Monday Means Nigel

Before I get started I first want to thank all of you who emailed me, called me, and posted on the blog. THANK YOU!! Next up the big question was how many times a week I was going to write? Not a clue but I do want to do a new poll a day. So please check every morning and PRETTY PLEASE pass the link around. Ok on with the show.

Currently it is 10:55 PM on the West coast and I am writing to you from Sacramento, California. I have been back from the gym for about 45 minutes. I HAD to take a hot shower. WHY?? Well let me explain. The hotel where we are staying at for the project set us up with memberships to the local Gold’s Gym. At first I was very intimidated thinking that I needed to look like the Governor back in his prime days. However things have changed for the better with Gold’s meaning you can look like me, the average person and fit in. I have yet to see a so called “muscle head” in the gym. Today is Monday and that means two sessions with my personal trainer Nigel this week of today and Wednesday. Let me tell you why I am working with a personal trainer. First I got a great deal of eight sessions for less then what a normal half hour would be. Second what ever my routine of lifting and doing cardio was not getting the results I wanted. My goal this year was to drop at least 30 pounds with a 34 inch waist line. Well I am not there even though I am under 200 pounds and do feel that parts of me are looking a bit better. My motivation was to kick it up a notch to get the results I truly wanted. Yes a lot of my physical fitness stems on the fact that my diet is poor in the sense that I do not eat enough to keep my metabolism moving. I am not out trying every fast food place (I will confess that our first week I did go to In & Out Berger only once) in town. The hotel food here has many carbohydrates along with not a lot of choices for health breakfast. Plus like I said I don’t eat enough. Many health magazines recommend 5-6 small meals a day. I am up to maybe three.

I am doing what is called Cross Fit work outs. Many exercises I do with just using my own body weight and relying on keeping my heart rate in my target zone (around 145 beats per minute). Tonight was just legs with the emphasis of the hamstrings and I am feeling it. I know that there are many individuals who can push their bodies without a personal trainer or workout partner. I very much enjoy going to the gym and working out as well as motivating others. I get a kick when people are with the personal trainers and they are not smiling. I know that working out can be and should be rough however you need some fun. I have in the past told people who are working out that this should not be a second job but a hobby that you love to do. I love learning all about cross fit and how far Nigel will push me on every set of exercises. Today at work all I thought about was my half hour at one of the nicest gyms I have ever worked out in and well not to loose the oatmeal I had two hours before Nigel put me through my paces.

I hope this has inspired you to either keep doing what you are doing for physical fitness, or start one. Starting on Tuesday night the TV show “Biggest Looser” is back on for a new season. These contestants are not only going to push themselves to loose weight, but to even stay alive. Many need to loose weight because of things like high blood pressure or diabetes. Once they start to loose weight you just see their reactions of possible saying to themselves “Oh my gosh I can loose weight.” That they can workout and be successful at getting fit. You will be very inspired trust me on that.
I will keep you posted on my progress with Nigel and we will see how close I will come to getting to my goal weight and measurements in December. Until then as the beer commercial says “Stay thirsty my friend.”