I recently joined a gym, which I was very much looking forward and I'm enjoying the change in my routine. As part of the package I get monthly evaluations from the trainers at the gym. I went in for my first one last week and was pleasantly surprised that my target weight according to the body fat evaluation is a bit higher than I'd set it.
I'm a bit puzzled by my trainer's advice for my routine though... I specified that I do want to work with weights as well as cardio but she said I needed to wait on that. Then she proceeded to give me routine without watching me perform at all or getting anything other than my measurements, weight and body fat percentage... Her routine consists of:
45 minutes on the treadmill with 10 minutes on an incline of 10 and 10 at an incline of 5 with 5 minutes to cool down/warm up. She wants me to walk as fast as I can (reasonable) on these settings.
THEN
30 minutes on the stationary bicycle at the highest resistance I can stand.
THEN
30 minutes on the elliptical, again, highest resistance I can do.
She wants me to follow this routine for 2 weeks before adding weights and then continue the routine with weights for a month.
Am I just being lazy or is that a bit much???
She said she wants me to see results, which is fantastic but I also want to be able to keep walking and avoid injuring myself by overworking. My common sense tells me that might be too much but after all she's the trainer...
The irony is that in every other area of my life I am a very assertive woman but it's soooooo hard to try and be self assertive with a tightbodied trainer telling me what to do.
Anyone have any feedback??? I'd appreciate ANY and ALL comments because I don't really feel like I know what I'm doing right now!
Thanks!!!