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| Client Profile: Karen Lawes |
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| Karen Lawes felt pudgy and tired. She had been travelling for a year, and although she managed to carry her backpack over many trails in China, she also spent a lot of time eating. The food in Asia was delicious-needless to say, an extra sixteen pounds of delicious. Coming back to Canada, Karen realized that she did not have the energy and stamina to resume her work as a massage therapist. Her fiftieth birthday was on the horizon, and she felt that it was important to be in better shape. "I wanted to spend my last fifty years being buff and healthy." Karen started exercising twice a week in October of 2006."While it was a great introduction to weight training and a good start for me, I don't think that I would have managed to stick with it if I had started full on all at once." She decided to check out other personal trainers before she made the jump to more extensive training. "Sandra Bueckert point blank told me what I had to do in order to get in shape. I knew immediately that I was going to be held accountable for my nutrition and my exercise program. . . . I knew I needed assistance, but this was the notice I really needed-it truly was up to me." That was five months ago. For the first month, she was so exhausted that she wanted to go to bed at seven p.m. every night. Karen weight trains with One On One Fitness co-owner Doug Bueckert three times a week. She also does cardio exercise five times a week for thirty to sixty minutes. "I ended up with a lot of muscle pain. . . . That was a challenge for me, to work past it and achieve what Doug and I both knew that I was capable of." Her hard work has certainly been paying off. The biggest motivator for Karen has been the change in her shape and body composition. "I feel stronger." I found out recently that I have actually lost eleven pounds. "I have dropped from a size . . . well, I have dropped a few pant sizes, let's put it that way. I go shopping for new pants to wear to work, and a week later they are too big. Now I have to go to all the people who I gave clothes to when I gained weight and ask for my skinny clothes back!" Karen's newfound fitness has not gone unnoticed. "My granddaughter, Lyric, who is seven, was lying on the couch a couple of weeks ago watching me wash dishes. She said, "Nanna! I can see your muscles, and you're not even trying to show me!" About a week later her brother Silver, three years old, was having dinner with Karen and her partner Kevin. "I asked Silver what he would like to be when he grows up. After a long pause, we could see that he was thinking hard, he turned to me and said, 'I want to be strong like you, Nanna!'" "Who says that being fifty is old? I feel fantastic. I have much more energy and improved stamina. My confidence level has skyrocketed. My new nickname at work is Betty Buff. . . . "I have never felt better in my entire life." Karen has made her physical and mental condition a priority in her life. "I am determined to be in better shape, and being in better shape makes me more determined. Listening carefully to my trainer has made a difference in my understanding of what real fitness is. I would like to continue doing weight training three times a week with Doug." "I am also doing yoga with my partner Kevin to help stretch and keep limber. My profession as a massage therapist is flexible, and my workplace, the Oasis Spa and Wellness Centre, has been very supportive of my schedule changes as I rework my life to spend time with my priorities: my physical condition, my family, and my profession, in balance. It is a matter of actually deciding what is important to me." "My fitness goals are to be able to do ten chin-ups, to keep working out, feeling healthy, and to never give up." "Just one more thing," she comments, "I think that I need a clothing voucher, and I want a booty like Sandra's!" |
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