Getting Started

Well - Here goes.  I am publicly stating that I have a big goal this year.  I am going to train for a triathlon.  Why would anyone blog about it?  Well, as a long time fitness professional, I know that people pull their inspiration from all over the place and if you are anything like me, you'll be sitting back saying...'I have no major hurdles to jump, like missing limbs or recovery from cancer.  I am not particularly old nor especially young.  I'm not emerging from the depths of drug/alcohol addiction, nor have I been held hostage and tortured anywhere.'

You know you are pretty average with no major complaints so there should be nothing standing in your way except your self perception that reminds you constantly that "it would be great if I were fitter and less fat."

That's me in a nutshell.  I have been a Personal Trainer for more than a decade and have yet to actually do much training on myself.  I consider myself a teacher, fitness leader, instructor...but hardly an athlete.  But from today, I'll consider myself a victim of adult-onset athleticism and get on with it.

My promise to you, is not to lie about it.  I hate running from the depth of both my soul and my soles.  I suck at swimming and recoil when I catch a glimpse of me in a swimsuit.  Could my thighs really be that big?  But after all these years of educating people about respecting their body and starting from where they're at - I'm going to commit to not dogging myself and not photoshopping my chunk, because it isn't about what you (or I) look like, right?  We're talking longevity and hope and determination and realized dreams: in a nutshell we're talking about deciding to do something and doing it.

Look - we're meant to move.  Otherwise we wouldn't need joints, right?  We are constructed to engage with the physical world around us, inflicted with "will" so this is a natural thing I'm doing, right?  I didn't say easy, I said natural (like breastfeeding - natural, but not easy, in the beginning!) and because it is natural, but not easy, people don't talk about it.  Well, I'm here to talk about it.  And really?  My hope is that you'll join me.  You don't have to do a triathlon...but pick something physically challenging for you and set some goals...and let me hear about it!

I am very new to this blogging, but I will figure out how to post my daily training goals and accomplishments and hope I can find a place for you to link elbows with me and head off on your own journey.