Thursday, March 15, 2007
Personal Trainer aka PT
PT aka Physical Torture.
I don't know how we got ourselves into this man...lol. Me and the man were lamenting about it as we walked towards the gym yesterday evening. Haha. I think he was suffering from fatigue, and I was suffering from an imbalance of hormones (aka mood SWINGS).
BUT! We still made our way there because of the very fact that it's been paid for and if we don't go it will be wasted. Haha. (I got a bit pissed when he said, "we don't go lo, just waste money lo! That's what we are good at what." Hmph~)
Actually money is a good motivating factor especially if you have signed up for a package with the gym. Sometimes it's like, might as well go since you already have got the package there that kind of thing. Haha.
Anyways. We met up with the PT, he started us with warmups on the bicycle while asking us what's our goal. Actually I have got no goal because it's a short-term thing, so the main aim is probably just to get acquainted with the machines. Oh, and gain some strength. I did the test and realised that I'm super weak at the arms. No wonder I couldn't bring in any clothes from outside. :(
So we started with shoulder press first. So the trainer start telling us about bad habits and the correct posture and how we should position our elbows and arms while doing it. Haha. I lifted 5 kg. And by the end of the first set my arms were already aching...can feel that the muscles are strained and all that. Geez. Then the trainer say must do another 2 more sets!! Fainted. LoL. Each set is like 16 times. By the 12th time will feel like dying and he will help to push it up. Haha.
I like my trainer because he is as nonsense as us so it makes everything more enjoyable. He likes to disturb me by purposely lost count on the reps and then when he asks me to hold he likes to go "3, 2, 2, 2, eeeeeeyaaaahhh....eh I forgot." So I will still be holding there. -_- And then I will whine at him before he say "Ok! Relax.."
So the next thing we did was some arm strengthening exercises. He did specify which muscles we were training but I forgot because all I can think of is my arms are damn pain la! Haha. Oh well. So we were supposed to hold dumbbells and lift them to shoulder level. Here the correct posture is to keep the arms and the hands in the same plane with the elbows slightly bent. To do that properly we must look into the mirror and gauge ourselves whether we are doing it correctly or not.
We did that 20 reps for 3 sets also. Then we proceeded to do crunches on a bosu. That one is like super interesting because the only place I do crunches on is on my bed. Haha. For the uninitiated BOSU actually stands for BOth Sides Utilized and it looks like this:
Pic taken from www.formulagfi.com/index.asp?loc=fullproduct&ID=1So we have to do crunches on a bosu, and it was something like this:
Pic taken from www.cyclefit.ca/cyclefit.htmlSo we got to place the butt on the slope of the bosu and then lie down backwards to do the crunches. It's easy for the first set but the 2nd set onwards my trainer decided to make things more challenging, which is to make our feet rest on a ball rather than on the flat ground. Things are a bit different because other than just balancing your weight on the bosu you gotta watch your feet and not let the ball roll away!!
I must say it works your abs very, very hard. Right now my abs are aching away. Haha. Maybe if I do this long enough I might have abs like the lady in the picture. Ho ho.
My PT also shared the importance of doing crunches the right way. He had a client who did it on hard ground and landed in ICU not once, but twice. That's because doing on hard ground hurts the spine and caused a slipped disc, hence the need to go ICU. Serious case man, I mean, if you exercise to the point you ended up in hospital, then something must be really wrong.
So it's important to find a suitable place rather than just make do like what a lot of people do sometimes. I do too. The bosu is good because it helps support your back when you lean backwards, just like how our back arches. But I just found out that one bosu is actually quite expensive!! Gee.
Then we also did some exercises with the fitball, which is to train our abs again, as well as breathe using the correct technique. Quite interesting because while I could balance myself and lift my butt outwards, there's no way I could move the ball at all. My sense of balance is not there, or in other words, my strength is not enough so I have got no control of my ball. So the trainer tried to push my ball forward and backwards, and I almost fell. Heh.
Okie then after that we did another machine, something to train the biceps (known as the mouse on the arm!). The same thing again, posture, techniques, bad habits. Haha. Oh but he mention that we have to be careful of our wrist because if we use our wrist to pull we will definitely hurt them. So he would supervise us to ensure that the correct techniques are used.
Good huh! And that was the end of our training (3 sets of 15 reps, no less!). Today I am aching like hell all over, but it's concentrated on the arms, and even my chest. LoL. And definitely my abs.
Doesn't help that I've got cramps to come along for the ride...so to say, my whole body is in pain. Boo.
Tomorrow will be better I hope. Haha. At least, no more cramps? Heh.
My next training is this Saturday. Don't know how am I going to recover on time for it. Haha. :P
Labels: exercise
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