Personal training: awful and amazing at the same time!
These weeks have been a total rollercoaster of happy- and evil thoughts at the same time, since I’m starting to notice things I’m not so good at. It has been awful and amazing at the same time! My body starts to adapt to new movements and is seriously getting stronger.
WEEK 2
Our second week with trainer Joe was scheduled for leg conditioning, and the few bootcamp courses I took over the years helped me out there. While I did my ‘frog jumps’ and lunges, Mr. Boyfriend carried a few extra kilos with him and noticed that his legs were totally undertrained. What is this thing with men always focussing on arms and chest during training? Isn’t it pretty obvious that the legs have to carry the rest of the body the entire day, and for that reason need to be superstrong? It might just be my history as a dancer, but for me strong legs have always been most important.
I felt tears coming up...
Anyway, I was pretty confident about my training until I got to pistol squats. 12 reps each leg was easy, but then my body just didn’t want to do anything anymore. I closed my eyes to focus on ‘just do that squat’, but I couldn’t get up because of fatigue. Joe and Mr. Boyfriend were standing next to me, telling me to ‘GO! GO!’ and all of a sudden I felt tears coming up. Of course I’m a cool chick that is definitely not crying in front of two tough guys, but it hit me: this whole personal training thing is going to be harder then I thought…
I was used to practice stuff my body already knew and I always did things I was good at, but this time I had to do something I actually had to work for. Yup, to me this personal training was becoming a mental training as well! Staying motivated and focused while it feels like I'm not being successful is hard, but it's also the only way to become a better and stronger me.
WEEK 3
I’ve been focussing on getting my back stronger. The muscles inbetween my shoulders are not trained at all, which makes every movement into my arms more difficult. To really make that one muscle group stronger, I did some isolated lifting with 4 kilo weights: not too heavy but focussing on perfect movement. At first I got upset again, because I just kept on doing stuff I wasn’t good at. I do feel that my body is actually getting stronger and healthier. Because of these training schedules my ‘laptop-trained-back’ doesn’t hurt anymore during office hours and I feel way better in the morning (I even don’t really need that coffee anymore!).
I try to ignore the diet-stuff for now
By the way: I’m still eating the same as I did before. I eat pretty healthy and love my veggies, but I love a glass of wine or a piece of carrotcake as well. Joe told us a lot about the way cholesterol and insuline keep our body going during the day, but since he’s training to become a body builder, I try to ignore the diet-stuff for now. These first weeks I’m checking out what training does to my body without changing my diet, but in a few weeks I might lower on sugar (or drinks!). I’ll keep you posted.
As you can see on my Instagram-account, last week was pretty work-and-party because of Fashion Week. I’m getting ready for another leg-training in a few hours and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that last weekend’s cocktails didn’t kill my vibe… Don’t worry, Be Yonce, right?
