Being overwhelmed with my size, pain in my knees, out of breath, as I climbed up and down stairs back pain as well as my clothes not fitting. Goal: to change some eating habits and to exercise more. I gradually worked up enough stamina, energy, and determination to put action behind my thoughts.<\/p>\n
I decided I wanted to train with a trainer so that I would be accountable as well as learn the proper way to exercise to get the most benefit from my goals. Eventually, l met a person who was:\u00a0\u2013\u00a0J<\/u><\/strong>ust- unique,\u00a0O<\/u><\/strong>utstanding,\u00a0S<\/u><\/strong>uperbly skillful in this field, and\u00a0H<\/u><\/strong>ighly \u2013favored in my sight and among members I have met…. My personal trainer for a few months was awesome, always inspiring, motivating …. And pushing me to my greatest potential. Each session left me wanting more. Thank you,\u00a0Josh<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Once on my own, I have been able to keep up my momentum, working out daily, becoming stronger and thinner with each workout. I continue to rise each day to say good morning to the friendly and caring desk staff and to work out alongside some very motivating and friendly members. 5 months later I was down a healthy 35 lbs. and motivated to work out daily at the YMCA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Being overwhelmed with my size, pain in my knees, out of breath, as I climbed up and down stairs back pain as well as my clothes not fitting. Goal: to change some eating habits and to exercise more. I gradually worked up enough stamina, energy, and determination to put action behind my thoughts. I started […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":343,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-member-spolight"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valleyymca.org\/ross-farnsworth-east-valley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}