Meh

I am trying to focus on the positives from the personal training session. She did not talk to me about body composition. (In response to a question on yesterday's post: I didn't get on the InBody scale when I was asked to, so I don't know what those numbers might have told me. I can do single-leg lower-body exercises with equal weights, so I think it's more likely to be an asymmetrical mobility issue than an asymmetrical strength issue.)

I did spend a lot of time practicing sitting back into a squat, which feels a little scary. I know I sometimes overcompensate for that worry by tilting forward, so it was useful to focus explicitly on that skill.

It's probably useful for me to be more consistent about a structured warmup if I have concerns about mobility, and I liked the way she set that part up.

But it did not feel individualized, which seems like the whole point of personal training. She herself doesn't routinely squat to depth, which makes me wonder how well suited she is to help me with issues that arise when my squat gets deeper. She didn't address ankle mobility at all, even though I had told her I suspected an asymmetry there could be causing problems higher up the chain. I felt like she was gatekeeping the barbell after I had explicitly said I wanted to work on squatting under load. She didn't pay particular attention to my left hip, the one I had said was the source of my concern. She told me at the end of the session that she'd spent the whole hour thinking my name was Julie. 

I'm a little frustrated with myself for not speaking up.