Meet Karen Butterworth, she's one of the girls I've been caning every couple of weeks in the gym. Karen's an Akl rep hockey player so she's pretty fit... so she thought! Sure she can run for an hour at a time but I'm sure I get her heart racing and sweating more than she would on a run.	Lisa and Karen
	Although she's superfit, her weight has been creeping slowly up, so she thought she'd better do something about it and needed some accountability in her training.  Sure she's also a fitness instructor too but everyone needs someone to answer to.  And she chose me to keep her in line with her nutrition and training.

As mentioned earlier Karen's got great fitness but she needed some spanner in the works. Her whole weight training regime needed to be rehauled as she'd become stale mentally and physically.

For the first few weeks she did whole body conditioning work outs 3 times a week. I decreased the time she'd do her cardio but increased the intensity and also got her to do other cardio other than running.  Karen's pretty self motivated with her training, its just the nutrition that we needed to clean up.  As she's a fitness instructor, she's on her feet and active most of the day so I still kept up her carbs as this would stop her indulging in the sweet tooth when she got home at night.

The combination of the training and diet rehaul, and regular training sessions with me has seen Karen drop 3 % bodyfat while her muscle mass has increased by 1.5kg in 6 weeks. As her body easily puts on the mass, Karen's going to have to work extra hard at doing her cardio so she can stay lean.   She does have a goal of competing in bodybuilding comp next year so our first step is to get the weight down and see just how much muscle she has.  Can't wait!!!  go Karen!

Lisa, Personal Trainer, Go Figure
31 August 09 


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