple of years ago and she says it was a very traumatic experience for her family.
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The Yoga Industry, Personal Training industry, and Wellness Industry is typically anti-science up here.
Last week, I had a in depth physical, and the kinesiologist testing my flexibility, strength, and whatnot kept asking me to do exercises my knee surgeon and physiotherapist told me to never do, after my ACL repair. When another kinesiologist was reviewing the results, she misinterpreted the information, thinking I couldn’t do the exercises, rather than realized that I refused to do the exercises because they could damage the knee I had repaired as well as my good knee.
One of my former friends is a Personal Trainer. He never took the threat seriously, and he felt like the Govt was out to get him personally when gyms were closed for a few months.
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I like that original studied rice cooked with a dollop of coconut oil. Lately, I’ve been cooking it in the new spicy chicken stock. Reheated, it tastes exotic to me.
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Fantastic. Congratulations. Keep it up!
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A Bollywood class sounds fun!
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It was! That instructor is an inspiration. She is a choreographer, a dancer, and a dance instructor. She also was trained as a make-up artist.
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Dang, that looks good.
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Sounds good–thanks!
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I’m finding the personal training very hard going. I try and go once a fortnight depending on my work schedule and my trainer’s schedule (she teaches watersports all over the world, so is away a lot). Today she stopped my session early because I was feeling unwell - completely exhausted and nauseous. I had eaten properly before the session but I think I was feeling the effects of recent hectic night shifts and not getting enough rest. I tried to splash my face with cold water in the bathroom and start the session again but after a few sets I felt like I was going to throw up so my trainer said I should stop. My husband is away for work so she offered to drive me home. I let her drive me to the train station as I already had a ticket home. This has never happened before. I came home, lay down for a couple of hours and then got up and ate a light meal. Feeling OK now. But a bit down. I kind of feel like I should be finding the sessions easier by now, not harder.
I use an Omron body composition monitor. I have managed to lose a few pounds in the last couple of months but my body fat and muscle percentages have stayed pretty much the same. I think I will need to be working out at a gym a few times a week to see any difference in those parameters. Hmmmm. 
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Be gentle and patient with yourself. You have a stressful job & are doing what you can.
I try not to eat more than a little fruit or honey before workouts for energy. When I have more, even if it’s just yogurt, I can get really nauseous, too. Better to have a little sugar source before & a healthy serving of protein after. Maybe that’ll help next time?
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Hmmm. I ate a few tablespoons of rice with some vegetables around 4 hours before the session. But I’ll try the small sugary snack strategy next time.
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Oh, ok. That shouldn’t really have been an issue at all. If anything, it may have been too long since you had something to eat before working out. But sometimes our bodies just have their own pace/day form.
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