another trainer session

I got to the gym in time to do some cardio and my biceps curls before my session with Emilie. As usual, we started with me telling her how things were going, and then she decided what to do. (I had one request, that she check my form on the hamstring bridge—it's fine, apparently I was just tired last night—and then at the very end remembered a question so we tacked another couple of minutes on after I'd signed for this session and made an appointment for a fortnight from now.

( some of the details, cut for length )

Part of why the progress looks slow to me is that when I get something more or less down, we stop doing it as part of the training sessions. It absolutely makes sense that she wants to save our sessions for things I still need her help with, or new things—so, that refresher on the hamstring bridge, but we didn't bother with the balance thing on the foam roller—but it means that what I keep noticing and thinking about is new things being tricky or her having to fix my position or ask me to adjust my pelvis, and move my right foot slight, and "and breathe!" But while I'm thinking about posture and lengthening my torso, I'm much less conscious of foot position than when we started. nancylebov, I've been using that Alexander technique idea you mentioned a long time ago, about thinking of my body as hanging down from my head. Also just thinking in terms of length of torso: both of these work better for me than thinking about pulling my abs/stomach in, and a lot better than anything in the "don't slouch" direction.