“Pat will be celebrating her 86th birthday in May, and she has a great outlook on the future. “I believe in being a useful human being until the day I die.” Slow-motion strength training is a big part of that. “I am so thrilled to have found The Perfect Workout! I even put it in my Christmas letter four years ago. I’m in it for life.
“The Perfect Workout is part of my plan of action to keep my body, brains, heart, muscles, and bones strong and healthy.”
Pat Welsh once jumped out of a second story window because her athletic brother did. As an adult, she broke her left arm body surfing in Hawaii when she got smashed on the beach.
A year later she broke her right arm up to the shoulder and her pelvis in four places after being violently bucked off a horse.
Last year she broke her femur in a freak accident. Despite a lifetime of injuries, three knee replacements, and two shoulder replacements, Pat continues to live a full life. “People live longer these days and who wants to be a couch potato?
Not me! I come from a long-lived family so I may be ‘condemned’ to old age, but it doesn’t have to be a negative experience of weakness and infirmity,” she says. “You see examples of people who go on being active with good brains and living useful lives even well over 100 years. It’s not my aim to live that long, but if I do I hope to live those years well.”
This philosophy of life is one reason Pat has been a regular at The Perfect Workout’s Del Mar studio for the past five years. Prior to that she kept in shape by walking, and maintained her weight at a steady 140 pounds. When some knee problems kept her from her vigorous daily walk, she gained five pounds. With a naturally slow metabolism, she knew she had to do something.
“I’m not naturally skinny. Growing up, all I had to do was look at food and it made me fat,” says Pat. “The Perfect Workout has fixed that for me. It speeds up my metabolism.” The extra five pounds came off right away, and she slowly got down to 130 pounds, which she has sustained for over a year now. “I didn’t try to lose weight, it just came off. All of this was effortless.” In addition to the weight loss, Pat has gotten stronger all over, especially in her legs. After her broken leg, it wasn’t long before she was walking down the steep hill where she lives to the post office, and back up the hill again. She gives total credit to The Perfect Workout, and says she gets something different and helpful from all three of her trainers, Debra, Heather, and Madeline.
The other reason Pat loves slow-motion strength training is the time factor. An Emmy Award-winning garden writer, author of Pat Welsh’s Southern California Organic Gardening: Month-by-Month (often dubbed “the gardener’s bible”), lifelong plein air painter, and television host, she has no time for multiple hours spent in a gym with little or no results. Pat still writes books, a monthly checklist for Sunset Magazine, and does a month-long lecture and book-signing series in the spring and fall. “Personal trainer Del Mar doesn’t take a huge bite of time. My time is valuable. The cost is well worth it for the time saved. It pays for itself.”
The Perfect Workout Del Mar/Solana Beach
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Solana Beach, CA 92075, United States
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