So when you sign up for LA Fitness they find a perky girl/boy to give you a general tour of the gym and then they give you over to The Body of Change trainer to try and convince you to contract with their personal training services. BofC is a completely separate entity from LA Fitness but they [say that they] have sole rights to be the only certified trainers in working the building. The day I signed up the poor trainer guy tried really hard to get me to sign up but I was firm. After 15 minutes I was tired of listening to him so I grabbed my stuff and left. Next day I get a call asking if I had my assessment, I said no, what is this? It is a free training sessions with a trainer (and also another sales pitch for personal trainers). I said sure, meet you Wednesday.

It was terrible.

The usual schedule, as I understand it, would be for you to fill out a goal/health form, have a 30 minutes + work out, and then the sales pitch. I messed with the whole schedule by sitting down and telling him NO. I was there for two hours talking to him. 15 minutes of that was strength training (which may or may not go against my LA Fitness contract). This guy, Matt, unlike the first one, hit the right emotional triggers and I finally agreed to sign up for a trainer. By right triggers I mean that he acted horrified by my body fat percentage/weight and said that by not getting a trainer right away I was procrastinating and not determined enough. Serious brow beating and I got very upset (but not in front of him). As soon as I walked out the door I had severe buyer's remorse (and almost in tears).

I met Andrew at my house and was venting to him and Leah when I finally gave into the embarrassed tears. Bad consumer, bad! I went in with "NO" and bought anyways, dang it!! Plus, no one wants to be looked at like Matt was looking at me. :-[ We looked at the contract's fine print and saw that I had three business days to write to them. So I typed out the letter, signed it, and Andrew took it straight down there and yelled at The Body of Change manager for me. (My heart goes pitty pat!) I now have a receipt that says I canceled their service. I will keep watch on them though...tricksie guys.

The other annoying thing is that I did a leg work out with Erin on Monday, I hauled 200lbs worth of boxes around and did 45 min.s soccer Tuesday, and the 15 minutes I spent with the trainer last night was all leg work, too. My legs are sooo tired! And the new trend in work outs is that you only work on one major muscle group a day (legs, back, chest, abs?, arms), and only once a week. Too much leg!!


I met with Erin and her boss/life trainer Paul this morning. He's huge! 6'5" or some such. Whereas I am smallish to use the gym machines he is way too tall! It's funny to watch him give Erin a hard time (evil grin). Both he and Erin had/have bad posture (not that mine is that great) but when I work out my spine is dead straight and legs/posture good. He kept teasing Erin to use me as an example hee hee! She took it well. We worked on our back muscles and it was nice, easy work out to figure out what total weights I should use and then talked some. He wants me to bike train with them and snow shoe! I have never snow shoed - have you?! It sounds fun!

In other news, my second and final interview is today. The upset last night was not appreciated! Arg. Wish me luck!