My personal trainer is Travis Barrett. He is amazing…and he is the one I am convinced is trying to kill me. Lol. Just kidding…but he is pushing me and it is good. I trust him with my training, he knows my health history and my hip replacement surgery, and knows I am going to get my left hip replaced at some point. I work out with him twice a week and he is helping me find ways to maintain consistency in my training and diet.

This week I went back to my 50 minute 6am workouts with him on Tuesday and Thursday. My daughter had basketball games both nights so I knew I needed to go before work or else I would miss my workouts. Deadlifts are my favorite for some reason. If my bad hip is feeling stiff or sore, deadlifts always loosens it up and make it feel better. And I always feel like I accomplished something when I get my workout done.

I told him this morning, “Video, or it didn’t happen.” 😂 So here I am. I remember when I first started working with Travis, before my right hip replacement…I didn’t have enough range of motion in my hip joints to even be able to get down to grab the trap bar. My back and shoulders were very rounded, so Travis had to prop up the trap bar on some stacked weights to get the bar a few inches off the floor. I’m so happy that my range of motion has improved so I can do these exercises with good form and without the props.

My legs are dead though. And I am so sore. I’ve been sore ever since Sunday. I was even more sore yesterday…so much so that I made yesterday a rest-day instead of forcing myself to do my 5K training session. So tomorrow is Day 2 of the Galloway training app. I still have to figure out the music part of the app….but I did buy some new earbuds today. 😊