Personal Trainer Vent…
I just met with a personal trainer for the second time today, and it didn’t go so well. I have far too many things to fix in my posture and form when I am lifting weights. It seems I don’t have anything down correctly!! He said the pudge on my stomach is likely from improper form. I think the pudge is there because I spent most of my life eating pure sugar and junk, worrying and stressing FAR too much and increasing my cortisol levels. That’s what I think.
It also made me horrible about my body, although that was not his intention. Or was it? After all, if I feel horrible about my body and he’s giving me a ray of hope ‘with the right training, of course’, a person would be more likely to purchase sessions with him, no? When I look at the pictures of my stomach/hips, my MAJOR trouble area, I see progress. Plain and simple. I know it’s there and there’s no disputing it. But his comment is still echoing in my head… that the pudge that I thought was only visible to me is, indeed, visible to EVERYBODY.
I read somewhere that Eleanor Roosevelt (I think?) once said that "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent". I guess I have ‘given’ him permission to make me feel inferior.
Time for that to change!
New plan: Work out paying special attention to upper body movements, especially in the shoulders and back. Continue keeping diet squeaky clean! Keep myself focused and not let myself become discouraged by comments that are intended to be helpful. All right, I can do this. 
February 14, 2008 at 10:08 am
"He said the pudge on my stomach is likely from inproper form"
February 14, 2008 at 10:13 am
LOL - thanks for the spelling correction!!
February 14, 2008 at 10:16 am
Nope - you were right:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/improper
February 14, 2008 at 10:18 am
LOL - I had originally written "inproper", and he was kind enough as to point it out. I guess this is what happens when my speaking becomes lazy and I don’t enunciate all of my words properly - it transfers to my writing!!
February 14, 2008 at 10:30 am
Gotcha, I thought I was going crazy (-ier
)… my bad! But with what the trainer said, I don’t think it was is intention to make you feel bad. He probably just said it so that you can focus a bit more on engaging your core whenever you do weights and/or cardio… I definitely notice a difference whenever I do (i.e., my stomach gets a workout throughout my whole session, I don’t have lower back pain, etc.). Though there’s definitely some ’sales’ type PT’s, I think they’re there to help, not hurt. Happy Training!
February 14, 2008 at 10:41 am
Pixi, thanks so much for your response! You’re absolutely right. LOL. Even though rationally, I knew everything he was saying was absolutely correct (bad form, bad posture, visible lower ab pudge), I took it too personally. LOL. Thanks for redirecting my focus.