Jonwhite1972

Hi Harriet, thank you so much for your reply. I really appreciate your comments. I will definitely speak with him and hope that we can find some mutual ground. Thanks again. Jon

Hi all, I have been talking about joining a gym for a good few months now and my wife brought me a membership for Christmas as well as 12 sessions with a personal trainer. (I had said to her that I felt the P.T was very important as I had never been to the gym before and had not exercised for over 25 years) I was concerned that I would go at it like a bull in a china shop and needed advice and direction as not to over do it but at the same time not under do it. Due to being away after Christmas I managed to get my first session two nights ago and met with my P/T Richard. We sat down in his office for a while and discussed what I was looking for (I just want to get fit as I am completely the opposite) I told him my background and we then went back into the gym to start my training. At the time I was simply concentrating on what he was asking me to do and at the end of the session simply went home completely knackered. But then I woke up yesterday and due to the pain I was in ( and yes it’s worse today) I started to question in my own mind why certain things hadn’t been show or why certain things were done the way they were. My main concerns are as follows: 1. The only form of warm up we appeared to do was 6mins walking on the treadmill. (Is this enough?) 2. We then moved straight across to a chest exercising machine where he set the weight to 35k and asked me to do 12 repetitions he then dropped the weight to 30k and did a further 12 reps. He told me this was called a drop set to fail. (I only managed 10.) followed by 3 sets of dips to fail on a bench I managed 9, 6 and 5. My question here is I have since been told as a newbie I shouldn’t be doing any reps to fail? 3. When we neared the end of the session Richard put me on a step machine (5 revolving steps that mimicked a staircase) and I asked was this the cool down before we finished and he said in his 10 years as a P/T he has never given a client a cool down within a fitness program. (This seemed strange to me?) 4. Even though I know nothing about exercising, I would have expected to have also done some stretches before and after.? Sorry this is such a long message but I am sat home typing my first ever post on a forum because on the shear pain that I am in and am worried about going again, surely it shouldn’t be this bad?????? Any advice would be welcomed Thanks Jon

47 year old gym newbie “is my personal trainer doing things right” ??? Help please Hi all, I have been talking about joining a gym for a good few months now and my wife brought me a membership for Christmas as well as 12 sessions with a personal trainer. (I had said to her that I felt the P.T was very important as I had never been to the gym before and had not exercised for over 25 years) I was concerned that I would go at it like a bull in a china shop and needed advice and direction as not to over do it but at the same time not under do it. Due to being away after Christmas I managed to get my first session two nights ago and met with my P/T Richard. We sat down in his office for a while and discussed what I was looking for (I just want to get fit as I am completely the opposite) I told him my background and we then went back into the gym to start my training. At the time I was simply concentrating on what he was asking me to do and at the end of the session simply went home completely knackered. But then I woke up yesterday and due to the pain I was in ( and yes it’s worse today) I started to question in my own mind why certain things hadn’t been show or why certain things were done the way they were. My main concerns are as follows: 1. The only form of warm up we appeared to do was 6mins walking on the treadmill. (Is this enough?) 2. We then moved straight across to a chest exercising machine where he set the weight to 35k and asked me to do 12 repetitions he then dropped the weight to 30k and did a further 12 reps. He told me this was called a drop set to fail. (I only managed 10.) followed by 3 sets of dips to fail on a bench I managed 9, 6 and 5. My question here is I have since been told as a newbie I shouldn’t be doing any reps to fail? 3. When we neared the end of the session Richard put me on a step machine (5 revolving steps that mimicked a staircase) and I asked was this the cool down before we finished and he said in his 10 years as a P/T he has never given a client a cool down within a fitness program. (This seemed strange to me?) 4. Even though I know nothing about exercising, I would have expected to have also done some stretches before and after.? Sorry this is such a long message but I am sat home typing my first ever post on a forum because on the shear pain that I am in and am worried about going again, surely it shouldn’t be this bad?????? Any advice would be welcomed Thanks Jon