Trust Your Trainer

okay, so as you have probably already figured out from the title of this post, tonight i am going to touch on trusting your trainer.
the past couple of weeks i have been getting frustrated as a trainer. i am not always available to go to the gym with each and every one of the people asking me for help so i often have to give them their workout, demonstrate it and give the precautions and send them to the gym on their own. (i really hate this method, but sometimes it is all i can offer due to other obligations i have) then, when they come back to me they said half way through they thought it was too hard so they decided to just run. or just do abs. running and ab workouts are great. but if that is the only thing you do because it is "easy" you will flat line and you will not see results. our bodies are programmed to adapt. if you are running the same amount of mileage and doing the same number of reps and ab movements you WILL NOT improve physically. at GPP we focus on optimal health. we will not give you a rep more than absolutely necessary, and we will not give you a rep less than what is absolutely necessary for you to benefit from the workouts. we balance your weekly workouts to a tee. we believe in 10 aspects of fitness (cardio, stamina, strength, flexibility, balance, speed, power, agility, accuracy and coordination) and every week you will get a perfect balance of these 10 aspects if you commit to coming in and doing our workouts 5 days a week. now, although i am in logan i am still following the GPP workouts everyday. i give them to my clients because i know they work. i know the program backwards and forwards. yes, i still have more to learn but i have a really good start. i know that if my clients take those GPP workouts and do them how i tell them to, they will see results.
i have also gotten frustrated when clients and friends ask me about nutrition. when i point out things they can fix in their diets, give them guidelines or tell them to count their calories/carbs/sugars/ protein intake, they look at me as if i don't have clothes on! dieting is NOT easy. you have to WORK HARD at it EVERY DAY. yes, you will be hungry for most of the time. but you WILL LIVE. if you aren't hungry then you aren't doing it right. 
now, i am not saying i know everything there is to know about training because i don't. but, i know enough. i know what works, and i know that you have to work hard to achieve your fitness goals.
now, to everyone reading. TRUST YOUR TRAINER. they probably have a pretty good idea of what they are talking about. nutrition and fitness isn't easy. it isn't something you can just go through an entire day without thinking about- more than once. dieting isn't fun. working out isn't always fun. but, IT IS WORTH IT. so, trust what your trainer tells you. trust that they know how to help you, and listen to them.  try to remember that you are the one that came to them for help. if you never listen, and never take to heart what they tell you then you will never improve your health. your fitness will either stay the same or more likely rapidly decline. 
optimal health is not always an easy road, but it is a rewarding one. we all need to just take it a day at a time, and do our best everyday. the lifestyle is worth it. and so is the journey.


xoxo,
lil kate ♥