Today's workout was a great switch from the grind of our 6-12-25 format workouts from the past few weeks. As you may (or may not) remember from my post from last Friday, our Friday session left me light headed and nauseous. I was a little nervous about our first workout of the week. But the good news is, Kyle had changed up the flow of our workout. I ate the same breakfast I ate on Friday, because I was pretty sure it wasn't what I ate that made me feel yucky.
I have been having some trouble lately eating meat for breakfast. For the past year, it was been pretty easy, I just set aside some meat from the night before (usually chicken turkey or beef..never fish) and then add some nuts (usually walnuts, pecans or cashews and sometimes almonds) and I am all set. For the last few weeks, the thought of eating meat first thing, is making me wanna barf, so I have gone back to eating either eggs or greek yogurt with nuts. These combos seem to work well, although eating greek yogurt in the car can be pretty messy.
Don't worry I wasn't actually driving when I took this picture.
I have been getting all of my workouts in first thing in the morning, because as you know evenings are reserved for Olympic Primetime. Whether it's bawling along with Jordyn Wieber when she missed the finals for the Women's Individual All Around in Gymnastics, to cheering for Michael Phelps equalling and then surpassing the all time medal record, to booing those badminton players from China for "throwing" their game just to name a few. I am watching everything, like everything. I am to educate and inspire with this blog, so here are what I deemed to be my top 3 interesting facts about the Olympics:1. Paul McCartney was paid $1.57 (yes one dollar and fifty-seven cents) for his performance in the opening ceremonies.
2. Rhythmic Gymnastics and Synchronized swimming are the only two events in the summer games where men do NOT compete.
3. Italy's $182,400 payout to any Italian who wins a gold medal is the highest of any country in the world. On the flip side, in the US taxes on a gold medal could run as high as $8,986, while silver could be $5,385. On a bronze metal, the tax might be $3,500. Yes, athletes pay these taxes.
I ran these fun facts by Kyle already and told him he can use them to impress and engage his other clients.
On another note, I had to say good-bye to a co worker today. He is moving back to Australia. We didn't say good-bye though, because you don't really need to say good-bye to someone you are going to see again. I am about to renew my personal training sessions and then I shall begin my "Down Under Vacation Fund". With my job, the word 'co-worker' means something completely different to me than it means to most people. Most people go to work, somewhere and work with people in some way shape or form for about 8 hours or so, then go home. When you travel for work, you still go to work all day, but then when work is over you go back to the hotel with those same people, eat dinner together, go to the gym, hang out until bed time, wake up, have breakfast together and go back to work together. You can imagine that your co-workers become like your family and friends pretty fast. So when I say I had to say good bye to a co-worker today, it's more like saying good bye to a co-worker, family member and friend all at once. I know, sad.
Great news though, he is going to do a guest post for this blog. So when you read it you will have to pretend the words have an Aussie accent. He promised to do it next week. He subscribes to this blog via email and always says that my blog posts always arrive in his in box at the weirdest times, like 2:38am. Does anyone else find this? Sorry, if they do, it's totally blogger and not me. I swear.
My Trainer:
I have yet to determine if Tara is behind on her blogs lately as well, or if she's cut me out of the loop ... which I may well deserve. This (again) needs to comment on two workouts, and the good news is that the second was even better than the first. I started to notice something, and then actually read it on Tara's blog, but I was putting more emphasis on Tara's weigh ins and measurements than she was. I catch myself reminding my Trainers sometimes about the importance of keeping it fun and doing what your client can enjoy because regular exercise is the single best thing a human being can do - and it should be fun! I imagine Tara commented how crappy she felt after last workout so I figured it was time for a change (she only had 2 workouts left in her strength endurance phase anyways). The problem was I didn't tell her a single thing about it. I just walked around the gym, expecting her to follow and figure it out as we went. The reps were different, the rest was back to a uniform time between muscle groups, oh ... and the exercises were completely different. Oops.
Tara knows her stuff in the gym and, likely more than anyone I've ever trained, she likes to know exactly what's she's walking into. After (visibly) throwing her off with a "surprise" workout, I set her up first on a super slow motion single arm chest press after stretching out her serratus anterior to start things off. She didn't smile until more than half way through the workout - and I'm assuming a lot of people who read this know or have met Tara - and she's an upbeat happy person. I was a little worried. We got through it and she was off to do her thing for the day. The second workout was much better. We stuck on the same format, only I actually explained things as she warmed up, and she (as she would say) crushed it early and often. We are going to meet Saturday morning again for a workout and I'll be sure to make my plans heard.
Happy Reading,
Me + My Trainer
