Be Fit NH

When you think of personal training, it’s usually one-on-one with client and trainer, as opposed to group training which is a group of people with one trainer in the front of the room.  But what about a couple?  You and your significant other working out together with a personal trainer.  I’ve always had at least one couple to work with.  I find it both fun and challenging.  It would be impossible to do if each needed an individual workout routine, but when their conditioning is similar, I can manage to provide an excellent workout in our one hour session.  Lately I’ve been getting more and more inquiries about it.  Most ask if there is a discount, which there is, and others want to do it to spend more time with their spouse, or to be sure their spouse is doing some exercise.   The only drawback I’ve found is the space.  Sometimes we’ll need to move some furniture to have enough room for both to be exercising at the same time without bumping into one another.   I see that it’s enjoyable for married couples who rarely spend time together.  They get some needed discussions in about the kids, or the upcoming vacation.  I feel like I develop a closer relationship with my long term couples since I’m involved in some of these discussions.    But in the end, I’m there to see them attain their fitness goals, so while their talking, I’m pushing them on to the next exercise in the sequence, or making sure the level on the elliptical is high enough. 

Well I’m finally touching base once again, I have to, I need to THANK everyone who made it possible for me to be named the BEST FITNESS INSTRUCTOR in the Hippo Press “Best of 2008″ survey. This is a thrilling experience for me, and all my current and past clients made it happen. The writers made a couple of mistakes, though. One on the spelling of my last name, which is common, but they also didn’t include my telephone number. I’ve been promised that it’ll be corrected for the “Best of” magazine being published next week, and hopefully corrected on the Hippo’s website. I may even have some pictures of me in the magazine, even more exciting! Thank you all, once again, for voting for me.

It’s the busiest time of of the year for those of us in the fitness industry.  All those new years resolutions we’re helping to keep, which I love doing it for my clients. 

This year I have a varied group of new clientele, men, women,  a young woman, those who want to lose weight, those who need to reduce their cholesterol, a woman who is going on vacation in the Spring and wants to be in better shape for it.  So I’ve really enjoyed the challenges of of the varied group.

I also began volunteering at the State Prison for Women.  It’s certainly been an experience of a different sort for me.  The women are happy to see me come in, and are really trying to work hard with me.  I started with a large group of 12, but I’ve lost some, so I’m trying to make the class from easy to moderately difficult so all can stay involved.  I have them do a lot of squats - all types: regular, wide stance, squat jumps, squat and kick, squat and slide, etc.  Plus the “old fashioned” type of aerobic class exercises.  I’m enjoying doing the exercises with them, especially since I’m not finding much time to dedicate to my own workouts.

I’ve also spent a whole ‘lot of time shoveling snow, off the ground and off the roof!  That’s a great shoulder workout - the roof rake is 12 feet long, so the law of levers really comes into play when I lift it up to the roof.  I don’t know for sure how much the total snow fall has been so far, but on December 31st we already had 44 inches fall.  Since then, we’ve had six more storms I think amounting to another 18 to 20 inches. 

Well that’s it for now, I plan on getting back here soon.  I’m still just as busy with clients, but I’m getting more organized and getting more accomplished.