Client Profile:Jenn S Day 1

12Aug08

I was excited about Jenn’s session on this night, because I still so proud of her for wanting to make this such a public journey. She was even MORE excited, which blew me away. Since I started training her, she has always been consistent and worked her ass off in our sessions. I know I definitely pushed her. But like most trainers, we can only know and really control what happens during those hours a week we are training our clients. When they are not with us, who knows that they are up to. I knew from conversations that Jenn was half assing it when we weren’t together. I say this not in a mean way, because Jenn knows I think she’s great and I truly love training her.

I have been doing this a long time, and I know who is half assing it when I am not around and who isn’t. I can tell just by LOOKING at you. If someone isn’t eating right( and that doesn’t mean just avoiding junk, but actually EATING when they are supposed to instead of skipping meals) if someone isn’t drinking enough water, if someone isn’t doing their cardio sessions like I suggest. I know. And here’s why I love Jenn so much, she is honest and admits it. She would admit she didn’t sleep, skipped meals, and only did cardio 2 times instead of say, 4.  Her job is super demanding, I respect that and understand it. But until recently, she never was ready to really make the time she needed to to balance everything in her life and achieve her weight loss goals. She was halfway there, but something inside her clicked and made her walk in on that Saturday am and request we do this. I can’t speak for Jenn so I can’t say what it was, but I will encourage her to post and answer that because even I want to know.

That being said, her big cheese grin while we were taking her measurements still makes me laugh. I never heard someone so happy to hear the things I am going to post. But her reaction was the right one. She was happy because she saw where she was starting and happy because she knew this was the LAST TIME in her life these numbers would belong to her. They would become a thing of the past that she looked back on and laughed at because she changed them all. Here we go:

Jenn S.

Age:34

Height:5’3″

Weight: 199 lbs

Blood pressure: 123/89

Body fat %: 37.3

Fat Mass: 74 lbs

Lean body Mass: 125

Chest: 43.5 in.

Arm: 14 in

Waist; 37.25 in

Abdomen:  41.5 in

Hips: 48 in

Thigh: 27 in.

Our goals, aside from overall weight loss, is to also get her blood pressure down ( it is only slightly high and correctable with exercise) and to get her sleeping at night.

The Plan:

We meet 3 times a week. For the first few weeks our big concentration is to keep her heart rate up during our sessions and maximize her caloric expenditure. To do this, we will be incorporating a lot of multi- joint movements and movements focusing on larger muscle groups. ( think lots of squats, lots of push ups, etc). Squats (every type) are far and away my favorite exercise and any one of my clients will tell you that. I also want Jenn doing cardio 5 days a week, twice a day. That means DOUBLE SESSIONS. I know some may read this and think its too much. First, this is only for the first few weeks. I want to jump start her metabolism and give it as much help as possible to be burning as much as possible. Second, this is her little version of boot camp. I want to see that her heart and mind is in this. I want her to show her dedication and learn that a little hard work and ass kicking will get her amazing results. She’s a tough girl, she can do this and is doing it.

As for her nutrition, Jenn is following a food combining plan which has her eating her protein, carbs, and high starch foods separately from each other but any of them can be eaten with low starch foods. She can have fruit, though only one type at a sitting. She can also eat nuts, also by themselves. She is eating 5-6 times a day, every 3 hrs.

It’s been one week today since we started, and not only is she working her usual crazy schedule, but she is moving on Thursday. I will see if she can post from work and let us know how she is doing with everything.

~Cher

ww.chermartinetti.com

Filed under: client profiles, fitness   |  3 Comments
Tags: client profile, diet, fitness, Jenn, nutrition, personal trainer, training, work out