{"id":6599,"date":"2010-09-23T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2010-09-23T08:35:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T15:35:37","slug":"personal-training-and-versatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=6599","title":{"rendered":"Personal Training and Versatility"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s post about my horrible personal training session<\/a> seems to have struck a nerve. I was really surprised to read that a lot of people have had bad experiences too. I think that’s sad. And dangerous! A bad personal trainer can cause injuries. Not good.\u00a0It also seems like the consensus was that I should notify the gym manager or assistant manager about my experience. When I was in the “heat” of the moment I was totally going to forward the link to yesterday’s post to the manager.<\/p>\n

After a few days now, I’m not sure what to do. I know I won’t use a personal trainer at 24HR Fitness ever again. But do I really need to get “Misty” in trouble? I really feel like she just doesn’t know bed-side manner. She’s new and clearly very green.<\/p>\n

On another note, after my personal training session on Tuesday, I had another great Pantry Challenge dinner.<\/p>\n

What I love most about polenta is it’s versatility. It can be a Mexican <\/a>dish, an Italian dish, fried, baked, grilled, vegetarian, creamy. It can be anything you want it to be.<\/p>\n

Since I had leftover polenta from last week’s dinner, I sauteed it in the skillet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>While it was cooking, I heated up some leftover spaghetti sauce from the fridge.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I also discovered some Trader Joe’s Meatless Meatballs in the freezer–long forgotten about. They still looked okay so I plopped those into the sauce to cook too.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They are really tasty and taste just like real meat!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The meatballs are 140 calories for six. Once the polenta was cooked, I topped it with the sauce and meatballs.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I grated some Parmesan cheese on top, a little freshly ground pepper and dinner was served.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It was really, really good. The sauce was a little bland. Next time I will add some garlic and onions to it. Nothing really compares to homemade pasta sauce but there are ways to jazz up jarred sauce. The veggie meatballs were good too. Another Trader Joe’s Great!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of vegetarian meatballs…yesterday’s post about Why I Sucked at Being a Vegetarian <\/a>got lots of awesome comments! I was fully expecting to get some negative comments by defensive vegetarians but it sounds like other people have had the experiences I had. I think if I tried to be a vegetarian NOW, I’d do a much better job at it.<\/p>\n

Mediocre Workout<\/span><\/p>\n

On Wednesday during my lunch hour, I hit the gym at work.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I was going to attempt the elliptical again. I wore my knee brace just in case.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I looked at myself in the mirror wondering where that 11 pounds is on my body. Then I got mad at myself for even letting that Ding-Bat Trainer get into my head!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I think I look FINE<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

My old (awesome) personal trainer Christian emailed me yesterday and said that I don’t need to lose 11 pounds and that I need to focus on strength training. I’m looking forward to meeting up with him soon.<\/p>\n

The elliptical was okay until I hit the 25 minute mark. My knee started to ache a little and I couldn’t tell if it was pain or what. I stopped working out and did some stretches and ab work before calling it a day. What a disappointment.<\/p>\n

Gym Stats:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Time: 36 minutes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Calories Burned: 325<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

QUESTION: Should I notify the gym manager or let it be and just move on?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s post about my horrible personal training session seems to have struck a nerve. I was really surprised to read that a lot of people have had bad experiences too. I think that’s sad. And dangerous! A bad personal trainer can cause injuries. Not good.\u00a0It also seems like the consensus was that I should notify […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55,315,104,298,299,301],"tags":[8770,1549,1550,1551,1514,1507,8761],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6657,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions\/6657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}