Paul - Camberwell

I've been to mainstream gyms before. I always knew that I wasn't doing the exercises properly, and I wasted plenty of time standing around, or doing exercises that weren't beneficial for me. After training at Studio Glo with a personal trainer, I am noticing results that I never got when exercising alone.

I have been training with Liz now for about 8 months now, and I almost look forward to my training. I say this because personal training is not something that sits naturally with me. I am not adverse to exercise that comes with everyday life, like walking, cycling or playing sport, but I have never responded well to structured exercise such as in a gym. All the clunking machines and smelly rubber, and being stuck inside! Not my thing. And the treadmill! That someone once went to the trouble to invent an electrically powered machine to make people run faster whilst going nowhere is beyond me! I told Liz all this at the start and I could tell that with her experience it was only a minor challenge for her to tailor an interesting program for me.

So now I do most of my training without machines. I do my warm-up walk outdoors, we do little sprints and I use steps and balls a lot. Even better – she’s shown me how to do proper, vigorous workouts with no devices, like lunges, squats and push-ups. And even without all the dependence on work-out machines, I’ve noticed physical results as good as ever. Deep down I know that structured exercise is good for me, but I have never really enjoyed it. The best thing Liz has done for me is to show me the bright side of training. Whether it was challenging for her to do that I don’t know, but sometimes it’s difficult for me to see, especially when I’m 8 reps into my third set of one minute push-ups then one minute skipping then one minute of lunges. So – thank you, Liz.

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