Day 20

The Beach trip was a success! So much fun with the girls, amazing weather, and stories that we’ll talk about forever 🙂 (a G-rated recap will be posted soon!)

This morning came too quick though. My phone decided to die in the middle of the night and shut-down which isn’t a problem if I didn’t use it as my alarm clock. Luckily my internal clock went off at 6:16am, only a minute late-phew.

Cheesy, scrambly eggs with extra spinach! Strawberries as a side and I’m bummed I didn’t put more on my plate! So fresh and so clean, cleanjuicy, I’m pretty sure I devoured them in .2 seconds. Client at State’s gym before work; I’m going home Wednesday (yahoo!) so we’re packing training sessions into 2 days.

On the workout calendar for Monday and Tuesday:

• Monday: Step & Cardio Circuits Yoga Stretch. I planned on taking cardio circuits after step but was worn-out and hungry! Another day CC..Yoga Stretch is so rejuvenating! I always feel so lively, limber, and loose afterwards.
• Tuesday: A homemade weights sesh.

Another mayo-less chicken salad sandwich with TJ’s sweet potato crinkles and string cheese for lunch. I don’t plan on going to the grocery store since I’m heading home Wednesday- mission: clean out the refrigerator starts today!

A little afternoon pick-me-up:

Day 18

G-double O-D M-O-R-N-I-N-G!

3.5 mile run around Lake Johnson-check! OIAJContainer-check! Early morning client-check! 2 cups of coffee-check! I’m feeling like today is going to be very accomplishing!

When the yogurt container is near empty, I pour my oats right into it instead of dirtying a bowl..hence OIAC.  A dollop of cookie butter right smack in the center that’s waiting to be devoured. I wait until there’s no more oats left then eat the entire spoonful of cookie butter; a mouthful of cookie butter is a-okay by me :).

Once I put my things down in my office, I was on the go until lunchtime. I observed an equipment orientation-like session and a full PT session. The trainer I shadowed spotted exercises in a way I never thought of spotting before. For example, during a chest press, instead of hovering around the clients’ wrists to spot the weight going down, she stood to one side of the bench and positioned her arms like 2 bumpers, one in front and one behind the weight. I like this technique because a lot of clients’ I’ve trained seem to bring the weight higher above their chest (shoulders) when it’s supposed to be nipple line mid-chest; having those “bumpers” guide the clients’ arm down helps develop kinesthetic awareness during the exercise. Also, it’s not has uncomfortable for the client to have the trainer standing above him/her. Add that to my to-do list as a trainer!

Lunch was again eaten too fast-I just can’t seem to put food down when it’s so good! Mayo-less chicken salad sandwich with cuckes, peanut butter-filled pretzels, and a banana.

This was sitting on my desk after lunch. A VH-what? How in the world am I going to watch this? I think it’s awesome, don’t get me wrong, and I want to watch Introduction to the Step Training but I don’t know who has a tape player these days! Maybs I’ll ask my gramma 🙂

Have a fabulous Thursday!