Joined the Gym

Hi all...

Well I'm down two sizes since I started and once I hit Phase 2 of Southbeach
Diet, I stalled. Very, very frustrating.

I joined a gym tonight with a friend who is a personal trainer who told me
she'd train me for nothing.

I am looking foward to this because I need some motivation to keep going and
I think working out with a friend who knows what she's doing is going to
help out a lot.

Just thought I'd share. Wish me luck.

She put me on a 6 day a week schedule for the first two weeks.

--
Sheli

guitarprincess wrote:
Hi all...

Well I'm down two sizes since I started and once I hit
Phase 2 of
Southbeach Diet, I stalled. Very, very frustrating.

I joined a gym tonight with a friend who is a personal
trainer who
told me she'd train me for nothing.

I am looking foward to this because I need some motivation
to keep
going and I think working out with a friend who knows what
she's
doing is going to help out a lot.

Just thought I'd share. Wish me luck.

She put me on a 6 day a week schedule for the first two
weeks.

So, what are you sitting there typing for...get to work ;-)

--
JJ.
275/176/175 - as of August 4, 2004
Atkins since Sep 1, 2003
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jjsmythe/my_photos
1, 2, 3...97, 98, 99...almost there

LOL I just got home from signing up. I start my training tomorrow.

--
Sheli

"JJ" wrote in message news:FzwWc.299902$a24.31218@attbi_s03...
guitarprincess wrote:
Hi all...

Well I'm down two sizes since I started and once I hit
Phase 2 of
Southbeach Diet, I stalled. Very, very frustrating.

I joined a gym tonight with a friend who is a personal
trainer who
told me she'd train me for nothing.

I am looking foward to this because I need some motivation
to keep
going and I think working out with a friend who knows what
she's
doing is going to help out a lot.

Just thought I'd share. Wish me luck.

She put me on a 6 day a week schedule for the first two
weeks.

So, what are you sitting there typing for...get to work ;-)

--
JJ.
275/176/175 - as of August 4, 2004
Atkins since Sep 1, 2003
http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jjsmythe/my_photos
1, 2, 3...97, 98, 99...almost there

"guitarprincess" wrote in message
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Hi all...

Well I'm down two sizes since I started and once I hit Phase 2 of
Southbeach
Diet, I stalled. Very, very frustrating.

I joined a gym tonight with a friend who is a personal trainer who told me
she'd train me for nothing.

I am looking foward to this because I need some motivation to keep going
and
I think working out with a friend who knows what she's doing is going to
help out a lot.

Just thought I'd share. Wish me luck.

She put me on a 6 day a week schedule for the first two weeks.

--
Sheli



Sheli,

First off, congrats on starting a fitness program. I do want to say to make
sure you don't get in to overtraining mode. This is very common with people
who are new to working out. It is also one of the biggest causes of people
quitting their training program. Now realize that many people do train 6
days a week, but also realize that most of these people started at 3 days a
week with a rest day in between each workout. Then after a while, you split
your workout to a 2 day or 3 day rotation and increase the number of
exercises you do per body part. I'm not in any way trying to discourage you
from working out, but just make sure that you don't fall into this scenario.

Good luck to you, and hopefully you'll find that working out can be
addictive. Once you get that feeling, you'll be hooked.

Chris

Hi Chris,

I am actually a Recreation Therapist and have some training in fitness.

The plan is to do lower body and upper body on alternate days.

Some weight training, some cardio, etc. They will lay it out for me on paper
and once I have it I'll get some opinions.

Thank you so much for your concern as I completely understand what you are
saying.
--
Sheli

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"guitarprincess" wrote in message
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Hi all...

Well I'm down two sizes since I started and once I hit Phase 2 of
Southbeach
Diet, I stalled. Very, very frustrating.

I joined a gym tonight with a friend who is a personal trainer who told
me
she'd train me for nothing.

I am looking foward to this because I need some motivation to keep going
and
I think working out with a friend who knows what she's doing is going to
help out a lot.

Just thought I'd share. Wish me luck.

She put me on a 6 day a week schedule for the first two weeks.

--
Sheli



Sheli,

First off, congrats on starting a fitness program. I do want to say to
make
sure you don't get in to overtraining mode. This is very common with
people
who are new to working out. It is also one of the biggest causes of people
quitting their training program. Now realize that many people do train 6
days a week, but also realize that most of these people started at 3 days
a
week with a rest day in between each workout. Then after a while, you
split
your workout to a 2 day or 3 day rotation and increase the number of
exercises you do per body part. I'm not in any way trying to discourage
you
from working out, but just make sure that you don't fall into this
scenario.

Good luck to you, and hopefully you'll find that working out can be
addictive. Once you get that feeling, you'll be hooked.

Chris