Honesty is not the best policy...

Oncebitten · 01-06-2009, 07:03 AM

I made the mistake this morning of telling my trainer that while I really like MOST of our workouts, I find the ones where we don't use heavy weights or much weight in general to be tiring, but non productive. "Let's put aside some of your nonweight exercises and step up the lifting heavy routines" I said. She took it well, just sort of nodded and said "okayyyyyy, fine."

It didn't occur to me that telling her that right before we started leg day was a really f**king stupid idea. OMG, she killed me. Heavy squats, one legged squats, tons of lunges with heavy ass barbells forwards and backwards, more squats with her adding weight like a mad woman. "Can you handle 10 pounds more per side?" she'd ask? '"Yes? In that case let's add 25's!"

I did everything she threw at me and was smart enough to hit the treadmill for 20 minutes of fast walking afterwards, but once I got home I could feel it setting in. Hard. Man she tore my legs up. I couldn't walk down stairs right now if my life depended on it. I should have kept my mouth shut until chest and tri day.

TRANSMIGRATION · 01-06-2009, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Oncebitten

I made the mistake this morning of telling my trainer that while I really like MOST of our workouts, I find the ones where we don't use heavy weights or much weight in general to be tiring, but non productive. "Let's put aside some of your nonweight exercises and step up the lifting heavy routines" I said. She took it well, just sort of nodded and said "okayyyyyy, fine."

It didn't occur to me that telling her that right before we started leg day was a really f**king stupid idea. OMG, she killed me. Heavy squats, one legged squats, tons of lunges with heavy ass barbells forwards and backwards, more squats with her adding weight like a mad woman. "Can you handle 10 pounds more per side?" she'd ask? '"Yes? In that case let's add 25's!"

I did everything she threw at me and was smart enough to hit the treadmill for 20 minutes of fast walking afterwards, but once I got home I could feel it setting in. Hard. Man she tore my legs up. I couldn't walk down stairs right now if my life depended on it. I should have kept my mouth shut until chest and tri day.

Ha, that's funny. Sounds like she finally trained you properly, I say it's a good thing.

Oncebitten · 01-06-2009, 07:21 AM

How did this end up in the female misc? I was in the OV35 section. Or so I thought anyways.

Sorry ladies...

Honey75 · 01-06-2009, 10:07 AM

Aww...haha. Lesson learned, eh?

nicoledominique · 01-06-2009, 10:23 AM

What are you talking about? That's awesome! Now she understands what you want from her and she'll be able to give it to you!

Enjoy the pain!

martina92685 · 01-06-2009, 10:31 AM

I love that a chick is training a guy and she kicked his tush!

Oncebitten · 01-06-2009, 02:01 PM

Don't be surprised! I've trained with several guys in the past and found most of them to be pretty good. But this year I noticed a 31 year old female trainer get pregnant, stay in good shape the whole time, have her baby and then get right back to work and return to killer shape in a matter of weeks.

If she can do that, she clearly knows what she'd doing! I've had great progress with her and my gains are among the best I've ever had. I love her, she's awesome!