Last week I reluctantly made the decision to move on from the trainer I had been working with for five years. Up until this point I had been looking forward to continuing my current program for a month or two. It’s slow but I was feeling benefits. My bootcamp trainer had been in touch asking if I was coming back but I had begun to think that this may not happen until Easter.
However the relationship I had with my trainer was becoming more and more strained. This culminated in a session which was very tense and frustrating. I know I started in the wrong frame of mind (am always tired and tense at the end of term) ; he found this difficult and then got frustrated with me. I finished the session close to tears and feeling very under valued as a client – we all have bad days. This was not the first time I had finished a session not feeling great and had tried sharing how I was feeling in previous sessions but had not got far. So I thought hard for a few days and eventually made a reluctant decision to move on.
What to do next was the question in my mind. I could train alone for a while, this could be a time to consolidate the skills I’d learned. But then I missed the company of others and have always valued the advice and support I get from PT. After some thought I contacted my bootcamp trainer. This would be a big change for me, going down this route would take me away from Hardstyle training as he is IKFF trained and my past association with him through the bootcamp had already resulted in changes in technique. However he is a good trainer and introduced me to using other weights and running last year, working with him would open up so many possibilities. Fortunately he has a rare space for a client in january, which gives me a few weeks to continue with that pistol work . Great! Some time to myself and then the opportunity to work with someone new. I’ll miss my old trainer as we did have a good working relationship at one time and still have some doubts about moving away from Hardstyle – but the change feels good.
Moving on also has several other benefits, I can blog again without dreading the comments I would receive back, I can train at my old gym and I can return to bootcamp.In fact I have already done all three and received welcoming smiles all round. It’s good to feel valued. For a number of reasons this is the last post on this blog as I am setting up a new one, it’ll be on Facebook and twitter so hope to see you there.
Happy New Year!
