Monthly Archive for February, 2008

I’ve been with my per­sonal trainer, Haydn, now for over three months and I can see my body com­po­si­tion chang­ing; things are get­ting big­ger, some parts are get­ting wider, some more defined… you get the pic­ture. It’s quite incred­i­ble what hav­ing some­one who will mon­i­tor your diet, your train­ing and how you sleep can do for you. I’ve been going to the gym for a few years now but I’ve gained more in the past three months than in the pre­vi­ous years… incred­i­ble. Then again, Haydn is nearly killing me every time I have a train­ing ses­sion with him; the first time I trained with Haydn I ended up on my back because the entire room was spin­ning. He’s even offered to bring out the vomit bucket on a num­ber of occa­sions just in case I got sick. (Can every­one out there give me a cho­rus of, “Say what?”) The strange thing is that I enjoy push­ing hard. I think I may be one small step away from sadomasochism.

There’s some per­sonal sat­is­fac­tion there in know­ing that I’m tak­ing care of myself, but more so because image and how you present your­self to oth­ers is also very impor­tant … espe­cially in enter­tain­ment and if you’re going to be in the pub­lic eye. I must admit I’ve been pretty lax in the self pre­sen­ta­tion but I’m work­ing on it.

I’ve started going to yoga as well to sup­ple­ment my train­ing ses­sions and let me tell you… going to an advanced yoga class and being told to do all these weird and won­der­ful posi­tions is… fun! Not to men­tion how relax­ing and cen­tered it makes you feel. Here’s a tip for all you guys inter­ested in yoga out there, skip the begin­ner and inter­me­di­ate classes. They’re not as much fun as advanced. The begin­ner and inter­me­di­ate classes are tech­ni­cal and focus on teach­ing you the posi­tions. The advanced classes really focus on you and how you’re feel­ing; try it and see! (Although if they ask you to put your legs behind your head or do head stands, don’t come run­ning after me with a pitchfork.)