Free personal training session! How bad do you want it?

Yesterday STRENGTH 25 mins or so of free personal training at LAF, with LA
This morning WALK 3 miles in light rain with LA

Yesterday afternoon was my free session, again with the same guy as before - Joe. Same presentation, same questions, same messy handwriting. I guessed that I'm 135lbs and that calculated to 24.1% BF. Both BF and BMI were ideal for my age, and his projected calculations were that in 50 weeks I could put on 10 lbs of muscle, not really lose weight overall though. Some funny math that he couldn't address scientifically, then LA showed up. Joe offered that he could join the workout! 

Same workout almost too - ropes, TRX, pushups, walk backwards on treadmill, some abs in yoga room, lunges. LA was wiped out (this was <12 hours after our 5 miler this morning, and he ran to the gym just now) but I was smiling and loving it! 

Part of the intake and outtake were the questions of: What are your goals?  This took some meandering to come to:
1. "to be fit again"
2. (can't remember yet...must not have been well-defined!)
3. Functional strength

Then the sales pitch on the way out. I'd need 2-3x week strength training. More math, this not fuzzy it was spelled out clearly - $99 starting fee then $50/25 minute session with the WU and CD on your own. Essentially, $2/minute. Plus the starting fee. Plus the already-being-paid gym membership. Plus the annual gym membership fee!

He made a push, which was a turn-off, of "well the $99 I can waive, but the end of the month and I don't know if they'll keep it in May...". And "you can do it together and split the session". But the price doesn't change. It'd be great, right? I'd LOVE to have something like this, progress and tracking and new and challenging and someone else setting the terms of the work out and not my whim based on my mood. 

But, for that money, I can construct my own plan (I'm certain that I came to this conclusion last fall in my first visit! How did that go?). I looked again at my apps last night and found that Garmin Connect has a long list of workouts. I can buy into other apps for "personal trainers" but they all look generic.

Besides, I spent how much on Coach P last year? There was benefit, Lots of Benefit, but oof the price. 

So. What was the workout regimen? Same as last fall:

2-3x a week: 8-10 minutes of light cardio warmup, followed by 30 mins of cycling up/down heart rate cardio strength training, followed by a 15-30 min steady cardio burn. On other days, steady cardio workout, along with a day of rest. 

This weekend, put together a schedule of workouts from the apps, plan them out. 

The end of the outtake (what's the right word for that?) while I was saying "it's all good but the price" and I'm wavering on a polite way to say "it's nuts buddy" he pressed me - how bad do you want it? 

And what is it that I want? That question still hanging from yesterday. 

As for yesterday - I won the day!