You're Fired.

Well, I have sacked my trainer.

Now before you start screaming, throwing things and demanding answers, let me explain why...

The reason that I decided to get myself a trainer was the impending two week prac in November. I don't want to be the only girl there and the only person who doesn't know how to olympic lift. The whole point was so that I could learn the lifts and have plenty of time to at least develop a base-level of strength. Unfortunately that is not what has happened.

At the first session my trainer said to me that he wanted to correct a few issues with my posture and core. I agreed. If I was going to lift heavy weights those things had to be corrected or the problem would be exacerbated down the track. Two and a half months later (or is it three months?) I am still doing correctional stuff in sessions (stuff that I am more than capable of doing on my own) and I haven't even touched a bar.

Then about a month ago, a lady started training the session before me. I would get there 10mins early to train on the treadmill before our session started and guess what? He's been doing the same routine with both of us - and she's in her 50's and wants to lose weight!!! We have completely different goals and completely different abilities and he's been giving us the same program!!

Then there's also the issue of the routine that we've been doing. Right back at the start he put me on high reps, low weights and at the time I questioned it. It's common knowledge that endurance training comprimises strength, he told me that that wouldn't happen in this case. Stupid me, I trusted him instead of my own knowledge. All this time later after doing these high rep sets i've gone from being able to do a 40kg bench press (not bad for a girl!) to barely being able to lift the bar!! I have to take some responsibility for that, I should've known better, but I trusted him and his knowledge on weight lifting. I've always been pretty honest about the fact that knowledge of weight training isn't my forte. Needless to say I'm now working on it...

So that is why I have sacked my trainer. I had a long talk with a man on the weekend, a man that I really admire professionally and he set my head straight on a few things. The most important being that you can't motivate others if you can't motivate yourself. So that was the deciding moment for me. Anyway, I actually feel pretty good about my decision, I'm on track with my training and I'm already feeling fitter.

Yay!