GirlyMuscle's Hangout

**Hammerfit** · 01-10-2011, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by GirlyMuscle

So let me tell ya about my new training partner.

I started training "S" back in July. She walked into Planet Fitness, signed up for a membership and hired me to train her 2x a week. She was over 400 pounds.

That's not the best part. She used to weigh over 600 pounds and over the course of 5 years lost 200 of it on her own by following Weight Watchers, no working out. At this point she stalled. After much research she decided on lap band surgery. Two weeks after the surgery she met me and joined PF.

S doesn't rely on the lap band solely in her weight loss/fitness journey. She trains 6-7 days a week with double cardio sessions. Over the course of the last 6 months I've helped to create a diet she can live with and taught her proper lifting techniques. In 6 months she's dropped 110 pounds and has just celebrated dipping under 300 pounds (295 as I write this)for the first time in 15 years. She's 29 years old.

This girl does not know the meaning of quit. Anything I ask of her she does, plus one. In fact, I'm the one who has to keep an eye on her and make sure she's not over doing it. in the process of training with me, she's been bitten by the iron bug. She loves lifting and lives for leg day. (the sicko...lol)

I decided to ask her to be my training partner because...1.) frankly I don't like being a personal trainer. She'd pay for 10 sessions up front and in order to accommodate her sessions I'd have to drive all the way back to PF hours after my scheduled shift. Not to mention she'd give me a check for 10 sessions and it would take me 2 months to work it off. Just didn't seem worth it. She was on my only paying client. And 2.) she loves lifting, never misses and has a heart that doesn't quit.

We've been lifting together now for about 3 weeks. She joined my real gym..World Gym...we lift there and do cardio there and PF. She's an amazing woman and I'm proud to call her partner and friend. She tells me I insprie her but the truth is she inspires me more than she knows.

Wow what a inspiring story. you are a special person to help this young lady.
What comes around goes around, you will get this good deed returned when you least expect it. Thank God there are still people like you around to help others!

**GirlyMuscle** · 01-10-2011, 12:44 PM

Originally Posted by Hammerfit

Wow what a inspiring story. you are a special person to help this young lady.
What comes around goes around, you will get this good deed returned when you least expect it. Thank God there are still people like you around to help others!

Actually, I feel honored to be a part of her transformation.

**GirlyMuscle** · 01-10-2011, 03:46 PM

Just got done training with S. We did deadlifts and rack pulls. Both were a first time for her. I think I taught her good form. We even did video to make sure and so she could see what she was doing. She got up to 175 on deadlifts and 275 on rack pulls! I am so proud.

She even received her first "war wounds" from deadlifting.