Thanks for the warm welcome Paula and for reading my silly stories.
Today was session with the trainer. Last one before holidays. He took it easy on me today. It seems that I came down with the virus that has been going around on Sunday and all week I have been pushing through the fever and denying that I was sick. I have also been ultra busy with work and gym and Guitar Practice and I adopted a family for xmas so had to get all the gifts bought and packed for that too. Needless to say sleep has been suffering as well.
Anyway we discussed a few nutrition questions that I had. Then he put me on the treadmill and got me warmed into a nice jog. He had me do that for some time while he analysed my gait. He found that my right foot tended to go outside. He suggested that I go down the street sometime soon and get new shoes for running. There is a store that takes video of your stride and recommends shoes based on that video. So I will get to do that on my vacation sometime.
After that he had me do a push up prone position and the put out one hand and opposite leg and hold for 2 seconds and then switch. I did those for 20 and then switched and did v-ups x 20 and then mountain climbers x 40. Then I was allowed to rest. I did this times 3 sets. During my sets of these he gave me my rules for this upcoming vacation. I am not permitted to run faster than a 4.5 on the treadmill and not very long distance. Then he discussed my eating and how I had to eat 1400 cals a day at a minium. Then he starts laughing and says that he sits in the gym all day, (day after day) and tells people that they have to run more and eat less.... Now here is Karla with the exact opposite instructions.
After this he taught me the basics of the deadlift. I am inspired by Mahler's love of this and asked him to teach me them. I figured it would be a good thing to help my hamstring heal. He wasn't very happy about it but said he would teach me the safe way to do it and I had to promise to not go out and do a locked knee (Roman) way with heavy weights. So I did 3x20 of these with 30 lb db. I also did some step ups onto a weight bench. This was just to load my hamstring. He made me promise to email him in 2 days to let him know what my hammie feels like after this one.
Then we did more nutritional talking and he weighed me and took my body fat and it turns out that I weigh almost the same by dropped body fat by a lot. I was 31% 3 weeks ago and 25% now. He says I dropped 7.5 lb of fat. I believe him because the pants I just bought are already too big for me. How cool is that?