Session 3 with the trainer:
Goodness this forum moves quickly. I hadn't posted in 12 hours and I was buried on the 2nd page. I love this place.
Today was my third session with the trainer. I never know exactly what to expect when I go in except that I will be challenged. I am getting the rhythm that he is doing I think. After I warm up, we start up with easy stuff and then go to high intesity (heart rate pumping stuff) and then we go to challenging weights sorts of things. I am going to start reading some of these other programs and see if they follow that same sort of flow...
Anyway...
Today we did exercises on the stairs. The gym is on the 2nd floor so we ran up and jogged down a few times. Let's see I think I did that 10 times or so at a moderate pace. He had me do 2 and 3 steps alternately and then stopped me from doing 3 when he saw me favor my injured hamstring. Once I was good and tired from doing the stairs he went inside and grabbed dumbells (I think they were 15 pounds) and put them in my hands and had me do 10 more.
After this we went inside and we started ab work. 15x3 of the hanging ab (what the heck are those called?) things. This is where you support yourself on your elbows and your body hangs and you bring your legs up to your chest. I never find these all that challenging actually so I suspect I am not doing them right. I have a hard time holding the last one but it doesn't burn.
Then he decided to hit my arms and shoulders. He said that I will get a good overall body workout in the first sessions. He had me do 10 pushups on an incline and then followed by 10 pull ups. The pulls were assisted and they really hurt. Geesh I hate pull ups but I am determined to one day do them on my own if it kills me. We did 10 pushups and 10 pullups 3 times.
Once that was done I actually got to touch my first weight. He put me on the incline bench for incline presses. I did the first set of 10 with just the bar and then he put little plates on and I did 2 more sets. I pussed out on the last set though and he did most of the work of that set. After that was done I was in total pain in my biceps and shoulders. They just felt spent. He said that I should ice those parts for 20 min when I get a chance today.
Then I took a run around the block and came back.
My last torture was with little 5 pounder dumbells. I had to pull them straight up in front of me and drop them, then take them to my sides and pull them up again. I did this 15x3 times.
After this we looked at my diet log and exercise log for the week. Wrt exercise he said he expected me to be in the gym no less than 4 times and no more than 6 times besides the times I am visiting him. He limited my cardio to 60 min at HR of 165 or less.
With respect to diet, he informed me that I was not getting enough vegetables or carbs and that I was no longer permitted to eat pickles en mass due to the sodium. I love pickles man.
First he takes away my pizza and then the diet coke and now this!!!! He told me to cut back my protein because I had revved it up to 200 grams. See last week he said he didn't care HOW I got the calories in and now he changes his story.
He says for the amount of cals I am getting that 200 grams is too high for now. So I need to figure out how to make this between 130-150. He also wants me to be careful that I am getting carbs and he suggested that I learn to like brown rice. Oh yeah and he wants me to put serving sizes down for everything as well from now on. He claims that it will take several weeks for us to figure out the right diet.