Personal Training NYC ClientE

Exerciseradio.com ROCKS!!!!!! My computer and my spin bike and I am set! Loving it…thanks Terri!

So it’s been awhile since I last wrote. It’s hard to keep up with blogging when there is so much other stuff you need to get done. But I do like being able to collect my thoughts and really think about my progress. I did get measured last week and it went ok, I guess. I lost 3 inches but I just don’t feel much of a difference. I guess no one is really happy with their results. I know I have to really focus on my eating and become bored with food so I don’t look forward to eating..lol.

I started boxing with Terri which I think I am really going to enjoy. It seems like it is going to be a challenging workout. But I hope not as challenging as those damn pushups! Yup, I still hate them! :-)

Last night was my first session back with Terri since I was sick for a week. I am so sore today! I guess there isn’t remorse for the clients that were out sick. :-)~ She surprised me with 3 sets of 30 pushups. If by the last set you can even call them pushups. My chest and arms were so numb I had to use my elbows to get off the floor after the third set. Hysterical I must say. I don’t think I have ever done 10 real pushups in my life and now I am doing 90! I was ready to hit the showers after the pushups.

Terri says it doesn’t matter what they look like right now it just matters that you do them even if you fall on your face. NO waiting and procrastinating, JUST DO IT and get it over with! And then she said, with a smile of course, “because you are going to do them”. I guess I have to stop dreading them and just do them without my mind stopping me. Hopefully Thursday my mind will say “JUST DO IT” instead of “PAIN”.

So, I am a little discouraged this week. Thinking I am a fat cow! I really feel I need to step this up and take this even more seriously than I have. My goal this week is to actually do my food diary on the weekends. Apparently, I feel that I can eat whatever I damn well choose on the weekends and I get lazy and don’t record it. I mean I have been trying to make more conscious decisions but I know I am more strict Mon-Friday then I am during the weekends. Whether I have a cookie or a piece of cake I have to own up to it and put it in my food diary. I work my butt off all week long that I don’t want to do any of my day to day routine stuff on Saturday and Sunday. If I keep up with my food diary on the weekends I am sure I will become more conscious of what I eat on the weekends.

I have been feeling huge in my clothes this week but I can’t let it get to me. I know its just that week that every woman hates and every woman feels like a cow during!!! But really hormones can go so crazy that everything you thought you felt good about just makes you depressed. I know I will feel better next week and my pants will fit looser :-). I just have to keep looking forward and keep stepping it up!

So after my 5 day vacation I found it very hard to think I still had the strength for my workout with Terri last night. It never fails that as soon as I walk in her studio and get on the bike I have this burst of energy and can’t imagine why I felt like not working out 10 minutes before. I swear Terri’s spirit and energy just rubs off on you as soon as you walk in her studio. I also know that part of it is my willingness to want to learn and physically get stronger but you know everyone gets a little lazy before they have to workout :-0.

I must say I am very proud of myself that in the 5 days I was off I did take three spin classes! Not so proud of the way I ate for some part of my vacation but hey I WORKED OUT!! LOL

I recently bought a spin bike and along came 6 dvd’s from the creator of the bike. I have to say the best investment I have made, besides Terri, in exercise equipment. Once I get on the bike I am motivated to workout. Even only doing 30 minutes I am drenched in sweat. I don’t dread going on the bike as much as I do having to run on a damn treadmill. That just bores the hell out of me. I really need to talk myself into getting on the treadmill and doing more than 2 miles. I guess my focus is better when I have variety in a workout and the spin bike helps me to stay focused and amused at the same time.

I have to conclude this blog by saying I am sooo happy I took the plunge to train with Terri. She truly is an amazing person and motivator. You can really trust that she knows what she is doing and is the best NYC trainer out there!

This week I’ve decided to post on the blogs simply because of the sheer amount of email that comes in from people that read them, asking me why I don’t post or comment alot…I only post or comment moderately on the blogs because I want the blog to be as much about the clients experience as possible, and since I’m the only one who knows who’s who :) and I’ll never tell… I can call out some BS or otherwise shed light where it needs to be shed.

People do want to hear about my experiences with people as I train them, and I’ll periodically add things from my point of view that are relevant - but for the most part these blogs are about how the client experiences the process with me. It’s not always scintillating reading. It IS a process. An ongoing process…there’s so much to be open to and to really GET, when a client lets down their EXPECTATION of what it should be ….and they let themselves be taught without judging every rep for a confirmation of their expectation.

I have to tell you that with ClientE I have rarely witnessed as much focus and willingness to experience the process - she inspires the hell out of me. Her results are going to freak her out, I just know it. Everytime she comes in - she looks better, a little tighter - it’s SO visible, it just confirms what happens when someone really allows themselves to be taught and they JUST DO IT. They may mess up, but they just pick themselves up, make a decision to learn from the mistake and they JUST DO IT. It shows and confirms when someones not cheating on the process. There’s no drama, it just works. Period. When the client desn’t do their end it doesn’t work. It IS that simple.

She’s just doing the work, exactly as I’m asking her to and she’s not getting in the way or allowing anything else to get in the way either. She’s got no judgement of the process, and she’s methodically doing what it takes. No genius, no magic, JUST DO IT. Consistantly.

You’re rght ClientE - YAY YOU! You’re killing it.

I just finished my tenth session with Terri and I am feeling much stronger than when I had started. I feel my energy level increasing as the weeks progress. I am very proud with the way I have been eating too. My mind hasn’t been stuck on when is the next time I can eat. I have been making choices that fuel my body for longer periods of time. Terri says I looked like I am sliming down, which is great to hear. The total body combos have been kicking my butt! I am definitely looking forward to next weeks workouts.

I used to take Terri’s spin classes a few years ago in NYC. I remembered her as being such a great motivator and I absolutely loved her class…they kicked my butt!!

One day I decided to look her up and I found her website www.twpersonaltraining.com. I have had a trainer on and off for a little over a year and became bored, wanted to learn more and be pushed in a different way. I never knew and understood fitness the way Terri is teaching me to. I am so glad I decided to contact her. She really is a great trainer! I have only had two sessions with her and I feel energized and empowered everytime I leave her studio. I can’t wait to continue on this path and to see where it leads me. I have learned so much in two sessions already. Of course I ask a million questions! LOL

Remember, naval in and shoulders down…I even say it to myself just standing on the subway!
:-)~