Scott Thomson, your personal trainer | Yellowknife Online

My name is Scott Thomson and I?m a personal trainer and health and fitness blogger. ?I train at Just Fitness in Yellowknife, NT and I write at YourInnerSkinny.ca and I?m going to be writing for YkOnline.ca about being healthy and active in the North. ?Impossible, some may say, but I?m here to show you otherwise.

But let?s start at the beginning, my own personal journey with weight gain and then weight loss.

I was never a gym guy. I was a small, lean 155 lbs athletic kid when I was 18 and even though I was never a fat kid, I was what I call a ?fluffy kid? who played a lot of sports and ate a lot. ?During the summer before the 12th grade (Not the summer of ?69) I actually leaned out l when I grew 7?.

I grew up in a very small community in Prince Edward Island, surrounded by my family. ?I played hockey, softball, golf, and rugby all at the competitive level and then pretty much any other sport recreationally. ?I also come from a very athletic family with my father being a great hockey player, softball player and golfer and my mom being a superstar hockey goalie and softball player as well. ?My brother played soccer and was the captain of his University soccer team and also played hockey and softball when he was younger.

When I went to college I stopped playing sports and started drinking a lot of beer, almost at a competitive level. ?I started smoking a pack of cigarettes a day and I was doing nothing to be active which set me up for a lifestyle that I would come to regret.

With my first desk job and my new terrible lifestyle, there was a point in my life when I weighed somewhere between 265 and 275 lbs. I was inactive, I smoked, I drank 8-12 beer every night, I didn?t cook and I ate nothing but the worst kind of take-out food in mass quantities. ?I was the epitome of someone who was on the fast track to a short life.

After being about 100 pounds overweight for six or seven years, I had finally had enough of the ridicule I had been getting from my family and friends and decided I needed to lose the weight.

When I first started my journey there were a lot of ups and downs. ?I yo-yoed with my weight and I failed more times than I can count before finally figuring out what was right for me. ?It?s been 6 years since I finally reached my goal weight and fitness level. ?I now have 3 personal training certifications and I?m constantly reading and trying to improve myself and learning how to help others. ?I?ve had LOTS of ups and downs along the way and it?s still a daily struggle for me because I still love to polish off an entire large pizza and drink a dozen beer. But the biggest thing I?ve learned on my journey is to not punish yourself and to forgive yourself if you ?fall off the wagon?. ?Suck it up. Don?t feel sorry for yourself and move on.

Living in the North is tough. The cold. The darkness. The lack of fresh produce. ?The lack of healthy take-out food options. Even though this is all true, they?re also alll excuses.

With my bi-weekly posts on YKOnline I?m going to be talking about how to be healthy and active in the North, how to deal with the struggles that we face on a daily basis and how to claim victories. I?ll give you the information on how to eat well, how to be active, how to do exercise, and I?ll also share my stories, both of my successes and my struggles.

So, please, check back here for more from me and if you want to reach me at any time you can follow me on Twitter, Facebook or email me scott@yourinnerskinny.ca and of course you can follow my rantings and ravings at www.yourinnerskinny.ca.

Source: http://ykonline.ca/2012/08/scott-thomson-your-personal-trainer/

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