Last week I was in yoga class, and I was trying to do the warrior pose.

I just couldn’t seem to get the balance to keep my arms outstretched or my legs bent properly.

The yoga instructor came over and tugged my one leg to the back, and posed my arm so they were one to the back and one to the front while keeping them perfectly aligned. I think if she had moved my back leg any further, I would have split up the middle. I teetered there for the 20 seconds that we had to hold the pose, and gratefully put my arms down and stood. The yoga instructor was trying to push me into another position, but I was still trying to get over the warrior pose. She told me ‌she wanted me to practice the warrior pose when we got home, and she wanted to see a perfect pose in our next class. When I got home, I tried my best to emulate the pose, just like they pictured it on the handout. Within two seconds, I was already teetering back-and-forth and almost falling over. I asked my husband if he would look at the handout and tell me if I was doing the warrior pose properly. He told me it looked fine to him, but I didn’t believe him. I don’t think even looked at the handout. My daughter walked in the room just as I was asking him if he was sure I was doing the warrior pose properly? My 12-year-old came over and pulled my left foot backward, told me to keep my knee straight and my hands in position. She rolled her eyes and walked away from me.

 

Personal Trainer

I remember doing calisthenics in the high school gym.

• When you swing your arms side to side, swing them in a circle, or bend from side to side, it is boring.

That seemed to be all our calisthenics were. There was no running unless we were playing volleyball. Every once in a while, the gym teacher would pull the ropes down and tell us to climb them. Right, like I was going to climb the rope? There may have been three girls out of our entire class that actually attempted to climb the ropes. When I got older, I decided I still needed some exercise, but I was going to join a yoga class. Someone told me that yoga was easier than high school calisthenics, and I believed them. The beginner’s class wasn’t too hard the first couple of times I went, but then she ramped it up a little. Ramping it up a little meant that we were now doing what she called a downward dog pose, and planking. I gotta tell you, if high school calisthenics was this hard, I would’ve stayed home every day that I had gym class. Yoga was one of the most strenuous stretching exercise that I had ever done. Now that I’ve been practicing yoga for two years, I look back on those earlier yoga classes. When I hear someone who’s in one of the beginner yoga classes complain, I tell them to enjoy it now because it gets harder, but they just stare at me. I don’t think they realize that those of us who’d been doing yoga for years started out exactly where they are now.

Health and wellness

I was in the gym last week, and they told me they had a new personal trainer.

I wanted to know if he was any good, and the trainer I was talking to told me I would have to see for myself.

I had been working with Mike, who was a personal trainer for everyone else, but a harasser to me, for the last two years. He and I built quite a friendship over the last two years, and he tells me how I’m doing everything wrong instead of being a personal trainer. I don’t even pay him for lessons anymore. Last week, he told me about the new personal trainer they had hired, and I was still waiting to see who it was. A beautiful young woman walked into the gym shortly after that conversation. I couldn’t take my eyes off her. There was something about her that held my attention, and I didn’t want to look away. I noticed ‌Mike was motioning her over to where we were. He introduced her as Lindsay, but I really wasn’t listening to the name. When I caught the words new personal trainer, I turned to look at him and then back at Lindsay. She reached out her hand to shake, which I refused because mine was sweaty. I had never felt this nervous around a woman before. Before I realized what Mike was telling her, he slapped me on the back and told me to enjoy my new personal trainer. If he hadn’t taken off to the other side of the gym, I probably would have slapped him upside the head for not telling me what he was up to.

Semi-private fitness training

For the last year, my doctor has been trying to convince me ‌I needed weight loss surgery. My husband was dead set against me getting any more surgery than what was absolutely necessary. He told me he loved me as I was, and he would not leave me if I didn’t lose weight. Unfortunately, if I didn’t lose weight, he was not just going to lose me, but I was going to die. The doctor had put it as succinctly as he could so that I would understand what he was saying. Three weeks later, I started a class for the nutritional counselor. One prerequisite to having weight loss surgery is seeing a nutritional counselor. They like you to take at least 10% of your body weight off before going under surgery. My thing was that if I took off 10% of my weight, that would show that I can lose weight and I shouldn’t need weight loss surgery. Two weeks before I had my surgery set up, I went back to the nutritional counselor. When I weighed in, I weighed 40 pounds less than when I started the program. I think the nutrition counselor, but told her I hoped I never had to come back again. I figured if I could lose that much weight on my own, there is no reason for me to have weight loss surgery. She agreed to my ideas, but she told me she would like for me to continue coming back and having nutritional counseling done. She really thought that knowing and understanding the difference between nutrition and food was going to be the biggest help I could have on my weight loss journey.

 

 

Cross fit classes

I was so angry with my brother last week that I could have gladly thrown him out of my car.

He and I were heading out for a night of fun.

This was going to be the last chance we were going to have for it to be just him and I before I got married. He told me he had the best wedding present he could give me; all planned out. I was thinking it was going to be an early bachelor party, but that was not good enough for my brother. He had made a reservation for us at the gym. He wanted us to take classes with a personal trainer so I could get in shape for the wedding. He tried to convince me how much better my suit would look on me, and how much easier it would be to dance if I were in shape. He reminded me how the last time he and his wife and my fiancé and I had all gone out and danced, and I was winded before the end of the first song. He thought that a personal trainer would be the perfect gift for me for the next six weeks. I wanted to be mad at him, but I couldn’t. I just asked him if he was sure a personal trainer was necessary? He hedged and told me a personal trainer was unnecessary. He thought it’d be a good chance for us to spend some quality time before I got tied down like he was. I poked him in his soft belly and asked if this was his wife’s idea? He told me Lily had suggested it, but he made the reservation.

 

Workout planner

I remember how I used to love the feel of the sticky barbecue sauce on my fingers as I chewed the spareribs off the boat. I remember mashed potatoes with a big glob of butter sitting in them like a white volcano had just spewed its yellow lava from its core. I remember gooey chocolate brownies coming out of the oven, and just waiting to cool enough for me to taste. I remember so many foods that I used to eat before seeing the nutritional counselor. Dinnertime has not been the same since I saw the nutritional counselor. She made me realize that nearly everything I was eating was filled with sugar, carbs, and fact. The only meats I can eat now our chicken, fish, and very lean beef. They had taken certain fruits away from me because of how high they are in sugar. And I was told that if the food is white, it should not go in my mouth. Thanks to the nutritional counselor, I have lost nearly 100 pounds this year. If she hadn’t spent an hour telling me how disgusting these foods are once they get into my body and what they do to it, I would’ve continued eating them. Now, I look at all those foods I used to love and salivate over, and turned up my nose. I went from being one of the biggest carnivores to a vegan in that year, thanks to the nutritional counselor. As much as I’m enjoying my weight loss, sometimes I really hate her for taking away my joy of food. I will never forgive the nutritional counselor for that.

 

Semi-private fitness training

Little did I know that by the time I got all the weight off, I was grateful to have the local gym, therefore me.

I have never liked to exercise. When I was younger, I ran 6 miles a day, but I didn’t consider that exercise. My running was chasing three children up and down our driveway several times a day. We were the only people who lived on that 1 ½ mile stretch of dirt road. Going down and up down and up was a 6-mile trek. The kids called it fun, but I called work. Since the kids got older, I find any kind of exercise work. I had not seen the inside of the gym since my kids were in high school. I have not run or even walked up and down that hill since my kids thought it was uncool to walk with me. Now, I am finding myself with the dilemma of going to the gym and losing some weight or having my health get worse. As much as I hate going to the gym, I am going to swallow the hate and use it for the good. Every step I take going into that gym is going to be one step closer to my weight goal, and I will never have to go into that gym again. Little did I know that by the time I got all the weight off, I was grateful to have the local gym, therefore me. They did not judge me for my size or for how lacking I was in self-discipline. Everyone treated me wonderfully when I walked into the gym the first day. I was shown the proper way to use all their machines, and was told how I could commit for water aerobics, and which days they held classes. I found the local gym was much less distasteful than the gym we had in school.

Personal Fitness Training

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Have you considered replacing your windows? Would adding low-emissivity window films be a more budget-friendly option? Low-E window films can rival or equal the performance and appearance of new glass at a fraction of the cost.

• They also offer a fast return on investment of 2-5 years, making them a nice investment.

Applied to the inside of your windows, this special coating remains virtually invisible, maintaining a neutral appearance that will not dramatically alter the appearance of your windows, and with them, you won’t need to make any changes to your decor or architecture during future design or decorating updates. They are the perfect solution for every home, including historic homes and homes in communities with strict HOA rules, up to 99 percent of harmful UV rays are blocked by Low-E film, preventing fading or discoloration of furniture, floors, carpets, upholstery, wallpaper, and artwork, while also providing eye and skin protection. Commercial and residential buildings lose up to 40% of their heating and cooling energy due to their abundance of windows. Low-e films allow natural light in while minimizing the amount of heat allowed through the windows, this reduces heat loss in the winter time and non-solar heat gain in the summer. The use of window films can support green building trends such as natural daylight and carbon reduction programs. Additionally, they reduce the amount of discarded materials in landfills when applied to windows rather than being updated. Low-E window films do not require maintenance after installation, and it is easier and more affordable to apply low-E window films than to update your windows, making them an efficient, cost-effective way to reduce window-related energy losses. A professional installer with experience and product expertise is necessary to ensure a successful installation of low-E films.

 

 

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