Personal Training NYC ClientE

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

I believe I started training with Terri for a reason. She has taught me so much in the last couple of months. I started training with her to get to the next level of fitness but didn’t realize I needed her advice and experience mentally as well. She has opened my mind to many different aspects of my life. Terri not only teaches you how to exercise and diet she also teaches you that you are the only one that can control your life and your happiness.

Training has been going great. We started boxing which is a nice change and a great workout. I still hate those pushups but I am realizing that I hate them around my 20th rep instead of my eighth :-). I definitely feel that I have gotten stronger and I look forward to every session to challenge myself. I am starting to feel that my mind and body are getting in tuned with one another and I am starting to see changes which is exciting. I am able to focus better and work through harder exercises without giving it too much thought. I went through a whole workout with Terri last night and not once did I say to myself that I couldn’t do this. I just did it!

I am noticing that each and everyday you break through a wall and learn more about yourself than you had realized. I have a lot yet to learn and experience. Someday I hope to have it all figured out but for now being 25 sucks!

Terri takes one week off and I make a complete u-turn! In my previous blog I said I was going to do no carbs before a wedding. That lasted all of 5 days and returned to Terri telling me that I am nuts! I realize it isn’t what I should be doing or trying to look for quick fixes. I guess I had an insanity moment. I am back to normal now..lol I have to stick with what I am doing and try to keep things consistent so I don’t go down the wrong path again.

o Terri is on vacation this week and I am on my own!! Two weeks until I am in a wedding so there can’t be any slacking off! I figured since I am not training with Terri this week I am going to cut out bread and only have fruit and veggies as a source of carbs. I need all the energy I can get on the days that I train with Terri.

Day two is going great so far. I took a spin class yesterday and today I did upper body with intervals of running for 3 minutes in between. I was sweating! I have to tell you that it was very hard today to drag my ass to the gym in this lovely NY weather but once I got myself there I was ready to workout.

I am hoping to just get the bloat out by the time the wedding comes. Hopefully it works!!!

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!

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.

So I am trying to realize that bread isn’t the enemy! Terri had told me to try and cut back on carbs for a little while such as potatoes, pasta, rice and I interpreted that as NO CARBS whatsoever!!! Result being, ready to pass out at her workout sessions. I have to stop going with the all or nothing approach and realize I am not going to lose 20 lbs by August. I am trying to be more conscious of the things that fuel my body to be more active and satisfied then obsessing over “WHAT AND WHEN CAN I EAT”.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean I can sit down and stuff my face with bread :-)~. But if I want a sandwich instead of a salad then I shouldn’t obsess and be guilty that I ate two slices of wheat bread.

I am hoping by the end of my training that I will have a better relationship with food. I want to feel healthy and fuel my body for the rest of my life without obsessing over it.

The training with Terri is going great!!! Except for the fact that I have to STOP EATING!!! I do look forward to working out with her every week and now I am starting to believe that I can do things I never thought I could. We tried pull ups last night (the real ones), which I never would have tried on my own because lets face it everyone dreads them. They aren’t fun! Even though they were pathetic, I am determined by the end of my sessions to be able to do at least one..lol!