Adventures in Personal Training: Clear Minds, Weak Cores
Lorenzo Lamas shilling for the ab coaster. At the end of my Wednesday personal training session (back and biceps), I set about working on my abs. My trainer has me do a couple of different machines,...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Despair
Last week’s unwritten Adventures in Personal Training update was going to be subtitled “Self Doubt,” but today we skipped merrily from self doubt to despair. As always, I am unable to live in the...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Self-Loathing Edition
You should know something about me: I have a pretty low threshold for “chitchat.” Unless you’re going to make an inappropriate joke or veer the conversation into an unexpectedly dark place, I probably...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Tiff Edition
Today, the inevitable finally happened. My personal trainer and I got into a tiff. (What is a “tiff”? Someone remind me to do a Real Talk on it, please.) Perhaps he was edgy because I was too tired to...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Dramatic Re-Enactment
Clint Walker and an interviewer very helpfully recreated one of my typical personal training sessions. You gotta admit, though, it’s worth all the effort Clint puts in. Just look at him!
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Uncomfortable Realizations Edition
Earlier this week, my trainer asked what my New Year’s Eve plans were. Just hanging out with a friend, I said. Her parents are out of town so we’re going to take advantage of their fancy apartment....
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Manti T’eo Edition
Somewhat out of desperation a few weeks ago, I brought up Manti T’eo with my trainer. I could very happily work out for an hour in silence, but he’s always filling lingering silences with chatter; most...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Jaundiced Eye Edition
I may have soured on personal training. Yeah, I’m finally seeing results and clothes fit me better. But I don’t think my personal trainer is, well, good. I mean, we don’t do stretches. We don’t do...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Yes, I’m Still Doing It Edition
Ever since I started personal training sessions way back in the days before Hurricane Sandy, my workouts overlapped with another guy, who has perfect gym clothes and a ridiculous body. This should have...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Ruminative Edition
In the six months and change for which I have had a personal trainer, my most consistent improvement has been in fist bumping. I’ve grown pretty good at it! The trick, I think, is to not be tentative....
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Results!
My days of paying a better-muscled man to make me do exercises have come to an end. We bid adieu two weeks ago, and in that time I’ve managed to drag myself to the gym exactly once. But what care I,...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Reboot!
While waiting impatiently for my personal trainer to return from vacation (we’ll be reunited and it will feel so good; I got a little taste of reunion a month or so ago, when we worked out together as...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training REBOOT Edition
My personal trainer is finally back from his extensive European vacation, and we’ve hit the figurative punching bag hard already this week. Monday we cycled through all the muscle groups just to wake...
View ArticleAdventures in Personal Training: Super Personal Edition
My adventures in personal training have become… more personal. A year and a half in, my trainer and I are, if not exactly friends, at least buddies. And, as buddies do, we tell secrets! Like how after...
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