If it doesn't kill you

If it doesn’t kill you, it’s supposed to make you stronger, right?  Well, after my first personal training session, if this doesn’t get me in killer shape, nothing will!  Oh. My. Goodness.  I’ve never felt so close to puking while working out!  In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever felt like that, which tells me I haven’t always pushed myself as hard as I thought.  It also made me feel good about giving it my all today.  Unfortunately my “all” was quite unimpressive today.  But I’m on a mission to change that.  Watch out (literally in case I puke)!

A few things I discovered.  The warm-up itself is no joke.  And I need to learn a few moves.  When I was asked to skip, I galloped.  Of course I was shown the correct gait and given the opportunity to try again.  Very interesting doing things backwards too, including the skips.  I quickly discovered and demonstrated much room for improvement in the area of agility.

Then we moved on to the real workout.  Time to showcase what I’ve been working on, I thought.  I should never have said that I worked out at all.  I was given all the things I’m especially terrible at – pull-ups (oh how funny!), pushups (did a blend of real-but-not-real-low and halfsies), and weighted lunges.  My balance has always been terrible with those so I have to be honest that I haven’t pushed myself as much as I should.  It was kinda obvious.  And the weights wouldn’t have seemed so heavy except that my forearms were already going into shock from all the pull-ups and pushups.

At home I thought I did squats fairly well and was glad to have an opportunity to redeem myself.  Ha!  Apparently my form really wasn’t that great and once corrected this move was definitely more challenging.  But probably the easiest one for me to adapt to so there’s hope.

There were some kettleballs, ropes, and TRX suspension work.  And lots more variations of lunges.  And I could tell he was still being nice.  I’m really gonna get it as we progress!  Yikes!!

Considering all the before/after pictures of people that I know he has trained and his approach/conversations with me, I do believe I will experience a transformation too.  So excited!  It won’t be easy and it won’t happen overnight (might take 2-3 nights instead, HA!!) but it will be absolutely worth it.  He gave me homework for tomorrow and then I’ll be back for a bootcamp class Saturday morning.  When he asked if I wanted to come in for that class (no extra charge but not required as part of my training), the thought of sleeping in instead tried to come to mind but it was fought back with this question:  “How bad do you really want this??”  No brainer!  I'm in this to WIN THIS!