Re: Re: Did you read...?

[Guest guest]

: If I knew there were someone like you for me as a personal trainor,

you can bet that I would consider joing the gym. I don't bother because I

think I would get somekinda no pain no gain type that would do me more harm

than good. Fay Bayuk 300/183 10/23/01

[Guest guest]

Fay,

I had this same fear but decided it was more important to my health to try

and find someone I could work with successfully. So I started out by signing

up for a community offered class at the local Gold's gym for Pilates (cause

my skinny friend has been raving about it and she had never exercised as she

also felt intimidated). And even though I couldn't and 6 weeks later still

can't keep up with the instructor or some of the others in the class, I

found great support. There are 2 instructors who both have fabulous bodies

but both have been very supportive. They come over and help me get the right

position and always show beginner levels through advanced and say to the

whole class just do what you can do and then rest and come back in when you

can. I have talked to them both after class and told her my situation of

WLS. And they have just told me to keep coming back and over time I will

gain the muscle strength to keep up. Since starting this class, I actually

joined the gym and got a personal trainer for a few weeks. I talked to the

director when I joined and told her my fear of being intimidated or not

understood for my particular needs. And she said she would hook me up with a

trainer that would not make me feel out of place. And that's exactly what I

got. The trainer, who has been a gym rat all her life, was completely

understanding and helped me work out a program that I can live with now and

build on in the future.

So I guess my advice to all of us who need and want to overcome this fear to

get into a good exercise routine is to be honest when we go in and ask for

open minded support. Maybe I was just fortunate in finding it. But I have

come to see that a major part of the clients at my gym are middle aged men

and women who just want to get healthy. The young body builders seem to go

elsewhere or they stick to themselves in one corner of the gym. But I have

met some wonderful people and strike up conversations with them all the time

and have found most are like me just trying to get back their health and

lose those last stubborn pounds.

Its up to us to educate those we come into contact with to dispel the myths

and the label about obesity. Hope you find someplace that will help you do

that.

Martha H

Hill CA

RNY Proximal 1983

320/145

RNY Distal Revision 11/29/01

327/185/135Goal?

5'4 "

Dr. Oh Tacoma Wash

Re: Re: Did you read...?

> : If I knew there were someone like you for me as a personal

trainor,

> you can bet that I would consider joing the gym. I don't bother because I

> think I would get somekinda no pain no gain type that would do me more

harm

> than good. Fay Bayuk 300/183 10/23/01

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Fay,

I had this same fear but decided it was more important to my health to try

and find someone I could work with successfully. So I started out by signing

up for a community offered class at the local Gold's gym for Pilates (cause

my skinny friend has been raving about it and she had never exercised as she

also felt intimidated). And even though I couldn't and 6 weeks later still

can't keep up with the instructor or some of the others in the class, I

found great support. There are 2 instructors who both have fabulous bodies

but both have been very supportive. They come over and help me get the right

position and always show beginner levels through advanced and say to the

whole class just do what you can do and then rest and come back in when you

can. I have talked to them both after class and told her my situation of

WLS. And they have just told me to keep coming back and over time I will

gain the muscle strength to keep up. Since starting this class, I actually

joined the gym and got a personal trainer for a few weeks. I talked to the

director when I joined and told her my fear of being intimidated or not

understood for my particular needs. And she said she would hook me up with a

trainer that would not make me feel out of place. And that's exactly what I

got. The trainer, who has been a gym rat all her life, was completely

understanding and helped me work out a program that I can live with now and

build on in the future.

So I guess my advice to all of us who need and want to overcome this fear to

get into a good exercise routine is to be honest when we go in and ask for

open minded support. Maybe I was just fortunate in finding it. But I have

come to see that a major part of the clients at my gym are middle aged men

and women who just want to get healthy. The young body builders seem to go

elsewhere or they stick to themselves in one corner of the gym. But I have

met some wonderful people and strike up conversations with them all the time

and have found most are like me just trying to get back their health and

lose those last stubborn pounds.

Its up to us to educate those we come into contact with to dispel the myths

and the label about obesity. Hope you find someplace that will help you do

that.

Martha H

Hill CA

RNY Proximal 1983

320/145

RNY Distal Revision 11/29/01

327/185/135Goal?

5'4 "

Dr. Oh Tacoma Wash

Re: Re: Did you read...?

> : If I knew there were someone like you for me as a personal

trainor,

> you can bet that I would consider joing the gym. I don't bother because I

> think I would get somekinda no pain no gain type that would do me more

harm

> than good. Fay Bayuk 300/183 10/23/01

>

>

>