Lessons From A Personal Training Client

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I had coffee today with a friend who is also an old postnatal personal training client (well she’s not old. But then she’s not really postnatal anymore either). We sat right at the back of the coffee shop facing out so we could people-watch with impunity. Actually that’s mummy-&-baby-watch.

Since our postnatal personal training days Sue has adopted all sorts of Wendy-isms… She infuriates her poor husband with ‘But Wendy says…’ whenever he dares to offer some opinion on the virtues of a food or exercise regime, she mutters ‘nobody ever got fat eating brazil nuts’ to herself as she chomps on her omega-filled snacks, & always stands up straight, mindful of  the dreaded ‘buggy bottom’ when she’s pushing one of her 3 lovely kids around.

Sue is a typical client & a typical mum. She never has any time. We met during her lunch-break from the office, & by the time I’ve posted this she will have collected, fed, watered, cuddled & played & put her brood to bed.

But her attitude to exercise is now so positive. If she looks in the mirror & feels a little wobbly, she’ll tell herself  ‘Well, it’s not going to go away by me staring at it’ & will do a set of lunges, squats or press ups on the bedroom floor. Even if she’s only got 5 minutes, she knows that the only way most of us mums manage to exercise on most days, is to just fit it in when we can.

So today’s quote is from my dear friend Sue, who looked over at the other mums & quipped, ‘Well we’ve all got time to sit here having a coffee haven’t we? So we can find time to burn off some bloody fat’.

Charmingly put Sue. As always. X

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  • http://www.thechildrensjewellerycompany.co.uk Harriet

    Are you sure no one ever got fat eating Brazil nuts? I could eat a lot of them!
    But yes you are right less coffee more sit ups…. not quite so much fun though :(

  • http://mutusystem.com/ Wendy Powell

    Hi Harriet, You’d have to eat an awful lot… Sue is a rebel (most of us women are) so believe me, she’s tried, just to prove me wrong. And if you did manage to overindulge at least you’d be an extremely HEALTHY fat brazil nut-eater! Complete protein, antioxidants, zinc for your metabolism (which of course means you can eat even more…)

  • Sue Crowe

    arrgh Wendy you made me sound really virtuous. I’m always out drinking coffee, usually lattes as sadly it’s just not the same if black or, worse, herbal tea. I was just being mindlessly bitchy and self critical of myself more than all those others. If you’re not keen, like Wendy, it is really hard to get motivated and the only way I can get motivated is to think it’s not going to last very long.
    Incidentally, you also don’t get fat eating avocados – no really, it turned my world upside down.
    PS Ella sat on my bum whilst I ‘planked’ yesterday – good or bad for the spine…? Seemed to work muscles better! And yes, I said planked.

  • http://mutusystem.com/ Wendy Powell

    Sue, you love green tea… stop pretending ;-) Re: Ella on your back whilst planking (also a word)… if you let your core muscles ‘go’, then bad. If you pulled your belly button through to spine & pelvic floor up for all you were worth, AND breathed deep, then all good. Now go eat an avocado & then plank some more.