Discovering Myself

Well, since I’m starting with day 3 I’ll recap days 1 and two plus give you a little background on my desire to get training.

First off, I’ve been going to the gym kind of whenever I wanted, which was not often.  So I needed someone to get me back into a training routine.  I signed up fro 1 year of training.  I think that was a wise decision and I’m ready to commit.  I’m doing 3 days a week for 3 months and 2 days for 9 months.  That should be sufficient to get things started.

First I did a consult which just setup my goals and did some health checks and stamina and such.  Well, I get VERY light headed apparently when I don’t eat about an hour before I work out.  It has to have protein and enough sugar to last me my entire workout.

Well, I’ve finally remedied that situation.  I eat a protein bar about 1 hour before my workout with at least 12 ounces of water.  I haven’t felt light headed yet.  I’m really enjoying the workouts so far.

Day 1, well I scheduled with Daniel at my gym for 3 days a week.  Never met him, was worried he’d be some muscle bound death machine.  Well, instead I walk up and this GORGEOUS man smiles at me and says hey, are you _____ and I say yes are you Daniel?  He’s like yep, ready?  So I get all nervous and I’m like, fuck I’m a fat bastard, but that’s why I’m here.  So he tells my goals will take about 8 months and I say well alrighty we better get started then!

We start with back and biceps.  We do a few exercises and I’m a sarcastic person so I start cracking jokes about how out of shape I am.  I really should stop that, but I really am enthusiastic about the workouts.  Let me tell ya, couldn’t move my arms for 2 days.

Day 2 was legs, actually not a bad workout, I wasn’t even sore, UNTIL YESTERDAY!  I walk like a penguin now.

And thursdays are chest and triceps.  Well, that wasn’t too bad, except that my triceps wore out like instantly.  I did good until I literally couldn’t move the weights anymore.  I’m not sure what that’s all about.  He said, alrighty you’re triceps are done.  I was like, no shit I can’t even push off the ground with them right now.

Just to give you some background, I’m not fat, but I’ve gained like 40 pounds over the last 8 years.  So I’m there to get that weight off and tone up a bit.  When I lose weight I get a bit muscley, I want to just tone up and not get big, so we’re working on that.

My boyfriend is all for it, but he’s a little jealous that my personal trainer is a hottie.  But my boyfriend is a hottie too, so he shouldn’t worry.

Well, I’m supposed to do cardio the rest of the week.  I’ve been doing about 40 minutes of cardio, 3 minutes of medium impact, 1 minutes of high impact for 40 minutes.

I really think this will work out.  I need to start a little tracker on here for my personal training goals and see where I am.