{"id":25104,"date":"2010-01-11T22:54:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/01\/11\/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-lenora\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T22:54:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T22:54:25","slug":"from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-lenora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/from-fit-to-fat-to-fit-lenora\/","title":{"rendered":"From Fit to Fat to Fit: Lenora"},"content":{"rendered":"

When working with a personal trainer, the first thing you have to do is to calibrate. Then, if the trainer does not crank it up to a higher level, she’s probably not worth her fee. <\/em>
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By this time it had become clear that I was joining this gym with a life membership. I’d lay out a few hundred bucks and be a member for about $50 a year forever after. That may seem like a lot and these sorts of things are not always good deals. But part of my motivation for choosing the super-membership was to put the money down up front so I would be motivated to stick with the program for a long time. In the end, that worked.<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, I got six hours of trainer time. I knew from my reading that working with a personal trainer was a good idea if you don’t know what you are doing, and I didn’t know what I was doing. A good personal trainer could save you from injuring yourself, and help you to be more effective in your training. I’ll tell you about some of the things I learned about this in a later post.<\/p>\n

Lenora was one of the personal trainers at this gym, and it eventually became clear to me that the sales rep and head trainer with whom I’d met when I joined up figured out that I wanted to work with a serious personal trainer, and so they matched us up. And I’ll tell you this, since that time I’ve watched a lot of trainers working with various clients, and there is a great deal of variation across trainers, and across trainer-client relationships. There are people throwing away their money, and there are people who are getting a very, very valuable service.<\/p>\n

I was determined to be in the latter group, and as a trainer, Lenora was determined to be in that group as well.<\/p>\n

Lenora is medium to tall in height, and thin like a stick. She has soft brown eyes and a pleasant countenance, a quiet conversational voice and a very polite manner. When we first met she was very formal in her introduction, and after a few pleasantries and technicalities, she came to the key question.<\/p>\n

“How hard do you want me to make you work.”<\/p>\n

“Well, harder than anyone else you’ve ever worked with.”<\/p>\n

A pause.<\/p>\n

“Are you sure?”<\/p>\n

“Well, I figure that if I don’t work hard enough to puke at least once every few sessions, we’re not working hard enough.”<\/p>\n

She looked at me for a moment, trying to read how serious I was being. Then, just as she turned away to lead me to the evaluation area, she said, “Very well. We can do that.”<\/p>\n

She may not have realized that I could see the grin appear across her face in the mirror towards which we were walking. Within three weeks I was to throw up once, and I was to collapse on the floor once. And those were the only times I was to see her grin in just that way again.<\/p>\n


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