Personal Trainer vs Going Solo
I am going to be starting one or the other tomorrow. I have worked with the personal trainer once before, but only gave him a week out of paying for a month, which I sometimes regret. This personal trainer doesn't work out of a conventional gym with conventional weights, but had me doing things like pushing/pulling a huge metal sleigh with a giant rope, running down a long field a few times with weights at the end of a rope, and various other exercises that won't keep me bored that's for sure. It definitely seems intense and he's got quite a few long-lifed clientsI have seen how guys look after 3 months and it's amazing. I am about 330lbs (guessing.. I'll know tomorrow) full of body fat. I don't want to lose weight too fast, which I fear, which is why I was considering going solo, but I feel that would be taking the easy way out.
The pt also doesn't emphasize any special dieting just to eat as much protein as possible and vegetables. I think his philosophy may be you are going to burn enough calories and work your muscles enough so that dieting isn't that important (this is just a guess... or he may not have wanted that to be my main focus at the time -just to get in decent shape to be pushed harder). Now, either way I do plan on changing my diet, I may not be able to eat the most calories required/desired, but I'll be doing my best eating every few hours with tunas, fish, veggies, red meat here and there, oatmeal, etc. I'm still reresearching, but wanted some opinions if I could get some.
Thanks and glad to be back.