Today’s workout was super remedial! But slow and steady will be my new norm for now. We did 3 sets of 6 reps of bodyweight squats, 3 sets of 6 reps each side stationary lunges and 3 sets of 8 reps with light weight on the abduction machine for lower body. Did one exercise, 3 sets of each exercise, for shoulders, bis, tris, chest and back with light weight. Next workout will be Saturday. Cant wait!

These three words have been floating around in my head for quite a while now. I just wasn’t sure exactly what I was going to do with them. As is often the case, life gives you answers in unexpected places.

My name is Jeanne Herbert and I’m a personal trainer. I came to this profession somewhat late in the game. I’ve always had an athletic bent but athletics for girls wasn’t a priority when I was in school. So I found different ways to release my inner athlete. I was a cheerleader in Middle School, played church league softball in high school, and returned to cheerleading in college. But I didn’t find my passion, weight training, until I was 46. I had never lifted a weight until that time but I fell in love and never looked back. Fast forward to today and I’ve been training for 15 years.

In October of this year I began to notice that something wasn’t quite right. When I would do heavy leg press my insides felt like they wanted to exit the premises. Sorry if that’s TMI but it’s the reason this blog has begun. After seeing my OB and then another visit to a pelvic reconstructive specialist, I learned that I had pelvic prolapse, a term I had never heard. Prolapsed uterus, bladder, bowel and a hernia – all repairable with surgery. I didn’t even know enough about the condition to know what questions to ask. I was told no weight lifting for eight weeks. But worse than that, in my mind, was that going forward all the research I could find said that post surgery I should never do a sit up again and that I should never lift more than 30 pounds. Impractical and unacceptable!

So I’ll cut to the chase and say that I was released by my surgeon on Monday, Dec. 23rd and this blog is my attempt to document and share my gradual return to weight training. If you’re out there and you’ve already been down this road I hope you find me here. I’m gonna need all the help I can get! If you’re just being told that you need surgery I hope you will find some encouragement here as well. Thanks for reading and welcome to my adventure!