Accident Prone
March 13, 2012 at 7:30 am | Posted in Life and Living | 1 CommentTags: accident prone, broken bones, emergency room, personal training, rehabilitation, sprained ankles
One of the things I have really enjoyed about personal training is getting really in tune with my body, paying close attention to the motions I can do and the ones that I struggle with. Discovering weaknesses helps me figure out what I need to work on. It’s not just about losing weight and toning up, it’s about rehabilitating my body. Just living does a ton of damage to the body.
Through several exercises, my personal trainer pointed out the weaknesses to the right side of my body, particularly a weak ankle. This was from a super old injury playing soccer in middle school. I don’t remember exactly what happened, but I remember wearing an ace bandage all throughout my school’s trip to Nature’s Classroom in 7th grade, and later in high school and college I could blame many accidental falls on that weak ankle.
I’ve been lucky enough to never break, sprain, or fracture anything, but in a survey of my recent trips to the doctor, not one has been just for a check up. In fact, in my adult life I have experienced a ton of accidents which I’ve blogged about before. But to sum it up, there was that time:
- I was bitten by a dog (not my dog, some other crazy dog)
- I fell on black ice and landed on my head, given myself a concussion
- I tripped over nothing and landed on my face, giving myself a black eye (at least I was drunk for this one)
- I cut myself with a butter knife and needed to get stitches.
All of these events have happened in the past 5 years, but they sound like accidents that would happen to a much younger person. Adults don’t typically put themselves in situations where they can get hurt. Unless of course you are accident prone like me. When you are accident prone, every day activities are accidents waiting to happen. The fact that I haven’t fallen down the stairs of my third floor walk up is beyond me.
But I can’t live in fear of getting hurt. It will happen, that’s a reality I have grown to accept. I am lucky that I haven’t been in any serious car accidents or freak accidents. My accidents seem silly and make for great stories, and I have a personal trainer to help me fix my broken body!
Let’s Get Personal
August 23, 2011 at 7:28 am | Posted in Fashion, Fitness and Beauty | 2 CommentsTags: gym buddies, personal training, staying motivated at the gym
Since my return to the gym, I have been struggling to stay engaged and committed to exercising. It’s not that I don’t want to, but there are always hurdles. I have had two gym buddies who have subsequently quit the gym, I have car issues, I’ve been drained from work, I’ve traveled for work. My routine has been threatened many times. I have good weeks and I have bad weeks. I’m at the point where I’m looking into other options to stay motivated while still pushing myself to get to the gym at least twice a week (which, I know is not enough).
So this time I’m putting my money where my mouth is. It’s time to get personal. I am signing on with a personal trainer. But not just any personal trainer — this one is a good friend of mine. Some may hesitate to have a stranger train you, or maybe some would hesitate to have a trainer who you also party with, but it works because he’s damn good at what he does and I know he’ll take care of me even when we aren’t training.
Recently he gave me a trial work out and consultation. It was great to get a professional perspective on the areas I need to improve and have somebody teach me how to do things right. We worked out in basically a private gym for 2 hours. A much different experience than the crowded impersonal gym I regularly attend now. For personal trainers, they talk about things like activating your gluts and having a neutral spine — a much different conversation than average folk who talk about tightening their abs and working their triceps and biceps.
I felt really great after the work out and empowered and motivated to start doing something. But I can’t lie to myself. I know that if I don’t invest the time, I will fall off track, so I decided not to even start this regiment until September (after my upcoming vacation), but come September I will have 6 sessions to get my act together and hopefully build good habits that I stick to. Otherwise, my trainer knows where to find me to get me back on track.
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