Journalhttp://www.debutantegonewrong.com/journal/en-US2009-01-06T15:40:33ZSquarespace Site Server v5.0.0 (http://www.squarespace.com/)Train thishttp://www.debutantegonewrong.com/journal/2009/1/5/train-this.htmlThe debutante2009-01-05T05:52:04ZSo I met with a personal trainer today.  It was a surreal experience.  It is part of my get healthy pathway. The session was free with my membership.  She was half an hour late, and then was not sure why.  We got off to wieird start and she was making me nervous and a little bit angry.  Then she said, so what are we doing about your weight.  I stared at her and forgot to keep walking for a second.  I was on the treadmill.  I remembered just at the right moment.

I let her know that I wasn’t planning on doing anything about my weight.  And then I asked her why she asked me that.  She stuttered and stammered and said well there is a lot of pressure on your joints and they are the weight bearing portions of your body and . . . I stopped her.  I said, I have been thoroughly checked out by both an osteopath and a chiropractor.  My joints and my structure are in good shape.  It isn’t my issue nor is it why I am here.  My weight seems to an issue for you.

She cocked her head and said “this isn’t going well, is it?”

Not so much, no.

We went into the back and had a cup of water  and some conversation.  She immediately apologized for her thoughtlessness and said that she had no idea why that came out of her mouth.  I said thank you and I appreciate that.  Now lets talk about why I am here and what I want.

When we were done we did some work and got some exercise in.  We arrived at a good place and I became “the outlier” to her.  As she watched me lift weights and perform some exercises, she said, Wow, I see that your biomechanics are very very good.  

Um. Yeah.  You can’t really be at the level of swimming that I was or a triathlete and not be good at moving  

So basically I got a good schedule for working out, got some good assessments in and then we scheduled another appt for three weeks from now.

Rant begins here:
What the fuck?  Are all trainers so blinded by image that they cannot see a fitness level in the making?  I went to her because I am recovering from pretty big things physically and want to move better within my body.  I do not care about my weight.  I truly truly don’t.  I am alive I am healthy and I am walking.  And I wasn’t any of those things for a while.  DON”T impress upon me your little white lies about how we are all supposed to be a certain way physically or we are unhealthy.  The BMI was written in the 1940’s and has not changed since then. At the risk of being Captain Obvious, there was a war on, and people were MUCH smaller then for a variety of reasons, some of them having to do with nutrition and some of them having to do with fitness levels.  At 5’1’1” and 13 percent body fat, I was 183 lbs when doing triathlons..  In any body index that is considered obese, yet I was fit enough to even win, so who is the proble