Training Positives:
Pam is about 2 ½ weeks into her new program and she is still increasing weights on at least one exercise every workout. We also had to introduce some new exercises for her legs and core because the exercises she was doing were not challenging enough for her. Pam also put in a great workout after shoveling twice in 12 hours, where most people would just skip their workout.
Training Negatives:
Pam had some technique issues this week when she would get tired at the end out sets in certain exercises. The good thing is that when Pam is told to fix the minor errors in technique, she immediately responds and fixes the problem.
Nutrition Positives:
Pam is now using whole wheat bread all the time. Chocolate and M&M consumption are going down but still needs a little improvement. She is improving on looking at nutritional facts and knowing what is “good” or “bad.”
Nutrition Negatives:
Early in the week Pam had a sandwich at Arby’s and felt bad about it. However she did skip the fries and didn’t grab a soda so it wasn’t as bad as she thought. Pam is learning that a person’s diet is not going to be perfect at all times, and that even with “bad” food there are some choices that are better than others.
Additional Comments:
Pam noticed that her new Medium size shorts from a few weeks ago are getting looser and looser.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Training Notes: Week 4
Training Positives:
Pam continues to work hard in her resistance training sessions, going to momentary muscle failure in many of the sets and has been experiencing some soreness since this was her first full week on a new program. With that being said, Pam worked through and completed her toughest cardio workout to date. Pam is now recovering faster from her workouts as she adapts to the new program.
Training Negatives:
Nothing negative about her work ethic or attitude, and is continuing to work on shoulder and core strength. Core strength has come a long way in the last week while there have been just small increases in shoulder strength, but small is better than none.
Nutrition Positives:
Pam continues to make small changes to her diet, which is all beginning to add up. To increase results. This week she changed her choice in butter and is using I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spray to control the amount used. She has also made healthier choices for ice cream and popcorn for her occasional treat.
Nutrition Negatives:
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate, with most other things she has been able to control her portions, but she admits that chocolate is hard to have just one. She will continue to work on minimizing her chocolate intake.
Additional Comments:
Had a great week of workouts, both resistance and cardio.
Pam continues to work hard in her resistance training sessions, going to momentary muscle failure in many of the sets and has been experiencing some soreness since this was her first full week on a new program. With that being said, Pam worked through and completed her toughest cardio workout to date. Pam is now recovering faster from her workouts as she adapts to the new program.
Training Negatives:
Nothing negative about her work ethic or attitude, and is continuing to work on shoulder and core strength. Core strength has come a long way in the last week while there have been just small increases in shoulder strength, but small is better than none.
Nutrition Positives:
Pam continues to make small changes to her diet, which is all beginning to add up. To increase results. This week she changed her choice in butter and is using I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter spray to control the amount used. She has also made healthier choices for ice cream and popcorn for her occasional treat.
Nutrition Negatives:
Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate, with most other things she has been able to control her portions, but she admits that chocolate is hard to have just one. She will continue to work on minimizing her chocolate intake.
Additional Comments:
Had a great week of workouts, both resistance and cardio.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Trainer Notes: Week 3
Training Positives:
Pam made her first program charge this week and is enjoying it. The new program is a hypertroph program (to build her muscle mass) and has slower tempos at the last program and she is handling the change well. Pam has quickly made some progressions in exercises and increased weight. She has already made goals on some exercises to reach by the end of the program.
Training Negatives:
Sometimes Pam's outside stress level has an effect on her workouts. Pam has already improved this area in the last month, but could improve a little. No matter what her stress is now, Pam will still work very hard during a workout but sometimes her techniques will not be as good as usual. This is a problem that many people have and it is a struggle for people to forget about outside issues for an hour, but if a person can, workouts will improve.
Nutrition Positives:
Pam is doing a better job with eating program meals when eating out. Last Friday she was taking her kids to Applebee's and she had done her research and already knew what she was going to order to make a healthy choice.
Nutrition Negatives:
Pam is still working on her education on what foods are good and which are not so good. She also is learning that even treats come in different levels of "healthiness." An example would be ice cream. Pam enjoys ice cream, and it's okay to have every now and then, but there are definitely some choices that are better than others.
Pam was very happy last week because she went and bought new shorts and they were a whole size smaller. That's after 4 Weeks!
Pam made her first program charge this week and is enjoying it. The new program is a hypertroph program (to build her muscle mass) and has slower tempos at the last program and she is handling the change well. Pam has quickly made some progressions in exercises and increased weight. She has already made goals on some exercises to reach by the end of the program.
Training Negatives:
Sometimes Pam's outside stress level has an effect on her workouts. Pam has already improved this area in the last month, but could improve a little. No matter what her stress is now, Pam will still work very hard during a workout but sometimes her techniques will not be as good as usual. This is a problem that many people have and it is a struggle for people to forget about outside issues for an hour, but if a person can, workouts will improve.
Nutrition Positives:
Pam is doing a better job with eating program meals when eating out. Last Friday she was taking her kids to Applebee's and she had done her research and already knew what she was going to order to make a healthy choice.
Nutrition Negatives:
Pam is still working on her education on what foods are good and which are not so good. She also is learning that even treats come in different levels of "healthiness." An example would be ice cream. Pam enjoys ice cream, and it's okay to have every now and then, but there are definitely some choices that are better than others.
Pam was very happy last week because she went and bought new shorts and they were a whole size smaller. That's after 4 Weeks!
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