A Personal UNtrainer
Wow! Have I had an amazing, edifying, opening experience. I met with a personal trainer—who’s not really a personal trainer, or not as I’ve come to understand them.
Bryan Agurcia hasn’t a speck of rah-rah in him. He’s that calm guy in the red shirt in the picture. In thirty minutes, he moved past all my resistance (which was plenty—I’ll go into that in a bit) and empowered me to begin to exercise in a way that I haven’t in years.
I need to tell you that I’ve recommended personal trainers to clients for years, especially personal trainers for exercise. It’s so easy to keep up an exercise program when there’s accountability in place. That’s how I see personal trainers, and they’ve worked for a lot of my clientele.
I also need to tell you that I have some neurological/circulatory challenges in my lower legs that make weight-bearing exercise close to impossible for me. I ride an exercise “peddler” for an hour every day, but it isn’t weight-bearing. So I told Bryan that I couldn’t do any exercise that required that I stand for longer than two minutes.
His response? 30 seconds’ll do me!
Okay … now what?
Bryan listened deeply to me as I explained my experience of my legs in the process of putting weight on them. He heard me and understood before he made even one recommendation for me. I didn’t feel like he was waiting to speak or to jump on my resistance. Instead, he was still, listening, waiting.
Then he showed me two exercises.
One is a squat which he says is the one exercise everyone needs to do to counter-balance aging skeletal systems. Mine has gotten somewhat stiff in its 50+ years. Bryan showed me and then let me do the work whilst he corrected my form. When my legs began to hurt, I stopped, and he didn’t object.
Then he showed me a simple stretch for tight hips. Cross one leg over the other knee and press down on the crossed knee for a great stretch.
When Bryan was ready to go on with more suggestions, I told him I felt overwhelmed and I asked to stop. He stopped instantly, told me he’d call me in a week to check in, and let me be.
Not a speck of rah-rah. Just gentle, open determination for every being to live well and happily in her or his body forever. Thank you, Bryan.
P. S. If you want to know how to work with Bryan, he can be found at Visions Medical Center 781-431-1333.
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August 12, 2009 6:13 am
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By Court, August 13, 2009 @ 9:29 am
When you wrote Bryan has a “gentle, open determinatino for every being to live well and happily” you could’ve been describing yourself, too. Thanks for being a spiritual trainer, Susan.
By David, August 15, 2009 @ 8:49 pm
Wow, he sounds great. I wish I had a trainer like that who could understand how my body works, push me in the right direction, but not too fast and not too far…at least not initially.
Congrats to you and good luck.