So day 1 with the trainer... I brought in my 2 weeks of diet/exercise logs and showed up at the right time. My trainer started our session by doing measurements of my body parts and also doing fat measurements. Now here is where I fear I failed. He informed me that my body fat was at 31% still. I could simply not believe that number. I still am struggling with how a person with a BMI of 23 can be such a fattie.
So after 20 or so minutes of working out we went to the couches and discussed diet. His eyes went right to all my little mis-doings of the past two weeks. Cheese pizza one night for dinner and french toast for breakfast on the day after Thanksgiving. He crossed off all the things that are no longer on my diet such as cheeses and replaced them with other things such as cottage cheese. He increased my overall protein intake and also adjusted when I get the protein. He left the overall calories alone for now and claimed that we were starting with these small changes and more will be worked in as time goes on. He said it could take around 6 or more weeks to hone in the diet. I felt sort of bummed after that consult as I thought I was doing pretty well with the food thing. I am definately getting an education already.
The workout was relatively simple and I am not sore at all today and even did a good deal of jumping rope last night at home on my own. That said I did get a bit sweaty at one point. I did jumping rope and push ups and ab exercises. I could not do the one ab exercise so I have to figure that one out at some point. I have learned through this already that I hate jumping rope. I feel so stupid when trying to do it. I can do like 4 of them in a row before getting hung up. It isn't an exercise at all for me except in humiliation. I think that the jump rope and I will have to learn to get along though 'cause this trainer likes it for some reason.
The trainer shook my hand as I left and promised me that was the last easy day I will have in my near future. I am actually looking forward to the next session with a bit of hesitation of course. It really isn't so much fun so far...
That first day we did
swedish ball pike ups - 2x15
Hanging ab leg lifts (not sure what this is called but you hang and lift your legs up as high as you can and then drop them all slowly) 2x15
V-situps... I could not do many of these and I forgot how many I did
burpies (I think that is what they are called) 2x15
jump rope 3x2 min sets
assisted pull ups (100 pound assist) 2x15
pushups 2x15
another set up assisted pull ups
He said he was going to not do anything to my legs as my hamstring was a bit strained that day. We only had 20 minutes to workout due to all the body comp measurement stuff