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Zooks Had Personal Training in Estonia.

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Tere!

I didn’t expect that I would do this in my life. My mum sometimes went to or still goes to a gym to have personal training, and yet it seems I have that gene.

In the middle of August, 2022, I had personal training with a trainer from the cheap gym chain called Gym!

Table of Contents

     1. Reasons and a plan of having personal training
     2. Training
     3. Fee for one personal training session
     4. Reviewing training menu in the gym
     5. Appendix
     ★Summary

1. Reasons and a plan of having personal training

When I had a body composition analysis, the trainer told me to have a bit more muscles, and I personally wanted to know how to use gym machines, so I asked a personal trainer in Gym!. The reason why I wanted to know how to use machines in the gym was that I wanted to gain more muscles by working out with the machines in the gym.

You may think

“You can watch YouTube to see how to use those machines.”

However, there are more men in the gym itself, and men basically use those hard machines more than women. I was too shy to use machines in the gym that I always went to… I wanted to use them on my own after learning how to use them. (Besides I would look stupid.)

There are some trainers in Gym!, and at that time there were around three female trainers. I received a reply from only one trainer who accepted personal training. The price was okay too, hence I requested her to have a personal training session.

2. Training

Then in the middle of August, 2022, I had a consultation with the trainer before the actual part of the personal training started.

I told her that

  • that I wanted to know trainings with which my croocked back (round shoulders) will be fixed
  • that I wanted to reduce fat from the legs
  • that I wanted to remove fat from the belly

Then we warmed up. Since We didn’t have that much time, we skipped running, and I just did some stretching and squats.

After that, we started using machines. I can’t remember the order of using the machines, and yet the list below is the gym machines that I learnt how to use as well as a training I had:

  • Leg press
  • Standing leg curl
  • Abductor
  • Chest press
  • Cable lowing rowing
  • Lat pull down
  • Back extention
  • Plank

Although I knew how to use the chest press and how to do a plank, particularly the plank that I had done seemed to be an incorrect form. When I did it in the proper form, I felt something in my belly.

With the machines I did three 10 to 15-time training sets whilst I had no-time-limit training for the plank three times.

I simply learnt how to train myself.

One session was one hour.

3. Fee for one personal training session

When I contacted this personal trainer, she told me one hour (one session) would cost 40 EUR. It was a decent price.

She asked me to pay in cash, and yet I didn’t prepare 40 EUR in cash, so I requested her to let me do a bank transfer. (When it comes to personal or private financial communication, it’s better to check if the payment is in cash or bank transfer beforehand even in Estonia.)

Since I have lived in Estonia for five years, I almost lost the habit of having cash… Rather it’s a bit difficult to have cash. 😂

Prices of personal training differ, depending on a trainer because they have different styles and systems (like how many times per week, how many hours per session, etc). Therefore, you should check such things before booking a session.

4. Reviewing training menu in the gym

After experiencing the personal training, I reviewed my training menu in the gym.

So far I did either the chest press or deadlifting, and then I did a run or bike exercise for half an hour.

After the personal training, I changed this training menu.

Since I didn’t want to bring three bags such as one for the Estonian language class, one for the morning gym and one for a lunch box one the days when I had the Estonian language classes, on Mondays and Wednesdays I started doing belly exercises at home. The training is based on a trainer whose name is saki whom I happened to find on Instagram. I use her videos on YouTube. The body part that I train is always the same: my belly.

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On Tuesday I do a leg press, standing leg curl and abdoctor. On Thursdays, I use a back extension, lat pull down and do deadlifting. On Fridays, I use a cable rowing machine, a chest press and do some planks.

Since it’s less effective to train the same parts every day, I decided to train in this order: belly → legs → belly → back → belly. However, it seems that it’s still recommended to take a two-day break.

The personal trainer told me to take a short break of one minute or two between the sessions, so if I do three types of training, it takes 20 to half an hour. Therefore, I can run only 10 minutes in reality now. 😂 It’s a bit sad for me.

Of course, I can’t do these menus every week, so if I can’t I do something I couldn’t do + running on a weekend.

5. Appendix

By using the gym machines, I noticed one thing:

I will probably have solid hands if I keep using those machines…!

So, I bought a pair of gym gloves on Amazon DE! I measured my palm size, but it still felt slightly bigger. Maybe those stretch well.

★Summary

I was very satisfied with the personal training. Like the body composition analysis, I want to take one again if needed whilst I’m more into the body composition analysis.

As for the machines in the gym, I use three types of machines basically at one time, I actually don’t often have to queue for anything because I can do something else while someone is using a machine that I also want to use on a day. This is simply good. I’m so glad that I can use more gym machines because I learnt how to use them in the personal training.

Aitäh! 🙂

Zooks Goes to myfitness in Estonia.

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Tere!

Do you remember that I changed my job in Estonia? Timbeter where I used to work for was a super startup, and there was almost no company’s benefit. If you include, the commission (7% of the sales) is possibly said to be one. But normally it’s not counted as a benefit. 

In the beginning of working at Timbeter, they gave a laptop but it was really old. Also at that time I didn’t know of a free software which enables switching Japanese and English by alt keys, so eventually I used my own laptop to work.

Before I resigned from Timbeter, the company got invested so everyone got new laptops, but I didn’t get one because I never went to the office. Besides I was working, planning to quit so I didn’t see any point to get a new company laptop, and didn’t waste their money.

Then I successfully got a new job, and the new company gave me Macbook Pro. It sounds like I got a rich laptop, but don’t forget — this time’s theme is not the laptop but the company’s benefits, particularly a gym membership.

In my current company, there is a very small gym, but it can have only a few people, so we have options to use the third parties’ gyms like myfitness or Gym!. The company compensates and we have a determined amount of money per month. What is more, we are required to register the sports ID at Stebby, so we cannot use the compensation for entertaining sports like bowling.

The company recommends us to use myfitness which is an Estonian (or perhaps Baltic) chain gym. In Estonia, as far as I know, the cheapest gym is Gym! which you have to pay only 15 EUR if you contract one year. However myfitness has more gyms all over Tallinn.

Usually it costs 58 EUR for one full package at myfitness, which is pretty expensive, but with this sportID called Stebby, it costs us only 49 EUR. I found one 15 minutes away from home by walk, so I started going there almost every morning to run.

Depending on the gym, if it is a large place, they have a swimming pool too. I guess any gym has saunas because it is connected with the shower space. It is a great opportunity so I started going there every Saturday. (Of course I can’t go either to the sauna or even to the

As an extra information, I also started 30-day challenge (iOS, Android) training, and eating three boiled eggs instead of protein shake.

Reference

I’m not sure what I have been aiming for, but in Estonia where there are more than 1000 corona cases per day, the restrictions have got stricter. I was nearly forced to stay home all day due to the lockdown, I decided to do some even small exercise. 

Besides, in the psychiatric hospital they ask me if I do some exercise like taking a walk because of the happy hormone that we can get while working out. This hormone makes us positive. (However, it doesn’t guarantee anything because we still possibly get depressed even if we work out like I did.) Plus, the protein reduces frustration. There are plenty of positive effects, but I didn’t like any exercise or sports except swimming as a kid. This is becauseI was slow to run, and bad at ball games.

At the gym I don’t have to care about any other “outside” things, so I can run at my own pace. From Monday to Friday I listen to different playlists for running, which is pretty good (not during the lockdown).

Although Estonia started a lockdown again, we don’t have any restriction to go outside, so if I have time, I’ll start taking a walk in the morning instead of running in the gym.

Aitäh! 🙂