From Pen to Gym

So I slowly and carefully step onto my scales…What do I see? 69 point 5!!! Really? (mentally on paper that looks better than 69.5)

Am I able to reverse that number to 59.6? We’re about to find out!!

I sat and pondered on the when’s the why’s and the how’s of not being able to wear my dresses without other parts of my body being squeezed and forced out of them, wondered how my jeans got soooooo tight that my hips are oozing up and out of my waistband like there’s no tomorrow and don’t even go there with my underwear!!! Let’s just say, they are not worn to hold anything in or up anymore.

So after the initial shock and state of denial which given I have mirrors and a wardrobe I squeeze myself into, it should hardly come as a surprise to me but I need to start training again.

So what does one do when they want to lose weight? Seek help from a personal trainer? Start another celebrity fad diet? Stop drinking wine or join a gym? For some people that might work, each has their own way of getting in or back into shape but for me…..well, I’ve worked as a personal trainer myself for six years, so I think I know what I need to do, I love food too much to give that up to a fad diet so that won’t work, wine comes from grapes, so it’s kind of healthy and the only thing left was joining a gym.

And that is what I did, well it took close to two weeks to actually do it, but nevertheless I am now a proud owner of a gym membership where I will be spending a lot of my spare time putting my body through its course.

My first weights session is complete and as the endorphins started to kick in, I remembered why I loved training so much and why I loved working as a personal trainer myself, helping other people achieve these very same feelings of self-satisfaction, invigoration and accomplishment. Training last week was a warm up. What’s to come will be a test of how hungry I am to want this.

I know I want it, I can taste it, I can see it, and you will be with me along the way to witness what I believe will be an enormous transformation in body, but more importantly the greatest in mind.

I have written my work out of the week below, which I will be following to a T over the next 2 weeks. As the training is focusing on full body, I will alternate my days with a cardio workout that will consist of running on the treadmill, rower, elliptical, Tabata and RPM.

Work out of the week:

5 minute warm up on the treadmill

Superset Strength training 3 sets 12 reps/alternate each exercise with no rest period in between

Full body

• Lat pull down
• Dumbell bench press
• Leg Press
• Deadlifts
• Dumbell bicep curl
• Tricep pull down
• Cable pulley fly’s or Dumbell fly’s
• One arm row
• Barbell or Smith machine squats
• Lunges
• Lateral raises

Abdominal

• Cable wood
• Med ball Russian twist
• Leg raises
• Med ball rotational throw
• Hanging leg raise