Quick Mel Update

Just a quick update on Mel's training - she has been doing very well - training hard and eating well.

I'm proud of her.

Fitness Quote

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity"

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Mel's First Program

Given that Mel doesn't have a lot of free time and has not done a lot of weight training in the past, this first program is short and focuses on basic exercises. These exercises focus on the major muscle groups of the body, give good results and will give her a strong base for her training in the future.

Because of her limited experience and her concern about using free weights at this time, we are going to start by using weight machines. Free weights will be incorporated in future programs.

The program itself (3 times per week)
Warm-up
Leg Press 3 sets x 10 reps
Lat Pulldown 2 sets x 10 reps
Cable Row 2 sets x 10 reps
Bench Press 3 sets x 10 reps
Crunches 3 sets X 10 reps
Aerobics 30 min (any machine)
Warm-down

The whole program should be finished within a hour, and I hope she will enjoy it.

"Interesting" PT clients

My wife has set me an "interesting"task - she wants me to act as her PT, to help her achieve her fitness and weight loss goals. Given my background this sounds like a great idea. The difficulty in this case, comes with separating us a a couple and us as a trainer and trainee.

This was vividly illustrated when I started to teach Melanie some martial arts basics. I started teaching her as I would a normal student. She got annoyed and started complaining that I was telling her what to do (I was in instructor mode), and I became frustrated that she didn't listen to my advise. Not an ideal situation.

This time, I am going to use a distance PT approach and do the program design, dietary recommendations, motivation and support, without actually doing the one on one training. We both think that this approach should be effective.

The training will start shortly after Mel comes back from her visit to Australia. I will keep you updated on how we go.

Have you set your goals?

What are your health and fitness goals?

Do you want to loose weight? Exactly how much weight? In what time frame?

Do you want to get fit? What does that actually mean to you?

To achieve a goal, you need to know what it is that you actually want to achieve.

Take some time and when you know, write it down, read it regularly and move toward reaching it.

Some tools that may be of use to you are Achieve-IT! and Sculptor 3.

Go for it!