So this
is your first time working out with a personal trainer. What is expected of you, what should you hope
for, are you a little scared/nervous? As
a personal trainer I expect you to be healthy, honest not just to me but also
to yourself. When you lie to yourself
you don’t hurt the trainer, but you will hurt all of your progress you have
done to date. There are some tools that
you can use to help with your weight loss and your goals.
The best tool that you should have with you
all the time is a food diary. It has
shown that you will lose more weight with a food log/diary, then if you did not
have a food log with you. All a food
diary will do is keep you accountable with everything you put into your
mouth. When you have a certain amount
of calories you are able to eat, you need to know what you are eating.
After a few weeks of keeping you food log you
will start to realize that you are no longer eating all the junk food and you
are eating healthy. That does not mean
that you have to give up everything that you like. It just means that you should balance out the
bad with the good.
Another tool that I
give all of my clients is an exercise log.
Even though you are with the trainer every day or at least once a week,
you should still be keeping a log of all of your exercises. You should be keeping this log to write down
all of your accomplishment while working out.
When you are with your personal trainer, it is there job to make you
push the limit and get you to grow.
The
last tool that I give all of my clients really isn’t a tool at all, what it is,
is a free day. This free day is the only
day when you don’t have to follow a diet and you can eat anything you want
within reason. When you are on a diet
all the time you can get bored with eating healthy all the time. That is when you can eat the pizza or go to
the fast food restaurant that you like. Know
that does not mean that you can have your free day every day for one week then
eat healthy the rest of the month. No
you get one free day a week; you should keep that free day on the same day
every week.
With these four tools and
the help of your personal trainer you will start to see the body that you
want.
