02-21-2016, 12:11 AM
That story did not have the trainer sound like a positively reinforcing guy. Improvement should be celebrated, not berated. It sounded like his expectation of you was unrealistic; even I myself took 2 years to get to a 7 minute mile on the elliptical, then another year after that to get to sub-4 minute mile (3:46 in one video), and that's WITH asthma. A trainer like that guy would have led me to quit the elliptical portion of my previous routine entirely.
A Better Alex (ISTJ): EPRHA → ASC → AM6 → …
A Sexy Alex (ESTJ-T): BIABWS+DAOS → DMSI → …
A Better Alex (ENFJ-T): AM6 → …
A Sexy Alex (ESTJ-T): BIABWS+DAOS → DMSI → …
A Better Alex (ENFJ-T): AM6 → …