Over the last year of training this client, she has shown how much she has grown. Her confidence has increased, eating clean is pretty much the norm and she no longer copes with emotional hardships with candy. Here is how online personal training helped this client reach her personal fitness goals.
There have been very few times in my life when I found myself just utterly and completely disgusted with how I looked and my work out habits. At the beginning of this year I had one of those moments. I have always fluctuated up and down with weight, but the last 2.5 years I have been at the very high end of my comfort scale.
I was following Kyra Williams Fitness on Facebook and it had randomly popped up on my feed one day, so I decided to look into it a little more (this was all at like 1 am because I couldn’t sleep because of how I felt about myself).
Around the same time I started seeing posts about the #commit2fit program and I decided to send an inquiry email. At first I was hesitant about online training, and I was more hesitant about the fact that I was starting a military school. After a few emails back and forth I realized that if I said no to this opportunity to join the program then I would just keep making the same excuses that kept me at this weight for 2.5 years.
My goal was to slim back down to 20-22% body fat.
I was so excited to get started with the program. The first 3 weeks I faltered a little with food, but was consistent with my workout routines. Then I left for my Army school. It was definitely an adjustment between new place, no full kitchen, new gym, and full schedule. I started to get my routine down when I went to the field for a week then was followed by a PT test two weeks after. Those both threw me off a little, but now I am back at it!
I really love the workout routines that I am doing! Originally I thought circuit workout routines were stupid, but now I can’t imagine going back to “normal weight lifting.” This week I have eaten perfectly (and I mean perfectly) and done all my workout routines. A lot of this is due to stress, but I am taking advantage of it to get back on track! This is definitely a program I plan to participate in for the indefinite future.
I’d say that three weeks seems to be when I get into “routine mode”. I did get thrown off by going to the field, but luckily I don’t have to do that again anytime in the near future.
Once I get into routine mode going to the gym is not even a debate in my head. It is just something I have to do, and I figure out the rest of my schedule around it. Exercising on a routine comes easily for me, but food takes a little longer for me to get the hang of. Now that I have eaten well for the past week I am motivated my knowing that the scale is dropping. I definitely get more motivated the more results I see, so I feel like I’m in a great place right now.
My biggest obstacle is always myself. I have always had a very negative attitude towards my body, and I honestly still do. I am never good enough for my own standards. Sometimes this is motivation, but most of the time it just knocks me down. I get stuck in a cycle of eventually not wanting to work out because I am so upset with how I look, then going crazy with unsustainably trying to change that.
Getting back into a sustainable workout schedule means overcoming everything I have built up for the last 24 years. I am by no means even close to overcoming it yet, but getting back into the gym and paying attention to what I eat again is the first step. I see myself in the mirror at the gym, and I finally have thoughts of you actually look skinny today. That is a small accomplishment for me at this point.
The workouts routines were by far my biggest motivator for this cycle. I enjoyed doing them and I could feel and see myself getting better.
The other benefits to this program that I enjoyed were the custom meal plan with recipes. I have never eaten this much good fat in my life, but I definitely feel it keeping me full longer, and I know it is great for my body. The facebook group was a great bonus to the program. Sometimes I posted just to make my thoughts public to hold myself accountable not because I wanted people to read it. Having that really helps me to stay with it.
Finally, the weekly check ins also provide that accountability that I need. There were a couple times I talked myself back into staying on track because I knew I would have to report on my progress at the end of the week.
I would absolutely recommend this program to others. However, being that it is a distance program it is really designed for the people who have the desire and just need guided down the right road. This is by far the best fitness investment I have made, and I plan to stick with it long term.
No one can make you fit but yourself. You need to dig deep and really figure out why you want to change and what is motivating you to keep with it. Everyone now a days wants someone else or something else to change them be it a personal trainer or a pill, but that never has been and never will be the answer to getting in shape. Make it personal.
I have really enjoyed this program despite the fact that it has taken me an adjustment period to get into it; therefore, I am behind on my goals for this session. I’d like to think of this as the warm up, and next session full speed!
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Your Coach,
Kyra
P.S. You may read her most recent progress update here.