I just had my first PT session tonight. These trainers are really confusing me. I have posed the following question to several of them:

"Is it better to run faster for a shorter period of time, or run slower for a long period in order to burn fats?"

Most answer the latter. My trainer answered the first option.

And most trainers I talked to encouraged me to sign up saying that most women do too much cardio while they should be doing weights to build muscles which will in turn burn fats even when we are not working out.

My trainer said no, he believes in cardio.

Damn, it's confusing.

Today, we went through the measurements and theory for half an hour. After that, he put me on the cross-trainers for 15 minutes and then we went through 15 minutes of sit-ups. Hello? I don't need to pay you $1+ per minute to watch me while I do cross-training! Duhhh. Anyway, he say we will slowly move on to the weights when I asked him. I'll try him out for another session and see how it goes.

# posted by Shopaholic : 11:48 PM