After gaining a few stone which I put down to a year of taking anti depressants - and failing miserably to lose the weight, I hired myself a personal trainer.
I'm no stranger to exercise or diet, Ive played competitive sport, worked out and eaten well most of my life so I class myself as pretty fit and strong.
But I feel like my personal trainer is killing me. I knew it was gonna be tough - but I never thought it would be this tough and its not getting any easier as every session he pushes me harder and harder.
Yes the weight is comings off but not as quick as I'd hoped despite my strict diet and workouts.
I really don't want to sound like a "wuss" and from a bit of research I've done it seems like the general option is that a PT is there to work you hard and if you are still breathing at the end then that's fine - and that to ache so much that you can't walk or lift your arms etc is a good thing!!!
But I dread every session, and those happy endorphins still haven't kicked in despite 3 months of training.
Last week he pushed me so hard that I nearly collapsed, I felt sick, couldn't stand, felt faint and I had to phone the boyfriend to come get me cos i couldn't drive home, then yesterday we did a circuit and I nearly collapsed again ( I actually told him I was done in and I stopped the session) to which he said " well if you wanna be a quitter" and I spent the next 40 mins flat out on the concrete outside the gym trying to cool down and stop the my head spinning, before I managed to drive home crawl across the road and into the house where I crashed out for the eve feeling like I was gonna spew.
I want to get in shape but if this is what a personal trainer does then I either have to admit defeat or man up!
But I find that I'm so mentally and physically tired and due to the adrenaline rush ( not a good adrenaline rush) I have the shakes for hours afterwards. And then i still got to work every day - Try doing a set of eyelash extensions with the shakes and blurred Vision.
Today I just feel exhausted and totally drained, unmotivated and just want to go to bed ( unlike me)
I tried to speak with him and tell him that I'm not invincible and his workouts kill me but he says " no pain no gain"
I've paid him up front for another 7 sessions so I've spent a lot of money on this but like I said I dread every workout and can't carry on feeling like this and I feel like quitting because it makes me feel so ill.
Having never had a PT I don't know if this is normal or whether this is not how it should be.
Surely I should enjoy exercise and get a buzz not leave every session feeling sick, unable to walk, faint and dreading the next!
I'm no stranger to exercise or diet, Ive played competitive sport, worked out and eaten well most of my life so I class myself as pretty fit and strong.
But I feel like my personal trainer is killing me. I knew it was gonna be tough - but I never thought it would be this tough and its not getting any easier as every session he pushes me harder and harder.
Yes the weight is comings off but not as quick as I'd hoped despite my strict diet and workouts.
I really don't want to sound like a "wuss" and from a bit of research I've done it seems like the general option is that a PT is there to work you hard and if you are still breathing at the end then that's fine - and that to ache so much that you can't walk or lift your arms etc is a good thing!!!
But I dread every session, and those happy endorphins still haven't kicked in despite 3 months of training.
Last week he pushed me so hard that I nearly collapsed, I felt sick, couldn't stand, felt faint and I had to phone the boyfriend to come get me cos i couldn't drive home, then yesterday we did a circuit and I nearly collapsed again ( I actually told him I was done in and I stopped the session) to which he said " well if you wanna be a quitter" and I spent the next 40 mins flat out on the concrete outside the gym trying to cool down and stop the my head spinning, before I managed to drive home crawl across the road and into the house where I crashed out for the eve feeling like I was gonna spew.
I want to get in shape but if this is what a personal trainer does then I either have to admit defeat or man up!
But I find that I'm so mentally and physically tired and due to the adrenaline rush ( not a good adrenaline rush) I have the shakes for hours afterwards. And then i still got to work every day - Try doing a set of eyelash extensions with the shakes and blurred Vision.
Today I just feel exhausted and totally drained, unmotivated and just want to go to bed ( unlike me)
I tried to speak with him and tell him that I'm not invincible and his workouts kill me but he says " no pain no gain"
I've paid him up front for another 7 sessions so I've spent a lot of money on this but like I said I dread every workout and can't carry on feeling like this and I feel like quitting because it makes me feel so ill.
Having never had a PT I don't know if this is normal or whether this is not how it should be.
Surely I should enjoy exercise and get a buzz not leave every session feeling sick, unable to walk, faint and dreading the next!