Some of you may remember that I made a promise to myself that I was going to make some big changes in my life and improve my health. As it progressed I decided that I want to see exactly how far I can push myself. I've been working with a trainer(s) since December and in mid January I had to sit down with the gym owner to have a talk. My complaint was that they were not training me like I wanted and that they couldn't track my progress. They could tell me I was stronger but they couldn't tell me how.

I knew because I keep a log of everything I lift, everything I eat and every bit of exercise I perform. I put a lot of time into my nutrition, coming up with a training plan (shouldn't they have done this for my off days?) and making my ass get in the gym. When I wasn't seeing any improvement I wanted to know why and I was told "don't worry about it because your diet is good". That wasn't good enough for me so I sat down with the owner and told him exactly how we needed to change my plan.

Fast forward to today: I get to the gym and work with a new trainer. She ASKS me what I want to do today and I ask her if she is crazy. She says upper body and we go to the bench. I sit on the bench and she brings me a set of dumbbells..........................15lb dumbbells. I was nice when I told them where they could shove my remaining training sessions. The owner is a nice guy and was pretty embarrassed about it, along with other things, and gave me a refund after I repeatedly said no thanks. I'll give him credit for that.

Long story short....if you ever decide you want to use a personal trainer then you better interview them and ask a lot of questions about their plans and how they measure success. My experience was bad enough that it almost broke my drive to continue. Sorry for the long post, just felt the need to rant a little.