Decision Made

I thought last night a lot about where I am at, and had a good discussion with my partner about where we are at and the events of yesterday. The decision I have made is that I will give the personal trainer a go for a month to see how things go. At the end of that I should have made some good progress and can assess whether or not I need to continue on with her, or if I can scale back the sessions with her (thus reducing the cost), or if it is a waste of money.

Having made a decision I felt a bit better about things, and I now know the extent of the problem and the large amounf of work that lies in front of me. After a breakfast of porridge, and a shower I took off on the bike to the gym and made it there in record time (thanks to catching all the lights). I then got on the treadmill for 50 minutes as per usual and managed to crank out 5 kms. Not too bad an effort after the gruelling session of the day before. Legs felt heavy, but I felt much better mentally after the workout.

I took the opportunity to then go and do some resistance training on the weight machines in the gym. It was pretty busy, so I did some tricep extensions, and a few bench press exercises (the lat pull down machine appeared to be broken unfortunately as I want to do some work on my back). I then followed these up with three sets of 20 situps on the swiss ball. Not a bad effort, and definitely the most that I have done so far in any one session so that counts as progress.

Now that the decision has been made I will try to make contact with the trainer over the weekend and settle on the first session time. My plans for the weekend are to get out on the bike again, and to possibly get a computer for it that will record how far I travel, how fast, and how many calories I burn and what have you. My partner also wants to go for a lengthy walk in preparation for the city to surf walk in a month, so we will work that in too. I'll let you know how that goes.