{"id":1100,"date":"2013-04-05T10:02:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T14:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestdallaspersonaltrainer.com\/blog\/?p=1100"},"modified":"2016-01-30T22:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T04:59:01","slug":"dallas-personal-trainer-april-2013-fitness-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/dallas-personal-trainer-april-2013-fitness-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2013 Fitness Success Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m getting ready to turn 50 and I&#8217;m in better shape than I was when I was 40.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-vid-wrap\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BrWubjrP11s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Keith:<\/strong> I am from North Carolina originally, moved to Texas about 20 years ago and have been there ever since.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to maintain my weight and tried to work out but I just needed that extra oomph. I&#8217;ve had trainers. I was at Lifetime Fitness for a while and that worked well but the schedule just wouldn&#8217;t work for me.<\/p>\n<p>Then my wife and I wanted to get into a routine to run a marathon and that&#8217;s when we decided to call you guys. We didn&#8217;t end up running the marathon because everyone backed out on us. We decided to keep moving on and have gotten stronger ever since.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> Tell me a little bit more about how it helped you having somebody come to your home?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith:<\/strong> I think the convenience was the biggest thing. It&#8217;s nice to be at your house and you&#8217;re not fighting to get home, pick up an eight-year-old daughter and then get to some facility to workout. The convenience factor was the most thing for us.<\/p>\n<p>I actually went on several of the diets out there. You lose the weight but guess what&#8230;? I don&#8217;t eat very well in the mornings so I need a little help with my diet plan.<\/p>\n<p>I used to run a lot so I try to get into that. I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of the cardio now, which seemed to make a big difference. I think the interval training has made such a huge difference of getting that heart rate up for almost an hour.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> When you began working with us, were you skeptical about our program and coming to your house and working out with you?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith:<\/strong> I think anyone would be. I did realize at the time that it was going to take two people to make that work. If I wasn&#8217;t going to put the effort into it, then it wasn&#8217;t going to work. I realized you usually pay for what you get. Having that training to push me along but also be able to push myself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had many trainers. Brandon&#8217;s not the first one. I will say that I like his approach. Just when you&#8217;re about to die, he just has a way to persuade me to go just a little bit more. I&#8217;ve really enjoyed him. The other trainers I had at Lifetime basically did not push me to that point. It&#8217;s almost like I felt like I couldn&#8217;t let him down, if that makes sense.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting ready to turn 50 and I&#8217;m in better shape than I was when I was 40. You start picking up these things as you go along. I feel better at work. I play a lot of golf. What I&#8217;ve seen is my mobility or turning in waist and core muscles have made a huge difference in my golf swing, which is important to me.<\/p>\n<p>I think whether it&#8217;s doing more push-ups or whether it&#8217;s actually going up the stairs at work, you force yourself to think about what you do and what you eat.<\/p>\n<p>Do you take the elevator or do you walk up four flights of stairs every morning? I think it&#8217;s a mental thing. If you can get to that point of saying, &#8220;This is what I want to do and I&#8217;m going to get it done,&#8221; then it works well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> So you feel like you&#8217;re in a better place now after doing the strength training and the cardio, et cetera?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith:<\/strong> I think I am. When you hear other people say that I am, that&#8217;s what I hear. It&#8217;s not just myself but it&#8217;s what other people say. They say, &#8220;You look different. You look better. What are you doing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> How does that make you feel?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith:<\/strong> It makes it feel worthwhile. My daughter tries to talk to me when I&#8217;m working out. She says, &#8220;Daddy, why are you always mad?&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m not mad, sweetie. I&#8217;m working out hard.&#8221; It does make a big difference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hut:<\/strong> What would you say to someone who may be on the fence about getting help with their health and fitness from a professional?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keith:<\/strong> First of all, they have to make their mind up that they want to do it. If they make their mind up that they want to do it, usually you&#8217;re going to need somebody to help you get there. It&#8217;s those days when you don&#8217;t feel like doing it that you really need to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I think when you finish that afternoon it&#8217;s like, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t have done it without someone pushing me.&#8221; I think every trainer learns what that person needs. Some people need a lot of pushing and some people just need a little persuasion.<\/p>\n<p>Some people just need a little bit of advice and try to get that extra 10% out of you. I can&#8217;t get that by myself. I can tell you my trainer&#8217;s really helped me take it to another level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m getting ready to turn 50 and I&#8217;m in better shape than I was when I was 40.&#8221; Keith: I am from North Carolina originally, moved to Texas about 20 years ago and have been there ever since. 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