The Ayes Have It
As you may have been able to tell based on the recent onslaught of food related posts that I have made, I am becoming more and more interested (read: obsessed) with healthy living, good cooking, and fun calorie burning exercise. This interest lead me to seek out various personal trainers in the area and do a little research on what they offer.
I took a look at the type of personal trainer one would meet at a Gold's or Bally's gym. Then I looked at the kind who work in separate smaller gyms or studios. Finally, I searched personal trainers in the area who would come to you. In the latter group, I found Thomas Jensen, founder of Elect Wellness. Last week, Christopher and I met with Thomas to talk about his program and to go over basic lifestyle assessment type stuff. True to the ad on his website, this assessment was free with no obligation to sign up for anything. He did give his service list and pricing information at the end of our session; however, it was not a "hard sell" and we did not feel like he was pressuring us nor was he upset that we didn't sign up right away.
Overall, his program seems well thought out based on eating right (whole foods, lots of fruits and veggies, no soda, that kind of thing) and working out with resistance training being the key to fat burning. There's probably some cardio in there as well. He's also very personable and professional, and he let us know about his own journey to eat right and find the best way to work out and maintain a healthy body. He seems like the kind of guy you'd play some half-court with, not intimidating or condescending at all.
The price tag, for us, was too high to be able to sign up for a program. Thomas does offer smaller monitoring programs and body composition assessment sessions that might be worthwhile as we both continue to eat well and become more fit. Whether or not we decide to do that later, I'll continue to subscribe to his weekly fitness e-newsletter (which has only come with one additional sales email in the entire time I've been signed up for it) and enjoy what he has to say about dairy, testosterone, flax seed, or whatever other topic he picks on any given week.
