My First PT Session

Yesterday was my first PT session. But I was not in my best condition as I lack of sleep due to the lion dance event organized in Nilai 3 the day before. My head felt like bursting but I put the effort to attend the PT session as I had promised Yus for the session. I understand that he too has a tight schedule to follow.

First, Yus “measured” me – my height (171cm), my weight (59kg), and fat percentage (16.7). Yus said that I have a rather low fat percentage.

Then, warm up session on the treadmill. He said that human body only start to burn fat after 20 minutes of workout. But for warm up, 10 minutes of jogging is enough. For my body, he advised me not to do so much of cardio workout as I have a low fat percentage. For weight-training, our body needs carbo more than fat. For cardio workout, our body burns more fat. Meaning if one started to burn fat, and he/she continues to workout, he/she might be burning the third energy source which is the protein, which is not good for me! (as I want to build muscle)

After the 10 minutes on the treadmill, we started with leg press. Yus showed me the correct way of adjusting the seat and the weight. As we do leg press, the leg, knees and the shoulder should be perpendicular in one straight line. Breathe out every time using our effort – to reduce the pressure in the body. Try to strengthen the abs muscle all the time during a workout. This is to avoid hernia and to protect our internal organs. I did two sets of leg press with one minute of break in between. We must do stretches in between stretches.

Then we did the leg curl. The knees must be just on the border of the “cushion” and the tendon behind both legs must be on the cushioned “cylinder” (I don’t what they call it).

The chest press. Both hands should be not too high as the machine is meant to be pushing upward instead of going in front.

Last, the bicep curl. Both arms must be evenly touching the cushion rest while curling, the force should be evenly distributed and not focusing only on the elbows. Adjust the seat if the problem occurs and you might be sitting too high.

These are the four workouts that I did with Yus yesterday.