Hi folks. Wondering if any of you have advice for working with a trainer. I am a member of 24 hour fitness. Both my hubby and I just signed up for 11 sessions with a trainer.
Do you have any advice on how to best work with a trainer? Should I just put my fat booty in their hands and trust most everything they say? Heck, I have been trying to do this on my own for almost a year and the scale has hardly budged. Yes, I have went down a few sizes
but I know I could e doing better. I am tempted to just do every single thing he tells me to do (with common sense) and give it the best try I can.
My trainer is the fitness manager who manages all of the trainers so he seems to know his stuff and he said he is really excited about training me. He thinks my biggest problem is my calories. I took the body gem test on Wed and it showed my resting metabolic rate to be 1750. He thinks that I have possibly been eating too little calories on the days I am being good. He said the most important things for me will be calories, consistency and intensity! Sound familiar, heh?
He is going to put together a full fitness and food plan. I am so hoping that getting the calories right will help me lose this gut and booty once and for all!!!!!!
Weird thing is I don't meet w/him until Tuesday. He told me to do cardio every single day (he told me this on Wed.) until I see him next Tuesday. He said no weights, just cardio for a min of 30 minutes at 150 bpm MIN! He said his wt training w/me will be a combo of endurance and strength training and a heavy focus on cardio even during wt training? Not sure what the heck he is talking about with this unless he is going to have me do circuits with cardio?
I would LOVE any tips you folks have on what has worked or what not to do when working with a trainer. I want to get the most out of every penny I am paying him.
p.s. My hubby got a trainer that has been in the olympics 2 times with Judo!!! I am so happy I finally got my hubby to join the gym. Now we go together.
Do you have any advice on how to best work with a trainer? Should I just put my fat booty in their hands and trust most everything they say? Heck, I have been trying to do this on my own for almost a year and the scale has hardly budged. Yes, I have went down a few sizes
but I know I could e doing better. I am tempted to just do every single thing he tells me to do (with common sense) and give it the best try I can. My trainer is the fitness manager who manages all of the trainers so he seems to know his stuff and he said he is really excited about training me. He thinks my biggest problem is my calories. I took the body gem test on Wed and it showed my resting metabolic rate to be 1750. He thinks that I have possibly been eating too little calories on the days I am being good. He said the most important things for me will be calories, consistency and intensity! Sound familiar, heh?
He is going to put together a full fitness and food plan. I am so hoping that getting the calories right will help me lose this gut and booty once and for all!!!!!!
Weird thing is I don't meet w/him until Tuesday. He told me to do cardio every single day (he told me this on Wed.) until I see him next Tuesday. He said no weights, just cardio for a min of 30 minutes at 150 bpm MIN! He said his wt training w/me will be a combo of endurance and strength training and a heavy focus on cardio even during wt training? Not sure what the heck he is talking about with this unless he is going to have me do circuits with cardio?
I would LOVE any tips you folks have on what has worked or what not to do when working with a trainer. I want to get the most out of every penny I am paying him.
p.s. My hubby got a trainer that has been in the olympics 2 times with Judo!!! I am so happy I finally got my hubby to join the gym. Now we go together.