Last week I mentioned having clearance to get back to swimming. Yesterday I went back to the weight floor.
I had been doing personal trainer sessions last year to give me the skill and motivation to keep my workouts going. What I found was having someone to be accountable to kept me working out. In addition, the personal trainer helped me find my limits. On my own I might feel I had reached my limits, when I might only have reached 50-75%.
But in the three months since my last session, the personal trainer I was using left, so I had to start with a new trainer today. It is going to take me awhile to break him in. He listened to what I mentioned were my goals, and is going about theme in a straightforward, unimaginative way. He hasn’t yet paid attention to the nuances. Of course, he has only had 30 minutes with me.
He ran me from one drill to another. So I have the list of the below exercises, that hopefully I can remember what they are, and their form, by the time I get back to the weight floor on Thursday:
Hammer Curls — 10 lbs
Standing Curls — 30 lbs bar
Standing Fly — 10 lbs
45-degree row — 10 lbs
Bent Row — 20 lbs
Upright Row — 20 lbs
Each of them is 10 reps. I didn’t find out how many sets to do. I asked him on the Hammer Curls how we were counting (actually, those must be 20, to get 10 per arm, another thing to check).
I tried to explain to him that the motion he was giving I would do, one and two and three and … in a musical rhythmic timing metric.
“There’s no and” he said.
But of course there is. At least there is if you are doing it as a full smooth movement continuum of motion. If you are just doing static poses you can count.
Weight work is motion. Motion is timing. Timing is musical. Why else do some people listen to music to improve their form and endurance.
My previous personal trainer was starting to get the idea, though I don’t think he was musical enough to realize the beat. I’m not sure if my current trainer is musical at all.
At The Rainbow 