Week 2 of 12
I started working with a personal trainer: Kim Thompson, CPTN from Vitality Source Fitness. She offers nutritional support and is an expert on bone and joint health as well. I haven’t been focussed on strength training since the summer – just jogging – and really wanted to get back into it. My plan was to work with her for a few weeks to have my form monitored and to provide a useable routine; the assumption is that this would kick start my motivations.
I was a bit nervous about what to expect but she opened with a warm-up to Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah and a Frank Sinatra medley. That was great! She developed three super sets that each work opposing major muscle groups while each excercise simultaneously uses more than one major muscle group. For example I do a shallow squat with a curl. Over all, it keeps the time to 30 minutes. Sadly my forearms took a beating and are stiff as I’ll say. The goals is to fit comfortably into my pants within a month.
The major nutrition changes were a protein shake for breakfast, vegetable salad with seeds or nuts and 20g protein (i.e. ½ chicken breast or 1/3 cup of tuna) for lunch, and no sweets aside from fruit. My morning snack is ½oz natural almonds and in the afternoon is 2Tbs humous with veggies or some natural low sugar yogurt mixed with fruit and nuts. Dinner is a protein and veggies or salad. It is very similar to the South Beach principles, phase II.
The other factor is my space in the basement. When we first moved in, Steve challenged me that if I used the space 3 times per week every week for 3 months, then I could have a space when we finish it. While I believe I have met that goal, he isn’t so sure. Rather than restarting, I am moving forward and keeping track. I have completed weeks one and two of twelve!
