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Lemme tell you a story about fitness, training, having kids, and inertia.
I'm turning 34 this month. As I've grown older, I have come to an understanding of what my enemy is, and how it is affecting me.
My enemy is inertia. Always has been. Study a little harder? No way, STNG is on tonite, and Data's going to get emotion! Go for an early morning run? What, and miss a chance to get breakfast with that hot girl in physics?
Once upon a time, I had a routine. I went to a boarding school on a university campus with an ROTC. One of our Resident Attendants was in ROTC, and he invited some of us to start working out with them in the morning. I started showing up, consistently, and did what the big boys did. It was great fun, and I got stronger, faster, better, harder.
Bad part was that every 3 weeks we had a long weekend. We had to get off campus on Thursday, and couldn't return until after 2pm on Sunday.
I should have learned my lesson about inertia then. That Monday morning run after a long weekend was always the hardest.
In college it got worse. I managed to run 3 days a week in the morning the first two weeks. After that, I didn't do anything formal. I told myself things like, "I'm staying active" and "College is about studying hard", and "I need to work, not workout."
bad habits.
bad ineria.
After college, things started getting worse, I spent the first three years working in a high stress sedentary environment. There wasn't a whole lot of moving around that wasn't on purpose. I still told myself that I stayed active, walking when I went hunting, occasionally riding my bike, but there was no routine, just the inertia of get up, eat cruddy food, and go to the ghetto and try to not get shot while preaching the Gospel.
I moved, got married, and started a new job outside, while trying to build an inner-city ministry in Orlando. Working landscaping in Orlando was one of the best things to happen to me, it broke my inertia. I shed forty pounds, and felt great. Problem was, my job was my workout, so when I took my ministry full time, my workout stopped.
Fortunately, I had started riding my mountain bike again, so I was building some positive habits in that regard.
Inertia was still my enemy though.
Ministry full time was interesting. People were plenty willing to support the work I was doing, but nobody seemed able. My growing family and I moved to Lakeland where I started working for the premier food retailer in the Southeast (yes, that's the mission statement :) )
Having kids builds its own kind of inertia. I have three chirrens right now, with no plans on any more. I have been able to overcome some inertia after the birth of each one, but this last one has been the hardest. Now I have two in various degrees of school, and the baby is almost out of diapers.
to that end, I have created for myself a new workout routine, a routine against inertia.
I am also revamping my diet to give myself better calories, and less junk.
The two workouts I am combining into one awesome routine are
The 100 pushup challege:
and the "Couch to 5k" program:
Basically, I do the Couch to 5k stuff Sun, Tues, thurs, and the 100 pushups Mon, Wed, and Fri. Saturday, I do some lite cardio a couple of times. I am on a 12 hour shift Saturday, so I do it to break up the day.
This is my first week!
I'll try to update every Saturday what I've done, and any differences in appearance, weight, whatnot.
Lemme tell you a story about fitness, training, having kids, and inertia.
I'm turning 34 this month. As I've grown older, I have come to an understanding of what my enemy is, and how it is affecting me.
My enemy is inertia. Always has been. Study a little harder? No way, STNG is on tonite, and Data's going to get emotion! Go for an early morning run? What, and miss a chance to get breakfast with that hot girl in physics?
Once upon a time, I had a routine. I went to a boarding school on a university campus with an ROTC. One of our Resident Attendants was in ROTC, and he invited some of us to start working out with them in the morning. I started showing up, consistently, and did what the big boys did. It was great fun, and I got stronger, faster, better, harder.
Bad part was that every 3 weeks we had a long weekend. We had to get off campus on Thursday, and couldn't return until after 2pm on Sunday.
I should have learned my lesson about inertia then. That Monday morning run after a long weekend was always the hardest.
In college it got worse. I managed to run 3 days a week in the morning the first two weeks. After that, I didn't do anything formal. I told myself things like, "I'm staying active" and "College is about studying hard", and "I need to work, not workout."
bad habits.
bad ineria.
After college, things started getting worse, I spent the first three years working in a high stress sedentary environment. There wasn't a whole lot of moving around that wasn't on purpose. I still told myself that I stayed active, walking when I went hunting, occasionally riding my bike, but there was no routine, just the inertia of get up, eat cruddy food, and go to the ghetto and try to not get shot while preaching the Gospel.
I moved, got married, and started a new job outside, while trying to build an inner-city ministry in Orlando. Working landscaping in Orlando was one of the best things to happen to me, it broke my inertia. I shed forty pounds, and felt great. Problem was, my job was my workout, so when I took my ministry full time, my workout stopped.
Fortunately, I had started riding my mountain bike again, so I was building some positive habits in that regard.
Inertia was still my enemy though.
Ministry full time was interesting. People were plenty willing to support the work I was doing, but nobody seemed able. My growing family and I moved to Lakeland where I started working for the premier food retailer in the Southeast (yes, that's the mission statement :) )
Having kids builds its own kind of inertia. I have three chirrens right now, with no plans on any more. I have been able to overcome some inertia after the birth of each one, but this last one has been the hardest. Now I have two in various degrees of school, and the baby is almost out of diapers.
to that end, I have created for myself a new workout routine, a routine against inertia.
I am also revamping my diet to give myself better calories, and less junk.
The two workouts I am combining into one awesome routine are
The 100 pushup challege:
and the "Couch to 5k" program:
Basically, I do the Couch to 5k stuff Sun, Tues, thurs, and the 100 pushups Mon, Wed, and Fri. Saturday, I do some lite cardio a couple of times. I am on a 12 hour shift Saturday, so I do it to break up the day.
This is my first week!
I'll try to update every Saturday what I've done, and any differences in appearance, weight, whatnot.
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