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I'll try to condense this as much as I can. I'd mentioned that I'd dropped my Y memembership and joined a local Bally's because they had more equipment and better hours for a little bit less cost(I THINK I mentioned it). WELL, what I didn't mention is the bad experience I had with their routine "new member fitness assessment" of me done on Thanksgiving day morning.
Keep in mind that on two previous occasions I'd had my bodyfat percentage tested at my old Y....in 1999 it was 17.3, in Feb. of this year it was 19.1. These reading were done by different people, and the second reading was done by averaging 10 spots, the first was four spots. Both were done with calipers. At Bally they did a reading and they told me my bodyfat percentage was 29.9 percent! I felt like I'd been punched in the stomach, I was so shocked! Another trainer came in the room and listened to my dismay about the wide difference with no big change in my weight and lots more weight training. She said, "you look like your bodyfat is in the mid to high twenties to me. I've done this a long time." They then tried to sell me a personal training package for an ungodly sum to solve my "problem" with excess weight and high body fat.
SO, I've been walking around for three weeks feeling horrible and fat and wondering what in the world I'd done wrong. I went to the ACE website and found a personal trainer close to my home, explained my dilemma with the widely varied readings, and saw her this morning. Her measurement of my bodyfat percentage (taken in the same spots as Bally's) was 18.7 percent. Needless to say, I feel a whole lot better now. She laughed at what Bally's had come up with.
She gave me a new leg workout routine (7 exercises in super sets of three and four, 3 sets each and high reps), and sent me away happy. Her verdict was to keep on doin' what I'm doin' (two leg workouts per week), and varied cardio. Her one suggestion about cardio was maybe try mountain biking to add to my mix.
Wasn't that awful? I'm going to the manager of Bally's and complain about their trainers scaring me and making me think I was terribly out of shape. I love the facility, and hours and the equipment, but I DON'T like being lied to, which I feel I was.
Deb H and Aimee....no, I didn't tell you about this because I was actually ashamed. I'm so glad I got this second opinion.
I'm going to eat out tonight to celebrate! Not pig-out, just eating someone else's cooking is celebrating enough.
Keep in mind that on two previous occasions I'd had my bodyfat percentage tested at my old Y....in 1999 it was 17.3, in Feb. of this year it was 19.1. These reading were done by different people, and the second reading was done by averaging 10 spots, the first was four spots. Both were done with calipers. At Bally they did a reading and they told me my bodyfat percentage was 29.9 percent! I felt like I'd been punched in the stomach, I was so shocked! Another trainer came in the room and listened to my dismay about the wide difference with no big change in my weight and lots more weight training. She said, "you look like your bodyfat is in the mid to high twenties to me. I've done this a long time." They then tried to sell me a personal training package for an ungodly sum to solve my "problem" with excess weight and high body fat.
SO, I've been walking around for three weeks feeling horrible and fat and wondering what in the world I'd done wrong. I went to the ACE website and found a personal trainer close to my home, explained my dilemma with the widely varied readings, and saw her this morning. Her measurement of my bodyfat percentage (taken in the same spots as Bally's) was 18.7 percent. Needless to say, I feel a whole lot better now. She laughed at what Bally's had come up with.
She gave me a new leg workout routine (7 exercises in super sets of three and four, 3 sets each and high reps), and sent me away happy. Her verdict was to keep on doin' what I'm doin' (two leg workouts per week), and varied cardio. Her one suggestion about cardio was maybe try mountain biking to add to my mix.
Wasn't that awful? I'm going to the manager of Bally's and complain about their trainers scaring me and making me think I was terribly out of shape. I love the facility, and hours and the equipment, but I DON'T like being lied to, which I feel I was.
Deb H and Aimee....no, I didn't tell you about this because I was actually ashamed. I'm so glad I got this second opinion.
I'm going to eat out tonight to celebrate! Not pig-out, just eating someone else's cooking is celebrating enough.
