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Met my trainer today..........Looks like a long haul!

RJ'S/beginning

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RJ'S/beginning    5,358

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I met my new trainer today..He is very nice..We talked for over an hour and he laid out his plans for me...The next 8 weeks we will see each other 2 times a week..Each time he comes he will teach me a new move so that I can start building up lost muscle mass...

The next will be once a week and so on...I have to start walking 8000 steps a day...Crap that is a few Kilometers like over 6. That's 4 miles a day........I better get started I think..yikes!

Have to purchase 2 lb weights and 3 lb weights and a ball.. that you sit on....

So it begins..Soon I will have muscles that show...lol.......I hear Rocky going off in my head!!!!!!

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BigGirlPanties    957

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Dang, now that song is stuck in my head!!!! But good luck to you...I want to get my lazy butt to yoga, need it for my RA too...

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Dang, now that song is stuck in my head!!!! But good luck to you...I want to get my lazy butt to yoga, need it for my RA too...

LOL

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I signed up for two months of The Dailey Method. Planning to go tomorrow for the first time. Your trainer has you on quite the workout! I walk a few days a week, but never four miles.

Lynda

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I signed up for two months of The Dailey Method. Planning to go tomorrow for the first time. Your trainer has you on quite the workout! I walk a few days a week, but never four miles.

Lynda

Yes we will see...He looked me right in the eyes and said you walk anyway might as well walk 8000 steps a day.....yikes!

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Good luck! You are going to do great.

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That sounds great! I had to fire my personal trainer because he was trying to kill me. Seriously - I am good with sore muscles but when your joints and back ache for a week you know it is just too much. I am doing these group fitness classes that involve weights and lots of core work - hard workouts without killing me.

One thing that I have found... and maybe it is just me... but I have visible muscling in the shoulders and arms, but I feel like I STILL have too much fat to see much definition in most parts of my body. I think it is just my reality.... I am curious if anybody who has lost alot of weight (I am down over 180# from my life time highest - down 160# since sleeve) can ever really get a toned looking body. I suspect the ship has just sailed.....LOL... but, I am happy enough with how I look, just never gonna look like someone who was never fat.

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That sounds great! I had to fire my personal trainer because he was trying to kill me. Seriously - I am good with sore muscles but when your joints and back ache for a week you know it is just too much. I am doing these group fitness classes that involve weights and lots of core work - hard workouts without killing me.

One thing that I have found... and maybe it is just me... but I have visible muscling in the shoulders and arms, but I feel like I STILL have too much fat to see much definition in most parts of my body. I think it is just my reality.... I am curious if anybody who has lost alot of weight (I am down over 180# from my life time highest - down 160# since sleeve) can ever really get a toned looking body. I suspect the ship has just sailed.....LOL... but, I am happy enough with how I look, just never gonna look like someone who was never fat.

Yikes I hope he doesn't kill me, but I do need to have a program to build up my muscle mass as I lost it when I was in a coma a year ago...Some has returned but not enough so it is where I am now...I don't expect to be a weight lifter just have a butt so i am not sitting on my tailbone all the time..That hurts a lot. I need muscles defined to look just normal..That is where I am at...

I will never expect to look anything like I did when I was young or any body else for that matter....I just need some definition so people don't think I'm dying...lol

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You do not look like you are dying in your picture. Honestly, you do not. You look healthy.

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You do not look like you are dying in your picture. Honestly, you do not. You look healthy.

Thank you, kind sir! :)

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Good for you, RJ! I think you will end up loving it. Some days will be better than others. Either way, you will feel satisfied and proud at the end of each workout. I often find it hard to start a workout but I never regret it once I'm going. I hired a trainer back in September specifically to build lost muscle. I started with 3 and 5 lbs dumbbells and have progressed to using 10 and 15 lbs. So the strength does come back, it just takes time. Consistently working out has also helped my body shape so you will notice clothes fitting better as well.

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