New place of work

After 3-4 intensive weeks full of job hunting, interviews and checking out London's possibilities, I found my dream job! From tomorrow I will be trained to be membership sales advisor in LA Fitness gym, at West India Quay :)

I am excited for the new possibilities and challenges and can't wait to start. This position will be continuation and upgrade from what I did in Norway, in bigger and better organised fitness club. LA Fitness in third leader in English fitness club branches. It was Britain 2011 best health&fitness mark as well :)

In upcoming weeks I will also try to incorporate some of trainers/grouptraining classes to my schedule as well, not to forget how to work with clients in a training field :)

That all means that this Sunday is my last day totally free from work. In upcoming months I will be very busy, since I would like to start my Personal Trainer course as well. Let's use this Sunday right!

Support from Chalene Johnson!

Oh, I received the nicest gift I could possible imagine!

The person who is a fitness and business guru for me, Chalene Johnson, send me her book about Personal Training business with special dedication! (I wrote about Chalenes book here)

It is an amazing feeling! She has got 134.000 followers on Facebook, 41.000 followers on Instagram, is NYTimes best selling author and she still found time to contact me personally and send me some inspiration!

No I have no chances to fail, if Chalene Johnson is supporting me, I can achieve anything!

Wind in the wings

by Piotr Michniewicz

After recent emotional days (weeks?) situation seems to be stabilising and - as always - unexpecteldy many good news came to me recently. 
So I've got wind in the wings and I am ready for new job challenges and to become a certified Personal Trainer!




I ended my working day with a circuit training. Since I was having a 60 minutes cycling class yesterday, I was really willing to go hard and lift heavy!

I made:

* squats with barbell
* deep squats
* lat pulldown
* dumbell rear delt row
* pull over
* crunch
* hyperextensions + obliques extensions
* hip thrust on step
* triceps pull down

I have to admit that those deep squats has killed my legs, especially quads!

After one year in Norway

Time flyes! In October there will be exact year since I moved to Norway, left my job in marketing department and left hometown for good. 


It was a huge decision about moving out to Norway but I won't use the term 'hard' in order to describe my last's year attitude. The one who knows me personally are familiar with my big passion for this country.

What did I achieve within this year? I would like to concetrate only at fitness aspect of my life due to character of this blog :)

I change my passion into my profession

It is the most important thing which I did last year. I made something which many dreams about - I am making money from things I really love to do. 
Was it easy? No. 
Is it easier now? Again, no. 
But still, I am more closer than further of making money only from fitness. Work in fitness  (both as an instructor and beeing responsible for reception and communication) is not easy sometimes, but I hope that my efforts will be appreciate and will bear interest in the future :)

My condition's level increased dramatically

I am in the best condition I have been for years! 90 minutes of spinn, hell yeah. 2 hours of aerobic in a row? No problem! I didn't think that I will be able of running for 10 kilometres, but actually I am now :)

I start REAL training at the gym

I mean lifting heavy, not only the lifts which are in the aerobic room. And I love it! Watching all the girls competing in athletic fitness and body fitness made me believe even more that great shape is made in the gym, no only on the treadmill.

I incorporated protein powder into my daily life and I didn't get bulk

I have already written about protein powders and benefits of taking them. After coming to Norway I realised that something which was unnormal in Poland here is a normal, daily food routine. 
Norwegians are far more up to date with dieting and supplementing and do not perceive proteins as a form of bulking product. Increased calories in diet will make you fat, not protein powder itself.

I started this blog

And it is something for me! I was thinking about having my own blog for a while but wasn't sure if I want to have everything in public. But then I realise that if I would like to help my clients they will have to trust me first and share their stories with me. Why would I keep mine only to myself then?

I gave my first interview

It was such a great experience to talk about my passion for Norway, fitness and cooking. And to find out that some are really interested in things I am actually doing :)

I developed my cooking skills

I develop them first when I moved to Norway and for 2 months I was looking for a job and taking rest from previous one. 
Then I switched into "Perfect housewife" mode  and start to cook, bake and generally making thousands of cookies, cakes and different types of meat. 
Then I had to adjust myself to new work so frequency of cooking increased (but not the passion!). 
Blog gave me new motivation and more fun from cooking :)

I found people who inspires me

I had some inspirations before, but here, in Norway I found some blogs of girsl which stories and life are truly motivating, inspiring and developing. I have to mention here Kristine Weber which has her own blog (only in Norwegian unfortunately) who won Bodyfitness +168 in Norway this year and also many competitions before. She will soon released her book and she is a real chef in kitchen, especially when in comes to protein-rich dishes.

And there is another lovely Kristine, Kristine Økern. Despite the fact she is younger than me, she is a really smart and mature woman! I admire her dedication (funny words game because her blog has the same name ;)) in blogging and posting. Day by day she has some tips, recipes and news to share with her veeery big audience. Her blog is in Norwegian but she is posting on instagram in English :)

Fitness course

Few words about my recent days - as I already wrote, I am in the moddle of my fitness course. After that I will be wel certifate fitness instructor with title recognized in whle Europe.

www.aplauz.pl

Each day I woke up early, taking many busses to get to the other prt of Warsaw and then.. train. 

Most classes are taking place in in Aplauz Fitness Studio which is a place where are many areobic rooms and old school gym in the basement :) Working with music, counting and basicly masterng my skills :) After aerobic traning I'm normalny go back home and study fitness theory. I have my first exam on Saturday, which is theory and my practical one on Sunday next week. 

I have to say that choosing course in Poland was one of the best decision. First of ll, it is 5 times (!!!) cheaper than in Norway. Secondly, it is much easier to learn things first in your native language. Thirdly (and probably most importantly) the level is very high and I really can learn a lot from our instructor. 

www.zamiela.pl

Few words about him. His name is Tomasz Zamiela and he's pretty known in polish fitness word. He invented Total Muscle Training which is basically one of training varation which can be trained both at aerobic lesson and at home. Tomek has patience and experience which are crucial in this business :)