I have a friend. He's a pretty big guy. We were talking the other day while my son was in his karate class. He was considering joining the gym where my wife and I train. He was asking me a few questions about the equipment, the staff, and such. One of his questions was about the cost for personal training. I told him that I didn't know, because I had never used the training staff at our gym. Beyond that point, I told him 2 very important things:
1) I told him about weightingon40.com (in addition to Transformation.com, which has been a huge help for me) and the wealth of information and encouragement a person can receive from this website, and
2) I told him that I would help him without charging him a cent.
We made arrangements to work out together. That was Friday.
Today, we met at the gym and took in a pretty solid upper body workout. He was puffing like a locomotive, but handled the workout like a champ. I think he said it was the first time he'd worked out in a gym in nearly 20 years.
I'm going to encourage him to take some before shots to start tracking his progress. There's something about being able to have a point of reference to compare current condition to past condition.
What really felt good was being able to help a guy that wants to make a change get started down the path to fitness and overall health. We're getting together tomorrow morning for a 25 minute HIIT session. I look forward to the opportunityto help him further. I'll keep up with his progress as I blog about it here.
Let's hear it for my friend, Russ, who took the first step today towards reclaiming his health!