Merv - Park Orchards

A Personal Trainer!!!!! Who do you think you are – Carl Lewis?????

This was my response to my wife Marie, when she informed me about her plans to start seeing a personal trainer. She had been attending a gym for some time, but felt she needed more motivation and needed to acquire the correct technique. This is when she met Liz, struck up a rapport, and became one of her clients.

However, after training with Liz for some time, she persuaded me, the original couch potato, to come along and see how I’d go.

For the first 3-4 months we saw Liz for one session per week for one hour and it was horrendous for me. Liz, knowing my severe limitations designed a training program, to slowly improve my capacity. I felt at the same time that she enjoyed seeing me suffer a little at the beginning and seeing me suffer more as time progressed. I know now that I was wrong, she didn’t enjoy it, she was absolutely delighted by it!

My wife then talked me into 2 one hour sessions per week, which is what we have been doing for the last 2 years.

Liz has constantly changed our programs, monitored the intensity, and always takes into account if we have any aliments, muscle soreness, or the like. She designs a course of exercise to accommodate all of these problems.

Liz has a pleasant personality when things are going her way, but BOY can she develop the dark side, and transfer this to her training program!

Seriously, Liz takes a great deal of pride in her preparation of programs for her clients. So when my wife and I decided to climb Mt Kilamanjaro, we told Liz and our exercise regime changed immediately to accommodate this project.

We had misgivings upon seeing the mountain, wondering why were there, and what made us think we could climb it, but the training that Liz has given us, had prepared us beautifully, and we had no trouble accomplishing the climb.

Liz has prepared others for the Kokoda Track walk, and all have reported that her training programs were essential requirement for their efforts to be successful.

My wife loves going to the gym, and training with Liz, but I haven’t been able to achieve that same state of euphoria. I do not look forward to training with Liz, but I’m eternally grateful after each training session that I have done so.

At times in your life, you reflect upon what fate has dealt you, or some decisions you have made. Our decision to become clients of Liz, is one of the best decisions we have ever made, not knowing at the time that Liz is one of the best trainers available.

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