Internship: Week One

I have officially completed an entire week of my 15 week internship at Advanced Fitness & Performance. AFP is a business that does specifically personal training (that's what I want to do). If you were a client and came in...this is what a typical workout would look like: You walk in, warm up on an elliptical or treadmill for about 8-10 minutes and then you get your workout. This is where it gets good. Your workout is specifically designed for you and your training status. Very rarely does anyone get the exact same workout that they have done previously, unless there is a purpose behind it. So, if you know what the names of all the exercises are, you pretty much do your workout by yourself with minimal assistance. If you are newer, then you will get mainly one on one time with a trainer depending on how many people are there. Typically there are about 2-6 people working out at a time, so it is a small place. AFP also is one of only a few places in the Midwest that has the Gravity Training Systems. This is probably my favorite part. The Gravity Training System, or GTS, is similar to the Total Gym that Chuck Norris endorsed a while back. It is just a more commercialized and industrial machine. The combination of gravity working against you (or with you, however you see it) with your own body weight makes for a killer workout. You can manage to get a full body or sectional workout (arms, legs, abs) in under 30 minutes and not be able to walk the next day. It's that good.

I have always been entertained by those people whose occupations provide a lot of good stories to tell people. I am becoming one of those people. I can not believe how many good stories come out of purely awkward situations! Yesterday, there wasn't an awkward situation, but someone told me that I should maybe consider being a comedian over a personal trainer. I was flattered and said I might consider it for a part-time job, get some extra cash. I was actually making fun of his push-up form. At first he was like, "seriously, this is soo easy." And then on his second set (out of 3 total) was shaking from fatigue.