{"id":109,"date":"2015-10-08T22:14:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=109"},"modified":"2015-10-08T22:14:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T21:14:36","slug":"get-help-or-go-it-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/get-help-or-go-it-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Get help or go it alone."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">In my experience you have two sorts of exercisers, you have those who need help or those who can go it alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Those who need help may not always need help as with the right guidance you can eventually become one of those people who can go it alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I often see people running, riding bikes and walking in exercise gear and I envy their commitment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I am very much a need help person, I have tried the go it alone and frankly each time I buy all the required gear and become a well kitted out failure (you&#8217;ve heard the phrase all the gear and no idea).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I get bored and distracted and then I think up wild and wonderful excuses as to why I don&#8217;t need to exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When I started at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anytimefitness.co.uk\/gyms\/UK-0078\/telford-england\" target=\"_blank\">Anytime Fitness Telford<\/a> over a year ago people kept saying to me that I will become addicted&#8230;.. erm I am still waiting &#8230; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I agonised over the cost of hiring a personal trainer as its not a cheap affair but when I weighed it up (forgive the pun) here is what I came up with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ladies and Gents trying to lose weight sometimes use &#8220;fat&#8221; clubs.\u00a0 Now don&#8217;t get me wrong these work for some people but clapping people for losing weight when you don&#8217;t really know them or for that matter really care and paying around \u00a36-8 a week for the privilege was one of my money saving ticks.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Then\u00a0putting a minimum wage \u00a0rate on the time I spent flouncing around the gym doing basically piss all. soon meant that having someone structure my time and watch my diet and to\u00a0correct me when I am going wrong seemed like a fair investment in me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The advice I would share is interview your trainer, its important if you are investing that you get the right one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Don&#8217;t be afraid to ask for a free trial session, make sure you are getting what you need.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Be totally honest with them about what you want.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800080;\">If you are very overweight ensure they have experience of dealing with your training, and have the ability to create a personalised plan. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">The most important factor to remember is though is that they are not there to do it for you.\u00a0 If you are not prepared to put the effort in&#8230; do not waste your money.\u00a0 You are going to laugh and cry, be ecstatically happy and really angry\u00a0\u00a0with this person, they are going to see you at your most vulnerable you have to feel you can trust them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">With this in mind I have a trainer now I had spoken to a few all lovely and knowledgeable (and frankly not been hit by the ugly stick either)\u00a0but the trainer I chose just struck a cord, got into my head and rummaged around pushing all the right buttons\u00a0and so I signed on with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pom.tutt\" target=\"_blank\">Pom Tutt , branded as &#8220;Finishstrong<\/a>&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Pom has been about since I joined the gym I have been watching him (yeah I know I sound like a stalker) but wasn&#8217;t sure if he was taking on new clients and I had got in into my head that I wanted a female trainer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Ok so I think this post is quite long enough&#8230; I will talk more about the adventures of Pom and Lou I am sure, I haven&#8217;t cried in front of him yet and I haven&#8217;t made him cry so, so far so good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience you have two sorts of exercisers, you have those who need help or those who can go it alone. Those who need help may not always need help as with the right guidance you can eventually become one of those people who can go it alone. I often see people running, riding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6,7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lf-s.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}