Great article, look forward to seeing the newspaper article too.

Just a comment on your mention of the lack of intensity in the ladies’ gym.

I was at my gym the other day, and there was a lady who mentioned she’d had a program written by one of the PT’s there the day before – she was too chatty, which I find off-putting, as I am there to get the work done and then leave!

Anyway, she couldn’t work out how to use the rowing machine, so I had to stop my cardio to help her with that…I then plugged in my i-pod so I could get on with my own workout…she did maybe 5 minutes on the rower, didn’t raise a sweat, then moved off to the weights area…I later saw her doing what I think were bicep curls with the lightest dumbells available – the thing that got me though, was that she was doing totally different things with each arm! And each set looked very different to the other one!…I am not having a go at this woman, rather at the PT who wrote her program but obviously did not teach her the correct form and although she was on duty at the gym, did not bother to correct or help this lady when she was having trouble using the machine!!!!

There, I’ve had my rant and rave…give me IBO any day, nothing like challenging yourself continually and walking out of that gym looking like you’ve been hit by a truck LOL

Sandra

I just wanted to say that I enjoy these kind of posts where it’s like a question & answer scenario. There’s always something to be learned.