Rosie
Rosie has been a personal trainer for 5 years now and also is a group class instructor. She recently took her nutritional qualifications so has a few strings to her bow. Career-wise her real love is her fitness classes, she finds it a great and fun way to motivate people to take some exercise at their own level. Her real love is running, having run the London marathon as well as numerous half marathons and 10 km races. But pretty much any sport goes; hiking, swimming, cycling, watersports and she loves adrenaline stuff as well – get that heart pumping!
She’s wife to Richard, mother to Jack and Billy and owner of beloved dog Jessie. She loves to lead a busy life and pack it all in! Not satisfied with personal training she has taken on her own cake making business too recently! Like all of us, she finds fitting in exercise hard but leading a healthy life is a priority to her so she makes it happen early in the morning. She is realistic about lifestyle and is no angel (addiction to ice-cream being a major problem) but luckily believes in moderation in everything!
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I always wished I had a personal trainer but I never had the wonga. Up until 2 years ago, I was a member of my local leisure centre, and went to the gym 3 times a week. It certainly worked, but I always felt a sense of massive relief when it was over and I could relax with a coffee. Nedless to say, my visits petered out, and the beer gut returned!
I now find myself at 65, reasonably healthy but obviously unfit, and need to lose a couple of stones. Anyone who could design a workout programme, or similar, that people might actually find stimulating, and therefore actually something to look forward to, ought to make a mint.
Hi Biscuitbum
Yes, a response that I have had many, many people say. The problem is that people find the gym boring and so lose motivation. To be honest, there really isn’t a one size fits all and that is why people go to persona trainers, to motivate, inspire and help them achieve their goals. If it’s any consolation, I find it incredibly hard to motivate myself sometimes and do the same workout programme week in, week out until I realise that has been the case for a while. Luckily at the moment I am only trying to fulfill myself and have no targets to achieve.
The thing I found best was to set myself “mini goals”. Ie if you manage to do 2,000 m on the rower in 8 mins 35 secs one day, aim for 8 mins 30 the next week. Don’t try this for EVERYTHING you do in the gym, just focus on one part of it. Or, try running 10 mins at 0.5 faster than you did the last time. Or whatever it is. Don’t try and smash the whole gym session each week as that’s not sustainable or achievable, just take one section and try and whip it for a few weeks. Then do the same for another aspect, say resistance or abs or something. Gives you something to target on in the gym. Good luck!
This is Rosie by the way, logged into Georgie’s account!