So I've been very very overweight for quite a while now - the band has been suggested - but I refuse to do that until I've exhausted EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE option and I've heard you still gotta go to the gym, so what's the point? Anyway, I've done all the rubbish diets and tho' they work for a short period - the weight, and then some, inevitably comes back....
So Hurrrrayyyyy : ) I'm doing it the old fashioned "o god how much do I hate this" way and I'm at a gym - I've done the gym before and loved doing weights (I'm not naturally a tiny thing, and I build muscle mass really quick, I just always had trouble getting rid of the fat surrounding all that fantasic muscle) But this time - I'm considerably bigger that I have been before so I got a trainer now, I'm eating properly and working out.
So the trainer, he's pretty alright and he's combining free weights with cardio so to be honest the weights that I used to love doing has become horrible since I feel like I've been running for half an hour even tho I haven't. And I'm not really complaining as I CAN definitly see how I can lose fat and not have all that nasty saggy skin left over. I really do see how this will and can work for the long term.
However, the trainer is trying to wean me off him and transitioning me to do it on my own -- which is fine -- but I am SOOOO awkward it's embarrasssing. Like friggin leg lunges feel like a lesson in balance and proper posture hurts both my back and my knees! So I end up chest over knees, wobbling, sweating like a pig JUST HOLDING THE POSITION!! it's more work to get and keep posture than it is to do the lunge itself!! Trainer doesn't seem particularly bothered - I think he just says to himself "you're not not old darlin', just horribly out of shape" -
So question is it better to just do the lunge even if the posture is all wrong? Will my knees hurt less when I lose weight? Will I EVER get my balance? I know it sounds whiney and stupid, I don't mind sweating being obviously out of shape and fat at the gym...I mean, everyone gotta start somewhere right? but I really hate looking awkward and stupid and I really don't want to be put off going to the gym and this great opportunity to return to my former sveltish self because of something stupid like "feeling dumb" And its a series of exercise so I can't do the lunges at home and then go to the gym it's like I have to keep my heartrate up and move from one thing to another...quickly
Any constructive advice?
So Hurrrrayyyyy : ) I'm doing it the old fashioned "o god how much do I hate this" way and I'm at a gym - I've done the gym before and loved doing weights (I'm not naturally a tiny thing, and I build muscle mass really quick, I just always had trouble getting rid of the fat surrounding all that fantasic muscle) But this time - I'm considerably bigger that I have been before so I got a trainer now, I'm eating properly and working out.
So the trainer, he's pretty alright and he's combining free weights with cardio so to be honest the weights that I used to love doing has become horrible since I feel like I've been running for half an hour even tho I haven't. And I'm not really complaining as I CAN definitly see how I can lose fat and not have all that nasty saggy skin left over. I really do see how this will and can work for the long term.
However, the trainer is trying to wean me off him and transitioning me to do it on my own -- which is fine -- but I am SOOOO awkward it's embarrasssing. Like friggin leg lunges feel like a lesson in balance and proper posture hurts both my back and my knees! So I end up chest over knees, wobbling, sweating like a pig JUST HOLDING THE POSITION!! it's more work to get and keep posture than it is to do the lunge itself!! Trainer doesn't seem particularly bothered - I think he just says to himself "you're not not old darlin', just horribly out of shape" -
So question is it better to just do the lunge even if the posture is all wrong? Will my knees hurt less when I lose weight? Will I EVER get my balance? I know it sounds whiney and stupid, I don't mind sweating being obviously out of shape and fat at the gym...I mean, everyone gotta start somewhere right? but I really hate looking awkward and stupid and I really don't want to be put off going to the gym and this great opportunity to return to my former sveltish self because of something stupid like "feeling dumb" And its a series of exercise so I can't do the lunges at home and then go to the gym it's like I have to keep my heartrate up and move from one thing to another...quickly
Any constructive advice?