I got home on Friday to find an email from the personal trainer.
She wanted to know if I was coming this week because she is a student and needs the money and I keep missing sessions and and and
I found it a bit cheeky because...
1. I pay her if I "flake"
2. The only times I legitimately missed I've been sick (twice) and I notify her as soon as I know I'm not going to be able to work out
Of course I had to calm down first because I was cross (there's that impulse control thing) so I mailed her back about an hour later.
I told her I was frustrated because I'm doing things the best way I know how but if she had other suggestions to manage our sessions, to please let me know.
Also, if my life was causing too many hassles in her life (because this is my crazy life!) and she'd prefer not to work with me, I would completely understand.
I was not being snarky; it's the truth.
Life is about choices and you don't have to work with everyone who wants to work with you.
I received an email back on Sunday to say there had just been miscommunication and yes, she wants to work with me to get to my goals.
So we worked out together today.
Seeing as there was a bit of tension, I decided to have a talk to her.
Is this killing you yet? (I know some people don't like confrontation)
Basically, I said that I don't feel like I'm making much progress because we're switching the format of the sessions too much.
Yes, I like the variety (I really do because I get bored far too quickly) but I want to feel like I'm actually getting stronger incrementally.
We agreed to do our normal thing for two weeks and every 5th session change things up (boot camp style) to infuse some energy.
Which all sounds lovely.
Today was lower body and abs which will be interesting tomorrow...
Do you like confrontations? How would you have dealt with this?
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